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  • Actors: James Coburn, Faye Dunaway, Donald Pleasence, Charles Bronson, Yul Brynner
  • Directors: John Sturges, Norman Jewison
  • Format: Box set, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 3
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 16 Oct 2006
  • Run Time: 287 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000I8OCD0
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 41,805 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Includes the Steve McQueen films THE GREAT ESCAPE, THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, and THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. THE GREAT ESCAPE is a dramatisation of the true story of a group of British, American, and Canadian POWs who executed a massive escape from Stalag Luft III in Upper Silesia in March 1944. In THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, a business tycoon looks for an intellectual challenge. He plans a bank robbery and begins a duel of wits with an insurance investigator. In THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, a small farming Mexican village that makes involuntary donations of its harvest to a gang of bandits led by Calvera decides to hire a group of professional gunmen, headed by gunslinger-for-hire Chris, to protect them. Despite the meager pay, Chris and Vin sign on after the Mexicans see them face down some racist thugs. Chris begins to pick up other gunmen, including Bernardo , Lee, Britt, Harry, and aspiring gunslinger Chico, as they ride back to the village. The Mexicans, who are at first ambivalent about having gunmen hanging around their town, finally let down their guard and allow their visitors to teach them how to shoot and how to best reconfigure the town to defend against Calvera. When the bandits return, they find harvesting the crops a little more challenging.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A classic, bitter-sweet yarn., 15 May 2009
By Dr. S. J. Leask "dooferman" (Nottingham, UK) - See all my reviews
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Superbly entertaining thrillers, with a series of very likeable characters slugging it out against the establishment. Not psychologically complex (although Thomas Crown has a nice twist), nor exactly of documentary accuracy, but each of them a gem. 3 evenings of delight.
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1.0 out of 5 stars The not so Great Escape, 7 Jan 2009
By Brendan O. Clarke "brendoclarke" (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
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yes and here we go again with yet another dvd version of this famous WW2 movie featuring a dozen movie stars. The picture and sound are first class, however the film itself is hugely over-rated. The music is annoyingly brilliant, but once the opening credits are over the plot flaws become apparent.

This dumb flick is like a prequel to "Hogan's Heroes." The Allied POWs are plucky, cocky and handsome. The German soldiers who guard them are bumbling oafs. At the end of the movie the German guns come out and many of the POWs are slaughtered. Nothing seems to actually happen in the 2 hours 45 minutes. There is lots of moralising about values, and how good the Allies are and how rotten the Germans are. There is plenty of egotistical, over-the-top acting by the all-star cast. Although this is a film about courage, the director takes a childish approach (leavened with humour) to allow the plot to kick in (the escape).

The Great Escape is a rather mundane three hour escape movie. It is cliched and it is dumb; for example how on earth are the Germans going to allow Steve McQueen to enter a prison camp with a cool leather jacket and a baseball glove (and ball). Do you think the Germans allowed the prisoners to walk around a prison camp drinking coffee and smoking cigarttes all day waitning for postal packages sent from the wife in sunny old USA.

All the good guys are locked up in a Prison Camp in Germany and they instantly become best mates and come up with a plan to escape (funnily enough). There is a mish-mash of Nationalities in the Camp ranging from English, Russian, American, Australian and Scottish. Sterotypical heaven here as the English play the stiff upper lip; the Americans play it strong and silent, and the Scottish man dreams of drinking whiskey and dancing with his girlfriend in Kirkaldy or Fife or someplace....

Anyhoo, One part of the movie that reduced it's quality was the unnecessary comic relief throughout the movie. Almost from the start, many POW's act like they are on vacation and not a prison camp. I don't think real-life POWs would have acted like that. In the same vein, the German officers appeared fools and clowns, who not only tolerated much insolence but didn't seem to have a clue at all.

Do yourself a favour, switch your brain on and watch a proper escape movie - Escape from Alcatraz.
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