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The great escape / Mirisch Company presents ; screen play by James Clavell and W.R. Burnett ; produced and directed by John Sturges.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 033 433 disc 1-2 + insert
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 1027.
- The Criterion collection ; 1027
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German--Drama.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Prisoners of war--Drama.
- Prisoners of war.
- Prisoner-of-war escapes--Drama.
- Prisoner-of-war escapes.
- Escaped prisoners of war--Drama.
- Escaped prisoners of war.
- World War, 1939-1945--Drama.
- Escapes.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Prison films.
- War films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (172 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + insert (1 leaf : color illustrations ; folded to 18 cm.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Two-DVD special edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2020]
- System Details:
- DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio) presentation; monaural or 5.1 surround.
- digital
- optical
- mono surround
- Dolby Digital
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- One of the most exciting adventure tales ever told, this action epic recounts the planning, execution, and aftermath of a daring true-life escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, in which 250 men attempted to tunnel their way to freedom.
- Contents:
- disc one. [Feature film]
- disc two. [Special features].
- Participant:
- Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasance, James Coburn, Hannes Messemer, David McCallum, Gordon Jackson, John Leyton, Angus Lennie, Nigel Stock, Robert Graf, Jud Taylor, Hans Reiser, Harry Riebauer, William Russell, Robert Freitag, Ulrich Beiger, George Mikell, Lawrence Montaigne, Robert Desmond, Til Kiwe, Heinz Weiss, Tom Adams, Karl-Otto Alberty.
- Credits:
- Music, Elmer Bernstein ; director of photography, Daniel L. Fapp ; art director, Fernando Carrere ; film editor, Ferris Webster.
- Notes:
- Title from title frame.
- Based on the book by Paul Brickhill.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1963.
- Widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio)
- New, restored 4k digital transfer.
- Special features: 4K digital restoration; commentary soundtrack with Bruce Eder, John Sturges, Elmer Bernstein, Robert E. Relyea and Bud Ekins (1991); commentary soundtrack with Steven Jay Rubin, Robert E. Relyea, James Coburn, James Garner, David McCallum, Donald Pleasance, Jud Taylor, Fernando Carrere, Bud Ekins, and Hillard Ekins (2003); The Great escape: heroes under ground (directed and written by Frankie Glass; 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; on insert, an essay by critic Sheila O'Malley.
- Contains:
- Container of: Great escape (Motion picture)
- Great escape: heroes under ground.
- Real Virgil Hilts.
- ISBN:
- 9781681437187
- 168143718X
- OCLC:
- 1144935976
- Publisher Number:
- 715515245913
- CC3146DDVD The Criterion Collection
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