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Adaptation of
The Great Escape
1951
single work
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Issue Details:
First known date:
1963...
1963
The Great Escape
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Film Details - The Mirisch Company , 1963
Producers:
John Sturges.
Production Companies:
The Mirisch Corporation.
Director of Photography:
Daniel L. Fapp.
Editors:
Ferris Webster.
Music:
Elmer Bernstein (original music).
Cast:
Including Steve McQueen (Hilts 'The Cooler King'), James Garner (Hendley 'The Scrounger'), Richard Attenborough (Bartlett 'Big X'), James Donald (Ramsey 'The SBO'), Charles Bronson (Danny 'Tunnel King'), Donald Pleasence (Blythe 'The Forger'), James Coburn (Sedgwick 'The Manufacturer'), Hannes Messemer (Von Luger 'The Kommandant'), David McCallum (Ashley-Pitt 'Dispersal'), Gordon Jackson (MacDonald 'Intelligence'), John Leyton (Willie 'Tunnel King'), Angus Lennie (Ives 'The Mole'), Nigel Stock (Cavendish 'The Surveyor'), and Robert Graf (Werner 'The Ferret').
Release Dates:
10 December 1963 (Sydney: Australian premiere)
Location:
- Filmed in Germany, including Munich; Geiselgasteig, Grünwald, Bavaria; and Füssen, Bavaria.
