Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 173 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
The story
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
- prison
- uniform
- swastika
- prisoner
- based on novel or book
- nazi
- escape
- optimism
- freedom
- machinegun
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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
- Directed
- John Sturges
- Written
- W.R. Burnett, James Clavell
Production
- Studio
- The Mirisch Company, United Artists
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
