Corrected entry: Hendley creates a diversion so that he can get two tire irons from under a truck to make into a pick - later we see a pick that is welded together. But when the chaps are gardening - they are using picks!
BaconIsMyBFF
31st Aug 2020
The Great Escape (1963)
19th May 2009
The Great Escape (1963)
Factual error: When the SS and Gestapo are leaving Bartlett in Von Luger's office on his arrival in the camp, they all give the Nazi salute with bent arms. The correct form was a straight outstretched arm and hand: only Hitler himself was allowed to give the Hitler salute so sloppily.
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Suggested correction: Absolute rubbish. And Von Luger was a Luftwaffe officer, not a die hard Nazi.
You need to explain why you believe this is incorrect. Do you mean they actually give proper salutes? Do you mean it isn't a mistake to show an officer give an improper salute? Do you mean the Nazi's weren't as strict on salute protocol as the mistake suggests?
Von Luger's disgust of the Gestapo is shown when Big X is returned from custody. I have rendered a sloppy salute to a particular officer to make a point.
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Correction: The equipment given to the prisoners for gardening is counted when it's distributed and collected when the prisoners are done. A missing pick would have been a gigantic red flag.
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