The Great Escape [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

The Great Escape [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: John Sturges Cast: Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen
, James Garner
James Garner
, Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough
, James Donald
James Donald
John Sturges
The Great Escape [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

The Great Escape [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: John Sturges Cast: Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen
, James Garner
James Garner
, Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough
, James Donald
James Donald
John Sturges

Blu-ray (Color / Wide Screen)

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Overview

"The Great Escape is based on the true story of a group of Allied prisoners of war who managed to escape from an allegedly impenetrable Nazi prison camp during World War II. At the beginning of the film, the Nazis gather all their most devious and troublesome POWs and place them at a new prison camp, which was designed to be impervious to escapes. Immediately, the prisoners develop a scheme where they will leave the camp by building three separate escape tunnels. Richard Attenborough is the British soldier who masterminds the whole plan, and who commands his motley squad--featuring Charles Bronson as a Polish trench-digging expert, James Garner as an American with a talent for theft, Donald Pleasence as a masterful forger, and Steve McQueen as an American rebel--through the construction of the tunnels and, eventually, their escape. An epic adventure film, The Great Escape runs nearly three hours, featuring a rousing Elmer Bernstein score and exciting action sequences -- including a notorious motorcycle chase between McQueen and the Nazis -- the likes of which had never been seen before in Hollywood productions."

Product Details

Release Date: 05/12/2020
UPC: 0715515245814
Original Release: 1963
Rating: NR
Source: Criterion Collection
Region Code: A
Presentation: [Wide Screen]
Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language: English
Time: 2:52:00
Sales rank: 4,742

Special Features

New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; Alternate 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack; Two audio commentaries, one from 1991, featuring director John Sturges and composer Elmer Bernstein; the other, from 2003, featuring actors James Coburn, James Garner, and Donald Pleasence; New interview with critic Michael Sragow; "The Great Escape": Heroes Under Ground, a four-part 2001 documentary about the real-life escape from the Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, including interviews with POWs held there; The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones, a 2001 program on the United States Army Air Forces pilot David Jones, the inspiration for Steve McQueen's character in the film; Return to "The Great Escape," a 1993 program featuring interviews with Coburn, Garner, and actors David McCallum and Jud Taylor; Trailer; English SDH subtitles

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Steve McQueen Hilts 'The Cooler King'
James Garner Hendley 'The Scrounger'
Richard Attenborough Bartlett 'Big X'
James Donald Ramsey 'The SBO'
Charles Bronson Danny 'Tunnel King'
Donald Pleasence Blythe 'The Forger'
James Coburn Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'
Hannes Messemer Von Luger 'The Kommandant'
David McCallum Ashley-Pitt 'Dispersal'
Gordon Jackson MacDonald 'Intelligence'
John Leyton Willie 'Tunnel King'
Angus Lennie Ives 'The Mole'
Nigel Stock Cavendish 'The Surveyor'
Robert Graf Werner 'The Ferret'
Jud Taylor Goff
Hans Reiser Herr Kuhn
Harry Riebauer Stratwitch
William Russell Sorren
Robert Freitag Capt. Posen
Ulrich Beiger Preissen
George Mikell Lt. Dietrich
Lawrence Montaigne Haynes
Robert Desmond Griffith 'Tailor'
Til Kiwe Frick
Heinz Weiss Kramer
Tom Adams Dai Nimmo
Karl Otto Alberty S.S. Officer Steinach
Elmer Bernstein Composer
Flemming Nordkrog Composer

Technical Credits
John Sturges Director,Producer
W.R. Burnett Screenwriter,Screenwriter
James Clavell Screenwriter,Producer
Walter Mirisch Executive Producer,Producer
Wayne Fury Sound Effects
John Goetz Screenwriter
Klaus Nedergaard Screenwriter
Christine Wiegand Screenwriter
A. Paul Pollard Special Effects
Paul Brickhill Screenwriter
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