[Film] Great Escape on Channel 4

[figgis]

State of this post….or have I been whoooooshed?

No you spend to much time on here 52340 posts get a life.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

No you spend to much time on here 52340 posts get a life.

Happy new year!

PS it’s too, I spend too much time on here.

 

[figgis]

Happy new year!

PS it’s too, I spend too much time on here.

So you justify being a sad sack by a spelling mistake.

 

[clapham_gull]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvreCDC61Zw

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

So you justify being a sad sack by a spelling mistake.

Happy new year!

 

[The Clamp]

Never tire of this movie classic.

A plethora of A listers, hard to imagine that they started filming only 18 years after the actual escape.

I appreciate times have changed, but I hope there never comes a time when they deliberately don’t show this film due to a TV exec thinking it’s ‘inappropriate’?

Why would it be “inappropriate”? Get a grip.
Anyway, quick bully-w@nk and off to sleep. Beat it like it owes you money.
Happy new year. Ya twats.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JYLm5w5o10Q

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Who could forget Benny from Crossroads getting machine gunned trying to climb the fence? As posted above, for realism stick with Norwegian classic The 12th Man.

 

[clapham_gull]

Who could forget Benny from Crossroads getting machine gunned trying to climb the fence? As posted above, for realism stick with Norwegian classic The 12th Man.

Until it's banned by the woke police. Health and safety gone mad.

 

[Lindfield by the Pond]

The Guy Martin recreation this evening on More 4 was a fascinating insight into the events. A few points that I didn't know about:-
1) it resulted in the greatest atrocity against British troops during WW2
2) The mass escape resulted in a mass escapee recovery plan by the Nazi, which captured 14,000 other escapees. There were no further mass escape attempts. The Germans preferred 1's and 2's escapees as it caused less disruption to their operations.
3) The commandant of Stagluff 13 paid for a memorial out of his own pocket, and provided tools to build it to the prisoners of Stagluff on conditions the picks and tool were not used for further tunnels. The prisoners did not try again, as it was not worth the loss.

 

[clapham_gull]

The Guy Martin recreation this evening on More 4 was a fascinating insight into the events. A few points that I didn't know about:-
1) it resulted in the greatest atrocity against British troops during WW2
2) The mass escape resulted in a mass escapee recovery plan by the Nazi, which captured 14,000 other escapees. There were no further mass escape attempts. The Germans preferred 1's and 2's escapees as it caused less disruption to their operations.
3) The commandant of Stagluff 13 paid for a memorial out of his own pocket, and provided tools to build it to the prisoners of Stagluff on conditions the picks and tool were not used for further tunnels. The prisoners did not try again, as it was not worth the loss.

Wait till a TV exec sees it, God forbid the More4 compliance department.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Overdue a remake, as I don’t doubt Ian and most others on here would agree:

Bradley Cooper - McQueen
Toby Jones - Pleasance
Ricky Gervais - Attenborough
Henry Cavill - Garner
Ryan Gosling - Mccallum
Alan Carr - McPhee
Cumberbatch - Bronson

 

[colinz]

I believe they only included the Steve McQueen character in the film to attract American money to either make it, sell it or both.

The escape actually took place from the British section of the camp.

The Steve McQueen character (Hilts) was actually a New Zealander.
https://one-name.org/service_story/hilton-digby-rayment/

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/katikati-war-memorial-hall

 

[marlowe]

Who could forget Benny from Crossroads getting machine gunned trying to climb the fence? As posted above, for realism stick with Norwegian classic The 12th Man.

That wasn't Benny, it was the Crossroads chef Shughie McFee.

Yes, the sight of Benny from Crossroads getting shot while trying to scramble over a barbed wire fence wearing his wooly hat and dungarees, and then gasping out "aah Miss Diane" with his dying breath would have detracted further from the films credibility, but it didn't happen.

Next you'll be trying to tell us that Meg Richardson's disabled son Sandy tried to make an unsuccessful dash for it in his wheelchair.

 

[jakarta]

Never mind The Great Escape, when are we getting a remake of Crossroads?

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

I'm in tears here at work thanks to Marlowe's post. Believe it or not mine was tongue in cheek, although I'm 100% it was Bodie and Doyle who got tricked into speaking English while trying to board the bus after the break out.

 

[Gwylan]

That wasn't Benny, it was the Crossroads chef Shughie McFee.

Angus Lennie. He was in a play with my dad at the Gardner Centre in the 60s and he was a lovely bloke. I was hanging around waiting for my old man and he was amazingly friendly ... and that was before I'd seen the Great Escape. It was a shock to see him gunned down

 

[Is it PotG?]

Great film.

 

[WATFORD zero]

No you didn't. For the love of God are your serious. I fear the world we live in. The Great escape or Judi Dench. Please no offence **** off.

I did watch that documentary instead of the Great Escape. Sorry if that triggered one of which I can only imagine are many deep seated insecurities

Happy New Year

 

[marlowe]

I'm in tears here at work thanks to Marlowe's post. Believe it or not mine was tongue in cheek, although I'm 100% it was Bodie and Doyle who got tricked into speaking English while trying to board the bus after the break out.

Wasn't that just after that Purdey bird from ITV's Sapphire and Steele got shot in the back while trying to run away on the railway station platform?

 

[Questions]

My father didn’t fight the Germans so this film could be pulled….

He fought the Japanese.

And he didn’t fight them so they could come over here with their squid and games either: