By Numbers - The Great Escape
Reducing films to simple figures.
0 - Americans liberated during the real Great Escape.
0 - references to baseball in James Clavell’s original script (Steve McQueen insisted the ball and mitt be added to enhance the character of Virgil Hilts, much to the amusement of co-star James Coburn who thought McQueen the least athletic man he’d ever met).
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