Would we be including “Cool Hand Luke” in this?
Oh, dag nab it, what is the one with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor??? Stir Crazy, that’s it!
I’d say it’s a toss-up between The Great Escape and Escape from Alcatraz. They’re both good for different reasons. Papillon is pretty good, but not great (IMO).
I seem to remember a film set in a castle or something like it where the prisoners build a glider to escape the Germans. Anybody remember that one?
Damn. I saw this and came to post Le Trou and was ninja’d right in the OP.
That may have been a documentary. Colditz Castle was used by the Nazis to house some of the most determined escape artists among the POWs. Some of them built a glider to launch from the castle roof and across a nearby river. The castle was liberated before it could be used.
The Shawshank Redemption. Then The Great Escape.
Actually, it was Escape of the Birdmen.
I was disappointed by Escape from Alcatraz, and very much so by A Man Escaped, I must admit. But Chicken Run and Shawshank Redemption are both very good.
For the sake of completeness. A few others that haven’t been mentioned:
Con Air
Victory