<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $3.8 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $11,744,471 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Great Escape is a 1963 American World War II epic film based on an escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough, filmed in Panavision . </P> <P> The film is based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 book of the same name, a non-fiction first - hand account of the mass escape from Stalag Luft III in Sagan (now Żagań, Poland), in the province of Lower Silesia, Nazi Germany . The characters are based on real men, and in some cases are composites of several men . However, many details of the actual escape attempt were changed for the film, and the role of American personnel in both the planning and the escape was largely fabricated . The Great Escape was made by the Mirisch Company, released by United Artists, and produced and directed by John Sturges . </P>

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