3 Questions about "THE GREAT ESCAPE"

1. Yes

2. The 4th of July party with the moonshine. "Don't smoke while you're drinking it!"

3. Hilts (Steve McQueen)

1. Do you Like the 1963 Movie "THE GREAT ESCAPE" Yes 


2. What is your Number 1 Favorite Scene from it? Good Luck! 


3. Who is your Favorite Character in it? Hilts!

Yes


The escape sequence. 


CAPTAIN Hilts

1. A marginal "No". I found it dull, and couldn't get into it.


2. No really good scene. I'd say the best scene is when Coburn is called to the phone and thinks he is caught.

3. If I had to pick a favorite character, it would be the one played by James Coburn

Yes

Probably the scene where Hendley puts out the stuff on the table to entice Werner but I like all the Hendley-Blythe scenes best.

Hendley
Blythe

"And that, I'm sure you'll all remember, is the voice of the Nelles warbler Let's turn our attention to this gentleman -the masked shrike. Lanius nubicus. The butcherbird. The shrike impales his foes on the spikes of thorn bushes. Not a very lovable character, you see. Let's have a look at the colouring. Uniform black above, from head to tail. A black rump, a black crown with a bold white flash, and a white line over the eye.
The shrike lives in lightly wooded country...Ah. Hendley. Sit down. You'll find drawing materials on the table."

1. Yes.

2. The commandant's pained allusion to a massacre of escapees. Incidentally, the actor playing the commandant, Hans Messemer, was taken prisoner at Stalingrad but managed to escape. Alternately, the final scene of Hilts back in the cooler tossing the baseball about. The guard walks away but looks back, as though thinking "We'll never beat these Yanks!"

3. McQueen's character or Garner's.