The Great Escape is a 1963 American World War II epic film based on an escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough, filmed in Panavision.

Only three make it to safety: Flt. Lt. Danny Velinski (Charles Bronson) and Flt. Lt. William Dickes (John Leyton) steal a rowboat and proceed downriver to the Baltic coast, where they sneak aboard a Swedish merchant ship. Fg. Off. Louis Sedgwick (James Coburn) slips through the countryside on a stolen bicycle before hiding aboard a freight train to France, where he is guided by the Resistance to Spain.

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