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The Great Escape is a 1963 American epic war suspense adventure film[2] starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough and featuring James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, Hannes Messemer, David McCallum, Gordon Jackson, John Leyton, and Angus Lennie. It was filmed in Panavision, and its musical score was composed by Elmer Bernstein. Based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 non-fiction book of the same name, the film depicts a heavily fictionalized version of the mass escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from German POW camp Stalag Luft III during the Second World War. The film made numerous compromises for its commercial appeal, including its portrayal of American involvement in the escape.
The Great Escape was made by The Mirisch Company, released by United Artists, and produced and directed by John Sturges. The film had its Royal World Premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square in London's West End on 20 June 1963.[3] It was one of the highest-grossing films of the year, received critical acclaim worldwide, and is now regarded as a classic.[4] The film is also noted for its motorcycle chase and jump scene, which is considered one of the best stunts ever performed.[5][6][7]
Many of the men immediately try and fail. Hilts, a notoriously prolific escapee, finds a blind spot at the fence and purposefully gets caught so his discovery will go unnoticed. He is sentenced to solitary isolation in "the cooler" in a cell next to Ives, and the two plan to escape together. Meanwhile, Bartlett re-establishes "the X Organisation", an escape-planning committee from a former camp, with Ramsey's tacit approval. Bartlett argues that if they can break out an unprecedented 250 men simultaneously, it will force the Germans to divert significant manpower away from the front.
The POWs begin working on three tunnels codenamed Tom, Dick, and Harry.[8] Hendley secures vital objects on the black market and befriends expert forger Blythe. Sedgwick makes picks and air bellows, Welinski and Dickes oversee the digging, MacDonald gathers intelligence, Griffith sews civilian disguises, and Ashley-Pitt devises a method of hiding the excavated dirt. Digging noise is masked by a choir led by Cavendish, who also surveys the tunnels' routes. Aware that Hilts is planning his own escape, Bartlett asks him to scout out the surrounding area and then allow himself to be recaptured so he can draw maps for the X Organisation, but Hilts refuses out of pride.
As Tom nears completion, Bartlett orders Dick and Harry sealed off. Hilts, Hendley, and Goff brew potato moonshine with a homemade still and throw a Fourth of July party for the camp, but during the celebration the guards find Tom, to the prisoners' dismay. A despondent Ives snaps, scales the fence, and is shot dead. Hilts, shaken, agrees to help the X Organisation.
Bartlett orders Harry reopened. When the tunnel partially collapses, Welinski confides to Dickes that he is claustrophobic; he tries to break out through the fence, but Dickes calms him down and promises to help him overcome his fear. Blythe realises he is going blind due to progressive myopia, and Hendley takes it upon himself to be Blythe's eyes outside the camp.
The 76 escapees flee across Europe but only three make it to freedom: Welinski and Dickes escape to Sweden, while Sedgwick reaches Spain. The rest are unsuccessful: Cavendish hitches a ride but is turned in by the driver. Hendley and Blythe steal a plane to fly to Switzerland but crash when the engine fails; Blythe is shot and dies as Hendley is recaptured. Hilts steals a motorcycle and heads for Switzerland but is recaptured at the border. At a train station, Ashley-Pitt kills a Gestapo officer to prevent him from apprehending Bartlett but is himself shot and killed. Later, Bartlett and MacDonald are caught when MacDonald is tricked into speaking English.
In 1963, the Mirisch brothers worked with United Artists to adapt Paul Brickhill's 1950 book The Great Escape. Brickhill had been a very minor member of the X Organisation at Stalag Luft III, who acted as one of the "stooges" who monitored German movements in the camp. The story had been adapted as a live TV production, screened by NBC as an episode of The Philco Television Playhouse on January 27, 1951.[9] The live broadcast was praised for engineering an ingenious set design for the live broadcast, including creating the illusion of tunnels.[10] The film's screenplay was adapted by James Clavell, W. R. Burnett and Walter Newman.
Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and James Coburn all had recently worked with director John Sturges on his 1960 motion picture, The Magnificent Seven. McQueen has been credited with the most significant performance. Critic Leonard Maltin wrote that "the large, international cast is superb, but the standout is McQueen; it's easy to see why this cemented his status as a superstar".[11] This film established his box-office clout. Hilts was based on at least three pilots, David M. Jones, John Dortch Lewis[12] and Bill Ash.[13][14][15]
Richard Attenborough's Sqn Ldr Roger Bartlett, "Big X", was based on Roger Bushell, the South African-born British POW who was the mastermind of the real Great Escape.[16] This was the film that first brought Attenborough to common notice in the United States. During World War II, Attenborough served in the Royal Air Force. He volunteered to fly with the Film Unit, and after further training (where he sustained permanent ear damage), he qualified as a sergeant. He flew on several missions over Europe, filming from the rear gunner's position to record the outcome of Bomber Command sorties. (Richard Harris was originally announced for the role.)[17]
Group Captain Ramsey, "the SBO" (Senior British Officer), was based on Group Captain Herbert Massey, a World War I veteran who had volunteered in World War II. Massey walked with a limp, and in the movie Ramsey walks with a cane. Massey had suffered severe wounds to the same leg in both wars. There would be no escape for him, but as SBO he had to know what was going on. Group Captain Massey was a veteran escaper himself and had been in trouble with the Gestapo. His experience allowed him to offer sound advice to the X-Organisation.[18] Another officer who is likely to have inspired the character of Ramsey was Wing Commander Harry Day.
Flt Lt Colin Blythe, "The Forger", was based on Tim Walenn and played by Donald Pleasence.[19] Pleasence had served in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He was shot down and spent a year in German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft I. Charles Bronson had been a gunner in the USAAF and had been wounded, but never shot down. Like his character, Danny Welinski, he suffered from claustrophobia because of his childhood work in a mine. James Garner had been a soldier in the Korean War and was twice wounded. He was a scrounger during that time, as is his character.[20]
Hannes Messemer's Commandant, "Colonel von Luger", was based on Oberst Friedrich Wilhelm von Lindeiner-Wildau.[21] Messemer had been a POW in Russia during World War II and had escaped by walking hundreds of miles to the German border.[22] He was wounded by Russian fire, but was not captured by the Russians. He surrendered to British forces and then spent two years in a POW facility in London known as the London Cage.
James Coburn, an American, was cast in the role of Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Flying Officer Sedgwick, "the Manufacturer", who was an amalgamation of Flt Lt Albert Hake, an Australian serving in the RAF, the camp's compass maker, and Johnny Travis, the real manufacturer.
The film correctly depicts only three escapees making home runs; the escape of Welinski and Dickes by ship to Sweden is based on two Norwegians, Per Bergsland and Jens Mller, while the escape of Sedgwick through France, where the Resistance aide him in getting to Spain, was based on Dutchman Bram van der Stok.
Tilman 'Til Kiwe' Kiver played the German guard "Frick", who discovers the escape. Kiwe had been a German paratrooper officer who was captured and held prisoner at a POW camp in Colorado. He made several escape attempts, dyeing his uniform and carrying forged papers. He was captured in the St. Louis train station during one escape attempt. He won the Knight's Cross before his capture and was the cast member who had actually performed many of the exploits shown in the film.
The motorcycle chase scenes with the barbed wire fences were shot on meadows outside Fssen, and the "barbed wire" that Hilts crashes into before being recaptured was simulated by strips of rubber tied around barbless wire, constructed by the cast and crew in their spare time.[30] Insurance concerns prevented McQueen from performing the film's notable motorcycle leap, which was done by his friend and fellow cycle enthusiast Bud Ekins, who resembled McQueen from a distance.[31] When Johnny Carson later tried to congratulate McQueen for the jump during a broadcast of The Tonight Show, McQueen said, "It wasn't me. That was Bud Ekins." However, McQueen and Australian Motocross champion Tim Gibbes both performed the stunt on camera for fun, and according to second unit director Robert Relyea, the stunt in the final cut of the movie could have been performed by any of the three men.[32] Other parts of the chase were done by McQueen, playing both Hilts and the soldiers chasing him, because of his skill on a motorcycle.[33] The motorcycle was a Triumph TR6 Trophy which was painted to look like a German machine. The restored machine is currently on display at Triumph's factory at Hinckley, England.[34]Filming started on June 4, 1962 and ended on October 1962.
The film was largely fictional, with changes made to increase its drama and appeal to an American audience and to serve as vehicle for its box-office stars. While the characters are fictitious, they are in most cases composites of several real men. The screenwriters significantly increased the involvement of American POWs. While a few American officers in the camp initially helped dig the tunnels and worked on the early plans, they were moved away seven months before the escape, which ended their involvement.[35][36] The real escape was mostly by British and other Allied personnel, with the exception of American Johnnie Dodge, who was a British officer.[29] The film omits the crucial role that Canadians played in building the tunnels and in the escape itself. Of the 1,800 or so POWs, 600 were involved in preparations: 150 of those were Canadian. Wally Floody, an RCAF pilot and former miner, the real-life "tunnel king", was engaged as a technical advisor for the film.[37] In the film, Ramsey states that it is the sworn duty of every officer to attempt escape. In reality, there was no such requirement either in the King's Regulations or in any form of international convention.[38]
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