The Great Escape (film) The Great Escape (film) The Great Escape is a 1963 American World War II epic film that depicts an escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from a German POW camp. The film stars Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough and features James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, and Hannes Messemer. It was filmed in Panavision. The film is based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 book of the same name, a non-fiction first-hand account of the mass escape from Stalag Luft III in Sagan (now Żagań, Poland), in the province of Lower Silesia, Nazi Germany. A heavily fictionalised
Rockford Morning Star Building Express" and the "Rockford Star", both first published in 1840. Both papers lasted only a year. The "Winnebago Forum", renamed "The Republican" in 1845, was the first city paper to have a lengthy publishing period (1842-1862). The "Rockford Morning Star" first published in 1888. It merged with the "Rockford Daily Register-Gazette" in 1928. Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms purchased the paper two years later, and again split the two papers, publishing the "Morning Star" as a morning daily. The paper was purchased by the Gannett Company in 1967, who merged the last two remaining Rockford papers in 1979 to create the