United Kingdom Box Office for The Great Escape With Dan Snow: A Gala Screening On The 75th Anniversary (1963)

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The Great Escape
Theatrical Performance (US$)
United Kingdom Box Office $228,090Details
Worldwide Box Office $11,973,397Details
Home Market Performance
North America Blu-ray Sales $1,834,314 Details
Total North America Video Sales $1,834,314
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Movie Details

Production Budget:$4,000,000
United Kingdom Releases: March 22nd, 2019 (Special Engagement), released as The Great Escape With Dan Snow: A Gala Screening On The 75th Anniversary
Video Release: May 7th, 2013 by Fox Home Entertainment
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Running Time: 172 minutes
Keywords: World War II, War, Escape, Inspired by a True Story, Intertitle, Prison Break, Nazis, Ensemble, War Crimes, War Drama
Source:Based on Real Life Events
Genre:Drama
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Historical Fiction
Production/Financing Companies: The Mirisch Company
Production Countries: United States
Languages: English, French, German, Russian

DVD and Blu-ray Releases for May 28th, 2013

May 28th, 2013

It's the day after Memorial Day, which means we are in the summer season, which is a terrible time for the home market. The only first-run release of the week is Dark Skies, which is hardly a major release. There are a few summer TV shows that are coming out on DVD and / or Blu-ray, some of which are interesting. The latest season of Doctor Who is coming out this week, but it is being split, and not just into two parts, so that precludes it from being a Pick of the Week contender. There are not a lot of options for Pick of the Week, but I'm going with Beetlejuice: The Complete Series, but keep in mind there could be some nostalgia at work here and Lore on DVD or Blu-ray is arguably the better release. Meanwhile, Hellbound? on DVD earns the rarely awarded Puck of the Week for best Canadian release. More...

Featured Blu-ray Review: The Great Escape

May 28th, 2013

The Great Escape is one of the greatest movies ever made. It recently made its Blu-ray debut on a 50th anniversary disc. However, early reviews were not great. The movie still stands the test of time, but many Blu-ray critics complained about the video quality. Were they being overly snobbish? Or is the video quality really that bad? More...

Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.

Weekend Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeScreensPer ScreenTotal GrossWeek
2019/03/22 12 $228,090   353 $646   $228,090 1

Box Office Summary Per Territory

$00$00
Territory Release
Date
Opening
Weekend
Opening
Weekend
Screens
Maximum
Screens
Theatrical
Engagements
Total
Box Office
Report
Date
Australia 12/12/1963 00$0
Germany 9/19/2023 00$0
New Zealand 4/22/2021 $238 1 1 2 $836 3/11/2024
North America 8/8/1963 $0 0 0 0 $11,744,471
United Kingdom 3/22/2019 $228,090 353 353 353 $228,090 3/27/2019
 
Worldwide Total$11,973,397 3/11/2024

Leading Cast

Steve McQueen    Captain Virgil Hilts
James Garner    Flight Lt. Bob Anthony 'The Scrounger' Hendley
Richard Attenborough    Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett 'Big X'

Supporting Cast

James Donald    Senior Officer Ramsey
Charles Bronson    Flight Lieutenant Danny Willinski
Donald Pleasance    Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe
James Coburn    Flying Officer Louis Sedgwick
David McCallum    Ashley-Pitt 'Dispersal'
Gordon Jackson    MacDonald
John Leyton    Willie

For a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary.

Production and Technical Credits

John Sturges    Director
John Sturges    Producer
James Clavell    Screenwriter
William Riley Burnett    Screenwriter
Paul Brickhill    Story based on the book by
Elmer Bernstein    Composer