The Great Escape is one of my favourite films. When I was a kid it used to be on television almost every year around Christmas, or at least that is what I remember. But it has been a few years since I last saw it, so I ended up watching it on DVD recently. It is the fantastic based-on-a-true-story portrayal of the attempts of soldiers held in a German POW camp during WW2 to escape. It’s just a classic film, and I think it is utterly brilliant. I loved seeing it again, and it definitely lived up to my recollections of it. Great indeed.