@BeerNut1: The Americans helped build the tunnels and organize the escape, but they were transported out before the actual escape. The reason the producers put such an emphasis on the the American Actors is because the primary audience was the American Audience. It's a marketing scheme. PLEASE don't make too big a deal out of it. When you go into movies, tell me how you're absolutely factual action flick goes....As one German Officer puts it, Good Luck.
I say this movie when I was 9 years old on the big screen. The only way to see it. It blew my mind even before the term was used. Great, great, great!
@Juannxz - Dude, the rest of the men escaped! Yes, almost all of the main character were recaptured or dead. IF they were recaptured, maybe they had a 2nd chance to escape together with the recaptured Captain Virgil Hilts! Yes, there were total of 50 or more recaptured or executed, but the rest escaped! That is more than just one hundred. That's why it's The Great Escape, that even happened in reality in World War II (year 1944, March 24th, Eastern Germany in a Polish city "Sagan").
But I think that Captain Virgil Hilts escaped again after he was caught in the end.
Well, in The Great Escape Game (created on 2003, I played through it lots of times on PC, the best game of all time), Captain Virgil Hilts escapes with the motorbike to neutral Switzerland, Sandy MacDonald meets a friend, who takes him home and escapes, Sedgwick, of course, escapes to Spain and Hendley and Blythe flies over the Alps to Switzerland! The best storyline :D
This is a movie's produced by John Sturges' trailer. The movie was based on a novel by Paul Brickhill. The best movie ever!!! No matter that it's old (created on 1963). In the end, after Sandy MacDonald, Bartlett "Big X", Blythe, Archibald Ives, Ashley-Pitt, Cavendish and 44 others are shot, Hendley and other 9 POWs are caught and brought back to prisons and Sedgwick, Danny and Wilie escape, Hilts steals a motorbike, makes it over the border, but then gets himself in the barbed wire. He's caught
I don't know why someone voted bad on my comment, but yes it's based on a true story.
You see, pretty long time ago there was a book by Paul Brickhill telling the story of The Great Escape, but even more about Bushell's, a POW's story. So the movie used all the facts of the book, that happened in reality and added some. Plus, movie changed some events and character names, but all the rest of it is true and happened in reality in World War II. And the dates are true.
Great film pity the majority never made it. Like the scene with Donald Pleasence in the plane I was sat there thinking right on they did it, until they crash land and the nazis appear, the nazis were everywhere in this film!
yes, i hated the way richard attenborough died though..."were all going to stretch our legs" *walks around...sees MG42...*realises* *thinks oh...shit* *BANGGGG*
kinda crap that bit...
loved the film though, shamne steve mcqueen is dead though..
haha, i lyk the lanky german who keeps putting hilts back into the cell lol
The treatment of the POW's at Stalag III (Great Escape) was decent. They were hungry but still got Red Cross packages and got mail.
They were moved in January of 1944 to camps that were hell on earth. Anyone who wants to know more, leave an message, I will try to get back to you. (My Dad was there.) These POW's had lots more happen to them.
One of the greatest movies ever made. It made McQueen a superstar, and reunited Steve, Bronson, and Coburn from the Magnificent Seven. David McCallum rose to fame in The Man From Uncle, and did anybody ever look better in a military uniform than James Garner?
I love this movie so much! It's been like 7 or 8 years since I watched it (I'm 17 now), but the more I think about it, the more I want to see it again! I gotta get it soon.
the goons heh. This movie is classic ofcourse. I remember feeling so sorry when the escaped soldiers got shot. Imagine escaping after years and just being shot.
Eso sí que es una película de verdad y decente y no las chorradas de ahora de ciencia ficción y demás, etc no quiero poner la palabrita en cuestión, que ya todos sabeis, en fin la peli mola un montón , incluso cuando aún yo no había ni nacido. El séptimo arte tiene mucho poder, pero solamente lo aunténticamente bueno y genuino. ¿Se enteran o no?
A quien me haya puesto un punto menos que no sabe apreciar nada porque es una maldito o maldita nazi mal nacido o mal nacida, te enteras? Porque casi seguro le gustaran las películas chorras esas de gente baja barriobajera!!!!!!!!
i think that's a good justification, allowances have to be nade for a Hollywood movie after all. Better the story gets told rather than not at all. But it's not the only war Hollywood movie, I observe, where the Americans replace other nationalities as the leading lights... I think there was one about the U-boats (which was a very distinct invention of another country) but adopted by the Americans in the movie...
Not all German POW camps were as bad as Concentration Camps. The prisoners were treated with respect and rights such as able to freely walk around the camp with some limits, activities like baseball, games, etc, and they were fed meals. However Japanese POW camps are a TOTALLY different story
Yes, that's true, and I am so glad to meet someone who knows! :) The Germans, being militant, accorded the POWs some respect as military officers. But I still hold THESE POWs are too healthy ;P bearing in mind the Germans still grossly underfed the POWs in outright violation of the terms of the Geneva Convention. Also, as the War progressed, Hitler (and Himmler, I think? one of his close advisers, anyway) became more and more harsh towards POWs and their escapee comrades
that all depends on which camp they were put into though. To a certain extent, their level of treatment was left to the disgression of the Commandant of each camp.
The Roger Bartlett character is a complete fool he must not have understood the meaning of the warning the Gestapo gave him. The hand writing was on the wall when I first saw the movie many years ago; the Gestapo or the SS were going to kill him if captured again.
I first saw this movie in 11th grade U.S. History and I was hooked on it. I have it on DVD, it's one of the best WWII movies made and you've gotta love that theme. Cooler, thirty days!
in the real T.G.A there were far fewer american in the camp I dont even think any got out it was mostlee candain and britsh and a few others pows the person who made danny the tunnler and tolled them how they made ther tunnles and and there was not fance jump
Yeah although there were 5-6 NZer's and aussies in the escape.
Roger Bartlett as it has already said probably thought that after the war they would be shot and seeing as it was against the Genivia Convention to shoot prisoners and at that stage they believed that the Germans would stick to it.
All brilliant! But I dug Steve McQueen, James Garner,and Charles Bronson!
molarmama5 2 months ago
my grand dad was in this (not the movie, the war)
MolloyDadda247Luke 1 year ago
love it
Robby334 1 year ago
It is a beautiful film with great acting by all leading actors.One of my favorite films.
Thanks britflix.
Thanks lahore2vancouver ji for sharing .W.R.Sarla.
jasbongy 1 year ago
Ramsey....from what we herd it looks like we did exactly that
Henley.....was it worth the price?
Ramsey...It depends on your point of view
gopconservative78 1 year ago
Where did the escape take place? WHat dates?
Shelman52 1 year ago
yes
Goldensilver1977 1 year ago
@BeerNut1: The Americans helped build the tunnels and organize the escape, but they were transported out before the actual escape. The reason the producers put such an emphasis on the the American Actors is because the primary audience was the American Audience. It's a marketing scheme. PLEASE don't make too big a deal out of it. When you go into movies, tell me how you're absolutely factual action flick goes....As one German Officer puts it, Good Luck.
Nichristi 2 years ago
I say this movie when I was 9 years old on the big screen. The only way to see it. It blew my mind even before the term was used. Great, great, great!
donr1954 2 years ago
I watched this movie and it's anticlimactic. It wasn't a great escape if they ended up dead/recaptured.
Juannxz 2 years ago
cause it's a true story....
HarbingerRomanus 2 years ago 3
@Juannxz - Dude, the rest of the men escaped! Yes, almost all of the main character were recaptured or dead. IF they were recaptured, maybe they had a 2nd chance to escape together with the recaptured Captain Virgil Hilts! Yes, there were total of 50 or more recaptured or executed, but the rest escaped! That is more than just one hundred. That's why it's The Great Escape, that even happened in reality in World War II (year 1944, March 24th, Eastern Germany in a Polish city "Sagan").
VirgilHilts1944 2 years ago
@VirgilHilts1944 76 got out 50 murdered 11 recaptured that leaves u with 15 but thats better than none
underdog111111111111 10 months ago
But I think that Captain Virgil Hilts escaped again after he was caught in the end.
Well, in The Great Escape Game (created on 2003, I played through it lots of times on PC, the best game of all time), Captain Virgil Hilts escapes with the motorbike to neutral Switzerland, Sandy MacDonald meets a friend, who takes him home and escapes, Sedgwick, of course, escapes to Spain and Hendley and Blythe flies over the Alps to Switzerland! The best storyline :D
Lots of characters, based on real facts.
VirgilHilts1944 2 years ago
This is a movie's produced by John Sturges' trailer. The movie was based on a novel by Paul Brickhill. The best movie ever!!! No matter that it's old (created on 1963). In the end, after Sandy MacDonald, Bartlett "Big X", Blythe, Archibald Ives, Ashley-Pitt, Cavendish and 44 others are shot, Hendley and other 9 POWs are caught and brought back to prisons and Sedgwick, Danny and Wilie escape, Hilts steals a motorbike, makes it over the border, but then gets himself in the barbed wire. He's caught
VirgilHilts1944 2 years ago
Actually this is based on a true story i believe
hevblade 2 years ago
I don't know why someone voted bad on my comment, but yes it's based on a true story.
You see, pretty long time ago there was a book by Paul Brickhill telling the story of The Great Escape, but even more about Bushell's, a POW's story. So the movie used all the facts of the book, that happened in reality and added some. Plus, movie changed some events and character names, but all the rest of it is true and happened in reality in World War II. And the dates are true.
VirgilHilts1944 2 years ago
YES!
Mmmikele 2 years ago
Is it me or does Steve McQueen look like he could very well be Food Network's Bobby Flay tho' downs dad?
Speaking of a "GREAT ESCAPE"...that is exactly what this country needs from the depraved bo admin...They SUCK totally!!!
cmsttLoJC 2 years ago
Absolutely! It has a fantastic plot.
ClassyIsTheNewCool 2 years ago
the dvd has been released already i have it...
greyskull979 2 years ago
Germans riding pommy bikes?.... it's just not cricket! lol
pyrofella 2 years ago
Steve McQeen was an avid off road motorcyclist...and was a top racer back then..even coming in top 10 overall in an event back then..
canktm 2 years ago
they will live on for ever...rip thanks boys ...we owe you
TivvyT 2 years ago 3
the part in the prison was great
but the ending sucked.
Naturepheonix 2 years ago
Since it's a true story, do you think the ending can be helped?
6mozzer3 2 years ago
Yea.....
Well you are right....
Naturepheonix 2 years ago
Great film pity the majority never made it. Like the scene with Donald Pleasence in the plane I was sat there thinking right on they did it, until they crash land and the nazis appear, the nazis were everywhere in this film!
vintageification 2 years ago 2
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can some one tell me when this movi will be released?
JustInsaan 2 years ago
about 46 years ago...
jackassdnb 2 years ago 10
I think he means when will the DVD be released.
In that case, about 11 years ago.
superluser 2 years ago
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icyduck 2 years ago
1961 Triumph TR6 Trophy
birkettA10 2 years ago
Thanks!
icyduck 2 years ago
rip Alex Lees
hswatnik 2 years ago
me and my friend was playing this outside with two others. that was funny XD
Agge200 2 years ago
I like Steve McQueen,
When i was like 6 years old, i alway's wanted to be him, and i alway's replayed tho's Bike scénes on my own Bicikle, with a couple of friends
It were good times haha
DuTchY99999 2 years ago
thats what Germans for.ASSkickin
mastouris69 2 years ago
sweet game and movie!!!
Battleaxe46 2 years ago
steve mcqueen thats Dr. House's rat
nmsfballchmps44 2 years ago
a great movie!
hit654 2 years ago
The best movie of all time!
gopconservative78 3 years ago 4
i give 1 star for wasting 13 fucking seconds.
seopeter22 3 years ago
how can u not like the grate escape
DuckSmuggler1 2 years ago 2
i like the movie...
seopeter22 2 years ago
im 17 nd i love dis film too....steve mcqueen wassavage lookin bk n d day!!!
Gerballz10 3 years ago 2
i like the game and the movie like when the german officer sais hilts escaped 13 times...captured!
MjrDario 3 years ago
Von Lugar's butter.....Focal Plane Shutter
obiwil 3 years ago
turns out it was a true story bout the british escaping, cant imagen the simple minded yanks being as smart as us Brits
pimplouis 3 years ago
yes, i hated the way richard attenborough died though..."were all going to stretch our legs" *walks around...sees MG42...*realises* *thinks oh...shit* *BANGGGG*
kinda crap that bit...
loved the film though, shamne steve mcqueen is dead though..
haha, i lyk the lanky german who keeps putting hilts back into the cell lol
petacavanagh 3 years ago 6
a classic...
CledusTJuddfan 3 years ago
thats not whermacht its luftwaffe right great movie btw
NYCSKATER12 3 years ago
which ones forgery?
uhh they both are?
lol great movie
MadVsFollower 3 years ago
2:33... NOOOO!!! Cool Hair!!!!!
BPandTyler 3 years ago
super movie.
sproggdaddy 3 years ago 2
My dad always tells me this is one of the greatest movies ever created, and I agree with him
johnoman123 3 years ago 3
BPandtylor, you must be a fucking asshole, suckin your fathers dick, good luck
mksr92 3 years ago
One of my favourite films for sure
andmarkcg 3 years ago 4
this seems to suck
mksr92 3 years ago
you must be under 20....
blast2003 3 years ago
im 15 now, i love the film!
petacavanagh 3 years ago
You seem to suck.
BPandTyler 3 years ago
One of the greatest movies ever! R.I.P Steve McQueen. We miss you.
acelikespie 3 years ago 12
Great film, shame they had to 'modify' the history behind the actuall event to include the Americans. That's Hollywood I guess !
bmgm3 3 years ago 2
One of my favorite movies...
PositivFritid 3 years ago 4
Johnny Leyton who Appeared in this Classic also recorded The Song 'The Great Escape'.
Which is The Worded Tune to this Classic.
I dont have it but i am Looking for it.
whispperson 3 years ago
The treatment of the POW's at Stalag III (Great Escape) was decent. They were hungry but still got Red Cross packages and got mail.
They were moved in January of 1944 to camps that were hell on earth. Anyone who wants to know more, leave an message, I will try to get back to you. (My Dad was there.) These POW's had lots more happen to them.
LexiAlli 3 years ago
I luv that movie
MostHauntedCharmedG 3 years ago
One of the greatest movies ever made. It made McQueen a superstar, and reunited Steve, Bronson, and Coburn from the Magnificent Seven. David McCallum rose to fame in The Man From Uncle, and did anybody ever look better in a military uniform than James Garner?
saunders49 3 years ago
Yup, 250!
Myles0Harcourt 3 years ago
great film with a amazing cast 45 years later its still nice to put the DVD on and enjoy film making a its best
jcb180 3 years ago
one of the best movies i have ever seen
Keepper 4 years ago 3
Directed by John Sturges who also directed the Magnificent Seven. Music for both movies by Elmer Bernstein. Is that cool or what?
Drogmir 4 years ago
I love this movie so much! It's been like 7 or 8 years since I watched it (I'm 17 now), but the more I think about it, the more I want to see it again! I gotta get it soon.
Islander255 4 years ago
One word...brilliant
stickym12 4 years ago
the goons heh. This movie is classic ofcourse. I remember feeling so sorry when the escaped soldiers got shot. Imagine escaping after years and just being shot.
royalsteven 4 years ago
"you're crazy... and so are you" lol... only 1.5% died as German POW's compared to 30% with the filthy Japs..
irish89055 4 years ago
The Japanese were very good soldiers, but you are right. The Japanese treated their prisoners terribly. So did the Russians!
88DasReich88 4 years ago
i've been a fan of this movie since I was about 10 or so (27 now), it still has one of the greatest scores ever writtne
sgtpepper1138 4 years ago
Eso sí que es una película de verdad y decente y no las chorradas de ahora de ciencia ficción y demás, etc no quiero poner la palabrita en cuestión, que ya todos sabeis, en fin la peli mola un montón , incluso cuando aún yo no había ni nacido. El séptimo arte tiene mucho poder, pero solamente lo aunténticamente bueno y genuino. ¿Se enteran o no?
MyselfVeena 4 years ago
A quien me haya puesto un punto menos que no sabe apreciar nada porque es una maldito o maldita nazi mal nacido o mal nacida, te enteras? Porque casi seguro le gustaran las películas chorras esas de gente baja barriobajera!!!!!!!!
MyselfVeena 4 years ago
nice trailer,i have the game and its my favourite game EVER!
caboos09 4 years ago
amen
DaMan374 4 years ago
i have the movie and the game they both rule and the movie is my ALL TIME FAVIOURITE thankyou so much 4 posting this vid
asherjk 4 years ago
i love this film
virtualpigmaster 4 years ago
i have the game
lordi00121 4 years ago
i think that's a good justification, allowances have to be nade for a Hollywood movie after all. Better the story gets told rather than not at all. But it's not the only war Hollywood movie, I observe, where the Americans replace other nationalities as the leading lights... I think there was one about the U-boats (which was a very distinct invention of another country) but adopted by the Americans in the movie...
qua9 4 years ago
the one flaw, I think, is that they all looked too damn healthy to be POWs of the Nazis :)
qua9 4 years ago
Not all German POW camps were as bad as Concentration Camps. The prisoners were treated with respect and rights such as able to freely walk around the camp with some limits, activities like baseball, games, etc, and they were fed meals. However Japanese POW camps are a TOTALLY different story
Mafiacat 4 years ago
Yes, that's true, and I am so glad to meet someone who knows! :) The Germans, being militant, accorded the POWs some respect as military officers. But I still hold THESE POWs are too healthy ;P bearing in mind the Germans still grossly underfed the POWs in outright violation of the terms of the Geneva Convention. Also, as the War progressed, Hitler (and Himmler, I think? one of his close advisers, anyway) became more and more harsh towards POWs and their escapee comrades
qua9 4 years ago
The Luftwaffe treated POW's well. You're thinking of the Gestapo and the Schutzstaffel.
prophetoftru7h 4 years ago
that all depends on which camp they were put into though. To a certain extent, their level of treatment was left to the disgression of the Commandant of each camp.
unriselyrical 4 years ago
What about the Shintzengruben and the Hasenpheffer?
obiwil 4 years ago
@qua9 about 70 years ago during the real escape, they probably looked about the same, germans treated their POWs with more respect then the japs did
gtaisawesome87 1 year ago
how was it? I'm reading the book, but i doubt i'll be able to buy the movie version here in Singapore
qua9 4 years ago
The movie would have been watched by NO ONE had it not been for McQueen.
STEVE MCQUEEN WAS A PROUD AMERICAN.
Eleazar73 4 years ago 2
Steve McQueen=Steve McKing (King of Hollywood)
MyselfVeena 4 years ago
whats your point?
theman1223 4 years ago
great movie with great actors
CliptonsWife 4 years ago
The Roger Bartlett character is a complete fool he must not have understood the meaning of the warning the Gestapo gave him. The hand writing was on the wall when I first saw the movie many years ago; the Gestapo or the SS were going to kill him if captured again.
tss77 4 years ago
I first saw this movie in 11th grade U.S. History and I was hooked on it. I have it on DVD, it's one of the best WWII movies made and you've gotta love that theme. Cooler, thirty days!
hellcat29er 4 years ago
in the real T.G.A there were far fewer american in the camp I dont even think any got out it was mostlee candain and britsh and a few others pows the person who made danny the tunnler and tolled them how they made ther tunnles and and there was not fance jump
theman1223 4 years ago
Yeah although there were 5-6 NZer's and aussies in the escape.
Roger Bartlett as it has already said probably thought that after the war they would be shot and seeing as it was against the Genivia Convention to shoot prisoners and at that stage they believed that the Germans would stick to it.
Possumtrapper25 4 years ago
i watched this movie last night caz i was bored on deamdn, damn good movie
123wutwut 4 years ago
i got this movie in DVD it is a classic, poor Ives ='(
Prescottv 4 years ago
your right poor ives he was one of my favorites along with blythe,hendley,roger and sedgwick
lostisthebest815 4 years ago
PIGLET!!
Duckyxlovesxgum 4 years ago
classic
IndianaJones1986 4 years ago
to the fifty
Possumtrapper25 4 years ago