Of course our sensabilities are much different now than they were in 1963, but even so this otherwise entertaining flick suffers from a lack of invidiousness in a Nazi POW camp. I was never in one so I can't say for sure, but I suspect that the prisoners weren't alotted the freedom that these folks were in the film (especially since this is supposedly the camp where they gathered all the recalcitrant escapee-manques). Though the picture is overall and enjoyable one, that salient lack of verismilitude is hard to ignore. At least now I know where Hogan's Heroes got its inspiration.
Review of The Great Escape
