Allied 
P.O.W.s 
plan for 
several hundred of their number 
to escape from a 
German camp during World War II.

The Great Escape 

s a 1963 American World War II epic film by DeLuxe Color 

based on an escape by 

British Commonwealth prisoners of war from a 

German POW camp duringWorld War II, 

starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough, filmed in Panavision.

The film is based on 

Paul Brickhill's 1950 book of the same name, 

a non-fiction first-hand account of the 

mass escape from Stalag Luft III in 

Sagan (now Żagań, Poland), in theprovince of Lower Silesia, Nazi Germany. 

The characters are based on real men, 

and in some cases are composites of several men.

 However, 

many details of the actual escape attempt were changed for the film, 

and the role of American personnel in both the planning and the escape was largely fabricated. 

The Great Escape was made by the Mirisch Company, 

released by United Artists, and produced and directed by John Sturges.

The film had its 

Royal World Premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square in 

London's West End on 20 June 1963.^[2]

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