FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
The Great Escape
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Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer94%as of 2026-01-15
- Rotten Tomatoes average8.3/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic86/100as of 2025-08-30
What it is
The Great Escape is a 1963 American epic historical war adventure film starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough and featuring James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, Hannes Messemer, David McCallum, Gordon Jackson, John Leyton and Angus Lennie. It was filmed in Panavision, and its musical score was composed by Elmer Bernstein.
At a glance
- Genres
- War / Drama / Adventure / Thriller / History
- Original language
- English
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