January 2020
January 2020
A Happy New Year to everyone and a reminder that its Film Society on Saturday – our first film of 2020.
Following on from the popularity in the last 3 years we are showing another classic epic film. No more Julie Christie I’m afraid but the wonderful cast of Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough, and featuring James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence and James Coburn.
This year is the 70th anniversary of the mass escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from German POW camp Stalag Luft III in Sagan (now Żagań, Poland.
Based on the book by Paul Brickhill, The Great Escape is the true story of Allied prisoners plotting to break out of a Nazi detention camp. Bartlett (Richard Attenborough) is the British officer who masterminds the escape. Out of 250 prisoners, only 76 manage to escape, and the number soon dwindles to two dozen. Hilts (Steve McQueen) and company must get through Nazi occupied territory, which is the premise for most of the film. McQueen rides a motorcycle through heavy gunfire in a spectacular action sequence to avoid certain death at the hands of the enemy.
Lots of us will remember this first time around and will have watched it again on TV but this will be a great chance to watch it on the big screen again. The renowned motorcycle chase will be wonderful !!
There will be an interval of 30 minutes during the film.
Screening starts at 6.00pm and doors will open shortly before.
See you this Saturday.
Following on from the popularity in the last 3 years we are showing another classic epic film. No more Julie Christie I’m afraid but the wonderful cast of Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough, and featuring James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence and James Coburn.
This year is the 70th anniversary of the mass escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from German POW camp Stalag Luft III in Sagan (now Żagań, Poland.
Based on the book by Paul Brickhill, The Great Escape is the true story of Allied prisoners plotting to break out of a Nazi detention camp. Bartlett (Richard Attenborough) is the British officer who masterminds the escape. Out of 250 prisoners, only 76 manage to escape, and the number soon dwindles to two dozen. Hilts (Steve McQueen) and company must get through Nazi occupied territory, which is the premise for most of the film. McQueen rides a motorcycle through heavy gunfire in a spectacular action sequence to avoid certain death at the hands of the enemy.
Lots of us will remember this first time around and will have watched it again on TV but this will be a great chance to watch it on the big screen again. The renowned motorcycle chase will be wonderful !!
There will be an interval of 30 minutes during the film.
Screening starts at 6.00pm and doors will open shortly before.
See you this Saturday.
