[BITList] The Last Australian of the Great Escapers.

[John Feltham]

Royle has spoken of his intense dislike of the 1963 Hollywood film of the same name, telling the ABC last year  <http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-27/great-escape-survivor-recounts-breakout-70-years-on/5347898>this was, “because there were no motorbikes.

And the Americans weren’t there”.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/27/australian-great-escape-survivor-paul-royle-dies <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/27/australian-great-escape-survivor-paul-royle-dies>

And...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-27/great-escape-survivor-recounts-breakout-70-years-on/5347898 <http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-27/great-escape-survivor-recounts-breakout-70-years-on/5347898>

And…

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-26/british-airmen-mark-70-years-since-the-great-escape/5345988 <http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-26/british-airmen-mark-70-years-since-the-great-escape/5345988>

The daring event was brought to the silver screen in the blockbuster 1963 film starring US actors Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and James Garner, and Britain's Richard Attenborough.

Three Americans and one Brit!




ooroo

Bad typists of the word, untie.


 

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