The Escapees [Blu-ray] [1981]

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VHS releases of Les Paumées du Petit Matin were only available in some countries, such as France, Canada and Turkey.

N'Duka, Amanda (September 20, 2017). " 'Escape Plan 3': Dave Bautista, Max Zhang & More Join Sylvester Stallone For Sequel — UPDATE". As she tells Mark about a group of French medieval tapestries she saw in an art book she bought in the center of London, Savage doesn’t even need to cut to a shot of Cooper to tell the audience about the eye roll we know his character is doing. Faced with such disdain and indifference, she walks out.Having said that, events are very slow-moving here, and not hugely filled with incident. But then, that's a trademark of Rollin. This, however, doesn't lend itself to the typical dream-like atmosphere due to its very real setting. The two girls' adventures are a curious delight especially an almost surreal and rowdy erotic dance performance in the middle of a freezing night-time junkyard, and so is a very haunting set-piece in an abandoned ice-rink (Coppé was hired partly because of her proficiency as a skater). Genzlinger, Neil (October 18, 2013). "Behind Bars, Where Anything Goes - Schwarzenegger and Stallone Star in Escape Plan". The New York Times . Retrieved December 18, 2013. elected to travel in pairs, choosing their own partners. All were issued with forged passes. Their clothes were mostly modified British uniforms, dyed and altered with different buttons. In very few cases were the escapers dressed in genuine civilian clothes. The escapers were divided into three groups; those wishing to travel by train for long distances were given priority through the tunnel. Then came those travelling by train for a short distance and then by foot and lastly those travelling entirely by foot. I think it's often forgotten that The Great Escape was probably one of the most audacious operations that the RAF carried out. When you see what was achieved with limited resources. When you think that all the equipment they had had to be made. The air pump was made of a kit bag and a few other bits. The air pipes were made of powdered milk tins, and even the little fat lamps were made of boiled margarine."

Pre the Great Escape, as I said before, there were a couple of other memorable escape attempts from Stalag Luft III. And if you look at these two men here [shows image], these were part of a delousing party escape. And what happened was, as I said, there were two men in these German Police Gazette photograph, which you just saw them, are these two men here. And they participated in the first mass escape attempt from Stalag Luft III in June 1943. A party of 27 men escorted by two German speaking POWs disguised as guards were led out of the compound for delousing. Once outside, Welch and Morison put on the uniforms of the bogus guards. They were captured at a local air field when trying to start an aeroplane – perhaps the inspiration for the James Garner and Donald Pleasance attempt to get away by aeroplane. But the Germans were very fond of taking photographs of recaptured escapers and the means which they went to escape. So, there was some kind of in a sense, no hard feeling almost you could say but this is one the earlier escape attempts. The first inspection was followed by a visit in February 1944 by SS Major Erich Brunner, who was the RSHA special representative for the prevention of POW escapes. The Commandant, von Lindeiner, had requested this visit as he The rate of departure was slowed by bulky baggage that caused sand falls. More seriously, about midnight an air raid in the direction of Berlin meant that the camp’s lights were extinguished and the tunnel was plunged into darkness. I suppose the title is a spoiler in itself... but I really did like the film a lot until the ending which I felt was a copout. The film was well acted; I felt the pain of the character played by Arterton throughout. It's the housewife/mother's dilemma we feminists identified decades ago: many or even most women won't be satisifed "just" keeping house, raising their children and keeping their man happy. No, a woman needs meaningful activity in her life in which her thoughts and creativity can be used. This is what Arterton's character was missing and seeking. And there seemed to be a genuine fear that escaping servicemen would link up with partisans and foreign workers for sabotage and rebellion.

until his death. Here’s [shows image] the nationalities of the 50 murdered men. Obviously right across the Dominions, French, Greek, all the Allied forces in a sense, outside I suppose you can say the Americas, are virtually represented there.

After The Great Escape, escaping was forbidden by our own senior British officers. Life was tougher after the escape.

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Here, [shows image] he’s also demonstrating the home-made bellows used to ventilate the actual tunnel itself. And [shows image] one of the other guards is demonstrating the penguin method of dispersing excavated soil. The soil’s in these bags and a kind of draw string drops down and you try to tread it into the ground, not dissimilar in a sense to what you see in the film. Rollin drastically retrains his penchant for absurdity here! This does allow for some stretches of dullness, including the long-long-LONG goodbye sequence near the end! Fortunately, Marie's anthropophobia saves the day! Vincent D'Onofrio as Lester Clark, Ray's business partner who arranges the various escape jobs, later revealed to have betrayed Ray all along. I have never watched anything this well directed for this type of context. Yes its about the 'typical' problems inherent in marriage but that's a very small part of it. For me, this film isn't just about that, it's more about, without generalising, how the character, the woman, the mother, the stay at home housewife, the dedicated family being, had to find herself again. Rebellious spitfire Michelle (a lively performance by the fetching Laurence Dubas) and the painfully shy and forlorn Marie (beautifully played with aching vulnerability by the lovely Christiane Coppe) are a pair of troubled young women who manage to escape from a sanitarium. The pair do their best to avoid detection from the authorities by joining up with a traveling band of exotic dancers.

Early reports in 2010 speculated that Bruce Willis was cast as Ray Breslin and Antoine Fuqua was attached to direct. [9] [10] [11] It was revealed by producer Mark Canton on The Matthew Aaron Show that Jim Caviezel had signed on to the film, playing the prison warden Hobbes. [12]Also, she didn't abandon them to the wolves. Her husband stayed and he has the job and money so serving him with a wake up call, kudos. Better than her going all Andrea Yates. For those who talk about single mothers in parallel to Tara, it's not the same, there's the husband. She left while he was home. She left knowing the kids are safe. She left before her depression and feelings of being overwhelmed put herself AND her kids lives in jeopardy. The ultimate fate of those responsible for and involved in this war crime, obviously, Hitler, Himmler, Göring all