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 The Great Escape - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Great Escape, written by James Clavell and W.R. Burnett and directed by John Sturges, is a famous and acclaimed 1963 World War II film, based on a true story about Allied POWs with a record for escaping from POW camps.
The Great Escape", and esp, the leader of the penguins is short and pudgy like the character played by Richard Attenborough.
In The Simpsons episode A Streetcar Named Marge (1992), Maggie plots a "Great Escape" from the Ayn Rand School for Tots.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Great_Escape   (6292 words)

  
 The Great Escape (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Great Escape received glowing reviews and was a big seller in its initial release, reaching #1 in the United Kingdom album chart and was their first to crack the US charts (even if at a lowly # 150).
The Great Escape is the fourth album by Blur.
Damon Albarn subsequently revealed that most, if not all the songs on The Great Escape were about himself, in some form or another (i.e.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Great_Escape_(album)   (285 words)

  
 World War Two - The Great Escape
The Great Escape, as it came to be known, was a mass escape attempt from the prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III located near the Polish town of Sagan.
Other important members of the Escape Committee were the forgers who made maps and forged papers and the tailors who made civilian clothes out of blankets and other materials that were scrounged and altered uniforms.
The commandant of Stalag Luft III, Lindeiner, was court-martialed by the Gestapo for not preventing the escape.
www.historyonthenet.com /WW2/great_escape.htm   (892 words)

  
 The Great Escape for PC Review - PC The Great Escape Review
The Great Escape is an action and stealth game based on the 1963 Steve McQueen film of the same name, and though it provides a large amount of varied gameplay for fans of the movie, none of its parts are developed enough to be wholly satisfying.
Though The Great Escape is a console-style action game, and it appears to have been developed primarily with consoles in mind, it plays perfectly fine on the PC in terms of control.
The Great Escape may be fun for die-hard fans of the film, but if you're just looking for a good stealth action game, you could do better.
www.gamespot.com /pc/action/greatescape/review.html   (1348 words)

  
 The Great Escape (1963)
The Great Escape is a film to show your kids, its a film that could change someone and somewhat shape and form the mold.
10/10: The Great Escape - Steve McQueen- W.W.II.
Goofs: Continuity: One of the escapees is dressed as a German soldier, and escapes wearing a steel helmet.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0057115   (447 words)

  
 The Great Escape - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Great Escape written by James Clavell and W.R. Burnett, and directed by John Sturges is a famous 1963 World War II film, based on a true story about Allied POWs with a record for escaping from POW camps.
This includes all the real-life details of the plans, tunnels, successes and tragic outcome of the "great escape." Paul Brickhill, an inmate of the original camp, wrote an account of the escape under the same name, upon which the film was based.
The Great Escape is also the name of a 1995 album by British band Blur.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Great_Escape   (1411 words)

  
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 Barfly - The Great Escape - May 18th, 19th and 20th 2006~
The Great Escape is thrilled that Michael Eavis, Glastonbury founder, will be coming to Brighton on Friday 19th May for one of the undoubted highlights of the Great Escape Talk Programme.
Here is a list of the key people working on The Great Escape, their roles within the event and their contact details if you’ve got a specific query.
MTV2 could not pass up the opportunity of spending three days by the sea at the inaugural Great Escape Festival in Brighton and miss out on all the fun.
www.escapegreat.com /news   (799 words)

  
 Featuring The Great Escape Review at ActionTrip
Gameplay wise, The Great Escape is comparable to Codemasters' title Prisoner of War, which was released last year for the Xbox and PC.
The Great Escape allows players to operate a number of vehicles from the WWII period - like cars, APC's, motorbikes, etc. Although they make for a welcomed addition to the slow-paced gameplay, the vehicles will be available only on a few occasions, most of which are over very quickly.
Striving to add in a wide variety of features, the developers of The Great Escape have, unfortunately, slipped up on other significant gameplay aspects.
www.actiontrip.com /reviews/thegreatescape.phtml   (1496 words)

  
 The Great Escape
The RCAF Memorial Museum houses a full-scale mock-up of the Great Escape, designed by Wally Floody, which is cut open at the side and shows the section directly beneath the hut and part of the tunnel complete with the air-system and small rail car.
Their escape was immortalized in the 1963 movie "The Great Escape" which starred Steve McQueen and Richard Attenborough.
To deter further escape attempts, and in direct contravention of the Geneva Convention, Adolph Hitler ordered 50 of the participants to be executed.
www.rcafmuseum.on.ca /great_escape.htm   (356 words)

  
 The Great Escape
So the odds are in favor of The Great Escape adding these rides to the park in the next couple of years.
(1/9/06) In the most desperate sounding of denials, The Great Escape claims that they are only storing the pieces the two Astroworld rides and know nothing yet of any plans to install them.
The waterpark inside the 200 room resort is planned to have a lazy river, a 32,000 square-foot wave pool with surf worthy waves in addition to water slides.
www.screamscape.com /html/the_great_escape.htm   (633 words)

  
 The Great Escape
The build-up to the Great Escape, Ken's role as a tunneller and the night of the escape itself are recounted in detail.
I was digging on the tunnel used in the escape from the beginning and will do my best give you some ideas of the difficulties and organisation needed to complete the escape.
I was paired for the escape with Joe Noble and we decided to alter the colour of our uniforms by boiling them in the black bindings of some books.
www.ateal.co.uk /greatescape   (5548 words)

  
 The Great Escape
The escape is scheduled for that night, and he earned himself a front seat.
The escape actually occured on the night of March 24, 1944.
He comes back with the information and once they let him out of the cooler he told Big X the whereabouts of the train station and its schedule, and a bunch of other info that might have been of help.
www.deadrabbit.org /movievault/greatescape.htm   (641 words)

  
 DVD Savant Review: The Great Escape Special Edition
The Great Escape has lots of little bits in its first two thirds of running time, but their function is to wind up the spring good and tight so that the suspense of the prison break becomes unbearable.
What would I do?" The Great Escape fires the imagination; it makes us all feel like the foxes in a grand chase.
The real escape happened in snowy March and was nowhere near as pleasant as in the movie, as the ground was still covered in snow and the escapees sometimes had to give themselves up to keep from freezing.
www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1205escap.html   (2825 words)

  
 The Great Escape : Rob Davis
Scathing about The Great Escape film, he was very annoyed with Steve McQueen and the motorcycle incident, which he said was a load of rubbish because it never happened, he also didn't like they way Hollywood glamourised it and put in characters who weren't really there.
I estimate that for the Great Escape only, the prisoners disposed of a figure in the region of 140 cubic metres, 200 tons of sand, which works out to almost an entire large truck or lorry containerful.
The feature film of the Great Escape was made by the Mirish Company and released in 1963.
www.elsham.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /gt_esc   (10337 words)

  
 The Great Escape (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Great Escape is the fourth album by Blur.
The Great Escape received glowing reviews and was a big seller in its initial release, reaching #1 in the United Kingdom album chart and was their first to crack the US charts (even if at a lowly # 150).
It was released in 1995, with high expectations, as the follow-up to the much-adored Parklife.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Great_Escape_(album)   (261 words)

  
 the great escape
The Menu del Dia there was great - a little more than normal at 18 euros but well worth it as it was more than just 3 courses with small dishes appearing unexpectedly at the beginning and end.
Great location, great hotel, friendly and not too bad price-wise, considering it was Barcelona.
I thought their hotel prices were reasonable for the setting and quality (even after I realized the prices were per person..).
homepage.mac.com /victoriawren/iblog   (2149 words)

  
 The Great Escape Review PC Games Gamebiz Australia
This is how The Great Escape starts, your starting point in the plane as a pilot and you are having trouble with the German fighter planes making ground and attacking you with great force.
Enter ‘The Great Escapethe 1963 film staring Steve McQueen in this WW2 film about prisoners of war and the adventure of escaping from ‘escape proof’ prisoner of war camps in Germany.
So with such a strong storyline is ‘The Great Escape’ capable of escaping the bad bind that so many movie-videogames collect as they exploit the success of the big screen films?
www.gamebiz.com.au /reviews.php?action=display&id=201   (512 words)

  
 The Great Escape Review - PC
The Great Escape follows the exploits of a ragtag group of soldiers being held in the highest-security Nazi POW camp in all of Europe, the Stalag Luft III.
The Great Escape retains the feeling of the film, and should be worth a look if you are a hardcore Steve McQueen fan or a fan of the movie looking for some nostalgia.
The Great Escape does a fine job of capturing the style and atmosphere of the classic film on which it’s based, but simply doesn’t deliver in gameplay.
pc.gamezone.com /gzreviews/r21581.htm   (1148 words)

  
 IGN: The Great Escape Preview
The story of the three successful escapees was the basis of the 1963 hit film, The Great Escape.
The Great Escape looks like a promising blend of genres that will satisfy gamers looking for stealth and strategizing gameplay, while providing the much needed action that the other "escape from POW camp" game, Prisoner of War, lacked.
The Great Escape will unfold over 20 missions ranging from the stealth elements in Stalag Luft, to running from the Nazis through a Teutonic castle, Luftwaffe airfield, a hospital, and a train.
pc.ign.com /articles/424/424469p1.html   (735 words)

  
 The Great Escape
PLAN AND PRACTICE your Great Escape...and then you could be off to Disney World!
In a typical home fire, you many have as little as two minutes to escape from the time the smoke alarm sounds.
Every member of the family must plan two ways out from their rooms: the most direct route, usually out a door, and a second route to use in case the first route is blocked by fire or smoke.
www.frognet.com /sparky/outsmart_fire.html   (585 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Great Escape: Music
Still, it's a great pop song, regardless of it's supposed hidden-content, and is a track that works well within the context of the record and with the themes of consumerist abandon and technocratic escape (...it's also worth remembering for that great video featuring the actor, Jean Marc Barr).
THE GREAT ESCAPE is another demonstration of Blur's unique intelligence, more of Albarn's witty commentary, and substantial proof that the group may be bordering on genius.
THE GREAT ESCAPE may not turn into Blur's great American breakthrough album, but if you're not thrown by Albarn's overwhelmingly British aesthetic, it just might be enough to take you away from the confines of your day to day doldrums.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000024J7B   (1228 words)

  
 The Great Escape Review - Xbox
The Great Escape does a great job of introducing its characters and the main premise of a motley crew of Allied prisoners attempting to escape from a Nazi prisoner of war camp during the thick of World War II.
Still, The Great Escape was originally released in 1963 and many gamers will not come to fully realize the novelty of playing through many key scenes found in the movie or the fact that gamers can recreate the famous motorcycle ride to freedom as McQueen.
Among them, The Great Escape was a wonderful prisoner of war movie filled with plenty of intrigue, inventive escape tactics and daring stunts.
xbox.gamezone.com /gzreviews/r21581.htm   (1640 words)

  
 The Great Escape - Movie Rental Review
This is the true story of the extraordinary courage and ingenuity of the men imprisoned there, and of their plans for the greatest escape ever.
As the British ranking officer explains, when the camp commandant urges him to relax and "sit out the war as comfortably as possible," his duty is to escape, or, if escape is impossible, to force the enemy to use as many resources as possible to contain them.
When "Big X" (Richard Attenborough), the British officer who supervises the escape, asks Hilts to go through the tunnel to get information about the area surrounding the camp, and then allow himself to be recaptured, so he can let them know what he has found, he refuses.
www.commonsensemedia.org /reviews/review.php?id=532&type=Video/DVD   (1004 words)

  
 The Great Escape
The escape hatch of the stern compartment is open, just as Capes left it, and everything in the compartment fits the scene as he described it.
Then Capes carried the wounded men to the stern compartment, where there was an escape hatch: their only chance for escape, if it hadn't jammed in the sinking.
It was the only way to escape the death they would inevitably suffer unless they abandoned the sub.
www.divernet.com /wrecks/perse898.htm   (2097 words)

  
 Gamehelper Consoles
The Great Escape...looks great on paper, it had the potential to be enthralling.
One of his all-time favorites was “The Great Escape”, and it came to be one of my favorites, too.
It starts out snappily enough, with “The Great Escape’s” original theme music playing over a cinema recreating one of the opening scenes from the film.
consoles.gamehelper.com /articles/461.htm   (805 words)

  
 The great escape - Salon
On the other hand, the House of Saud's most important ally was the Great Satan itself, the United States.
On the one hand, the House of Saud was an Islamic theocracy whose power grew out of the royal family's alliance with Wahhabi fundamentalism, a strident and puritanical Islamic sect that provided a fertile breeding ground for a global network of terrorists urging a violent jihad against the United States.
Even a cursory examination of the relationship revealed astonishing contradictions: America, the beacon of democracy, was to arm and protect a brutal theocratic monarchy.
dir.salon.com /story/books/feature/2004/03/11/unger_1/index.html   (1585 words)

  
 The Great Escape: Ski and Mountain Adventures: skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, climbing, morzine, france, alps, summer, winter, tuition...
The Great Escape: Ski and Mountain Adventures: skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, climbing, morzine, france, alps, summer, winter, tuition...
The Great Escape Ski and Mountain Adventures is owned by Darren and Samantha Woodley.
Located in the French Alps, we are based in the beautiful alpine resort of Morzine, in the heart of the "Portes du Soleil", the largest international linked ski area in the world, and Europe's mountain bike capital.
www.thegreatescape.eu.com   (177 words)

  
 The SF Site Featured Review: The Great Escape
The Great Escape is a collection of stories to fit every mood of the reader who doesn't feel compelled to stay in one niche, but instead is looking for quality wherever he or she may find it.
His collection, The Great Escape, displays the talents of a writer who is equally at home in, and brings an individual slant to, science fiction and fantasy, comedy and drama, philosophy and farce.
The SF Site Featured Review: The Great Escape
www.sfsite.com /06b/ge130.htm   (670 words)

  
 The Great Escape
It was a great film and the greatest escape — 200 prisoners who were to be smuggled out of a camp that the Germans said was escape-proof.
It was the most daring break-out of World War 2 — a story of great cunning and incredible courage, and an escapade in which Australian POWs figured prominently.
This week they returned to what remains of Stalag Luft 3, to remember 60 years on why it's every soldier's duty to try to escape from the enemy.
sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au /sixtyminutes/stories/2004_03_28/story_1064.asp   (176 words)

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