This flick was a late 60s commercial 'failure' that truly perplexed Mr. Sturges as to why it wasn't received better.
Whilst not up thar with his other classics,
it boasts not only a superlative Jerry Gee score nothing short of thrilling,
but still stands as an impressive, no-nonsense and absorbing take on the tricky tightrope of Truth betwixt legendary fact, factual legend or what's in between both.
Utterly fascinating snippet from a Belgium interview Mr. Sturges did at the time of “The Great Escape”’s release – would LUVVVVVVVV to track-down [where’s Robert Culp?!? ] and scope the original in its entirety.
It won't reproduce here for some reason so beam over to YouTube for it:
John Sturges on Meeting Akira Kurosawa and Making "The Great Escape"
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If he thot he had headaches on that, twas nuthin' 
"HOW could you bloody forget your flamin' copies of those two books?!?" 
