Unfortunately, this might be the biggest compliment one can give the film. Some of the greatest American and British actors of the era come together and quickly begin working as a team rather than a group of individuals trying to outdo each other. The star power on display is hugely impressive. (Not too long after that, however, virtually all escapees are recaptured and more than fifty of them are executed by the Gestapo). However, the failures and sacrifices bring the prisoners even closer and eventually, with The Cooler King part of the group, they accomplish their goal. The original escape plan, which calls for three different tunnels to be dug in different areas of the camp, undergoes a lot of adjustments because of unexpected setbacks and errors, and some men are lost.
The only officer that chooses a different path to freedom is an American named Hilts (Steve McQueen), who eventually becomes famous as The Cooler King because he repeatedly gets caught and thrown in solitary confinement. are given specific tasks and multiple teams go to work. Soon after, under the guidance of Roger Bartlett (Richard Attenborough) men with special skills - there are builders, forgers, scroungers, etc. Many of them know each other and have done it before, so all they have to do is agree on the perfect plan. In the film, the officers begin plotting their escape almost immediately after they are transported to the camp. This is a true story and the real camp where the officers were held was in Sagan, Poland. Burnett, who had adapted Paul Brickhill's novel about a very large group of Allied officers that managed to escape from a newly built German camp operated by the Luftwaffe (the German air force). John Sturges directed the film from an original script by James Clavell and W. What you see in this film never happened, and never could have happened, because real soldiers do not think, communicate, and behave like the men that made it. The Great Escape is only slightly more believable than Stalag 17, which essentially means that it is a cinematic fairy tale suitable for adults who don't know history or simply choose to ignore it. In English, with optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature.
The supplemental features on the disc include exclusive new audio commentary by filmmaker/critic Steve Mitchel and author/critic Steven Jay Rubin archival documentary produced by Steven Clarke archival interviews and more. John Sturges' "The Great Escape" (1963) arrives on 4K Blu-ray courtesy of Kino Lorber.
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