Great Escape People Are Enthralled Movie Review

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After this, these professional escape artists begin planning the big event, the escape after which the film is named. The teams are organized to build the tunnels, forge documents, make civilian clothing, acquire contraband goods and prevent the guards from discovering the work of the escape. The POWs commence and continue work on three tunnels simultaneously. On the night of the escape, seventy-six prisoners get out of the camp. Most are killed (fifty were murdered outright by the Gestapo) or captured with only a handful making it out to freedom. Only three make it to safety in Sweden and Spain ("Allmovie.com").

The Great Escape was a major box office success on release and made a superstar of Steve McQueen. It became one of the highest grossing films of 1963 despite heavy competition. According to the veterans, many details of the first half of the film depicting life in the camp were completely authentic.

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The film has been influential with a number of other films having veiled references and tributes to it, including even films and stories not about World War 2. They have been nonetheless influenced by the genre such as Papillon that Steve McQueen himself played in ten years later in 1973 ("Tcm.com"). Rarely has such a one to one connection between two different films been made upon such similar topics that has been made since the Great Escape.

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Truly, few other films have had such long-lasting influences on all levels upon films, music and pop-culture than the Great Escape. Despite being almost fifty years old, these influences appear to be going stronger than ever and will continue to have a long-lasting influence for many years to come......

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