Escape to Victory

Escape to Victory is a UK VHS release by The Video Collection on 9th February 1987, and then it got re-released by The Video Collection and Cinema Club on 1st May 1989.

Description[]

Cast[]

Allied players[]

Sylvester Stallone as Captain Robert Hatch
Michael Caine as Captain John Colby
Carole Laure as Renée
Benoît Ferreux as Jean Paul
Clive Merrison as The Forger
Maurice Roëves as Pyrie
Michael Cochrane as Farrell
Zoltán Gera as Viktor
Tim Pigott-Smith as Rose
Daniel Massey as Colonel Waldron
Jean-François Stévenin as Claude
Julian Curry as Shurlock
Pelé as Corporal Luis Fernandez
Bobby Moore as Terry Brady
John Wark as Arthur Hayes
Osvaldo Ardiles as Carlos Rey
Kazimierz Deyna as Paul Wolchek
Søren Lindsted as Erik Ball
Paul Van Himst as Michel Fileu
Mike Summerbee as Sid Harmor
Hallvar Thoresen as Gunnar Hilsson
Russell Osman as Doug Clure
Kevin O'Callaghan as Tony Lewis (as Kevin O'Calloghan)
Co Prins as Pieter Van Beck

German players[]

Max von Sydow as Major Karl von Steiner
George Mikell as Kommandant
Gary Waldhorn as Coach Mueller
Werner Roth as Baumann
Laurie Sivell as Schmidt
Arthur Brauss as Lutz
Michael Wolf as Lang
David Shawyer as Strauss

Others[]

Anton Diffring as commentator though his voice was not used
Jürgen Andersen as German civilian

Credits[]

Opening (Original 1987 Release)[]

The Video Collection Warning Screen (1986-1995)
The Video Collection "New Catalogue" Promo From 1986 with clips of "It's a Wonderful Life, "Rebecca", "High Noon", "Ring of Bright Water", "Duel in the Sun", "The Quiet Man", "Rio Grande", "Sands of Iwo Jima", "Dark Command", "Wake of the Red Witch", "Flying Tigers", "The Touch of Mink", "Indiscreet", "Operation Petticoat", "Father Goose", "Bringing Up Baby", "The Green is Greener", "Flying Down to Rio", "The Gay Divorcee", "Silver Hawks", "Care Bears", "The Get Along Gang", "GoBots", "M.A.S.K.", "ThunderCats", "A Star for Jeremy", "George & the Star", "The Coneheads", "Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats", "Grimm's Fairy Tales", "The Flintstones", "The Smurfs", "Top Cat", "He-Man & the Masters of the Universe", "Mr. T", "The Perils of Penelope Pitstop", "Scooby-Doo", "Yogi Bear", "SuperTed", "Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends", "Moschops", "Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines", "The Video Gallery", "The Wind in the Willows", "Duran", "Queen", "Sport Aid" and "Jane Fonda's Workout" [announced by Ray Brooks]
Start of Escape to Victory (1981)

Closing (Original 1987 Release)[]

End of Escape to Victory (1981)
Closing Credits Film
Victory Film Partnership logo
The Video Collection logo (1986-1995)

Opening (1989 Re-release) (with no trailer)[]

Tracking control screen (1988-1991) (Normal)
Warning screen (1986-1995)
The Video Collection logo (1986-1995)
Start of Escape to Victory (1981)

Closing (1989 Re-release) (with no trailer)[]

End of Escape to Victory (1981)
Closing Credits Film
Victory Film Partnership logo
The Video Collection logo (1986-1995)

Trailers and info[]

The Video Collection "New Catalogue" advert from 1986 which is narrated by Ray Brooks featuring 'Movie Greats' video tiles including...

a clip of the 1946 Christmas fantasy comedy-drama film "It's a Wonderful Life"
a clip of Laurence Olivier in the 1940 psychological drama film "Rebecca" along with Joan Fontaine.
a clip of the 1952 Western film "High Noon" starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly
A still for other movie greats that are available which are "Ring of Brightwater", "Duel in the Sun" and many more to which Ray Brooks announces.
clips for John Wayne films on video such as the chatting and kissing scene from "The Quiet Man" (1952), brief clips of other movies with John Wayne such as "Rio Grande" (1950), "Sands of Iwo Jima" (1950), "Dark Command" (1940), the punching scene from "Wake of the Red Witch" (1948) and a clip from "Flying Tigers" (1942).
clips for films starring Cary Grant including a clip of himself with Doris Day in "The Touch of Mink" (1952), a clip of himself with Ingrid Bergman in "Indiscreet" (1958), "Operation Petticoat", "Father Goose", "Bringing Up Baby", "The Green is Greener", and many more...,
Musicals - Flying Down to Rio, The Gay Divorcee, Young at Heart and many more...,
Children's Entertainment - Care Bears, The Get Along Gang, ThunderCats, Mask, Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends, Yogi Bear, The Wind in the Willows and many children's videos.
The Video Music Collection - Duran and many musical videos. and Sports - Sport Aid, Run the World, Jane Fonda's Workout and many sports videos