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The Great Escape, the classic 1963 John Sturges World War II (WWII) military prison escape crime adventure thriller ("The great adventure! The great entertainment!"; "1:06 AM What went into these few secon1963 ds... 1:07 AM The hell... the heroism... the high adventure... 1:08 AM Make for the screen's great entertainment!"; with a superb "Screenplay by James Clavell & W.R. Burnett", "Based upon the book by Paul Brickhill"; note that this was largely a true story, but it was of course "enlarged" to make it even more dramatic, and some American prisoners, who were not at the actual prison camp, were added, so that the movie could include American actors James Garner and Steve McQueen) starring Steve McQueen (as Hilts "The Cooler King"), James Garner (as Hendley "The Scrounger"), Richard Attenborough (as Roger Bartlett, "Big X"), James Donald (as Group Capt. Ramsey "The SBO"), Charles Bronson (as Danny Velinski "Tunnel King"), Donald Pleasence (as Colin Blythe "The Forger"), James Coburn (as Sedgwick "Manufacturer"), Hannes Messemer (as Col. Von Luger "The Kommandant"), David McCallum (as Eric Ashley-Pitt "Dispersal"), Gordon Jackson (as Sandy "Mac" MacDonald "Intelligence"), John Leyton (as Willie Dickes "The Tunneler"), Angus Lennie (as Archibald "Archie" Ives "The Mole"), Nigel Stock (as Denys Cavendish "The Surveyor"), Robert Graf (as Werner "The Ferret"), William Russell (as Sorren), Lawrence Montaigne (as Haynes "Diversions"), Robert Desmond (as "Griff" Griffith "Tailor"), and Bud Ekins (Steve McQueen's friend, who performed the motorcycle jump at the film's climax, but he was uncredited, and almost everyone thought McQueen had done the jump himself!)
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Artist: Frank McCarthy

Important Added Info: Note that we have only auctioned three examples of this wonderful program book, and the last one sold for $460! It is filled with great images and biographies of the stars and much behind-the-scenes information that we have not seen anywhere else. The first interior page is die-cut in the form of prison bars, so that you see the full-color image of McQueen "behind bars"! One of the best pages is labeled "Stuntman Ekins", and it has a picture of Bud Ekins tangled in the barbed wire after the motorcycle crashes into it, and it clearly states that Steve McQueen "at producer/director John Sturges' request, let Bud Ekins do the dangerous smash-up sequences for him", and the photo is clearly visual proof. There is also information about McQueen's motorcycle and how he and Ekins took an English motorcycle and completely rebuilt it and disguised it as a German one! It also has "Printed in Japan" on the bottom of the second interior page, but the entire program book is in English, so clearly it was just printed in Japan because they had better and/or cheaper color printing at that time. This program book was found together with two Australian program books, which makes us think it is likely Australian, but there is nothing to identify its country of origin other than the "Printed in Japan". Also note that we have pictured the front cover and an interior 2-page spread from this program. You can use these images to determine the exact condition of it from our super-sized image, but realize that there are some other pages you are not seeing.

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