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The Great Escape or Great Escape may refer to:

History

• The "Great Escape", a World War II mass escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft III
  • The Great Escape (book), a book by Paul Brickhill describing the escape
  • The Great Escape (film), a film based on the book

• Maze Prison escape, known to Irish Republicans as the "Great Escape"

Music

Albums

• The Great Escape (album), by Blur
• The Great Escape (Ilse DeLange album), or the title song
• The Great Escape (Joe Budden album)
• The Great Escape (7" EP), by Morning Runner, or the title song (see below)
• Great Escape (The Rifles album), or the title song (see below)
• Great Escape (Tara Blaise album), or the title song

Songs

• "The Great Escape" (Boys Like Girls song)
• "The Great Escape" (Morning Runner song)
• "The Great Escape" (The Rifles song)
• "The Great Escape", by BT from Emotional Technology
• "The Great Escape", by Marillion from Brave
• "The Great Escape", by Patrick Watson from Close to Paradise
• "The Great Escape", by Voodoo Blue from Smile 'n' Nod
• "The Great Escape", by We Are Scientists from With Love and Squalor
• "Great Escape", by Guster from Goldfly
• "Great Escape", by Moby from 18

Other

• The Great Escape (festival), an Australian music festival
• The Great Escape (band), a band that performed during Warped Tour 2008
• The Great Escape, a music festival in Brighton, England

Television

• The Great Escape (TV series), an Irish television show
• SpongeBob's The Great Escape!, a forthcoming TV movie in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants
• "The Great Escape", an episode of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
• "The Great Escape", an episode of The Life and Times of Juniper Lee
• "The Great Escape", an episode of Married... with Children
• "The Great Escape", an episode of Monster Allergy
• "The Great Escape", an episode of Tanner '88

Video games

• The Great Escape (video game), a 1986 game based on the film
• The Great Escape (2003 video game), a game based on the film
• Rayman 2: The Great Escape
• Great Escape (video game), a 1983 game for the Atari 2600

Other uses

• The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom, an amusement park in Queensbury, New York, U.S.
• Great Escape Theatres, a movie theatre chain primarily in the Midwestern U.S.
• "The Great Escape", a name applied to West Bromwich Albion's escape from relegation during the FA Premier League 2004-2005 season

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From Wikiquote

The Great Escape is a 1963 film about several hundred Allied POWs who plan a mass escape from a German POW camp.

Directed by John Sturges. Written by James Clavell and W.R. Burnett, based on the novel by Paul Brickhill.

Col. von Luger

• We have in effect put all our rotten eggs in one basket. And we intend to watch this basket carefully.

• [To Hilts] It looks, after all, as if you will see Berlin before I do.

Captain Hilts

• I haven't seen Berlin yet, from the ground or from the air, and I plan on doing both before the war is over.

Group Captain Ramsey

• Colonel Von Luger, it is the sworn duty of all officers to try to escape. If they cannot escape, then it is their sworn duty to cause the enemy to use an inordinate number of troops to guard them, and their sworn duty to harass the enemy to the best of their ability.

Herr Kuhn

• Ah, Herr Bartlett. And Herr MacDonald. We are together again. You're going to wish you had never put us to so much trouble!

Dialogue

Herr Kuhn: We have reason to believe this prisoner is the mastermind behind numerous criminal escape attempts.

Von Luger: [sarcastically] Squadron Leader Bartlett has been three months in your care! And the Gestapo has only "reason to believe"!

Sergeant-Hauptmann Strachwitz: What are you doing over here by the wire?

Hilts: Well, like I told Max here, I was trying to get my...

German Soldier: Achtung!

[Von Luger enters]

Von Luger: What were you doing by the wire?

Hilts: Well, like I told Max... I was trying to cut my way through your wire because I want to get out.

Von Luger: Are all American officers so ill-mannered?

Hilts: Yeah, about 99 percent.

Von Luger: Then perhaps while you are with us you will have a chance to learn some. Ten days isolation, Hilts.

Hilts: Captain Hilts.

Von Luger: Twenty days.

Hilts: Right. Oh, uh, you'll still be here when I get out?

Von Luger: [visibly annoyed] Cooler!

Bartlett: It's possible for one man to get out through the wire, even get away, but there are in fact a considerable number of people besides yourself in this camp who are trying to escape.

Hilts: I appreciate that. [pause] Something's coming. I can feel it, and it's coming right around the corner at me, Squadron Leader.

Hilts: How many you taking out?

Bartlett: Two hundred and fifty.

Hilts: Two hundred and fifty?

Bartlett: Yeah.

Hilts: You're crazy. You oughta be locked up. You, too. Two hundred and fifty guys just walkin' down the road, just like that?

Hilts: Wait a minute. You aren't seriously suggesting that if I get through the wire... and case everything out there... and don't get picked up... to turn myself in and get thrown back in the cooler for a couple of months so you can get the information you need?

Bartlett: Yes.

Bartlett: Hilts, how do you breathe?

Hilts: Oh, we got a steel rod with hinges on it. We'll shove it up and make air holes as we go along. [to Ramsey] G'night, sir.

[Hilts walks out]

MacDonald: Why didn't anyone think of that before? It's so stupid, it's positively brilliant! Oh, but it'll bring every goon in the camp down on top of us!

Bartlett: I don't know. Perhaps we're being too clever. If we stop all the breakouts, it will only convince the goons we must be tunneling.

Ramsey: I hope it works. If it doesn't, those two will be in the cooler for an awfully long time.

Hendley: Come on, Roger. We all know the score here, at least... most of us do. Your idea of this escape is to... start another front, to foul up the Germans behind the lines. All right, that's fine, that's fine. But once we get past that barbed wire, once we have them looking all over Germany for us, that mission is accomplished. Afterwards, we have some ideas of our own.

Bartlett: You mean getting home? Back to your family and children?

Hendley: That's right.

Bartlett: Good God, man. Do you really believe I haven't thought about that, too?

Bartlett: [of the Americans' homemade vodka] In the three years, seven months and two weeks that I've been in the bag, that's the most extraordinary stuff I've ever tasted. It's shattering!

MacDonald: Well, I think it's rather good... Well, with your permission, sir, I think I'll all on kives. Er, call on Ives.

Bartlett: Not Colin. He'd be an appalling hazard to the whole escape. That must be my decision.

Hendley: You want to talk about hazards? Let talk about hazards. Lets talk about you. You're the biggest hazard we have. The Gestapo has you marked. No one has said you can't go.

Bartlett: That's true, and I have thought about the Gestapo. But if you're asking me how a far a commanding officer is allowed to go, or dare go, or should be permitted to play God, I can't answer you.

Hendley: Colin's not a blind man as long as he's with me. And he's going with me!

Ramsey: Roger's idea was to get back at the enemy the hardest way he could, mess up the works. From what we've heard here, I think he did exactly that.

Hendley: Do you think it was worth the price?

Ramsey: Depends on your point of view, Hendley.

Taglines

• Put a fence in front of these men...and they'll climb it.

• Hours ago... Minutes ago.... These men were behind barbed wire.

Cast

• Steve McQueen - Capt. Hilts "The Cooler King"
• James Garner - Flight Lt. Hendley "The Scrounger"
• Richard Attenborough - Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett "Big X"
• James Donald - Group Capt. Ramsey "The SBO"
• Charles Bronson - Flight Lt. Danny Velinski "The Tunnel King"
• Donald Pleasence - Flight Lt. Colin Blythe "The Forger"
• James Coburn - Flying Officer Louis Sedgwick "The Manufacturer"
• Hannes Messemer - Col. von Luger
• David McCallum - Lt. Cmdr. Eric Ashley-Pitt "Dispersal"
• Gordon Jackson - Flight Lt. Sandy MacDonald "Intelligence"
• John Leyton - Flight Lt. William Dickes "The Tunneler"
• Angus Lennie - Flying Officer Archibald Ives "The Mole"
• Nigel Stock - Flight Lt. Denys Cavendish "The Surveyor"
• Robert Graf - Werner 'The Ferret'
• Jud Taylor - Goff

External links

Wikipedia has an article about:

The Great Escape (film)

• The Great Escape quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• The Great Escape at Rotten Tomatoes