The Great Escape (film)
The Great Escape is a 1963 American World War II epic film by DeLuxe Color 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.
The film is based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 book of the same name, a non-fiction first-hand account of the mass escape from Stalag Luft III in Sagan (now Żagań, Poland), in the province of Lower Silesia, Nazi Germany. The characters are based on real men, and in some cases are composites of several men. However, many details of the actual escape attempt were changed for the film, and the role of American personnel in both the planning and the escape was largely fabricated. 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.
Plot
It's 1943. Having expended enormous resources on recapturing escaped Allied prisoners of war (POWs), the Germans move the most determined to a new, high-security prisoner of war camp. The commandant, Luftwaffe Colonel von Luger (Hannes Messemer), tells the senior British officer, Group Captain Ramsey (James Donald), "There will be no escapes from this camp." Von Luger points out the various features of the new camp designed to prevent escape, as well as the perks the prisoners will receive as an incentive not to try. After several failed escape attempts on the first day, the POWs settle into life at the prison camp.
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The Great Escape
by: Girls' Generationmotteru dake ryoute ni tsukami totte go away
nigedasu no yo sugu ni teokure ni naru mae ni
We gotta escape, we got to escape, yeah
From every subete reigai nashi de
We gotta forsake, we got to forsake, yeah
kono te wo totte!
kawari hajimeta shunkan sugu get out of this place
choukou desura minogasazu ni konasu The great escape
owari no hajimari made matanai de
issho nara shinpai naitte sou shinjite
hanshou suru kanousei wo koutei shite
arakajime before too late
As we make our great escape now
kiseki matsu kurai nara jibun de kaiketsu suru wa
hairisuku de rooritaan demo koukai shinai kara
We gotta escape, we got to escape, yeah
From every subete okisari ni shite
We gotta forsake, we got to forsake, yeah
mada ma ni au wa
kawari hajimeta shunkan sugu get out of this place
choukou desura minogasazu ni konasu The great escape
owari no hajimari made matanai de
issho nara shinpai naitte sou shinjite
hanshou suru kanousei wo koutei shite
arakajime before too late
As we make our great escape now
mada sukoshi tomadoi kakusenai no ne I know that
ganjigarame kimi no yume toki hanatte ageru wa
kawari hajimeta shunkan sugu get out of this place
choukou desura minogasazu ni konasu The great escape
owari no hajimari made matanai de
issho nara shinpai naitte sou shinjite
hanshou suru kanousei wo koutei shite
arakajime before too late
As we make our great escape now
kawari hajimeta shunkan sugu get out of this place
choukou desura minogasazu ni konasu The great escape
owari no hajimari made matanai de
issho nara shinpai naitte sou shinjite
hanshou suru kanousei wo koutei shite
arakajime before too late
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