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...Under the very eyes of hard-eyed Nazi guards, 76 Allied officers accomplish a mass breakout from a top-security prison camp. The preparations are shown in almost hypnotic detail, and once the escape is under way, the suspense tightens like pincers. Steve McQueen, James Garner, Donald Pleasence, Richard Attenborough head an excellent all-male cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 30, 1963 | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

...Great Escape. Seventy-six Allied officers accomplish the impossible: a mass breakout from the Nazis' top-security prison camp. The plans and preparation are shown in almost hypnotic detail, and once the escape is under way, the suspense tightens like pincers. Steve McQueen. James Garner, Donald Pleasence, Richard Attenborough head an excellent all-male cast in one of the season's most exciting pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jul. 26, 1963 | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

...with all the rowdy hubba-hubba that fills the compound, they do not guess that it is going on under their feet as well. Platoons of men are down in the dark earth burrowing a tunnel toward the surrounding forest. Brains of the operation is Big X (Richard Attenborough), a leader of past breakouts in other camps; among his staff specialists are the Forger (Donald Pleasence) and the Scrounger (James Garner). Steve McQueen plays an American fly boy with a carhop grin who pesters guards and tests their watchfulness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Getaway | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

...film, The Blazing Sand, with Raphel Nussbaum. At 7, Mexico's Macario, starring Roberto Galvadon. And at 9:30, the Grecian This Side of the River, featuring Nikos Koundouros. On Saturday, the Festival offers (by invitation only) the esteemed British film. The Angry Silence, with Guy Green and Richard Attenborough. This at 5:30 p.m. Later, at 7 (no invitation needed) the Pakistani movie. The Day Shall Dawn, starring Aaejay Kardar. And, at 9:30. Robert Bresson's The Pickpocket. Tickets at the Festival Office (129 Mt. Auburn Street) or at the Loeb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON WEEKLY CALENDAR | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

...adequately recognized in Her Majesty's service. To restore both purse and pride he decides to organize a paramilitary operation of his own. Objective: a bank. A riffle through the army's records discovers seven competent but crooked officers and other ranks (Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, Kieron Moore, Terrence Alexander, Norman Bird)-all cashiered out, all out of cash. Guaranteed ?100,000 apiece, these amiable scalawags form an unregistered corporation called "Cooperative Removals, Ltd." From there out, the picture becomes simultaneously a sort of rollicking Rififi and a hilarious parody of the last skaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Felonious Fun | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

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