The Great Escape

Release date: Jul 3, 1963

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

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Top Cast

Hilts 'The Cooler King'

Hendley 'The Scrounger'

Bartlett 'Big X'

Ramsey 'The SBO'

Danny 'Tunnel King'

Blythe 'The Forger'

Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'

Von Luger 'The Kommandant'

Ashley-Pitt 'Dispersal'

MacDonald 'Intelligence'

Willie 'Tunnel King'

Ives 'The Mole'

Cavendish 'The Surveyor'

Werner 'The Ferret'

Goff

Herr Kuhn

Stratwitch

Sorren

Capt. Posen

Preissen

Lt. Dietrich

Haynes ('Diversions')

Griffith 'Tailor'

Frick

Kramer

Dai Nimmo ('Diversions')

S.S. Officer Steinach

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