The film is an account of the bold, meticulous plotting that led to the escape of 76 prisoners from a Nazi detention camp, and subsequent developments that resulted in the demise of 50 ...

Stalag 17 served as inspiration for Hogan's Heroes and was a unique approach compared to other common prisoner-of-war films of its time.

United Artists/Getty Images It is widely considered that Marcel Zillessen inspired James Garner's "the scrounger" character (left) in the 1963 classic film The Great Escape Despite having a key ...

The first half of the movie is played for comedy, as the prisoners mostly outwit their jailers to dig the escape tunnel. The second half is high adventure as they use planes, trains, and boats to ...

Once Frank decides to escape, the film's energy ticks up and moves from drama to something more suspenseful. Siegel uses the actual Alcatraz location to great effect to highlight the ...

Part 1 of this two-part made-for-TV movie is a retelling of the original motion picture The Great Escape from 1963, which is based on an event that actually occurred. 200 Allied aircrew members ...

There's no escaping The Great Escape: A homage to the many brilliant TV, film and sport homages made to classic war film ...

Had the piece have been connected to Zillessen’s wartime service and the Great Escape it would be worth much more... the find may surprise us all under the hammer." ...

The Great Escape is a 1963 American epic war suspense adventure film based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 non-fiction book of the same name. The film depicts a heavily fictionalized version of the mass ...