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The Great Escape (The Definitive Edition) Sleeve

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One of the all-time greats of suspenseful adventure films, set during WWII in a German maximum security POW camp designed to hold even the most resourceful prisoners bent on escape. A cracking good all-star cast play the prisoners determined to prove them wrong.

 

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Director John Sturges
Starring Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Richard Attenborough, James Coburn, Donald Pleasence, James Garner

 

Genre Classic Film

 

Country USA Language English   Year 1963

 

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Certificate PG   Length 172 mins   Label 20CFX
Cat No 1617901054   Format DVD   Colour
Region2   Aspect 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen

 

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