La grande fuga

Titolo originale: The Great Escape
Regia: John Sturges |
Anno: 1963
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Avventura Dramma Guerra
Tag: prison | epic | uniform | swastika | prisoner | based on novel or book | nazi | escape | optimism | freedom | machinegun | switzerland | shower | dystopia | baseball | world war ii | prisoner of war | claustrophobia | attempt to escape | barbed wire | based on true story | prison guard | prison escape | tragedy | solitary confinement | motorcycle | alps mountains | british officer | 1940s | luftwaffe | soldiers |
Cast: Steve McQueen | James Garner | Richard Attenborough | James Donald | Charles Bronson | Donald Pleasence | 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 |

Durante la seconda guerra mondiale alcuni prigionieri angloamericani esperti di fuga vengono riuniti in un campo nazista costruito appositamente per evasori specializzati. Un errore clamoroso, perché fin dal primo giorno essi mediteranno la fuga, tentando il colpo grosso attraverso la pianificazione di un'evasione di massa di oltre duecento detenuti...

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After the plane crash Hendley's left leg is so badly injured he cannot stand on it. When he is retur [...] D
In the very last scene, as Hilts is being returned to the camp, he has a bloody rip in his shirt, on [...] D
Early in the film, while Hilts and Ives are conversing in the cooler, separate close shots taken fro [...] D
On the left side of the screen in the closing scene, as Hilts walks to the cooler, the camera track [...] D
When the Americans are marching as "The Spirit of '76", they stop before the Senior Barracks Officer [...] D
When Hilts is on his motorcycle he is stopped in a town and asked for his pass. The reason he was st [...] D
When Roger meets the SBO for the first time, Roger is told that the prisoners wanted to "bring out t [...] D
In the beginning when the motorcade arrives at the camp, the command 'Aussteigen!' ('Alight!') is gi [...] D
After Ashley-Pitt demonstrates how to dispose of dirt, the entire camp sets about making gardens to [...] D
When Mac delivers some stolen goods to Hendley he has already walked past an open window in a separa [...] D
Upon learning that the tunnel was 20 feet short of the woods, Hilts comes up with the plan of using [...] D
Hilts's baseball glove is a present-day (i.e., late 1950s/early 1960s) model, far too modern in desi [...] D
When Sedgwick (James Coburn) steals the bicycle, he attaches his suitcase to the bike upside down. W [...] D
At the Cafe Suzette, Sedgewick is reading a newspaper called "Liberation", an underground resistance [...] D
Throughout the film actors are seen wearing rings and watches. No allied POW would have been allowed [...] D
When one of the officers has his papers checked on the train, the Germans say Danke to him , and he [...] D
When Hilts is escaping on the motorbike, he clearly gets lost and has no idea which direction Switze [...] D
When celebrating the 4th of July, James Garner plays the drum. His drumbeats don't match the drum so [...] D
When Hendley's stolen plane crashes the wings are clearly ripped completely off the fuselage. When t [...] D
The motorcycle that Hilts uses in his escape attempt was a 1960s British Triumph 650. D
The Region 1 widescreen DVD version is framed such that some unintended things are seen to the left [...] D
When Steve McQueen, James Gardner and their bunk mate are testing the moonshine they're making, Stev [...] D
When Hilts is playing the fife on the Fourth of July, his hands are in the wrong position. Both are [...] D
At the start of the escape sequence Capt. Hilts, the "cooler king", is wearing a dark top and white [...] D
When Hilts turns and runs, in his attempt to stop Ives from climbing the fence, his vest is unbutton [...] D
When Haynes is going into the tunnel on the night of the escape, he's dressed in a Nazi uniform and [...] D
When the truck carrying Bartlett's group pulls up in the field near the end of the movie the motorcy [...] D
When Ramsey (James Donald) is reading the list of murdered men, he reads "Addison, John; Alledale, P [...] D
Once the first tunnel is discovered under the stove, the guards would have searched every other conc [...] D
Always mystified as to, of all the returning escapees, only Hilts is sent to the cooler. D
In Bartlett"s briefing, he says the first tunnel ("Tom")will go out from 105, and then says it will [...] D
During the escape scene when Hendley and Blythe arrive at the holding barrack they are instructed to [...] D
Early in the film, when Hilts and Ives are being locked in "The Cooler" for the first time, as the j [...] D
Early in the movie, when the guards do a surprise inspection and come into the shower at night while [...] D
(at around 1h 23 mins) During the moonshine distribution scene, there is a crew member (wearing a re [...] D
In the opening scenes, Hilts and Ives are sentenced to 20 days each in the Cooler by the Commandant. [...] D
When Hilts is setting a trip line across the road the sun is screen left. As he reaches the near sid [...] D
(at around 2h 35 mins) As Bartlett and Mac try to run from the police at the bus stop, a there is a [...] D
Postion of the propeller crank when Hendley first hands it to Colin and when Colin begins to turn it D
After the escape... throughout the train stations, towns, etc. there are only two Nazi flags (Swasti [...] D
The camp is in Germany, but Sedgewick makes it to the Pyrenees, thousands of miles South, to cross o [...] D
When Hendley and Blythe are playing chess, the chessboard is set up with a black square in the botto [...] D
During Hilts's first time in the cooler when he is in conversation with Ives, a crew member is clear [...] D
The steam engine of the passenger train with which the majority of the prisoners tries to escape is [...] D
Flipped shot. After Hilts steals the motorcycle, he is hiding behind a building waiting for the Germ [...] D
When Ashley Pitt comes up with the idea to get rid of the tunnel dirt they show them depositing dirt [...] D
A German guard is able to fatally shoot Ashley-Pitt from quite a distance using a small handgun. A s [...] D
The film shows a large number of the escapees being shot in one common space at one time. In reality [...] D
Soon after MacDonald is captured, Bartlett tries to be nonchalant as he walks along a sidewalk. The [...] D
When Ashley-Pitt is in the tunnel he has dirty trousers, yet when he emerges from the hole his trous [...] D
When the 50 are shot by the Germans near the end of the movie, you can see that the machine gun's am [...] D
When Ives drops his cup and moves towards the fence, in the background Hilts turns and starts moving [...] D
After reading Paul Brickhill's book, it's obvious the actors in the film are too GQ looking. After m [...] D
In the scene in Hendley and Btlyhes room, when Bartlet is telling Blythe he can't go. During close u [...] D
When Hendley and Blythe jump from the train, the area behind them is open farm country. A second ear [...] D
Near the beginning of the movie, when Danny and Sedgwick are attempting to escape by mingling with t [...] D
During the majority of the 4th of July scene the background soundtrack loops over and over. This goe [...] D
Soon after his initial arrival at the camp, Hilts puts his gear bag on the ground next to the hut. T [...] D
When Hilts crashes his motorcycle into the barbed wire fence, he is clearly in front of the barbed w [...] D
The film shows almost everything happening in the summer months. In reality, the actual escape occur [...] D
Near the beginning of the movie, after Hilts takes his baseball and glove out of his rather large ta [...] D
At least one escapee is dressed as a German guard. While this is against all standard protocols, and [...] D
The POWs use boards that are the walls and bunk bed bottoms to support their tunnel. However, it's n [...] D
As described in the book and the movie, the entry shafts to the tunnels were dug 30 feet straight do [...] D
As the rowboat escapees, the "Tunnel Kings," near the end of their journey in a harbor, what appear [...] D
Timbers are needed to hold back thousands of pounds of dirt from a tunnel collapse. The three feet l [...] D
On their first day in camp, Hilts throws his baseball to the wire to check the Germans' lines of sig [...] D
When Danny prepares to dig the first tunnel, he marks the outline using blue chalk. The outline is r [...] D
Hendly ducks under a German truck during a diversion and removes several long steel rods from undern [...] D
At the Cafe Suzette, the father pours Pernod out of a tall green bottle which is correct. However th [...] D
While the producers and Sturgis do deserve credit for filming the movie in Germany, the truth is tha [...] D
There's no part in the German-Swiss border where you can see the Alps or any mountains like those in [...] D
The planes in the airfield are American AT-6 Texan trainers painted in Luftwaffe grey. The Luftwaffe [...] D
After Ives is killed, Hilts escapes and is purposely captured so he can bring back information about [...] D
There are 3 instances in the movie when the German MG-42 machine gun is fired - first when Hilts is [...] D
Final scene, Hilts is led to the cooler handcuffed. When the ball is thrown to him the cuffs have be [...] D
At the end the SBO tells Hendley that there were 50 killed. He later asks Hendley about Blythe. But [...] D
It's mentioned that seventy-six POWs had escaped from the camp. Yet, three make the full escape, it' [...] D
When Hilts and Ives are first put in the cooler, Ives is to the right as Hilts faces the door. As Hi [...] D
Hilts describes using a steel rod to breath through while he and Ives tunnel out. He doesn't describ [...] D
Traffic signs are clearly post-war. D
At the start of the movie, they all presumably have parachuted out of their planes, have been kept i [...] D
In an early scene after the prisoners are brought into the camp, Werner asks Hendley why an American [...] D
Despite what is indicated in the film, the Alps are nowhere near the German border with Switzerland. [...] D
Bartlett says they don't know the area outside the camp, which seems incongruous given that he arriv [...] D
The railway logo is incorrect. D
The film takes obvious liberties with the realities of prison life versus the logistics of pulling o [...] D
Although Hendley and most of the other prisoners are (accurately) portrayed as very resourceful, a l [...] D
When Danny starts the first tunnel, in order to camouflage the sound of his pick, a man outside uses [...] D
The film shows that the Germans discovered a tunnel located under a stove. The Germans actually did [...] D
Group Captain Ramsey's bottom three service ribbons denote service during the first world war. (Corr [...] D
When Ashley-Pitt shoots the Gestapo agent to protect Roger at the train station, no bullet hole is s [...] D
According to his biography in Wikipedia, Roger Bushell, the character on whom Roger Bartlett is base [...] D
At the Cafe Suzette, the waiter brings Pernod and water and then wishes the German officers "Bon App [...] D
During the escape, there is a brief shot of a bridge spanning a river. This bridge is very obviously [...] D
Just before the escape starts, Bartlett seems to say "You go first, Danny," even though Danny isn't [...] D
In the movie's last scene, when Steven McQueen returns to the camp, his sweatshirt is full of holes [...] D
Motorcycles change in close-up shots. D
When the group of prisoners including Bartlett is executed, the machine gun is seen to be mounted on [...] D
The film shows the executions being carried out by uniformed German troops using a Spandau machine g [...] D
When SBO Ramsay meets the Commandant for the first time, he is told (among other things) that his me [...] D
When the tunnel collapses on Willie (John Leyton), Danny (Charles Bronson) goes in head first to res [...] D
Soon after his initial arrival at the camp, Hilts walks to the wire. A prisoner can be seen walking [...] D
Immediately after Lt. Henley tells Colin that they are just one mountain ridge away from Switzerland [...] D
As Ramsey reads out the list of the 50 POWs who were executed. He appears to be saying the names alp [...] D
Early on, Hilts leans against the corner of one of the huts and observes the guard towers for weak s [...] D
At various times in the film, Hilts is released from the "cooler" with a fresh shave and the same ha [...] D
Throughout the movie, British and German officers pronounce "lieutenant" as "lootenant" rather than [...] D
When Haynes is going into the tunnel on the night of the escape, he's dressed in a Nazi uniform and [...] D
In the tunnel, Colin's socks alternate between grey and white between shots. D
The transport truck carrying the 50 prisoners who are to be shot has modern brake lights, circa earl [...] D
In the tunnel scene where it is discussed that they will need to shore up the entire tunnel (after W [...] D
When Ashley Pitt is in the tunnel, the topsoil is a sandy color and the tunnel soil is dark. In real [...] D
in the last scene as Hilts is outside being escorted to the cooler (as Goff throws him his glove), y [...] D
As the prisoners arrive in Stalag III, many are carrying their belongings in duffle bags or suitcase [...] D
While Hilts is contemplating throwing his baseball to the "blind spot" at the fence, he backs up to [...] D
During their initial escape attempt (walking out with the Russian workers) the two escapees are in d [...] D
When the plan is being laid out to the large group, there are men stationed with their ears pressed [...] D
Hendley wears USA flashes on his uniform. This shows that he is an American serving in the RAF and i [...] D
Hilts' watch is a Rolex Submariner not available in the 1940s. D
TALLY HO is a British expression that would have surely caught the attention of the German enemy. Th [...] D