Google says you're right.I think he did all the jumping except for the one giant one over the border. Could be wrong.
He wanted to but they wouldn't allow/risk it. In that part of the film he plays one of the german pursuers.Steve mcqueen was a well seasoned motocross racer. Pretty sure he was doing the jumping.
Steve McQueen performed all of his own motorcycle stunts in The Great Escape with the exception of his characters final jump over a 6ft (1.8m) barbed wire fence. The final jump was performed by his stunt double, Bud Etkins.
The one time I've seen it, pretty sure there was considerably more suspension travel on the 'Trophy' that actually went over the fence..The Story Behind the Filming of Steve McQueen’s Dramatic Fence-Jump Scene in “The Great Escape”
The Great Escape is a 1963 American World War II epic film that depicts an escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from a German PO...www.vintag.es
Phew, when I saw you had posted I thought there would be more nude photos of Pauline Pantsdown.The one time I've seen it, pretty sure there was considerably more suspension travel on the 'Trophy' that actually went over the fence.
It was ONE potato.Phew, when I saw you had posted I thought there would be more nude photos of Pauline Pantsdown.
Yeah totally... l definitely wasn’t seeing a a pre-unit construction Triumph parallel twin getting serious air, back then. I was seeing something way more capable. And I owned a Triumph Trophy, and a Tiger, and a Thunderbird back in the day. Google and maybe some superimposing poetic license seems to have rewritten the reality...The one time I've seen it, pretty sure there was considerably more suspension travel on the 'Trophy' that actually went over the fence.