Roger Bushell was an amazing man. Sensation-seeking, compulsive, driven.
Indeed, he created more hell for the germans as a POW than he ever did as a Spit pilot.Unfortunately it cost him his life and look where,some 70 years on,his country is now.Very sad.
A movie that hearkens back to when Hollywood was still patriotic. My understanding is many of the producers and others affiliated with the film had real life connections to the escape. The motorcycle events were fiction, but most of the other scenes and details were based on reality. Camp life was shown realistically, this was not Hogan’s Heroes. The details of tunnel construction were well depicted.
What a cast! James Garner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Richard Attenborough, James Coburn, Donald Pleasance, and Ducky from NCIS (Illya Kuriarkin) and many others. This was a time when movies were BIG, grand and you looked forward to seeing them ... like Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge on the River Kwai, Ten Commandments, Forbidden Planet, etc.