A Brief History of World War II Movies
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The Great Escape, 1963
John Sturges helmed this ever-so-slightly cliché-ridden P.O.W. caper — cartoonish Germans, Lee Marvin playing a tough guy, Steve McQueen on a motorbike — but what a caper it was. The tale of a gutsy mass breakout at a German prison camp was based on a true story (bet none of them looked as dashing as McQueen).
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