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The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
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The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988)
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Seventy Five men escaped. Twenty Five men made it. Fifty men were brutally executed. Now its payback time!
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story is a 178 minute, made-for-TV "sequel" to the 1963 movie The Great Escape. Made in 1988, it stars Christopher Reeve, Judd Hirsch, Ian McShane, Tony Denison, and Donald Pleasence (who appeared as an escapee in the original), this time as a Gestapo officer.
The Great Escape II is not a true sequel, as it dramatizes the escape itself just as the original film does, although mostly using the real names of the individuals involved (whereas the original film fictionalized them and used composite characters). However, it introduces a fictitious American escapee as a major character and largely follows his (also fictitious) journey to freedom after the escape itself. The second half of the film is a highly fictionalized account of the post-war investigation into the murders of fifty of the escapees by the Gestapo, conducted by three Americans (whereas in fact it was conducted by the Royal Air Force Special Investigation Branch).
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story is a 178 minute, made-for-TV "sequel" to the 1963 movie The Great Escape. Made in 1988, it stars Christopher Reeve, Judd Hirsch, Ian McShane, Tony Denison, and Donald Pleasence (who appeared as an escapee in the original), this time as a Gestapo officer.
The Great Escape II is not a true sequel, as it dramatizes the escape itself just as the original film does, although mostly using the real names of the individuals involved (whereas the original film fictionalized them and used composite characters). However, it introduces a fictitious American escapee as a major character and largely follows his (also fictitious) journey to freedom after the escape itself. The second half of the film is a highly fictionalized account of the post-war investigation into the murders of fifty of the escapees by the Gestapo, conducted by three Americans (whereas in fact it was conducted by the Royal Air Force Special Investigation Branch).
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