THE GREAT ESCAPE II: THE UNTOLD STORY USA, 1988, TV

Zoom Zoom Zoom	Director:	Judson Taylor (Part I) Paul Wendkos (Part II)
	Written by:	Walter Halsey Davis
	Cast:	Christopher Reeve (Major John Dodge) Judd Hirsch Anthony Denison (Captain Corey) Charles Haid Michael Nader (Burchardt) Ian McShane Donald Pleasence and Derek de Lint as dr. Thost Donald Pleasence (Absalon) Andrew Bicknell (Wings Day) Manfred Andrae (Col. Von Lindeiner) Martin Umbach (Pieber) Karl-Heinz Knaup (Max Wielen) Karlheinz Lemken (Herr Schmidt) Ron Donachie (Al Hake) Peter Dennis (Captain Massey) Geoffrey Beevers (Jim Kitteridge) Ulrich Gunther (Rubberneck) Dieter Steinbrink (Interrogater) Christopher Neame (Kiowski) Dominique Gould (Jules) Robert Daws (Kidder) Brian Pettifer (Kirby-Green) Ian Redford (Willie) Bill Wallis (Schatz) Klaus Grunberg (Zacharias) Michael Gahr (Goering) Sreten Mokrovic (Wielen's Assistant) Dusko Valentic (Corporal in Breslau) Vlado Bacic (Watchman in Switchyard) Demeter Bitenc (Non-Com Wermacht in Munich) Serge Marquand (French Farmhand) Ronald Lacey (Winston Churchill) Manning Redwood (General McLaren) Garrick Hagon (Major Paul) Ronnie Janot (Hans Gebhardt) Ian Tyler (Corporal Campesi) James Carroll Jordan (Captain Lewis) Russell Kilmister (Johnson) Charles Millot (Bartender) Jerzy Rogulski (Soviet Army Colonel)
	Director of photography:	Dietrich Lohmann
	Music composed by:	Johnny Mandel
	Executive producer:	Michael Jaffe
	Runtime:	93 min

Major John Dodge (Christopher Reeve) organizes and leads seventy-five men from a concentration camp. But the fascists have captured fifty along with Dodge. The executions begin and the inevitable death threatens him, but Dr. Thost (Derek de Lint) helps Dodge to flee to England (see videoclip). After WWII ends John and the survivors return to Germany. Utilizing their unique skills and expertise they form a specialized task force and infiltrate the hierarchy of those responsible for these heinous crimes. Their objective is the brutal revenge of those guilty for the execution style murder of his men at any cost.

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