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 (Blur album) "NME" reporter Johnny Cigarettes wrote: ""The Great Escape" is so rammed with tunes, ideas, emotions, humour, tragedy, farce, and edgy beauty that it's utterly beyond contemporary compare." "Melody Maker" awarded the album an unconventional 12/10 and deemed it superior to celebrated predecessor "Parklife", while noting that "Blur understand the geometry of the song, and the basic principles of pop, better than anyone today". Less enthused was "Spin" journalist Chuck Eddy, who felt the LP ranged from "wonderful" to "detached and emotionally stiff". "The Great Escape" was named as one of the 10 best records of 1995 in "Melody Maker", "NME",