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Reach for the Sky (1956)

Book As Source Material ("Story Of Douglas Bader")

The Dam Busters (1955)

Book As Source Material ("Enemy Coast Ahead")

The Great Escape II: Untold Story (1988)

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Great Escape, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) A Mole In Scotland

Great Escape, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) My More Personal Items

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Reach for the Sky (1956)

Book As Source Material ("Story Of Douglas Bader")

The Dam Busters (1955)

Book As Source Material ("Enemy Coast Ahead")

Writer (TV Mini-Series)

The Great Escape II: Untold Story (1988)

Book As Source Material

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Great Escape, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) A Mole In Scotland Joining the introduction of the first of the top-billed stars, Steve McQueen as American P.O.W. Hilts, thrown in the cooler at the new German prison alongside Scottish fellow escape-enthusiast Ives (Angus Lennie), ideas cooking, early in John Sturges’ The Great Escape, 1963.

Great Escape, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) My More Personal Items James Garner as American Hendley, appointed as chief “scrounger” of supplies for the upcoming escape attempt, gets to know his new Brit roommate Blythe (Donald Pleasence), whose own role becomes clear, early in John Sturges’ The Great Escape, 1963.

Great Escape, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) All The Rotten Eggs Already established as “Big X,” the recently-apprehended chief of numerous major escapes, Brit officer Bartlett (Richard Attenborough) is received by Ramsey (James Donald), ranking officer at the new Nazi camp designed to hold known escape experts, in The Great Escape, 1963.

Great Escape, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Five Gold Rings Observed by commander Bartlett (Richard Attenborough), the tunnel crew (Charles Bronson, John Leyton, James Coburn) finds they need more wood, Hendley, Cavendish and Hilts (James Garner, Nigel Stock, Steve McQueen) on the job, in The Great Escape, 1963.

Great Escape, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) You Were A Boy Scout? James Garner as American officer Hendley, in charge of “scrounging” for the mass escape plan and assigned to obtain samples of new German identity papers, ingratiates himself with P.O.W. camp guard Werner (Robert Graf), in John Sturges’ The Great Escape, 1963.

Great Escape, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Open, The Way It Really Happened Director John Sturges’ opening, Elmer Bernstein’s famous theme, Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough, billed above many future leading-men, from the 1963 hit The Great Escape, based on the best-selling book by Paul Brickhill, himself a participant in the historic World War II events.

Great Escape, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Open Up Harry Fragile Ives (Angus Lennie) with MacDonald (Gordon Jackson) enjoying a 4th of July party when the Germans discover the tunnel named “Tom,” causing Hilts (Steve McQueen) to tell Bartlett (Richard Attenborough) he’ll undertake a daring recon mission, in The Great Escape, 1963.

Reach For The Sky (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Give Us A Show 1931, Reading, England, RAF pilots Bader (Kenneth More) and Sanderson (Lyndon Brook) are goaded by civilian fliers (Jack Taylor, Jeremy Longhurst) to disobey orders, Alexander Knox the surgeon in the ensuing scene, in director Lewis Gilbert's bio-pic Reach For The Sky, 1956.

Reach For The Sky (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Helpless Cripple RAF pilot Douglas Bader (Kenneth More), hospitalized after a reckless crash and having lost the use of both legs, sneaks from his bed, found by nurse Brace (Dorothy Alison), who hears his griping then lays down some law, in the 1956 bio-pic Reach For The Sky.

Reach For The Sky (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Living Meant Flying End of the credits and the opening, introducing Kenneth More, playing the lead in the life story of RAF pilot Douglas Bader, narration by Lyndon Brook as colleague Sanderson, in director Lewis Gilbert's Reach For The Sky, 1956, from the book by Paul Brickhill.

Dam Busters, The -- (Movie Clip) Bomb Gone! Advanced aerial shooting and effects plus notable British composure as Commander Gibson (Richard Todd) leads the climactic raid on Germany in The Dam Busters, 1955.

Dam Busters, The -- (Movie Clip) Earthquake Bomb Scientist Wallis (Michael Redgrave) explains his frustration at trying to create his "Earthquake Bomb" to his family doctor (Charles Carson) in an early scene from The Dam Busters, 1955.

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