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Just watched it again, that must be at least 15 times.
I, too, have always been puzzled by the miscalculation of the exit point. The prisoners were air crew, including pilots and navigators, all of who were expected to be good mathematicians and geometry is basic stuff to them. They didn’t need tape measures as they could easily set any measuring scale on the surface that could be transferred underground.
I also think it was unlikely they relied on a single bloke to do the calculations without it being checked and double checked by other able scrutinisers, so laying the blame on one bloke is, I feel, quite unfair.
The sad fact is that we’ll never know the truth of it - but that doesn’t matter. I was certainly one of the best films of all time - in fact it is timeless.
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