| THEGREATESCAPE | 1963 war film, directed by John Sturges, based on a 1950 memoir by Australian writer Paul Brickhill (3,5,6) |
| NOVELETTE | Short story, note, almost finished by Australian writer (9) |
| ESCAPE | 1963 epic war film directed by John Sturges, fire Great _ (6) |
| ESC | The Great ___, 1950 book by Paul Brickhill (6) |
| MCQ | 1974 film directed by John Sturges |
| THEEAGLEHASLANDED | 1975 novel by Jack Higgins adapted into a film by John Sturges in 1976 |
| THESPANISHGARDENER | 1956 film starring Dirk Bogarde based on a 1950 novel by A J Cronin |
| MAROONED | 1969 John Sturges film starring Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna and Gene Hackman, based on a novel by Martin Caidin |
| ICESTATIONZEBRA | 1963 novel by Alistair MacLean filmed by John Sturges in 1968 (3,7,5) |
| HOMEATSEVEN | 1952 film, based on a 1950 play by R C Sherriff, that was Ralph Richardson's only work as a director (4,5) |
| THEMAGNIFICENTSEVEN | 1960 John Sturges Western based on a 1954 Akira Kurosawa film |
| IROBOT | 2004 sci-fi film based on a 1950 book |
| SUNSET | ___ Boulevard, Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on a 1950 film (6) |
| MAN | The Railway ___ 2013 British-Australian war film directed by Jonathan Teplitzky which stars Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth |
| BRIDGE | 1957 epic war film directed by David Lean, The _ On The River Kwai (6) |
| THEALAMO | War film directed by actor John Wayne (1960), in which he also stars as historical frontiersman Davy Crockett (3,5) |
| MALICE | Town Called ___: song by The Jam whose title is a pun on a 1950 Nevil Shute novel (6) |
| THETHING | 1982 film directed by John Carpenter, based the novella Who Goes There? by John W Campbell Jr |
| SUNSETBOULEVARD | Musical based on a 1950 movie |
| GREATESCAPE | The ____, 1963 war film featuring Steve McQueen riding a motorbike (5,6) |
