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HILTS'BIKE JUMP THE GREAT ESCAPE

THE BIG SHOT

Steve McQueen's ‘Cooler King’ makes a last bid for freedom in John Sturges’ 1963 WWII POW drama, - and boy, did his attempt live up to the title. Trapped on the German border, astride a stolen German motorbike, American pilot Virgil Hilts defies incoming Nazis by revving his engine, racing for the barbed-wire fences and hoping

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