The Great Escape (book) a live drama adaptation as an episode of "The Philco Television Playhouse", starring E.G. Marshall, Everett Sloane, Horace Braham, and Kurt Katch. The live broadcast was praised for engineering an ingenious set design for the live broadcast, including creating the illusion of underground tunnels. In 1963, the Mirisch brothers worked with United Artists to adapt the book to produce the film "The Great Escape" starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough. The film itself was also an inspiration for the film "Chicken Run". In 1986, Ocean Software released the first "Great Escape" video game for the Commodore 64, ZX
The Great Escape (book) prisoners free. To avoid the disaster of "Tom", "Harry" was filled with sewage, sand, and sealed with cement. After the escape, the prisoners started digging another tunnel called "George", but this was abandoned when the camp was evacuated. On October 2, 2012, Penguin released "Human Game: The True Story of the 'Great Escape' Murders and the Hunt for the Gestapo Gunmen" by author and journalist Simon Read. The book details the 50 murders that took place following the escape and the three-year manhunt by the Royal Air Force to bring the killers to justice. On January 27, 1951, NBC broadcast