The Great Escape

 

Year: 1963

Time: 172 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 1027

Release Date: Tuesday, 12 May 2020

MSRP: $39.95

 

Blu-ray

1 Disc

2.35:1

English PCM Mono 1.0

English DTS-HD MA Surround 5.1

Subtitles: English

Region A

 

 Return to “The Great Escape,” a 1993 program featuring interviews with James Coburn, James Garner, actors David McCallum and Jud Taylor, stuntman Bud Elkins, and McQueen’s son, Chad McQueen   Original theatrical trailer   Audio commentary from director John Sturges, assistant director Robert Relyea, actors Donald Pleasance, James Garner, James Coburn, Jud Taylor and David McCallum, production designer Fernando Carrere, Steve McQueen’s manager Hilly Elkins, and motorcycle stuntman Bud Elkins   The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones, a 2001 program on the United States Army Air Forces pilot David Jones, the inspiration for Steve McQueen’s character in the film   Audio commentary from 1991, featuring director John Sturges and composer Elmer Bernstein   New interview with critic Michael Sragow   An essay by critic Sheila O’Malley   “The Great Escape”: Heroes Underground, a four-part 2001 documentary about the real-life escape from the Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, including interviews with POWs held there