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10 The Great Escape Average. 11. The Great Escape Tough. These questions are about the movie The Great Escape. Made in 1963, it has been on a lot. I must have seen it 30 times. If you did not see the movie, this might be very hard. Let me know, for those who take this quiz, what you think.
TheGreat Escape received a 1963 Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing (Ferris Webster, • NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Steve Mitchell and Combat Films: American Realism Author Steven Jay Rubin • Audio Commentary with Director John Sturges, Actors James Garner, James Coburn, Donald MovieRelease Year: 1963. Release Country: United States. COLLAPSE INFO -Home; Blu-ray; Truth is, 'The Great Escape' is a fantastic film, one I revisit every year or two, but this release, framed in its original 2.35:1 aspect ratio with an AVC-MPEG4 encode, isn't any better than the HD version playing on Turner Classic Movies. Rated Unrated. Runtime. 172 min. Release Date. 06/20/1963. Reading both vintage and modern reviews of The Great Escape, one finds countless examples of writers who describe the 1963 hit as “great escapism” or a timeless adventure. The film is seen as a stirring World War II entertainment. There’s even a tradition in the United Kingdom ofTheNazis, 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.aTDm.