"[After reciting the extensive history of Allied POW escapes and the vast resources Germany has been forced to spend o…"

"[To Hilts, after being relieved as camp commandant] It looks, after all, as if you will see Berlin before I do."

"Look, sir, you talk about the High Command and the Luftwaffe, and then you talk about the Gestapo and the SS. To me, …"

"Colonel Von Luger, it is the sworn duty of all officers to try to escape. If they cannot escape, then it is their swo…"

"Ah, Herr Bartlett. And Herr MacDonald. We are together again. You are going to wish you had never put us to so much t…"

"Put a fence in front of these men...and they'll climb it."

"Hours ago... Minutes ago.... These men were behind barbed wire."

"Steve McQueen – Capt. Hilts "The Cooler King""

"James Garner – Flight Lt. Hendley "The Scrounger""

"We have in effect put all our rotten eggs in one basket. And we intend to watch this basket carefully."