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Word: mcqueen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great Escape. 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. Steve McQueen, James Garner, Donald Pleasence are among the Allied officers who stage a wholesale escape from a Nazi prison camp in one of the season's most exciting pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 9, 1963 | 8/9/1963 | 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 »

...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 »

Brass Apple. Despite his hip talk, Steve McQueen would like people to think of him as a drab conservative. Expressing this, he once hung a sign on his motorcycle identifying its owner as THE MILD ONE. He keeps his motorcycle close by him-often parking it right in the middle of a movie set. When the Mild One finishes work, he departs in a shattering roar, bouncing over cables and scattering his colleagues in all directions. The noise affects everyone but Steve, since he is all deaf in one ear and half deaf in the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: The Mild One | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

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