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:''This article is about the ''Mortal Kombat'' character. For the [[List of big-bust models and performers|big-bust model]], [[pornographic actor|adult film star]] and [[striptease|exotic dancer]], see [[SaRenna Lee]].''
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{{Infobox Film |
name = The Great Escape |
| name = Sareena
| image = [[Image:Mka sareena.png|225px|Sareena with her alternate outfit in Mortal Kombat: Armageddon.]]
image = Great_escape.jpg|
| origin = [[Netherealm]]
caption= Original regular movie poster|
| appearances = ''[[Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero|Mythologies: Sub-Zero]]''<br />''[[Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance#Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition|MK: Tournament Edition]]''<br />''[[Mortal Kombat Armageddon|MK: Armageddon]]''
director = [[John Sturges]] |
| race = [[List of Mortal Kombat species#Demon|Demon]]
writer = [[Paul Brickhill]] (book)<br>[[James Clavell]] (screenplay)<br>[[W.R. Burnett]] (screenplay)<br>|
| weapons = [[kama (weapon)|Kama]] (''MKM:SZ'')<br />[[Sai (weapon)|Sai]] (''MK:TE'')<br />Demon Fang (''MK:A'')
starring = [[Steve McQueen]]<br>[[James Garner]]<br>[[Richard Attenborough]]<br>[[James Donald]]<br>[[Charles Bronson]]<br>[[Donald Pleasence]]<br>[[James Coburn]]<br>[[John Leyton]]<br>[[David McCallum]]<br>[[Gordon Jackson (actor)|Gordon Jackson]]<br> |
| fighting-styles = [[Tae Kwon Do]] (''MK:TE'')<br />[[Yuan Yang]] (''MK:TE'')<br />[[Ba Shan Fan]] (''MK:A'')
producer = [[John Sturges]] |
| alignment = Good
distributor = [[United Artists]] |
released = [[July 4]], [[1963]] |
| portrayers = [[Lia Montelongo]] (''MKM:SZ'')
runtime = 172 min |
language = English |
budget = $4,000,000 |
imdb_id = 0057115|
amg_id = 1:20652 |
}}
}}
'''Sareena''' is a character from the ''[[Mortal Kombat (series)|Mortal Kombat]]'' [[fighting game]] series.
'''''The Great Escape''''', written by [[James Clavell]] and [[W.R. Burnett]] and directed by [[John Sturges]] is a popular [[1963 in film|1963]] [[World War II]] [[film]], based on a true story about [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] [[POW]]s with a record for escaping from [[prisoner of war camp|POW camps]]. The [[Nazis]] and [[Gestapo]] placed them in a new more secure [[Germany|German]] camp, from which they promptly formed a plan to break out 250 men.


==About Sareena==
The film was based upon the book of the same name by [[Paul Brickhill]], who observed the actual events as a prisoner.
Sareena is a [[List of Mortal Kombat species#demon|demon]] who first appeared in ''[[Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero]]'' as a [[non-playable character|non-playable]] [[boss (video games)|boss]] character. She was first [[playable character|playable]] in ''[[Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance#Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition|Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition]]'' for the [[Game Boy Advance]] and later in ''[[Mortal Kombat: Armageddon]]''. She is from the [[Netherealm]] and a former assassin for [[Quan Chi]] but turned against him. Her young and beautiful appearance hides her true form of a hideous demon. In the past, she required Quan Chi's magic to sustain her human form, but since recently escaping the Netherealm, she has managed to find a way to remain beautiful without him. She is now a force of good with an alliance to Sub-Zero and the new Lin Kuei.


==Storyline==
Featuring an all-star cast including [[Steve McQueen]] (whose motorcycle chase is the film's most remembered action scene, which he also did many of his own stunts.) [[James Garner]], [[Richard Attenborough]], [[James Coburn]], [[Charles Bronson]] and [[Donald Pleasence]] — ''The Great Escape'' is regarded as a classic and frequently repeated on [[television]]. The [[march (music)|march]] tune that serves as the film's theme, written by [[Elmer Bernstein]] has also become a classic.
[[Image:Sareena Tournament Edition.PNG|thumb|175px|left|Sareena, as she appears in ''Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition'']]
The demon Sareena first appeared in ''Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero'' as one of Quan Chi's personal [[assassination|assassins]]. She and her two partners, [[List of minor Mortal Kombat characters#Kia|Kia]] and [[List of minor Mortal Kombat characters#Jataaka|Jataaka]], were ordered to kill [[Noob Saibot|Sub-Zero]] before he reached Quan Chi. They were defeated, but Sub-Zero strangely spared Sareena's life. Later, as Sub-Zero battled Quan Chi, Sareena suddenly appeared and helped him defeat the sorcerer. After expressing her desire to escape the Netherealm with him, she is shot in the back with a bolt of energy by [[Shinnok]]. She collapses into an enraged Sub-Zero's arms and appears to die.


It is later revealed in ''Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition'', that Sareena was not killed by Shinnok's attack, but rather, her human form was destroyed. Her essence was then banished to the 5th Plane of the Netherealm as punishment for her betrayal, where she would suffer for years. After years of being trapped, Sareena discovered the portal Quan Chi and [[Scorpion (Mortal Kombat)|Scorpion]] used to escape the Netherealm shortly before ''[[Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance]]''. She went through the portal and is transported to [[Outworld]] where she later discovered a way to restore her human form without Quan Chi's magic by absorbing the energy of the realm.
==Synopsis==
[[image:ladies.jpg|thumb|Sareena, Kia, and Jataaka in ''Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero|MK Mythologies: Sub Zero'']]
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Shortly after regaining her human form, Sareena encountered the [[Sub-Zero (Mortal Kombat)|younger brother of the Sub-Zero]] she met years before. Feeling that he owed her for helping his brother, Sub-Zero granted her sanctuary with the [[Lin Kuei (Mortal Kombat)|Lin Kuei]] back on [[Earthrealm]].
The German high command becomes annoyed by the men and resources wasted recapturing escaping [[POW]]'s, so it takes the most determined and successful and moves them to a brand new, high-security [[prison camp]], which the [[commandant]], von Luger ([[Hannes Messemer]]), proclaims escape proof. The most dangerous of all, Roger Bartlett ([[Richard Attenborough]]), known as "Big X", is dropped off by the Gestapo.


In ''Mortal Kombat: Armageddon'''s Konquest mode, [[Taven]] encounters Sareena who is inexplicably serving Quan Chi once again. He finds her along with Kia and Jataaka in the [[Red Dragon (Mortal Kombat)|Red Dragon]]'s lair. They battle, but ultimately all three are beaten by Taven. In Sareena's ''Armageddon'' ending, she defeats [[Blaze (Mortal Kombat)|Blaze]], causing his power to flow into her. She is left unconscious until Sub-Zero reaches the top of the pyramid and revives her. When she awakens, she realizes that she had gained the ability to freeze. She then confronts Quan Chi and freezes him in a block of ice. Sareena and Sub-Zero place the sorcerer in the Lin Kuei temple, where he will remain frozen forever.
When he finds himself locked up with "every [[escape artist]] in Germany", Bartlett immediately begins planning the largest escape ever attempted. Teams of men are organized to survey, dig, hide the dirt, manufacture civilian clothing, forge documents, provide security and distractions, and procure contraband materials. The "scrounger", Henley ([[James Garner]]), finds ingeniously devious ways to get whatever the others need, from a camera to identity cards. Danny Velinski ([[Charles Bronson]]) is in charge of the digging, while forgery is handled by Colin Blythe ([[Donald Pleasence]]).


==Combat characteristics==
The prisoners work on three escape tunnels ("Tom", "Dick" and "Harry") simultaneously. After the first tunnel is discovered, they put all their efforts into completing the third.
[[image:Mkmsz sareena.jpg|thumb|120px|''Mythologies'' concept art of Sareena]]
===Signature moves===
*'''Fire Ball''': Sareena fires a skull surrounded with fires. This attack is borrowed from Quan Chi. (''MK:TE'')
*'''Skull Bash''': Sareena thrusts forward extremely fast, smashing her opponent in the head. (''MK:A'')
*'''Split Kick''': Sareena does a forward flip, kicking the opponent in the process. (''MK:TE'')
*'''5-Star Kick''': Sareena thrusts forward with her leg extended and if she makes contact, she will kick the opponent 5 times before they fall back.(''MK:A'')
*'''Gut Buster''': Sareena charges her fist, then shoots forward with a powerful punch that knocks her opponent back. (''MK:A'')
*'''Throwing Knife''': Sareena throws a large knife at her opponent. According to Ed Boon on Sareena's Trading Card bio, this is possibly the fastest projectile in Mortal Kombat. (''MK:A'')


===Recurring fatalities===
The last part of the tunnel is completed on the night of the escape, but is found to be twenty feet short of the woods that would provide cover. Nevertheless, seventy-six men escape before one is finally spotted coming out of the tunnel.
*'''Punch and Kick Pummel''': Sareena beats the opponent to death with a series of kicks and hand strikes, including her Split Kick attack (''MK:TE'')
*'''Sai Slaughter''': Sareena slices up her enemy with a few devastating swipes of her weapons. (''MK:TE'')


==Trivia==
After various attempts to reach neutral [[Switzerland]], [[Sweden]], and [[Spain]], including Hilts' ([[Steve McQueen]]) famous motorcyle chase at the Swiss border, almost all of the escapees are recaptured or killed. Only three make it to safety. Instead of being returned to camp, fifty of the captured prisoners, including Bartlett, are taken to an open field and gunned down. Senior British officer, Group Captain Ramsey ([[James Donald]]), learns of the [[massacre]] from von Luger, who has been relieved of command.
*In ''Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero'', there was a briefly hinted love interest between Sareena and the elder Sub-Zero.
{{endspoiler}}
*Early in ''[[Mortal Kombat 4]]'''s development, Sareena was briefly considered to be added to the roster; the ''MK'' team wanting to include another ''Mythologies'' character in addition to Quan Chi and Shinnok. However, they ultimately decided to include [[Fujin (Mortal Kombat)|Fujin]] instead.

*Shortly before and briefy after ''Mortal Kombat 4'' was released in arcades, it was vaguely hinted that [[Reiko (Mortal Kombat)|Reiko]] was going to share some sort of connection or relationship with Sareena. However, this connection was never developed and later forgotten.
== Hollywood vs. history ==
*Sareena was originally meant to be in ''Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance'' but was cut from the final game, only to be added to ''Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition''. She was also heavily rumored to be included in ''[[Mortal Kombat: Deception]]'', but was again left out.
[[Image:Mcqueen.JPG|thumb|left|[[Steve McQueen]] in ''The Great Escape'']]
*Although Sareena has, until ''Armageddon'', only appeared in side-games, she has amassed a surprisingly strong fan-base.

*Sareena makes a brief cameo appearance in ''Deception'''s Konquest mode. For a side mission, [[Shujinko]] is ordered by the [[Brotherhood of the Shadow]] to find the traitor Sareena. However when Shujinko finds her, she pays him not to tell the Brotherhood where she is.
The story was inspired by an actual escape from [[prisoner-of-war camp|prison camp]] [[Stalag Luft III]] in 1944. While the film condenses various aspects of time and place, a disclaimer claims it to be true to the original as much as possible. This includes the details of the plans, [[escape tunnel]]s, successes and tragic result of the "great escape." [[Paul Brickhill]], an inmate of the camp, wrote an account of the escape under the same name, upon which the film was based.

No members of the [[United States|American]] armed forces were involved in the escape. The film features three American speaking roles. In the actual [[Stalag Luft III]], the Americans present were members of various Commonwealth air forces.

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The murders of the 50 airmen were conducted in small numbers, usually as the prisoners were being driven by automobile. The men would be told to get out and stretch their legs, and would be killed by machine pistols or a pistol pressed to their head. In the film, the 50 murders are depicted as a mass killing. The actual murders, and the manhunt for the perpetrators after the war, is outlined in the book ''Exemplary Justice.''
{{endspoiler}}

== Film plot ==
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===The first day===
After years of exhausting manpower and resources on the homefront in the recapture of escaped Allied POW's, the Germans decide to put all the chronic escapers into a maximum-security camp. The film opens with the new Allied arrivals at the camp. RAF Group Captain Rupert Ramsey ([[James Donald]]), the Senior British Officer, meets with camp commandant Colonel von Luger ([[Hannes Messemer]]). Von Luger expresses his frustration to Ramsey over the multiple escape attempts by his men. Ramsey reminds him that it is the duty of every officer to attempt to escape. Von Luger understands and that is why the Germans have built this new camp: "We have put all the rotten eggs in one basket, and we intend to watch this basket carefully."

As von Luger is suggesting that with co-operation, the British and Germans might live out the rest of the war quietly, several men unsuccessfully attempt to "blitz out" (make a fast break), including Flight Lt. Danny Velinski (Bronson), a [[Poland|Pole]] serving in the RAF and Flying Officer Louis Sedgwick (Coburn), Flying Officer Archibald Ives ([[Angus Lennie]]) and Flight Lt. William Dickes ([[John Leyton]]).

Captain Virgil Hilts (McQueen), a cool-mannered American loner, discovers a blind spot in the barbed wire between the two guard towers, but is spotted by German guards and after an exchange with ''[[Oberst]]'' von Luger, is awarded solitary confinement (known as the "Cooler") for 20 days, along with Ives who had blown a [[Blowing a raspberry|raspberry]] at the Commandant.

RAF Squadron Leader Roger "Big X" Bartlett (Attenborough, modelled after Roger Bushell), mastermind of escapes in several prison camps, is delivered to the camp personally to von Luger by the Gestapo, warning that any other escape attempt will result in Bartlett being shot.

===The tunnels===
The middle of the movie shows the preparations for the Great Escape. Three tunnels (nicknamed [[Tom, Dick and Harry|"Tom", "Dick" and "Harry"]]) are built around drainage pipes to avoid easy detection. Sedgwick has teams of men helping him manufacture needed machinery such as pull-carts and air pumps. Whenever German guards approach any of the tunnels or workshops, an elaborate system of signals allows the workers to shut down production without detection. Ashley-Pitt comes up with a contrivance for hiding bags of dirt in the legs of a man's trousers; a tug at strings in the pockets and the dirt spills out. "Then you just kick it in."

Hendley makes conversation with a guard named Werner ([[Robert Graf]]), who finds the camp's conditions intolerable but refuses to complain lest he be sent to the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Russian front]]. Hendley invites Werner into his room for coffee. As Hendley "innocently" empties out the contents of his well-stocked larder (clearly attempting to tempt Werner,) including Col. von Luger's Danish butter, it dawns on Werner that Hendley has stolen it all. Werner breaks for the door so he can report it, but Hendley reminds him that he's broken the rules by being in his room, and manages to steal his wallet in the commotion. When the guard later returns to the room to report his wallet missing, Henley blackmails him for a camera to make forged security documents.

===The blitz-out===
After Hilts and Ives are released from solitary confinement, they attempt a "blitz-out" after "Big X" approves the attempt - not trying any escapes, he reasons, may simply indicate to the Germans that they must be tunneling. The escape attempt is unsuccessful and the pair are returned to the cooler. After their release, Hilts is approached by the X organization who suggests that on his next blitz-out, he gather intelligence on the location of the nearest railway station. The prisoners have maps of all of Europe but have no idea what is 300 yards beyond their barbed wire encampment. Hilts declines to participate.

===The 4th of July===
The three Americans in the camp lead an Independence Day celebration with homemade potato liquor, and spirits are high in the camp with the realization that Tom, for which all other tunneling work has stopped in order to provide maximum effort, is approaching completion.

During the celebration, however, Tom is discovered by the Germans. A "wire happy" Ives makes a dash for the barbed wire and is shot dead trying to climb the fence. His friend Hilts advises Bartlett that he'll do whatever is asked of him to help in the mass escape.

The scale of preparations becomes obvious in several scenes showing a tailoring operation, and the men practice confrontations with German officials. One soldier responding inadvertently to Mac, speaking English, draws the rebuke "don't fall for that old gag!" - this is a reference to an event in the book where one of the escapees accidentally replied to a question he was asked by a German soldier in English and was captured as a result.

===Final preparations===
Two characters undergo last minute experiences that threaten to leave them behind; Colin suffers progressive myopia and is seen to have eyesight too poor to participate in the escape, while Danny battles claustrophobia and at one point flees from the tunnel just as Hilts is about the break into the open at the far end.

===The escape===
On the night of the escape, the men quietly make their way into the hut, decked out in their escape clothes. Hendley and Colin walk together; Hendley steers Colin just as he's about to walk into a beam. Danny and Willie wait close to the end of the tunnel, where Hilts is digging up to the surface but Danny can't hold it out much longer. Willie tries to appease his friend, talking encouragingly about escaping but Danny is breaking. Just as Bartlett and Mac are coming up the tunnel to escape, Danny tells Willie he can't take it any more and goes back up the tunnel into the hut. As Danny crosses him in the tunnel, a bewildered Bartlett asks him what the matter is, and Danny replies that he built this tunnel with his own hands and he'll go whenever he wants to. When Willie follows Danny and explains the situation to Roger, Bartlett is less than sympathetic. Danny hoists his way out of the tunnel, rushes over to the window of the hut, and presses himself against it, crying. Willie follows him. He gently tells Danny that when [[Warsaw]] fell, Danny escaped to fight with the British, to fight the Germans because he was a flier. Now they have a chance to escape and get back to England. "Danny, if you don't go through that tunnel, everything you've done will have been for nothing. Nothing!"
[[Image:Attboro.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''[[Richard Attenborough]]'' as Roger Bartlett]]
Bartlett, Mac and Hilts are at the end of the tunnel. Hilts uses a stick to poke a hole above their heads. Eventually, he's able to feel some green grass and smilingly, hands it to Mac and Bartlett. Hilts cautiously pokes his head out and looks around. They had tunnelled out of the camp but had tunnelled short of the woods and there are guards patrolling right outside the camp. He ducks back down to Mac and Bartlett and tells them they're twenty feet short. Mac suggests that maybe they go out some other day but Bartlett says that all the forged documents are dated: "It's now or never". Hilts pokes his head out again, looks at the woods, ducks back down and tells them that he could run out to the woods in the darkness and set up a signal for when it's safe for the next man to go, using a tug on a rope. Bartlett agrees, and once the rope is retrieved, Hilts is the first man to go out of the tunnel. He ties the rope around the tree and waits for the patrolman to move to the far side of the compound. Bartlett and MacDonald wait underground at the tunnel's end to send along their men. The first man up the tunnel is Ashley-Pitt, lying on the pull-cart, pulled up on along the rails by Bartlett. As soon as Hilts tugs the rope, Ashley-Pitt tells the two, "See you in [[Piccadilly]]", surfaces and runs out into the woods. The next are Hendley and Colin. Danny has gathered his nerve and goes back into the tunnel with Willie all the assembled men clear out of his way respectfully. Unfortunately, just as they're coming up the tunnel, an [[air raid]] hits the nearby town and the lights in the tunnel go out. Danny panics and becomes hysterical. Roger is shouting at them down the tunnel, saying that they can get dozens out in this darkness. Willie grabs Danny and lights a nearby candle, calming him down. Finally, the two emerge and escape.

Under the cover of darkness, dozens of men escape; the rope signal is not needed. However, the lights come back eventually and Hilts goes back on the rope. Mac and Bartlett surface and meet Hilts at the edge of the woods. The next man up is Cavendish, but just as he emerges, he trips and lands on his parcel, making a noise that arouses the attention of the patrolmen. Cavendish lies flat on the ground, silent. The guard flashes his light around but doesn't detect Cavendish. Meanwhile, the next man sits at the base of the tunnel, impatiently waiting for the tug of the rope. After several moments, he decides to emerge on his own accord and the guards who went to inspect the noise see him immediately. "Don't shoot!", he cries. To confuse the guards and help those who have made it to the surface escape, Hilts comes out of the woods and also screams "Don't shoot!" Back and forth volley the cries of "Don't shoot!". The Germans don't know what to shoot at and in the confusion, Cavendish, Hilts, Mac, and Bartlett manage to escape.

===The next day===
The next morning, the remaining prisoners learn that seventy-six men escaped from the camp. Many of the escapees – including Hendley, Blythe, Ashley-Pitt, MacDonald and Bartlett – are all at the same train station that morning, awkwardly avoiding each other's glances, trying not to look suspicious as they wait for the train. Eventually, they all board. Gestapo agents roam through the train. All of them have documents and plausible stories prepared, except for Colin and Hendley on account of Colin's blindness. Mac and Bartlett, travelling together, successfully pass for [[France|French]] civilians. Ashley-Pitt poses as a German [[businessman]]. Colin and Hendley decide to jump out of the train before the policemen can reach them.

Hilts has constructed a tripwire and waits for a German soldier to come by on a motorbike. He steals his uniform and motorcycle and takes off for the Swiss border. Unfortunately, he encounters some soldiers also on motorbikes along the way who want to see his papers and rather than answer them, he kicks his inquisitor over and drives off. After a thrilling chase, he manages to elude them and heads on for Switzerland.

Hendley and Colin come onto a small airbase. Hendley knocks out a guard, steals a small trainer plane and the two fly off for Switzerland. Hilts continues on his motorcycle. Danny and Willie emerge from a field onto a river where they find a rowing boat. Sedgwick clips a lock off a bicycle and rides across the countryside until he reaches a freight train and stows away. Cavendish hitches a ride on a truck.

The train ride ends and the passengers disembark. They line up for pass inspection. Ashley-Pitt notices a man nearby stare at MacDonald and Bartlett from a distance; it is the Gestapo agent, Kuhn, from the beginning of the film. "Bartlett!" he says to himself, and draws his gun. Just as he does, Ashley-Pitt wrestles him to the ground, wrests his gun out of the hand, and shoots him through the heart. He gets up and runs but German soldiers shoot him from behind. He staggers to the train tracks and dies. In the confusion, Mac and Bartlett escape from the crowd.

Hendley's and Colin's plane begins to sputter about twenty minutes from Switzerland. They are forced to crash-land on the German countryside, Hendley restraining Colin with his arm. Colin escapes serious injury, but Hendley is stuck in the plane wreckage, his face bloodied. He shoves Colin forward, telling him to go on, he's right behind him. Colin moves out and doesn't notice that he is on a hilltop, with dozens of German soldiers below him, aiming for him, signalling for him to surrender. Unaware of this, he turns his back on them to talk to Hendley and is shot. Hendley rushes out for him, apologizing to his friend for fouling things up, but Colin tells him it's all right, it's not his fault and thanks him for getting him out. He dies.

Mac and Bartlett are getting ready to board a bus. They converse in French with a Gestapo officer who is inspecting their passes; everything is in order. Just as they board the bus, the guard says, "Good luck." Mac turns around and says, "Thank you." With absolute horror, he immediately realizes his mistake and the two of them jump off the bus and separate. The constable screams "Engländer!" as soldiers chase after them. Mac is soon surrounded and captured. Bartlett scrambles across rooftops to avoid the soldiers.

Cavendish, unfortunately, has been driven straight to the Gestapo by the trucker with whom he was riding. He converses with the German agent, who tells him that he must be a spy because he is wearing civilian clothes. "Spies are being shot." Cavendish explained his civilian clothes by saying he recut his uniform when he lost weight, dyed it with boot polish when he found an oil stain on it, and lost his insignia over the years. The Gestapo agent orders him put in the cell "with the others", where Cavendish is somberly reunited with dozens of other camp escapees.

Sedgwick makes it to France. He sits in an outdoor [[café]], nervously hiding behind a newspaper from a group of German officers sitting nearby. Suddenly, the [[telephone|phone]] of the café rings. The waiter picks it up, comes up the Sedgwick and says, "Monsieur, téléphone pour vous." Startled, Sedgwick says, "Téléphone pour moi?" "Oui, téléphone pour vous." The man directs Sedgwick to the phone on the counter. As he is talking on the phone, he sees the two waiters duck down behind the counter. Sedgwick, looks around confused, then joins them behind the counter. At this time, a car pulls up to where the German officers are sitting and they see a machine gun barrel sticking out of the window. They try to get up to run, but the gunner opens fire and they are killed, and the car drives off. The waiters of the café happily pour themselves glasses of wine, toast and drink it. Sedgwick realizes it's the [[French Resistance]]. Sedgwick then explains that he just escaped from a POW camp in Germany and is trying to make it to [[Spain]]; he asks if they can help. Sirens approach in the distance. The waiter tells him he knows someone who can and they hurriedly run off.

Bartlett is accosted by a group of [[Nazis|German soldiers]]. The head soldier points a gun at him but he feigns genuine surprise in (for the non-German audience) perfect German. The German tries to trip him up by speaking English, but Bartlett doesn't fall for it. The soldier, now convinced that he's a German, then says "Ach, Sie sind Deutscher!" and Bartlett replies, "Selbstverständlich!" The soldier apologizes and they drive off. Bartlett, shaken from the close call, runs into an alleyway, out of breath. A voice from behind says "Herr Bartlett?" Bartlett turns around to face [[Karl-Otto Alberty|an SS officer]], and feigns confusion in German. "Your German is very good. And I hear also your French. Your arms, up!" Bartlett, realizing it's over, slowly surrenders.

[[Image:Mcqueen2.JPG|thumb|300px|left|[[Steve McQueen]] at Swiss Border]]

Hilts is riding on his motorcycle and the Swiss border, lined with two barbed-wire barricades, is in sight. He can't go through the inspection point so he races out onto a field along the barricades. Dozens of soldiers are chasing him now. He goes as far as he can until dozens more armed German soldiers scramble over a hill just ahead of him. Hilts turns around, speeds up his bike, shoots into the air, and clears the first barricade, landing perfectly. The second barricade is too big to jump over but he's not far from a break in it. A few feet away from the break, soldiers shoot at his bike. He falls, entangled in the barbed wire of the second barricade, his motorcycle leaking [[gasoline]]. Futilely reaching for Switzerland with a bloodied hand, he finally rises, puts his hands up, and bitterly shows the soldiers his captain's insignia that he had sewn into the inside of his undershirt.

===The aftermath===
Bartlett is taken into the Gestapo center that Cavendish and the others had already been through. "Ah! Herr Bartlett and Herr MacDonald!" Bartlett looks over and sees a forlorn Mac sitting nearby. "You are going to wish you had never put us to so much trouble." In the next scene, Mac and Bartlett are with the other men, riding back in the truck. Bartlett is a little concerned about what's going to happen, saying he expected a long stay or a short trip, but Mac tells him not to worry. "I think you did a damn good job. I think we all did." The soldiers stop the truck, open up the back flap, and tell the men to stretch their legs because it will be several hours before they reach the camp. Bartlett, Mac, Cavendish, and dozens of others disembark. Bartlett confides in Mac that all the work they did, all the tunneling and organization, kept him alive, and even though they didn't make it, he's never been happier. "You know, Mac..." he continues, but stops short when he turns around and sees German soldiers readying a machine gun in front of them. Bartlett and his men, realizing, slowly take on looks of sheer terror just before the shots ring out.

Ramsey meets with Col. von Luger, who unable to look Ramsey in the eye and speaking in a shocked and broken tone, tells Ramsey that eleven men of his are being returned today and that a "higher authority" directs von Luger to announce that fifty of Ramsey's men were shot while escaping. He hands Ramsey a list of the dead. Ramsey wants to know how many were wounded. Von Luger softly says, "None."

Danny and Willie row up to a large ship and climb up the waiting ladder. Sedgwick, en route to Spain, emerges from the bushes and thanks his guides in French, who turn and leave. He hears a noise that startles him and turns to face a man staring at him. "I am your guide, señor." Sedgwick and his new guide look at the countryside ahead. "Spain?" Sedgwick asks. "España," the guard replies. The two forge on.

Ramsey receives the eleven men, including Hendley and asks where Colin is. Hendley says he didn't make it. "Roger was right about that." Ramsey, with difficulty, tells him that Roger didn't make it either: "Fifty. The Gestapo murdered them." Ramsey concludes, "Roger's idea was to get back at the enemy the hardest way he could. Mess up the works. From what we've heard here, I think he did exactly that." When Hendley asks if he thinks it was worth it, Ramsey replies, "I suppose that all depends on your point of view, Hendley."

Hilts is delivered back to the camp. He is about to salute von Luger, but is instructed by the Germans not to because the colonel is no longer in command. Von Luger tells Hilts that he is lucky. Hilts is at first bemused by this but then realizes: "How many?" "Fifty. It looks, after all, as if you will see [[Berlin]] before I do." As the Germans drive off with von Luger, the camp gathers around admiringly as Hilts is taken back to his familiar home: the cooler. Someone tosses him his baseball and glove. He is thrown into the cooler by the soldier. The soldier turns around to walk out of the cooler when he stops and listens to the familiar sound of the baseball bouncing against the floor, the wall and back into Hilts's glove over and over again. The movie ends with the on-screen valediction: "'''This picture is dedicated to the fifty.'''"
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A highly fictionalized, made-for-television sequel, ''[[The Great Escape II: The Untold Story]]'', appeared many years later. It starred [[Christopher Reeve]] and interestingly, Pleasence as an [[SS]] villain.

In 2003 it was announced that actor [[Jean-Claude van Damme]] wanted to do a remake.

==''The Great Escape'' in popular culture==
*An Australian [[Shell Oil]] television commercial from 1988 paid homage to Hilts' motorcycle escape by having the hero escape German soldiers but not before filling up his motorcycle at an abandoned Shell gas station. However, unlike the movie, the hero manages to jump the last barricade and escape into the distance.
**This commercial was parodied in an episode of [[Fast Forward]], with a different ending. After completing the jump, the hero looks back in triumph, and is promptly gunned down by his pursuers. The commercial's motto is then shown: "There is more than one kind of [[Shell (projectile)|Shell]]".
*In ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode ''[[A Streetcar Named Marge]]'' ([[1992 in television|1992]]), [[Maggie Simpson|Maggie]] plots a "Great Escape" from the [[Ayn Rand]] School for Tots.
*In ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' episode "Queeg", Holly begins whistling the tune as a plan is set in motion to oppose the demanding backup computer [[Queeg]], while Lister and The Cat scrub the floor to his whistling.
*The animated film ''[[Chicken Run]]'' ([[2000 in film|2000]]) contains many references. The film also references ''[[Stalag 17]]'', considered (along with "Escape") to be one of the greatest World War II [[POW]] movies.
*''The Great Escape'' theme tune is used in an Australian beer advertisement for Tooheys, where people launch beer brewing ingredients into the sky, eventually producing "beer rain".
*In the first [[Charlie's Angels]] movie, the character Bosley (played by [[Bill Murray]]), while being held hostage by the criminals, has a baseball glove and is sitting on the floor throwing a baseball against the wall like [[Steve McQueen]].

==Additional production information==
*This film shares three of its stars ([[Steve McQueen]], [[Charles Bronson]] and [[James Coburn]]), its director and producer ([[John Sturges]]), its composer (Elmer Bernstein), and its editor ([[Ferris Webster]]} with ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]''. Both films also feature one of the stars of ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'': David McCallum appears in this film while [[Robert Vaughn]] appears in the earlier one.

*[[Steve McQueen]], an expert [[motorcycle|motorcyclist]], did most of his own motorcycle [[stunts]], but some of the more dangerous stunts required the use of a double. Bud Ekins, a friend and fellow motorcycle enthusiast, happened to resemble McQueen sufficiently, from a distance, to be able to do the stunts without audience members detecting the double. Ekins was only on-screen for a few seconds, and his few shots were flawlessly edited together with the many individual shots of McQueen driving alongside and between the fences. Ekins performed the 60-foot (≈18&nbsp;m) jump over the inner [[Austria|Austrian]]/Swiss border fence. He also did the scene sliding his cycle into the outer fence. According to the DVD extra, McQueen did much of the cycling work, even doubling as one of his own helmeted German pursuers. Ekins also later doubled for McQueen in ''[[Bullitt]]''.

*As noted by David McCallum in the DVD extra, the "barbed wire" that Hilts ([[Steve McQueen]]) crashed into in the scene described above, was actually made of little strips of rubber tied around normal wire, and was made by the cast and crew during their free time.

* While most of the film is based on events, many scenes were fabricated: [[Steve McQueen]]'s [[motorcycle]] scenes (which were not in the original script, but were added after McQueen complained about his character's lack of screen time) and the theft of a German [[fixed-wing aircraft|airplane]] by Hendley and Blythe. The 4th of July celebration also did not take place in the real Stalag Luft III, which was an all-Commonwealth camp.

* The movie debuted at [[Culver Military Academy]] in Indiana because the Commandant of the Academy was an allied POW in World War II and consultant on the film.

* [[Donald Pleasence]] had actually served in the [[Royal Air Force]] during World War II. He was shot down, and spent a year in a German POW camp. Screenwriter [[James Clavell]] served in the [[Royal Artillery]], and was captured by the Japanese. He was interned in [[Java]] and later to the notorious [[Changi Prison]] camp near [[Singapore]]. In an archival interview in the DVD special, Pleasence said the prison camp was sufficiently realistic and that it was upsetting at first.

* There was a camp theatre at Stalag Luft III which mounted several productions. Among its actors were [[Talbot Rothwell]], [[Roy Dotrice]], [[Peter Butterworth]], and [[Rupert Davies]].

* Several video games were created based on the movie inlcuding [[The Great Escape (video game)|The Great Escape]] in 1986, and [[The Great Escape (2003 video game)|The Great Escape]] in 2003.
==Books about The Great Escape==
* ''[[The Great Escape (book)|The Great Escape]]'', [[Paul Brickhill]]
* ''[[The Longest Tunnel]]'', [[Alan Burgess]]
* ''[[The Wooden Horse]]'', [[Eric Williams (writer)|Eric Williams]] (about another escape from the same camp, Stalag Luft III)
* ''[[Exemplary Justice]]'', [[Paul Andrews (author)|Paul Andrews]]. Details the manhunt by the Royal Air Force's special investigations unit after the war to find and bring to trial the perpetrators of the "Sagan murders".


==External links==
==External links==
*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=uvzdzma0qfs MK Team Interview (TMK E3 MKA Video #16)] mentioning "Sexy Sareena"
* {{imdb title|id=0057115|title=The Great Escape}}
* [http://www.historyinfilm.com/escape/real1.htm The Real Great Escape]
* [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/greatescape/ Great Escape (PBS Nova)]
* [http://www.elsham.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/gt_esc/ Detailed information about the real event]
* [http://london.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/40/GreatEscapes/index.htm Exhibition about this and other escapes at the Imperial War Museum, London (until 31 July 2006)]
* [http://www.ateal.co.uk/greatescape/ First hand account of Stalag Luft III by Wing Commander Ken Rees]
* [http://www.pivotalgames.com/index.php?content=tge Pivotal Games site for the computer game version of The Great Escape]
* [http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Great+Escape%2c+The$&pub=^Ocean+Software+Ltd$ World of Sinclair entry for the 1986 video game]


Escape from Colditz (linked to the Great Escape - some escapees were sent to Colditz Prison...)
* [http://radrobin.tripod.com/essays/coldgrat.html]


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This article is about the Mortal Kombat character. For the big-bust model, adult film star and exotic dancer, see SaRenna Lee.

Template:Mortal Kombat character Sareena is a character from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series.

About Sareena

Sareena is a demon who first appeared in Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero as a non-playable boss character. She was first playable in Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition for the Game Boy Advance and later in Mortal Kombat: Armageddon. She is from the Netherealm and a former assassin for Quan Chi but turned against him. Her young and beautiful appearance hides her true form of a hideous demon. In the past, she required Quan Chi's magic to sustain her human form, but since recently escaping the Netherealm, she has managed to find a way to remain beautiful without him. She is now a force of good with an alliance to Sub-Zero and the new Lin Kuei.

Storyline

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Sareena, as she appears in Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition

The demon Sareena first appeared in Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero as one of Quan Chi's personal assassins. She and her two partners, Kia and Jataaka, were ordered to kill Sub-Zero before he reached Quan Chi. They were defeated, but Sub-Zero strangely spared Sareena's life. Later, as Sub-Zero battled Quan Chi, Sareena suddenly appeared and helped him defeat the sorcerer. After expressing her desire to escape the Netherealm with him, she is shot in the back with a bolt of energy by Shinnok. She collapses into an enraged Sub-Zero's arms and appears to die.

It is later revealed in Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition, that Sareena was not killed by Shinnok's attack, but rather, her human form was destroyed. Her essence was then banished to the 5th Plane of the Netherealm as punishment for her betrayal, where she would suffer for years. After years of being trapped, Sareena discovered the portal Quan Chi and Scorpion used to escape the Netherealm shortly before Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance. She went through the portal and is transported to Outworld where she later discovered a way to restore her human form without Quan Chi's magic by absorbing the energy of the realm.

MK Mythologies: Sub Zero

Shortly after regaining her human form, Sareena encountered the younger brother of the Sub-Zero she met years before. Feeling that he owed her for helping his brother, Sub-Zero granted her sanctuary with the Lin Kuei back on Earthrealm.

In Mortal Kombat: Armageddon's Konquest mode, Taven encounters Sareena who is inexplicably serving Quan Chi once again. He finds her along with Kia and Jataaka in the Red Dragon's lair. They battle, but ultimately all three are beaten by Taven. In Sareena's Armageddon ending, she defeats Blaze, causing his power to flow into her. She is left unconscious until Sub-Zero reaches the top of the pyramid and revives her. When she awakens, she realizes that she had gained the ability to freeze. She then confronts Quan Chi and freezes him in a block of ice. Sareena and Sub-Zero place the sorcerer in the Lin Kuei temple, where he will remain frozen forever.

Combat characteristics

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Mythologies concept art of Sareena

Signature moves

  • Fire Ball: Sareena fires a skull surrounded with fires. This attack is borrowed from Quan Chi. (MK:TE)
  • Skull Bash: Sareena thrusts forward extremely fast, smashing her opponent in the head. (MK:A)
  • Split Kick: Sareena does a forward flip, kicking the opponent in the process. (MK:TE)
  • 5-Star Kick: Sareena thrusts forward with her leg extended and if she makes contact, she will kick the opponent 5 times before they fall back.(MK:A)
  • Gut Buster: Sareena charges her fist, then shoots forward with a powerful punch that knocks her opponent back. (MK:A)
  • Throwing Knife: Sareena throws a large knife at her opponent. According to Ed Boon on Sareena's Trading Card bio, this is possibly the fastest projectile in Mortal Kombat. (MK:A)

Recurring fatalities

  • Punch and Kick Pummel: Sareena beats the opponent to death with a series of kicks and hand strikes, including her Split Kick attack (MK:TE)
  • Sai Slaughter: Sareena slices up her enemy with a few devastating swipes of her weapons. (MK:TE)

Trivia

  • In Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero, there was a briefly hinted love interest between Sareena and the elder Sub-Zero.
  • Early in Mortal Kombat 4's development, Sareena was briefly considered to be added to the roster; the MK team wanting to include another Mythologies character in addition to Quan Chi and Shinnok. However, they ultimately decided to include Fujin instead.
  • Shortly before and briefy after Mortal Kombat 4 was released in arcades, it was vaguely hinted that Reiko was going to share some sort of connection or relationship with Sareena. However, this connection was never developed and later forgotten.
  • Sareena was originally meant to be in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance but was cut from the final game, only to be added to Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition. She was also heavily rumored to be included in Mortal Kombat: Deception, but was again left out.
  • Although Sareena has, until Armageddon, only appeared in side-games, she has amassed a surprisingly strong fan-base.
  • Sareena makes a brief cameo appearance in Deception's Konquest mode. For a side mission, Shujinko is ordered by the Brotherhood of the Shadow to find the traitor Sareena. However when Shujinko finds her, she pays him not to tell the Brotherhood where she is.


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