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The Great Escape II: The Untold Story is a 1988 American made-for-television action-adventure drama film and a sequel to The Great Escape (1963). It stars Christopher Reeve, Judd Hirsch, Anthony Denison, Ian McShane, Charles Haid and Donald Pleasence in a supporting role (in the 1963 original Pleasence had played Flight-Lieutenant Colin Blythe, "The Forger").
John Fancy (9 March 1913 – 16 September 2008) was a British former airman whose tunnelling escapes from various German prisoner of war camps during World War II earned him the nickname The Mole, and inspired the book and film The Great Escape. [1] [2] Fancy was born in 1913 in the vicarage at Lund near Driffield in Yorkshire.
The "Great Escape" was a World War II mass escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft III. It resulted in the murder of 50 recaptured escapees. It was the basis of The Great Escape, a book by Paul Brickhill describing the escape and The Great Escape, a film based on the book.
The Great Escape continues to receive acclaim from modern critics. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 94% based on 53 reviews. The site's critics consensus reads, "With its impeccably slow-building story and a cast for the ages, The Great Escape is an all-time action classic." [68]
Södra Ängby, a residential area blending functionalism with garden city ideals, Stockholm, Sweden, forming part of the Bromma borough; Tapiola, a garden city district of Espoo, Finland; Wythenshawe, a district of Manchester, England, a housing estate started in the 1920s and intended as a "garden city"
Garden City is a neighborhood in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. Located in the Northside area, it has an estimated population of 1,940 people. [ 2 ] Garden City is located in the vicinity of Florida State Road 104 and Florida State Road 115 .
Westfield Garden State Plaza began tearing down the former Best Buy and a nearby bank on its Paramus property this week, making room for 180 more parking spaces in one of the first steps of a ...
The Great Escape, a 1950 book by Paul Brickhill describing the 1944 Stalag Luft III escape; The Great Escape: Or, The Sewer Story (1973), a children's story about sewer alligators by Peter Lippman (Golden Press)