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Steve McQueen | Chief O'Halloran | |
Paul Newman | Doug Roberts | |
William Holden | Jim Duncan | |
Faye Dunaway | Susan | |
Fred Astaire | Harlee Claiborne | |
Susan Blakely | Patty | |
Richard Chamberlain | Simmons | |
Jennifer Jones | Lisolette | |
O.J. Simpson | Jernigan | |
Robert Vaughn | Senator Parker | |
Robert Wagner | Dan Bigelow | |
Susan Flannery | Lorrie | |
Sheila Allen | Paula Ramsay | |
Norman Burton | Giddings | |
Jack Collins | Mayor Ramsay |
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Producer |
Irwin Allen
Sidney Marshall |
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Writer |
Richard Martin Stern
Thomas N. Scortia |
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Cinematography |
Fred J. Koenekamp
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Musician |
John Williams
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The Great Escape Based on a true story, a group of allied escape artist-type prisoners-of-war (POW's) are all put in an 'escape proof' camp. Their leader decides to try to take out several hundred all at once. The first half of the film is played for comedy as the prisoners mostly outwit their jailers to dig the escape tunnel. The second half is high adventure as they use boats and trains and planes to get out of occupied Europe. The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocates them to a high-security "escape-proof" camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story. The Magnificent Seven A bandit terrorizes a small Mexican farming village each year. Several of the village elders send three of the farmers into the United States to search for gunmen to defend them. They end up with 7, each of whom comes for a different reason. They must prepare the town to repulse an army of 40 bandits who will arrive wanting food. An Americanization of the film, Seven Samurai (1954) The Thomas Crown Affair Four men pull off a daring daytime robbery at a bank, dump the money in a trash can and go their separate ways. Thomas Crown, a successful, wealthy businessman pulls up in his Rolls and collects it. Vickie Anderson, an independent insurance investigator is called in to recover the huge haul. She begins to examine the people who knew enough about the bank to have pulled the robbery and discovers Crown. She begins a tight watch on his every move and begins seeing him socially. How does the planner of the perfect crime react to pressure? After a daring bank robbery takes place where the robbers simply dump the cash in a trashcan, Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) pulls up and retrieves it. The insurance company sends in an investigator- the young, intelligent and beautiful Vicki Anderson (Faye Dunaway). She is determined to get the money back. Her investigation keeps returning her to the same place- Thomas Crown. She starts arranging it that she shows up in his social scene and the two become involved. Crown knows who she is, but seems to welcome the challenge. Seeming unconcerned, he spends a lot of time with her on exciting dates,like dune buggying. Eventually, the two begin to fall for one another. Now, they both have to decide what the right thing to do is. The Sand Pebbles Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the "rice-bowl" system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission. |
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