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Watching and Rewatching: ‘The Coolest Guy Movie Ever’
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Watching and Rewatching: ‘The Coolest Guy Movie Ever’

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Christopher Campbell
Aug 19, 2018
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One of the first things that Lawrence Montaigne observes when he revisits the site where he played a diversion specialist in the John Sturges movie The Great Escape is how little things have changed. The rolling hills and farm-green grass — where Steve McQueen rode a motorcycle so nimbly that Sturges’ European cycle champions couldn’t even appear to be …

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