The Great Escape
Legendary prison breakout
The Great Escape refers to a famous 1944 mass breakout of Allied prisoners from a German POW camp, and to the 1963 film dramatizing it.
The phrase now describes any daring or dramatic escape from confinement or difficult circumstances: Friday afternoon felt like the great escape from another brutal work week.
- prisonerConfined criminal detainee
- prisoner of warDetained military personnel
- warArmed struggle between groups
- World War IISecond global military conflict
- tunnelEnclosed underground route
Steve McQueen · motorcycle · fence · barbed wire fence · barbed wire · behind enemy lines · POW · freedom · dig · breakout · fugitive · on the run · pursuit · Germany · camp · Nazis · daring · Hollywood
- 60s CinemaDr. Strangelove, The Graduate, Easy Rider, Bonnie and Clyde, Lawrence of Arabia
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, prison, prisoner
- United ArtistsRocky, Rain Man, Apocalypse Now, West Side Story, Annie Hall
- war mediawar films, war footage, war correspondents, war correspondent, war reporting
The Great Escapesurrender
Cease resistance, yield
capitulation · unconditional surrender · submission · giving up · resignation
The Great Escapeincarceration
Confinement in jail
confinement · recapture · imprisonment · captivity · lockdown
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