Mr Phillips, who was imprisoned from 1943 to 1945 and died in 1997, also told of how their plot was foiled by ... might come in handy for that great event - escape. Everyone had their one secret ...

United Artists/Getty Images It is widely considered that Marcel Zillessen inspired James Garner's "the scrounger" character (left) in the 1963 classic film The Great Escape Despite having a key ...

The film is an account of the bold, meticulous plotting that led to the escape of 76 prisoners from a Nazi detention camp, and subsequent developments that resulted in the demise of 50 ...

Yet some of them did. This weekend, as we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Great Escape – the mass breakout from the ...

The Great Escape was turned into a hit movie starring ... a role playing himself in a film based on a prisoner of war escape plot, because he was "too fat." Peter Butterworth auditioned for ...

The Great Escape is a 1963 American epic war suspense adventure film based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 non-fiction book of the same name. The film depicts a heavily fictionalized version of the mass ...

Part 1 of this two-part made-for-TV movie is a retelling of the original motion picture The Great Escape from 1963, which is based on an event that actually occurred. 200 Allied aircrew members ...

Based on a true story, a group of allied escape artist-type prisoners-of-war are all put in an "escape proof" camp. Their leader decides to try to take out several hundred all at once. The first ...