Just watched The Great Escape.  If you haven't seen it I recommend it.  Ofcourse it isn't for everyone.  It takes a real movie fan to understand how older movies worked back when they came out.  You have to understand that they really didn't have special effects back then.  They only had explosives.  Small ones, not big ones.  In my opinnion, those movies are better then movies now a days.  Back then actors really had to act to sell their roles.  They didn't have CG to help them.  You watch a movie with Charlton Heston, Steve McQueen, James Caan, you really see how acting was before all the high tech take over.  Now, don't get me wrong, I have an appreciation for the high tech big budget movies as well.  Just not so much the actors in them.  The story of a movie is always important, but I really admire they way the skill of acting was in it's prime.  Like I said, if you don't mind the fact that the movie is old, you should check out The Great Escape.