The year this movie came out has special meaning to me, I graduated from high school and started college in 1963. While I had watched short clips here and there over the years this week was the first time I actually watched the whole movie.
The movie has quite a number of "stars" in it but most often we think of Steve McQueen and his motorcycle in the role of Hilts 'The Cooler', so named because he so often was sent "to the cooler" for weeks for various infractions, like attempted escapes. It is somewhat sobering to me, he was the same age then as my grandson is now. Time marches on.
This whole story, covering roughly three years from 1941 to 1944, is based on a memoire. It is in substance all true, including the 335 foot tunnel, although some names are changed and some characters are composites.
The movie is long, at almost three hours, but it moves along interestingly. I watched it streaming on Prime, in four sittings over several days, much as if it had been a mini-series.
Good movie for the time and events it represents.
The movie has quite a number of "stars" in it but most often we think of Steve McQueen and his motorcycle in the role of Hilts 'The Cooler', so named because he so often was sent "to the cooler" for weeks for various infractions, like attempted escapes. It is somewhat sobering to me, he was the same age then as my grandson is now. Time marches on.
This whole story, covering roughly three years from 1941 to 1944, is based on a memoire. It is in substance all true, including the 335 foot tunnel, although some names are changed and some characters are composites.
The movie is long, at almost three hours, but it moves along interestingly. I watched it streaming on Prime, in four sittings over several days, much as if it had been a mini-series.
Good movie for the time and events it represents.