The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
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The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988) was a highly-fictionalized, 178 minute, made-for-TV sequel to the 1963 movie The Great Escape
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It starred Christopher Reeve
as John Dodge and Donald Pleasence
(who had appeared as an escapee in the original), this time as an SS villain.
The Great Escape II essentially picks up where The Great Escape leaves off, covering the last chapter of Paul Brickhill's book, The Great Escape, on which both movies are based. However, The Great Escape II is almost complete fiction (using only the names of the real people involved). This is in contrast to The Great Escape, where names were changed and composite characters were used - with the addition of some fiction for dramatic effect - but the story is essentially accurate.
The Great Escape (film)
The Great Escape is a 1963 American film about an escape by Allied prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough...
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It starred Christopher Reeve
Christopher Reeve
Christopher D'Olier Reeve was an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, author and activist...
as John Dodge and Donald Pleasence
Donald Pleasence
Sir Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE, was a British actor who gained more than 200 screen credits during a career which spanned over four decades...
(who had appeared as an escapee in the original), this time as an SS villain.
The Great Escape II essentially picks up where The Great Escape leaves off, covering the last chapter of Paul Brickhill's book, The Great Escape, on which both movies are based. However, The Great Escape II is almost complete fiction (using only the names of the real people involved). This is in contrast to The Great Escape, where names were changed and composite characters were used - with the addition of some fiction for dramatic effect - but the story is essentially accurate.