Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.

Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough
United Artists; Directed by John Sturges
Not Rated; 172 minutes; 1963

THE GREAT ESCAPE is the incredible true story of 76 Allied airmen who, in 1945, escaped from Germany’s most infamous maximum-security P.O.W. camp. It is a tense adventure story known as one of the greatest war films ever made.