Editing The Great Escape (film) (section)

===Filming===
The film was made on location in Germany at the [[Bavaria Film]] Studio in the [[Munich]] suburb of Geiselgasteig in rural [[Bavaria]], where sets for the barrack interiors and tunnels were constructed. The camp was built in a clearing of the [[:de:Perlacher Forst|Perlacher Forst]] (Perlacher Forest) near the studio.<ref name="Riml">{{cite book |url=http://www.walter-riml.at/willkommen/1962-gesprengte-ketten/ |title=Behind the scenes... The Great Escape |first=Walter |last=Riml |author-link=Walter Riml |year=2013 |publisher=Helma Turk & Dr. Christian Riml |pages=28, 44ff |access-date=15 March 2015 |archive-date=January 31, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150131220900/http://www.walter-riml.at/willkommen/1962-gesprengte-ketten |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Whistance">{{cite web |url=http://www.thegreatescapelocations.com/ |title=The Great Escape Locations Site |first=Don J. |last=Whistance |year=2014 |work=thegreatescapelocations.com |access-date=15 March 2015 |archive-date=August 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200825200555/http://www.thegreatescapelocations.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The German town near the real camp was Sagan (now [[Żagań]], Poland); it was renamed Neustadt in the film.<ref name="Whistance" /> Many scenes were filmed in and around the town of [[Füssen]] in Bavaria, including its railway station. The nearby district of [[Pfronten]],<ref>Riml (2013), p.110ff.</ref> with its distinctive [[St. Nikolaus parish church (Pfronten)|St. Nikolaus Church]] and scenic background, also appears often in the film.<ref name="Whistance" /> The first scenes involving the railway were filmed on the [[Munich–Holzkirchen railway|Munich–Holzkirchen line]] at [[Großhesselohe station]] ("Neustadt" station in the movie) and near [[Oberhaching|Deisenhofen]]. Hendley and Blythe's escape from the train was shot on the [[Munich–Mühldorf railway]] east of [[Markt Schwaben]]. The station where Bartlett, MacDonald and Ashley-Pitt arrive is [[Füssen station]], whereas the scene of Sedgwick (whose theft of a bike was shot in Markt Schwaben) boarding a train was created in Pfronten-Ried station on the [[Ausserfern Railway]].<ref>Riml (2013), p.58ff.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eisenbahn-im-film.de/info/escape.htm |title=The Great Escape |first=Joachim |last=Biemann |date=2014-08-10 |website=Eisenbahn im Film – Rail Movies |access-date=2021-04-11 |language=de |archive-date=April 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411193847/http://www.eisenbahn-im-film.de/info/escape.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> The castle Hendley and Blythe fly by while attempting to escape is [[Neuschwanstein Castle]].<ref name="JWarren">{{cite news |last=Warren |first=Jane |url=http://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/56001/The-Truth-About-The-Great-Escape |title=The Truth About The Great Escape |newspaper=Daily Express |date=2008-08-07 |access-date=2016-11-17 |archive-date=November 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118041734/http://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/56001/The-Truth-About-The-Great-Escape |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:The Great Excape Jump.jpg|thumb|right|Replica of the motorcycle used by McQueen and Ekins.]]
The motorcycle chase scenes with the barbed wire fences were shot on meadows outside Füssen, and the "barbed wire" that Hilts crashes into before being recaptured was simulated by strips of rubber tied around barbless wire, constructed by the cast and crew in their spare time.<ref name="Rufford2009">{{cite news |first=Nick |last=Rufford |title=Video: The Great Escape, re-enacted |date=February 13, 2009 |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/videos/article5718912.ece |work=The Times |access-date=October 20, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529155333/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/videos/article5718912.ece |archive-date=May 29, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Insurance concerns prevented McQueen from performing the film's notable motorcycle leap, which was done by his friend and fellow cycle enthusiast [[Bud Ekins]], who resembled McQueen from a distance.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Rubin, Steve |date=1993 |title=Return to 'The Great Escape' |medium=Documentary |publisher=[[MGM Home Entertainment]]}}</ref> When [[Johnny Carson]] later tried to congratulate McQueen for the jump during a broadcast of ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson|The Tonight Show]]'', McQueen said, "It wasn't me. That was Bud Ekins." However, McQueen and Australian Motocross champion Tim Gibbes both performed the stunt on camera for fun, and according to second unit director [[Robert Relyea]], the stunt in the final cut of the movie could have been performed by any of the three men.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Page |first=Priscilla |date=2019-05-02 |title=The Great Escape is how Steve McQueen outfoxed studio lawyers and kept having fun |url=https://www.hagerty.com/media/motorcycles/the-great-escape-was-steve-mcqueen-having-fun/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309184609/https://www.hagerty.com/media/motorcycles/the-great-escape-was-steve-mcqueen-having-fun/ |archive-date=2021-03-09 |access-date=2022-03-10 |website=Hagerty Media}}</ref> Other parts of the chase were done by McQueen, playing both Hilts and the soldiers chasing him, because of his skill on a motorcycle.<ref name="machines">{{cite book |last=Stone |first=Matt |title=McQueen's Machines: The Cars and Bikes of a Hollywood Icon |year=2007 |publisher=MBI Publishing Company |location=Minneapolis, Minnesota |isbn=978-0-7603-3895-7 |pages=77–78 |quote=There's a chase sequence in there where the Germans were after [McQueen], and he was so much a better rider than they were, that he just ran away from them. And you weren't going to slow him down. So they put a German uniform on him, and he chased himself!}}</ref> The motorcycle was a [[Triumph TR6 Trophy]] which was painted to look like a German machine. The restored machine is currently on display at [[Triumph Motorcycles Ltd|Triumph]]'s factory at [[Hinckley]], England.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-41809557 |title=Great Escape motorcycle goes on show |work=BBC News |date=November 2017 |access-date=June 20, 2018 |archive-date=July 31, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731083756/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-41809557 |url-status=live }}</ref> Filming started on June 4, 1962 and ended in October 1962.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}