Grand Entertainment.

Rating: 9/10 (6 September 2013)

John Sturges("The Magnificent Seven") directs this superb, highly entertaining and action packed World War II film about Air Force officers sequestered in a POW camp by their Nazi captors. These men(played memorably by Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Garner, James Donald, Richard Attenborough, Donald Pleasance, James Coburn, among others) are all escape artists, and the Nazis think that, by putting them "all in one basket", that they will be easier to keep an eye on...a mistake, since they instead dig three big tunnels called Tom, Dick, and Harry, to embark on a great mass escape.
A classic of its kind, moves at a fast pace(despite being long, it never feels that way) and is highly involving as a story and in its characters. This is even based on a true story!