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By Numbers - The Great Escape

By Numbers - The Great Escape

Reducing films to simple figures.

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Sep 26, 2023
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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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