Elmer Strikes Again

Rating: 9/10 (12 December 1998)

A great movie...I can still picture McQueen heading to the "cooler" with his baseball and glove. McQueen, an accomplished bike rider, did the jump over the barbed wire, himself. The rest of the cast was perfect, as well. And, then, of couse there's...
Elmer...
Bernstein's music is the best when it comes to action/drama ("The Magnificent Seven," "The Ten Commandments," "True Grit," among others) and scores another knockout with "The Great Escape."
If you're young enough to have missed this picture when it was popular, rent it and enjoy a true classic...a reminder of an era of big movies with more stars than what you see in the night-time sky.