PaulBrickhill based his story on the true events surrounding the mass escape from Stalag Luft III, a WWII German prisoner-of-war camp that housed captured air force personnel near Sagan (now Zagan), Poland, 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Berlin. Brickhill was unable to make the escape himself due to claustrophobia, but he was actively
Synopsis 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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Thefilm was based on a book by the Australian PoW veteran Paul Brickhill, his first-hand account of the ill-fated mass escape in spring 1943 from Stalag Luft III in what is now Zagan, Poland.
JohnSturges shopped the film for 8 years, but couldn’t get a major studio to bite until United Artists stepped in. Sturges credited the success of “The Magnificent Seven” (1960) for the
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1963 film the great escape