The Escapees [Blu-ray] [1981]

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Pre the Great Escape, as I said before, there were a couple of other memorable escape attempts from Stalag Luft III. And if you look at these two men here [shows image], these were part of a delousing party escape. And what happened was, as I said, there were two men in these German Police Gazette photograph, which you just saw them, are these two men here. And they participated in the first mass escape attempt from Stalag Luft III in June 1943. A party of 27 men escorted by two German speaking POWs disguised as guards were led out of the compound for delousing. Once outside, Welch and Morison put on the uniforms of the bogus guards. They were captured at a local air field when trying to start an aeroplane – perhaps the inspiration for the James Garner and Donald Pleasance attempt to get away by aeroplane. But the Germans were very fond of taking photographs of recaptured escapers and the means which they went to escape. So, there was some kind of in a sense, no hard feeling almost you could say but this is one the earlier escape attempts. Faran Tahir as Javed Afridi, a Muslim criminal and an inmate of the Tomb who allies with Breslin and Mannheim. This mother is feeling trapped and wants more from life. Her husband's attempts to make her feel better felt to me like it was more stifling, she can't breath and telling someone to "get over it" and "smile" just makes depression worse. When you're that down sometimes things like therapy aren't even an option you can come up with. Perhaps her husband did fail her in this regard.

Rollin drastically retrains his penchant for absurdity here! This does allow for some stretches of dullness, including the long-long-LONG goodbye sequence near the end! Fortunately, Marie's anthropophobia saves the day! A memorial to the 50 men was built by Stalag Luft prisoners in July 1944, with the camp Commandant’s permission. Von Lindeiner and various others were charged by the German authorities. Von Lindeiner, it seems, had a years called, ‘fortress confinement’, and after the war he was held by the British for a couple of years, but a lot of the ex-prisoners there did speak up for him and I think the Luftwaffe were quite ashamed of what had happened. The urns containing the ashes of the Airmen were originally entombed here but after the war these are transferred to Poznan Here, [shows image] he’s also demonstrating the home-made bellows used to ventilate the actual tunnel itself. And [shows image] one of the other guards is demonstrating the penguin method of dispersing excavated soil. The soil’s in these bags and a kind of draw string drops down and you try to tread it into the ground, not dissimilar in a sense to what you see in the film.In an interview with the British newspaper The Sun, Vinnie Jones stated that the film was to shoot April 16 to June 23 in New Orleans. [17] Shooting for Escape Plan was also confirmed to take place in Louisiana in the spring of 2012. In August 2012, at The Expendables 2 conference, Arnold Schwarzenegger commented on the film and stated that filming had finished. [18] The engine room fight scene between Breslin and Drake was filmed onboard the bulk carrier RICAN, the giveaway is IMO NO 7621932 seen in several scenes. On 17 April, Gabriel Naville of the Swiss Protecting Power paid a routine visit to Stalag Luft III, which the German authorities again decided not to stop. The new Senior British Officer, Group Capitan Wilson, gave Naville a full report of recent events. Indeed in July 1944, Wilson held a Court of Inquiry in the camp to investigate the incident, in which those escapers who had been returned to the camp gave evidence. Several days after they were handed to Max Wielen at Kripo HQ. Eventually being sent to Stalag Luft III on or about 15 May 1944.

a b Shoard, Catherine (29 September 2023). " 'I'm 90. I worry if I'm gonna make it to lunch': Michael Caine and John Standing on wives, war and feeling like the Queen". The Guardian . Retrieved 29 September 2023. The escape enraged the Germans and a directive was issued by Hitler to shoot all of the recaptured men. In the end 50 were killed, an act that horrified the Luftwaffe.In Breslau, on the Tuesday 28 March, Max Wielen instructed senior Gestapo officer Dr Wilhelm Scharpwinkel, a person you will hear of again, to form an execution squad and appoint a leader. The man chosen was Gestapo Kriminal Obersekretaer Lux, L-U-X What is curious is that there is no documentary evidence that the Grossfahndung of March 1944, soon after the Great Escape, recaptured any persons other than the escaped POWs from Stalag Luft III. There was a selection process, so you have a number of men but Hitler said, well, we need to, you know, in fact execute them all, it was agreed that the number will be 50. On 28 March this man here [shows image], Arthur Nebe, he was head of Kripo in Berlin, began to select the men to be murdered using their personal file cards. And it’s still there [shows image], at the front here is the court house, it’s been modernised a bit, but that’s the old civil prison at Görlitz through this archway here. The 19, I said, were transferred to the civil prison at Görlitz, on the same day von Lindeiner, the camp Commandant, made a request to Breslau Kripo to have the prisoners returned to the camp. This was refused. Kripo state they could no longer accept his instructions as he had been relieved of his command. Over the following days another 16 recaptured escapers were taken to Görlitz prison, bringing the total recaptured escapers to 35. A lot of the survivors say that they were taken to number 31 Augustastrasse which is still there, and I think it’s quite ironic that above the door there you have, ‘Salva’ sort of basically a welcome. And this is the building itself [shows image], the Gesatpo were housed on first floor of 31 Augustastrasse. After The Great Escape, escaping was forbidden by our own senior British officers. Life was tougher after the escape.

In March 1944, 65 years ago, ‘Harry’ was finished. Running from Hut 104 towards the perimeter wire, it was 363 feet long, nearly two feet square and 28 feet underground. The tunnel was in three sections with bays in each section for the men working the rope trolley system which you’ll see photographs of a bit later that ran through it. And it was lit by electricity diverted from the camps own electricity circuit. In all, some, about 600 men had been involved in the tunnelling and other aspects of the escape. There were two trials really, the British Military Court in Hamburg conducted two trials of the alleged perpetrators. The first and largest was July to September 1947 and the second October/November 1948. Here you have Max Wielen [shows image] you heard of him before, this is Eric Schulz and he is the man who murdered Squadron Leader Bushell.

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sensed that an escape was imminent and feared the consequences. Brunner chatted with the Commandant but did not Jefferies, Mark (4 October 2022). "Sir Michael Caine pictured playing war veteran as he films for new movie in Camber Sands". The Mirror . Retrieved 29 July 2023.