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Auction History Result 2c0616 GREAT ESCAPE 30x40 1963 Steve McQueen, McCarthy art, Sturges prison break, ultra rare! Date Sold 5/12/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Thirty by Forty Movie Poster (30x40; measures 30" x 40" [76 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) 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!) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Frank McCarthy Important Added Info: Note that this is an extremely rare 30x40 poster. We have never auctioned one in all our years of auctioning! Condition: good to very good. The poster was never folded. There is a censor stamp at lower right and there is a drip stain running down the blank area from that stamp. There are a few smaller drip stains in the center of the poster (beneath the title) and there are some faint tape stains in the corners and at bottom. There are some creases around the edges and some light creases and scuffs scattered in the poster. Otherwise the extremely rare poster is in pretty nice condition and if one chose to have some restoration performed it would display quite well! Learn More about condition grades 
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