I thought this film was actualy better than the great escape it was alot more truthful. It also is very factual, The great escape was made so the Amercans would watch it, the Americans were split up from the main camp and the motorbike scene was not very realistic were he kicks that German officer back, He would have been shot straight away, and big x was taken away in a car and shot with one other person.
shareit was made before the great escape and i believe it is better lesser known but better.
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Why? Because they're stating facts?
The Great Escape was elaborated immensely for American audiences. There was indeed no Americans involved in the escape, or even in the camp at the time. The motorcycle never happened, and the executions were done one or two at a time by Gestapo agents, not by uniformed German soldiers.
I definitely like The Password Is Courage much more than The Great Escape.
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In both films they dig a tunnel that was supposed to come out into the woods, but instead it comes out just in front of the woods and so it hampers their escape. (It would have been very difficult to have the tunnel going into the woods because of the tree roots.)
sharesorry, but i liked the great escape alote more, maybe if i had seen this first?
i had no idea that had been filmed before, and just 1 year earlier!, thought there was a bigger time gap too. i guess the black & white explains is typical for the british version.
i thought this had quite a clear ending compared to the great escape. about those two fellows getting away, i think it was.
this guy gordon waited a long time,
for the popular boy in school to step down,
gordon would take his spot,
that he had craved so long,
one day it was this gordons turn,
as he walked out, the school right away turned,
look, maybe i don't have the most delightful appearence, gordon said,
as time went on he couldn't get a break,
nomather what he did or say,
seemed this gordon was doomed from the first day,
a little while has passed on,
the school is in ruins, even gordon's mates are gone,
the yard is urging gordon to step down after this brief stay,
his time in the spot doesn't seem to last long compared to his wait,
this chap named gordon, a bloke that never got a break.
Both films are based on the original book "The Great Escape" so it is hardly surprising then that many of the scenes are common to both films.
both films are not based on the great escape ,,,its my grandad and can assure you it really happened ,,,its my heritage and i know for a fact it all happened, for real just like it said, remember when grandmother seen film she was so mad because of woman grandad had relations with in movie , ask anything u want i have pics as well
shareYour grandfather was Dirk Bogarde? Aside from the fact that he batted for the other team - & fathered no children - he had a wonderful command of the English language. Shame he didn't educate you thus...
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No, i am pretty sure he meant his grandfather was Sargeant Major Courage ,NOT Dirk Bogarde.
I understood the guy perfectly.
Why dont you look up the the techincal advisiors for this film and get your facts right,RSM Charlie Coward was this guys Grandfather and was also a technical adisor,he also appears as an ordinary soldier in the party scene,and what if Dirk Bogarde did bat for the other side,he was a first class actor who gave his all to any part he played.
shareWhy dont you look up the the techincal advisiors for this film and get your facts right,RSM Charlie Coward was this guys Grandfather and was also a technical advisor,he also appears as an ordinary soldier in the party scene,and what if Dirk Bogarde did bat for the other side,he was a first class actor who gave his all to any part he played.
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The thing about the internet is that somebody can come on and say that this story was about their grandfather, and then try to verify with "I have photos of the stalag, etc etc". I do not know how true Diablo09 is, it is easy to bluff on the internet. Anybody can claim anything on the net, virtually. And there have been a number of counter claims and investigations suggesting that Coward may have, shall we say, embellished his exploits. In fact perhaps even lied. So easy to say/claim things in years bygone, knowing that those that may have been there did not make it.
As for me, having now read up and researched the subject, it looks like Coward certainly did "embellish" his accounts, perhaps I am wrong. But of course those that claim he is a relation will disagree, but the facts do not support them, from what I can tell.
As for me I thought it was an entertaining movie, very close to the Great Escape, which of course was made for American audiences like the recent Argo, downplaying the major role the Canadians played. That's Hollywood.
My father's brother, Joe, did not escape from a Japanese POW camp in the South Pacific. But it is verified that my mother brother's Bill, after being captured in North Africa, did, along with two Canadian commandoes, escape from a POW camp in Italy and made their ways back to (British) lines safely, after much difficulty.
And I say that, from all the investigating that I have done, that your grandpa certainly had a way of, shall we say, extending truth and credibility. Basically, I am saying your grandpa was full of... Sorry, but things do not just add up. And forget about the photos and such. Sorry to deflate your balloon. But you go on believing your grandfather did all of these things. Sort of like M*A*S*H, based on a true premise but a lot of fairy tales as well. Basically, after extensive research (journalist for some 40 years in five countries, so I do know how to research, and I was fascinated by this story, and grandpa's story just does not add up). Sorry dude.
shareA lot of people know for a fact that the Earth rests on the back of a giant turtle who stands in an enormous ocean. But that isn't true, either.
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The Great Escape, that is, the escape of 76 soldiers from Stalag Luft III took place in a manner and included escapees much closer to what was depicted in the 1963 movie of the same name. Many changes were made to include more roles for well known American actors (stars). Also, name changes were made, possibly to protect the producers from lawsuit or claims to the story. But the actual escape is well documented based on the stories of many survivors who were still alive when both movies were made.
"The Password is Courage" seems to be a combination of two sets of fabrications. Some of them come from RSM Coward who appears to have written a memoir that was partly fictional. Other fabrications came from the film makers who included incidents in the movie that did not appear in RSM Coward's book.
You can enjoy what you want for entertainment. That is a matter of taste. But there exists a reality in history and documentation by multiple witnesses has more credibility than the self-congratulatory claims of a single individual that have been amplified by the producers.
The movie "Fargo" is also based on a true story, according to the credits. But the producer/directors have openly admitted that it is entirely fictional.
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