John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and Henry Fonda head the cast. The Great Escape - During World War II, a collection of hardened Allied prisoners are kept in an...... more
John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and Henry Fonda head the cast. The Great Escape - During World War II, a collection of hardened Allied prisoners are kept in an 'escape-proof' German camp. Led by the 'Big X' (Richard Attenborough), the men formulate a plan for a mass breakout, digging three tunnels - Tom, Dick and Harry. The team behind the escape includes a near-blind forger of passports (Donald Pleasance), a claustrophobic tunnel-digger (Charles Bronson) and the independent American 'Cooler
King' (Steve Mc
Queen). With men like that on their side, how can they fail? Patton was highly successful in his campaigns over North Africa, Sicily and parts of Europe. Battle of Britain - Guy Hamilton's classic war film which looks at how
England defended itself from the German aerial onslaught of the summer of 1940. Laurence Olivier plays Sir Hugh Dowding, the Air Chief Marshal whose fleet outmanoeuvres the Luftwaffe, despite a numerical disadvantage; and those few to whom so many owed so much are portrayed by an all-star ca
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