A World War II melodrama about the escape of British and American flyers from a maximum-security German prison camp.
Notes: Based on the book by Paul Brickhill.
Aspect ratio 2.35:1.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1963.
"A commemorative 2 disc collector's set."--Container.
Special features include: disc 1. Audio commentary by director John Sturges; trivia track. Disc 2. Documentaries "The great escape: the untold story" and "The real Virgil Hilts: a man called Jones"; featurettes: "Return to the Great escape", "Preparations for freedom", "A standing ovation", "Bringing fact to fiction", and "The flight to freedom"; photo gallery; original theatrical trailer.
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