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"Easier were it to hurl the rooted mountain from its base than force the yoke of slavery upoyi men determined to be free" — Southey.
Man's Resolve for Freedom Themes Sturges' Escape Epic
Winston Churchill has written that the one thing outstanding in his memory of life in a Boer War prison camp was the fact that he was not free.
"Once your freedom is taken from you," writes ex-POW Wallace Floody, technical advisor to "The Great Escape", "it becomes very precious. It's not the physical hardships endured in a prison camp that prompt escape attempts, for in many ways life in our camp was not too bad, as we were guarded by Luftwaffe rather than the Gestapo. It's simply the frustration of bing deprived of your freedom. Our plans to escape grew out of this factor more than any other."
Whatever misfortune of war or fate brought them together in Stalag Luft III, these Allied flyers from throughout the world shared one common goal: escape; one common love: liberty. From that grew the largest single escape from prison in the history of modern warfare. Seventy-six prisoners got away. And i from that producer-director John Sturges has fashioned a suspenseful, authentic, penetrat
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ing movie account of man's fight for freedom.
In the forward to the book, "The Great Escape", on which the Mirisch-Alpha picture, which United Artists releases in July, was based, author Paul Brickhill writes:
"Prison camp life would not have been so bad if: a) It weren't such an indefinite sentence. At times you couldn't say you wouldn't still be there (or worse) in ten years, b) The Germans didn't keep dropping hints that even
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