The Great Escape: Difference between revisions

The film's theme music is very well known and a favorite of English football fans (especially when playing Germany). The story goes that the supporters' club band started playing it when England went a goal behind in a match against Italy; England staged a comeback and ended up winning, and the fans adopted the tune. It's one of [[Elmer Bernstein]]'s epic masterpieces.

 

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* [[The Alcatraz]]: The camp. The Gestapo interrogation and dungeon scenes in particular.

* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: Don't call Hilts "Virgil."

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Bartlett, in part due to the [[The Chains of Commanding]] is sometimes unnecessary blunt and cold to some of the fellow escape artists under his watch. He also refuses to give due credit to a Luftwaffe that applies some professional courtesy and is milder compared to other Nazi branches.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Ives in the cooler, Danny having an attack of [[Claustrophobia]] in the tunnel.

** Ives suffers a 2nd one during the 4th of July celebration, {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide|which leads to his suicide]]}}.

* [[Train Escape]]: A way a number of them try to escape.

* [[Tricksters]]: ''Everyone''.

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Von Luger respects his prisoners as fellow soldiers and officers doing their duty and fighting for their country.

* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: Von Luger is carried off by the Gestapo and we are not told what takes place.

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