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Auction History Result 7h455 GREAT ESCAPE candid 7x9.5 still 1963 Steve McQueen or stunt double jumping motorcycle, rare! Date Sold 6/11/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 7" x 9 1/2" [18 x 24 cm] Movie Still (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: This is a fascinating still! It either shows Steve McQueen or his stunt double, Bud Ekins, on a motorcycle doing a practice jump. It is certainly a candid still, because the rider has a helmet on, and the motorcycle does not have the license plate that the one in the film had. But is it McQueen or Ekins? We searched the Internet and found photos of both on motorcycles from this movie, and it is really hard to tell for certain! If there is an expert who knows for sure, please e-mail us and we will post it here. But either way, this is a really cool candid still! Also note that this still has been trimmed and it now measures 7" x 9 1/2" [18 x 24 cm]. Condition: good to very good. The still was neatly trimmed around the edges and there is a tack hole in each corner. Learn More about condition grades 
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