The Great Escape (1963)

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Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5 • 942 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Loosely based on the real event of an Allied escape from a Nazi POW camp, The Great Escape boasts an ensemble cast with big names starting out their careers. Check out James Garner before Rockford Files, Charles Bronson before Death Wish, and Richard Attenborough three decades before Jurassic Park. The ‘Cooler King’ is also the King of Cool, Steve McQueen is the OG Tom Cruise having done his own stunt work in the iconic motorcycle chase. So come check out what’s probably one of your dad’s favorite movies! Thank you Josh H. for commissioning another podcast! Find out how to commission your own at support.baldmove.com. Hey there! Check out https://support.baldmove.com/ to find out how you can gain access to ALL of our premium content, as well as ad-free versions of the podcasts, for just $5 a month! Join the discussion: Email | Discord | Reddit | Forums Follow us: Twitch | YouTube | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone welcome to another bald move prestige film this is a commission podcast by one
0:06.5	Josh H and He's the previous commissioner of gat, a movie we both really enjoyed.
0:14.2	This is The Great Escape is a classic war film.
0:16.9	It's directed by John Sturgis, who also did the gun fight at the OK Corral and the Magnificent
0:21.9	Seven, also Breaking Bad Fans. fight at the OK Corral and the Magnificent Seven.
0:23.0	Also, Breaking Bad fans might recognize
0:26.2	the name Ice Station Zebra.
0:29.5	Another late film directed by John Sturgis.
0:32.2	Screenplay by James Clavall, who wrote the original Vincent
0:36.1	Price The Fly, also wrote Shogun, the TV miniseries in the 80s, one of my dad's favorite
0:41.3	miniseries. And W.R. Burnett, who also helped on Ice Station Zebra based on the book of the same name, The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill.
0:50.0	It stars James Corburn, who Corburn, who is on the mixed
0:56.2	Coburn. Yeah, sorry.
0:59.2	Who's co-starred on a magnificent seven.
1:03.0	Donald Pleasants.
1:04.5	Yeah.
1:05.5	From Halloween.
1:06.5	Oh, is that?
1:07.9	Okay, because he's also Blowfield from Illinois, you live twice.
1:10.3	He's the President of the United States in Escape from New York York and he's the villain in Buma man
1:14.0	who you might recognize as a as a mid-season mystery science theater 3,000 movie Donald
1:20.8	Pleasant said one of those Charlesonson, who I most know from
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