Best Escape movie?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

edit: How could I have forgotten 'Cool Hand Luke' ??

[laura888]

1. also Midnight Express

wow - there are a lot of good ones in your list. Some I've never heard of. it was a hard choice.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

3. I thought of that, but I don't remember an escape in it...

admittedly it's been a long time... does he escape?

[laura888]

5. yes he does - I think he dresses as a guard...

...and then walks through the gates.

an incredible movie!

what IS it about escape movies?

[grannylib]

2. I loved the Shawshank Redemption, but was also a big fan of Logan's Run

back in the day...
Also, Woody Allen's "Sleeper" might be a good choice!

[Feanorcurufinwe]

4. I'm watching 'Le Trou' right now,

which is a great one, but I had to vote for 'The Great Escape'... another one I almost included was 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'...

[liberalmuse]

6. Honorable mention: 'Bandits'

Although I voted for 'The Shawshank Redemption'.

[SahaleArm]

7. The Fugitive

Does Midnight Run count?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

13. I would classify

'Midnight Run' as an on-the-run movie. I guess 'Logan's Run' doesn't really fit either...

[HawkerHurricane]

8. How about Chicken Run?

which makes fun of all the others...

[BringEmOn]

9. "I Will Fight No More Forever"

"I Will Fight No More Forever is the true story of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians. In 1877, Joseph (played by Ned Romero) refuses to obey a governmental order to remove himself and his tribe to a reservation. General Howard (James Whitmore), the cavalry officer ordered to prevent the Nez Perce from defying the government's edicts, sympathizes with the honorable and courageous Joseph, but duty is duty. Ultimately, Chief Joseph and his followers make a disastrous attempt to escape over the border to Canada."

[dobak]

10. The Great Escape

One of my favorite movies

[JohnKleeb]

11. I'll second that

That main theme is so addicting and the movie itself is good, they made a video game out of it which was decent but not that amazing.

[FDRrocks]

12. Shawshank...

hands down. Shawshank and Office Space are shown often on tv... and I will watch them every time.... just cause they are so good.

Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman deliver exemplary performances.

[Rowdyboy]

14. :Sigh: The Count of Monte Cristo

I'm sorry, Alexandre Dumas did it first and best. Shawshank is the next best thing to the master though.

[Sting]

15. Definitely "The Shawshank Redemption"

No matter how many times I watch that movie, I always think it's really cool when Andy escapes from there.

[CanuckAmok]

16. Pappillon....youuuuuuuurrrre deeeeeeeaaaadd...

The deeam/hallucination sequences in Pappilon have etched it permanently in my mind.

Plus, it's Steve McQueen's finest role (and Dustin Hoffman's, too).

[bif]

19. Not to mention

all the topless cuties on the island.

[SilasSoule]

17. Midnight Express

By a long shot. Can't beleive I've only heard it once on this thread.

[CRK7376]

18. Great Escape is superb....

Followed closely by Shawshank Redemption and Pappillon...

[Feanorcurufinwe]

25. I love the scene at the French cafe

when the resistance guns down the Nazis...

[Loonman]

20. Victory

A good bit, and it has Michael Caine and Bobby Moore in it.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

21. Sly Stone as the goalie. What the hell was that about?

Wasn't Eusebio in it? Or was it Pele? I'm pretty sure Dennis Law was in it too.

[Byronic]

22. Twas Pele

Also featured the great Bobby Moore, Ossie Ardiles, Mike Summerbee and less excitingly Russell Osman and John Wark.

Apparently in the original script it was a verious serious heavy drama where the allies were warned that if they won the game they would be shot. They decide to win anyway and are promptly executed at the end.

What a feel-good movie that would have been. Ya can't shoot Pele, Sly Stallone go ahead, but not Pele!

Also I guess it couldn't have been called Escape To Victory either. Maybe 'Dribble Towards Death' would have been more appropriate.

[Nailzberg]

23. Come on, I'm the only vote for Logan's Run???

[Dead_Parrot]

24. Not any more...

Jenny Agutter in '76. Now THERE'S escapism... :D

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26. Great Escape (and a couple of lesser knowns)

"The Birdmen". Story about WW-2 POWS in "escape proof" German prison (a castle located up on a mountain top). Prisoners build and hide a glider
to fly to the Swiss border (but only two can go).

"Flight of the Pheonix". A bit similar to the above except that airplane
crashs in the Arabian desert. Survivors construct new airplane from wreckage to "escape" from the desert. Great plot twist regarding the German passenger who comes up with the idea.