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
Rockford Register Star where ads for national chains in the area are promoted along with the insertion of comics, the "Go" section, and USA Weekend magazine. In 2003, the newspaper formed an alliance with WREX-TV. Newspaper reporters are seen on WREX-TV's newscasts on a daily basis promoting stories found in the "Rockford Register Star", and the newspaper's website contains many videos of WREX's telecasted stories. Rockford Register Star The Rockford Register Star is the Rockford, Illinois, United States metropolitan area's primary daily newspaper. The paper took its name with the 1979 merger of two influential Rockford competitors, "The Register Republic" (founded , daily