OUTSPOKEN DAILY Mail columnist Peter Hitchens has stated he'd like to see a re-make of the World War II classic 'The Great Escape' - only this time without motorcycles.
Hitchens, who doesn't shy away from confronting many if the UK's political issues head-on, was echoing the remarks made by British survivors of the German PoW camps, who thought the cinema version of the film was totally unrealistic. In his piece, Hitchens writes:
'I was pleased to see survivors of the real Great Escape last week booing the silly scenes in the film of that name, in which an invented American roars around absurdly on a Sixties motorbike.
I too find the Steve McQueen episodes almost unbearable. Escaping from German PoW camps was a specially British form of warfare, ingenious, mischievous and often very humorous – while at the same time immensely brave.
And it was taken seriously by the Germans, as they showed by murdering so many of the escapers.
So many perfectly good movies are needlessly made again. But a motorbike-free version of The Great Escape is badly needed.'
