The Great Escape
7.91963Adventure · Drama
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The Colditz Story
6.8(63)19551h 34mReleasedMovie
The Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier. This film, based on Pat Reid's epic novel, tells the story of how the British, French, Dutch and Polish prisoners of war who were incarcerated in Colditz set out to prove their captors wrong.
Top Billed Cast
John Mills
Pat Reid
Eric Portman
Colonel Richmond
Frederick Valk
Kommandant
Denis Shaw
Priem
Lionel Jeffries
Harry Tyler
Christopher Rhodes
'Mac' McGill
Richard Wattis
Richard Gordon
Ian Carmichael
Robin Cartwright
Bryan Forbes
Jimmy Winslow
Theodore Bikel
Vandy
Eugene Deckers
La Tour
Anton Diffring
Hauptmann Fischer
Guido Lorraine
Polish officer
Witold Sikorski
Polish Officer
A. Blichewicz
Polish Officer
B. Dolinski
Polish Officer
Leo Bieber
German Interpreter
Rudolph Offenbach
Dutch Colonel
Production Details
Release Date
1955-01-25
Runtime
94 min
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$1M
Revenue
—
Director
Guy Hamilton
Writers
Ivan Foxwell, Guy Hamilton, William Douglas-Home
Production Companies
Ivan Foxwell ProductionsBritish Lion Films
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