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The Great Escape
8:00 pm - 10:45 pm Thursday, October 15
The Great Escape
The most rebellious Allied prisoners of war are sent to a supposedly escape-proof maximum-security detention camp during the Second World War. They plan an ingenious mass breakout by digging a tunnel, but even when free of the camp, making it across occupied Europe proves a dangerous journey. Drama, starring Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Donald Pleasence, James Garner, Charles Bronson and Richard Attenborough
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- Steve McQueen — Actor as Hilts, `The Cooler King"
- Richard Attenborough — Actor as Bartlett, `Big X"
- James Coburn — Actor as Sedgwick, `Manufacturer"
- Donald Pleasence — Actor as Blythe, `The Forger"
- James Garner — Actor as Hendley, `The Scrounger"
- Charles Bronson — Actor as Danny Velinski, `Tunnel King"
- David McCallum — Actor as Ashley-Pitt, `Dispersal"
- Gordon Jackson — Actor as MacDonald, `Intelligence"
- Nigel Stock — Actor as Cavendish, `Surveyor"
- Hannes Messemer — Actor as Von Luger, `The Kommandant"
- Robert Graf — Actor as Werner
- Angus Lennie — Actor as Ives, `The Mole"
- John Leyton — Actor as Willie, `Tunneller"
- John Sturges — Director
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