The Great Escape

The Great Escape is a 1963 film based on the true story of a daring mass escape from a World War II POW camp. The movie follows a group of Allied soldiers who, refusing to live out the rest of the war in captivity, devise an elaborate plan to tunnel out of the German camp and make their way to freedom.

• Steve McQueen did his motorcycle stunts himself.
• Based on a true story of a World War II escape.
• The ball McQueen bounces in solitary was his own idea.
• Co-stars Steve McQueen and James Garner served in the U.S. military.
• The movie used real tunnels during filming.

• It is the sworn duty of all officers to try to escape.
• I haven't seen Berlin yet, from the ground or from the air.
• In the three years since we've been here, more than two hundred men have tried to escape. Less than thirty have made it out. And not one single man has ever gotten away.
• Cooler!
• Where the hell do you think you're going to go?