<P> Only three POWs make it to safety: Danny and Willie steal a rowboat and proceed downriver to the Baltic coast, where they sneak aboard the Swedish merchant ship, Alta; while Sedgwick slips through the countryside on a stolen bicycle before hiding aboard a freight train to France, where he is guided by the Resistance into Spain . Hilts is returned to the camp in handcuffs and taken back to the cooler, just as von Luger is relieved of his command . Lieutenant Goff, one of the Americans, fetches Hilts's baseball and glove and throws them to him when Hilts and his guards pass . The guard locks him in his cell and walks away but pauses when he hears Hilts bouncing his baseball against a cell wall . </P> <Ul> <Li> Steve McQueen as Hilts "The Cooler King" </Li> <Li> James Garner as Hendley "The Scrounger" </Li> <Li> Richard Attenborough as Bartlett "Big X" </Li> <Li> James Donald as Ramsey "The SBO" </Li> <Li> Charles Bronson as Danny "Tunnel King" </Li> <Li> Donald Pleasence as Blythe "The Forger" </Li> <Li> James Coburn as Sedgwick "Manufacturer" </Li> <Li> Hannes Messemer as Von Luger "The Kommandant" </Li> <Li> David McCallum as Ashley - Pitt "Dispersal" </Li> <Li> Gordon Jackson as MacDonald "Intelligence" </Li> <Li> John Leyton as Willie "Tunnel King" </Li> <Li> Angus Lennie as Ives "The Mole" </Li> <Li> Nigel Stock as Cavendish "The Surveyor" </Li> <Li> Robert Graf as Werner "The Ferret" </Li> <Li> Jud Taylor as 2nd Lt. Goff </Li> <Li> Hans Reiser as Kuhn (Gestapo) </Li> <Li> Harry Riebauer as Stabsfeldwebel Strachwitz </Li> <Li> William Russell as Sorren </Li> <Li> Robert Freitag as Hauptmann Posen </Li> <Li> Ulrich Beiger as Preissen </Li> <Li> George Mikell as SS Obersturmführer Dietrich </Li> <Li> Lawrence Montaigne as Haynes "Diversions" </Li> <Li> Robert Desmond as Griffith "Tailor" </Li> <Li> Til Kiwe as Frick </Li> <Li> Heinz Weiss as Kramer </Li> <Li> Tom Adams as Dai Nimmo "Diversions" </Li> <Li> Karl - Otto Alberty as SS Untersturmführer Steinach </Li> </Ul> <Li> Steve McQueen as Hilts "The Cooler King" </Li> <Li> James Garner as Hendley "The Scrounger" </Li>

Steve mcqueen's nickname in the great escape