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THE GREAT ESCAPE opens in New York. Directed by John Sturges. Written by James Clavell and W.R. Burnett, from the novel by Paul Brickhill. Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough head up a colorful, multinational cast in rousing albiet sanitised ,very Hollywood-ised account of the ill-fated 1943 mass Allied breakout from a German POW camp in Poland. With James Coburn and Charles Bronson.
