With the tacit approval of British Group Captain Ramsey-the most senior officer of any nationality in the camp, and therefore the prisoners' de facto leader-Bartlett proposes an audacious plan: to tunnel below the fence of the camp into the forest, to break out 250 of the men. The prisoners establish an escape committee, the "X" Organization, led by "Big X", RAF Squadron Leader (and former Gestapo prisoner) Roger Bartlett. In late 1942, having expended enormous resources on repeatedly recapturing Allied POWs, the Nazi German armed forces move the most persistent escapees to Stalag Luft III, a new, max-security prisoner-of-war camp supervised by Luftwaffe Colonel von Luger. ( April 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. ![]() This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. The Great Escape is also noted for its motorcycle chase and jump scene, which is considered one of the best stunts ever performed. The Great Escape emerged as one of the highest-grossing films of the year, winning McQueen the award for Best Actor at the Moscow International Film Festival, and is now considered a classic. The film had its Royal World Premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square in London's West End on 20 June 1963. The Great Escape was made by The Mirisch Company, released by United Artists, and produced and directed by John Sturges. The film depicts a heavily fictionalized version of the escape, with numerous compromises for its commercial appeal, such as focusing more on American involvement in the escape. ![]() The film is based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 non-fiction book of the same name, a firsthand account of the mass escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from German POW camp Stalag Luft III in Sagan (now Żagań, Poland), in the Nazi Germany province of Lower Silesia. It was filmed in Panavision, and its musical score was composed by Elmer Bernstein. ![]() The Great Escape is a 1963 American war adventure film starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough and featuring James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, Hannes Messemer, David McCallum, Karl-Otto Alberty, Gordon Jackson, John Leyton and Angus Lennie.
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