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
Escape from Hell (1980 film) the following year. Escape from Hell (1980 film) Escape from Hell (also known as Hell Prison, I'm Coming Your Way and Femmine infernali) is a 1980 thriller film distributed by Troma Entertainment. While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film (titled "Hell Prison") was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic. A group of abused, scantily-clad female prisoners devise a plan to rebel against their oppressors and escape from their penitentiary. The film was originally refused a cinema certificate in Britain in December 1980 and released in a