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Which POW movie is better?

Which movie is better?

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai

    Votes: 1 12.5%
  • The Great Escape

    Votes: 7 87.5%

  • Total voters
    8

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I think Steve McQueen pushes The Great Escape over the top.
 

Ivy

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I've never seen either one
 

C.J.Woolf

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Much as I like Sir Alec, The Great Escape has much more going for it than just Steve McQueen, like better theme music and cool low-tech ingenuity. It's like Mission: Impossible on a budget.

On the other hand, I do get a lot of use out of the line "Be happy in your work!"
 

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I'll agree with the Great Escape, but not just b/c of Steve McQueen. The whole cast is great--I love Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, and James Garner.

The book is also excellent. POW stories, especially of WWII, are an interest of mine.
 

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The stories behind the making of Escape are amazing too....

Hadn't one of the cast members been a POW? Anyone recall?
 

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Only one of them has a theme which is a sporting anthem for England. So it has to be that one.

It runs through my veins.

-Geoff
 

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The stories behind the making of Escape are amazing too....

Hadn't one of the cast members been a POW? Anyone recall?

From imdb.com:

Several cast members were actual P.O.W.s during World War II. 'Pleasence, Donald' was held in a German camp, 'Messemer, Hannes' in a Russian camp and 'Kiwe, Til' and 'Reiser, Hans' were prisoners of the Americans.
 

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The conditions were lousy the first time I saw Bridge so I was greatly bored with the event. I was also pretty young. I really didn't know what it was about but I expected more action. (From what I can remember of my thinking of the time)

I did quite enjoy The Great Escape, though. Can't say I'm a huge Steve McQ fan. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy his work - Papillon - very good but I couldn't consider myself a fan by comparison to others I know.
 
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