The Great Escape

by John Sturges, Paul Brickhill, W. R. Burnett James

$325 · Offered by Royal Books

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1963. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1963 film, showing director John Sturges and a camera crew setting up a shot with actor James Garner. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso.A heavily fictionalized version of the real-life mass escape by Allied prisoners of war from a German prison camp, based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 nonfiction, firsthand account. Nominated for an Academy Award.

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