The Great Escape

The Great Escape is a 1963 film made by the Mirisch Corporation, released by United Artists, and produced and directed by John Sturges. Based on a non-fiction book by Paul Brickhill, it tells the story of a mass escape attempt by Allied prisoners of war from a German POW camp (Stalag Luft III) during World War II. Brickhill had been a prisoner of the camp with his friend...
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  • 1963

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  • The great adventure! The great entertainment!

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John Sturges

John Eliot Sturges (January 3, 1911 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director. His movies include Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963) and Ice Station Zebra (1968). He started his career in Hollywood as an...
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