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The Great Escape (The Donald Pleasence War Suite pt​.​3)

from The Pleasencing! by Miscellaneous Plumbing Fixtures

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Years after his experiences
in Stalag Luft 1
It was time to go back to a POW camp
for our baldy hero Don
He was one of the stars of The Great Escape
To have actually been a world war 2 prisoner
Hannes Messemer who played Colonel Lugo
was the other

When Pleasence kindly offered advice
to director John Sturges,
he was politely asked to keep his "opinions" to himself.
He was asked to resist those helpful urges
But Later, when another star from the film
informed him that Pleasence had been a POW and tortured
Sturges requested Pleasance's technical advice
and input on historical accuracy from that point forward.


The only actor to have appeared in both The Great Escape and its sequel
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story on television
Ironically, he played one of the would-be great escapees in the first film and one of the German executioners in the second.

Strangely he even played the role of the SS and Gestapo chief, Heinrich Himmler,
in the film The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
Himmler was the one who ordered the secret murder of "the 50" POWs.
yes their deaths by him were demanded

Thus, Pleasence is likely to be one of only a few actors
to have ever portrayed all three roles
of murder conspirator, executioner, and victim
(although technically he was not among the 50. His character died earlier.).

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from The Pleasencing!, released May 7, 2015
Written, performed and produced by Jon Cross of Miscellaneous Plumbing Fixtures.

Copyright Om/No Productions Music 2015

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