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Auction History Result 2b0656 GREAT ESCAPE English trade ad 1963 art of Steve McQueen, John Sturges classic prison break! Date Sold 5/10/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage English Movie Trade Ad (measures 11" x 17" [28 x 43 cm]; 2 pages) (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. Important Added Info: Note that this is a great two-page trade ad taken out of the June 20, 1963 issue of Kinematograph Weekly English trade magazine (we have a number of them in this set of auctions, and also one-page English trade ads). Studios would run these elaborate 2-page ads in issues of this magazine, and they often had images not found on any of the regular movie posters (either English or U.S.). This 2-page trade ad was removed from a 1963 issue of this magazine, and it will look incredible displayed on the new owner's wall. The back of those two pages have text or ads for other movies from that time, and we have not pictured those back pages because the primary interest to bidders is the great two-page color ad, which measures 11" x 17". Condition: good to very good. There are a few tiny stains down the spine where the trade ad was removed from the magazine, but the two pages are not separated from each other and were originally joined in the magazine. Learn More about condition grades 
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