1-“I’m going… out.” –Hilts, ‘The Great Escape’.
2- “I will not take action against you, now. This is the first day here and there has been much stupidity and carelessness… on both sides!” –Stratwitch, ‘The Great Escape’.
3- “It’s all right. It’s all right, mate. We’re just having a friendly little argument.” –Sedgwick, ‘The Great Escape’.
4- [the German camp commandant explains why so many incorrigible Allied prisoners were placed in the place Stalag] “We have in effect put all our rotten eggs in one basket. And we intend to watch this basket carefully.” –Von Luger, ‘The Great Escape’.
5- [the Gestapo have captured Bartlett and MacDonald] “Ah, Herr Bartlett. And Herr MacDonald. We are together again. You’re going to wish you had never put us to so much trouble!” –Preissen,’The Great Escape’.
6- [first title card] “This is a true story. Although the characters are composites of real men, and time and place have been compressed, every detail of the escape is the way it really happened.” –Title Card, ‘The Great Escape’.
7- [in the first meeting with Von Luger is informed of the large amount of resources being used to guard the prisoners] “-Well, it’s rather nice to know that you’re wanted.” –Ramsey, ‘The Great Escape’.
8- [repeated line] “Splendid!” –Colin, ‘The Great Escape’.
9- “I can’t see a bloody thing!” –Colin, ‘The Great Escape’.
10- “Afraid this tea’s pathetic. Must have used these wretched leaves about twenty times. It’s not that I mind so much. Tea without milk is so uncivilized.” –Colin, ‘The Great Escape’.
11- “One has to ask some very strange things in the job I have.” –Bartlett, ‘The Great Escape’.
12- “Colin’s not a blind man as long as he’s with me. And he’s going with me!” –Hendley, ‘The Great Escape’.
13- “Oh my God, they found Tom.” –MacDonald, ‘The Great Escape’.
14- “It looks, after all, as if you will see Berlin before I do.” – Von Luger, ‘The Great Escape’.
15- “I haven’t seen Berlin yet, from the ground or from the air, and I plan on doing both before the war is over.”- Hilts,’The Great Escape’.
16- “Thank you for getting me out.”-Colin, ‘The Great Escape’.
17- “[On his reason for standing by the shower] I’m watching him. I’m a lifeguard.” –Sedgwick, ‘The Great Escape’.
18- “Colonel Von Luger, it is the sworn duty of all officers to try to escape. If they cannot escape, then it is their sworn duty to cause the enemy to use an inordinate number of troops to guard them, and their sworn duty to harass the enemy to the best of their ability” –Ramsey, ‘The Great Escape’.
19- “-Herr Kuhn: [to Bartlett] Squadron Leader Bartlett, if you escape again, and are captured, you will be SHOT!
-Herr Kuhn: [to Von Luger] Heil Hitler!” -‘The Great Escape’.
20- “-Ramsey: Up the rebels.
-Goff: Down the British.” -‘The Great Escape’.
21- “-Goff: [Sedgewick has just descended into the tunnel entrance] Was that Sedgewick with his steamer trunk?
-POW: Who else?
-Goff: I wish he was back in Australia with his kangaroos.” -‘The Great Escape’.
22- “-Hendley: Right.
-Bartlett: Dennis, maps and surveys. Colin, you’ll take your usual job. Eric, have you thought how you’re going to get rid of this dirt?
-Ashley-Pitt: Yes, I have. The usual places. I hadn’t anticipated three tunnels, but we’ll manage.
-Sorren: Roger, who’s going to handle security for all this?
-Bartlett: You are. I want a system of stooges covering this compound from front to back, checking every goon in and out. I want a signal system so perfect that if ever a ferret gets within fifty feet of any of the huts in which we’re working, we can shut down without a sign.”-‘The Great Escape’.
23- [on some materials he’s using for escape clothes]
“-Bartlett: Where in God’s name did you get these?
-Griffith: Hendley.
-Bartlett: Well, where did he get them?
-Griffith: Well, I asked him that.
-Bartlett: What did he say?
-Griffith: “Don’t ask.”-‘The Great Escape’.
24- “-Hilts: Wait a minute. You aren’t seriously suggesting that if I get through the wire… and case everything out there… and don’t get picked up… to turn myself in and get thrown back in the cooler for a couple of months so you can get the information you need?
-Bartlett: Yes.”-‘The Great Escape’.
25- “-Danny: Oh, Hendley. I need a pick. Big, heavy one.
-Hendley: Only one?
-Danny: Two would be better.”
6- “-Ashley-Pitt: [watching Hilts be brought back into camp] I didn’t think he’d get caught so soon.
-Bartlett: He wasn’t caught.”-‘The Great Escape’.
27- “- Sorren: What the hell have you got in there, a piano?
-Sedgewick: Oh, that’s very funny, mate.
-Sorren: Sedgewick, you won’t get this thing through.
-Sedgewick: [pulling his trunk into the tunnel] I’ll cope!” -‘The Great Escape’.
28- “-Hilts: Hold on to yourself, Bartlett. You’re twenty feet short.
-Bartlett: What do you mean, twenty feet short?
-Hilts: You’re twenty feet short of the woods. The hole is right here in open. The guard is between us and the lights.” -‘The Great Escape’.
29- “-Bartlett: Virgil, isn’t it?
-Hilts: Hilts. Just make it Hilts.” -‘The Great Escape’.
30- “-Hilts: [tasting their moonshine] Wow!
-Hendley: Wow!
-Goff: [starts coughing uncontrollably] Wow!” -‘The Great Escape’.
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