The Great Escape II: The Untold Story 4K 1988 Ultra HD 2160p

Story Movie

Major John Dodge organizes the escape of prisoners from a German concentration camp. Seventy-five prisoners escape, but only fifteen succeed. The rest are caught and shot. Major Dodge is among those caught, and he is threatened with imminent death, but German Dr. Toast helps him escape to England. After the end of the war, Dodge returns to Germany, to the place where the concentration camp used to be, and then together with former prisoners of this concentration camp, who managed to survive, he organizes and implements a terrible plan of revenge against his executioners, whom they find all over the world and destroy.

Review 4K Movie

The issue with this "true story" is that it was a made for America TV film, as a follow up to a cinema film that had already been twisted to add an American interest. By the time you get to the stage of this film it's very difficult to make for an audience who will have very little connection to the real story - i.e. that 76 predominantly European or Commonwealth service men escaped from a PoW camp, 73 were re-captured and under direct orders from Hitler 50 were executed in ones and twos by SS and Gestapo henchmen.

The film itself, if it didn't have the silly "untold story" tag, would be passable TV fare. The investigation, the depiction of the nature of the murders (i.e. individuals rather than the 50 in a field as per the original) are realistic whilst not necessarily being true. The fact it plays loose with who did the investigating and what actually happened is only an issue if you are looking for the true story.

If you're looking for a film about war crimes and investigating them, then as TV movies go this is OK. If you're looking for the real "untold story" then don't believe everything you see in this production.