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The Great Escape
MEANRANK
84/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #179
- IMDb #151
- Google retired #426
- Rotten Tomatoes #121
- Metacritic #237
- Letterboxd #275
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #547
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #82
- Metacritic Critics #355
- Metacritic Audience #281
- Criticker #181
- Douban #447
- Kinopoisk #1665
- AlloCiné #120
- Trakt #250
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Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 71, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 95.
See the most agreed on films →Allied prisoners in a German POW camp during World War II are determined to break out. They devise an ambitious plan to smuggle hundreds of men out through a series of elaborate tunnels. The operation requires meticulous planning, ingenuity, and stealth, with each prisoner contributing their unique skills to orchestrate the largest escape attempt of the war right under their captors' noses.
Details
- Director
- John Sturges
- Writers
- James Clavell, W.R. Burnett
- Based on
- The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill
- Studio
- The Mirisch Company, United Artists
- Released
- 3 July 1963
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, German, French, Russian, Spanish
- Runtime
- 172 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $4.0M
- Box office
- $11.7M
- Awards
- 1 win, 1 nomination
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 2 →1 win from 2 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| 36th Academy Awards 1964 | Best Film Editing | Ferris Webster | Nominee |
| National Board of Review: Top Ten Films 1963 | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films | Winner |
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2 awards — The Great Escape
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| National Board of Review: Top Ten Films | Winner |