One of the most underrated films of all time IMO. It was a major influence on my deciding to join the Navy. Having the SAS come out of the shadows and appear briefly on screen added to its realism. Ridiculously accurate in its portrayal of the infrastructure of modern terrorist organizations as well.
It’s almost as if the shady dude who jets round the world financing marxist organisations was based on a real life character , hmmmm i’m getting the name “Soros” ...
I love everything about this fillum. The music is superb. Found it on DVD a few years back in a Blockbuster bargain bin. Three quid it was. I paid for it quite calmly, then sprinted the length of the shop, did a rolling dive through a plate glass window and leapt into a low-hovering chopper...
Good skills. Your anecdote reminds me of a great Viz questionnaire many years ago. Entitled “are you tough enough to join the SAS?” it had a series of questions that swiftly formed into a regular theme. For example question 5...You are in the queue at your local bank when an armed robber announces a stick up and tells everyone to hit the floor. Do you a). Hit the floor, don’t look up and think of your wife and children, b).try to get a glimpse of the assailant but continue to shake with fear, c). Try to negotiate for a safe outcome or d).throw a stun Grenade, produce your MP5, take out the assailant with a double tap to the head, secure all the hostages then hand the scene over to the police, when they arrive. Every scenario questioned had an option d). Featuring stun grenades, MP5s and violence.
He did earn his maroon beret as a member of the TA. He did apply for, and pass the hills phase for SAS Reserves. However, 21 or 23 (can't remeber which) decided not to allow him to continue his candidacy due to the fact that he was too well known.
Great film. He’d actually been in the territorial parachute regiment and had passed selection for the actual reservists ‘23’ SAS .... who didn’t continue with his application, because of his celebrity status. What a guy.
Lewis is great in this movie as well as anything he ever did. Gorgeous bad ass and a great sense of humor. Does anyone know if his autobiography might finally be released soon?
He was interviewed at the same time as Roger Moore but chubby broccoli thought he was to much a hard man for the role,he also was in part time army, and had trained with the SAS, this movie blew me away when I was young and I thought Lewis Collins was the coolest actor I ever saw, what a movie the story, action and best of all the music, I met one of the real sas men who where used in the movie. Because I grew up in northern ireland my father was in the RUC and my uncle was in the UDR so security and worry and fear was always there. Thanks for uploading this video I never ever thought it was available or ever seen it before
well I was a big fan of The Professionals when it first appeared on TV, this movie is very watchable and entertaining, Lewis Collins is great in it and proves that he could carry a film without his sidekick Doyle, he really should have played Bond but that is another well documented story, in many ways Who Dares Wins is a bit like a feature length movie of "The Professionals", it has the same team making it, much of the climax filming was done inside and outside Heatherdean Hall which is the Georgian Country house that is part of the grounds of Pinewood Studios, I bought the movie first on DVD and found it was in 4x3 format, so then when it came out on blu ray I bought that because it said it was wide screen, and it is, except the top and bottom of that original 4x3 old TV format is cropped to produce the wide screen format, I think that was normal back in the 70s and 80s to shoot movies with a view to providing a 4x3 format for Tv broadcast and a cropped top and bottom for cinema screening, either way it is a film I enjoy watching, RIP Mr Collins, and thanks for the entertainment.
Really shame for Lewis collins because is career never kicked on after who dares wins! He most definitely deserved a crack at playing Bond and shame on broccoli for not giving him the chance.
I learned recently Lewis passed most of the selection tests to joins 21 SAS. but he was stopped from finishing the selection process by the top brass because his celebrity status posed too much of a security risk for him to operate as a SAS trooper
The scene I enjoyed most was the radical leader Frankie going against Arthur Currie. A mid-level Baby Boomer speaking out against a mid-level man from The Greatest Generation working as Secretary of State. Just like seeing a younger Millennial going against an older Baby Boomer today. Judy Davis was 27 when she made this and Richard Widmark was 68. She was young and thought she knew everything. How common is that today? But 27 back then was far more mature than now and 68 was near dead unless you had good genetics. BUT, setting aside the generation differences, the first hour of the movie pandered, but once the undercover officer Skellen goes with the crew to the embassy, it gets exciting. Especially that part when his wife and baby are taken hostage by the radical crew spying on them and a police sergeant takes the neighbors house next door to rescue them.
I have a bit of a personal connection to that scene . My dads old uni mate, Colonel Al Prosser (it’s ok he’s dead now and has no family) actually installed the “fish-eye” cameras in the building next door to the Iranian Embassy that were used to locate the hostages . They recreated that in the “Skellerns mews house” scene when they installed the cameras to see where his wife & kid were being held
I know that certain people have been indifferent about this film but i actually think that the director presented a "balanced picture"!! And "avoided the trap of partiality"!! Which for "me at least still gives it at least a degree of authenticity"!!
Fabulous film! Had the dvd many years ago but rather foolishly borrowed it out and the bugger in question did not return it so im gonna buy the blueray. Love Judy Davis. I seem to recall she played a terrorist or something in an episode of The Professionals. And ive always thought lewis would have made an ideal Bond. And hows about Gordon Jackson as Bonds boss " Q " ? 🤔
There's not a chance on this earth that over a dozen terrorists supposedly masquerading as a an American Air Force band would just be allowed to enter a building hosting the very elite of both British and US political leaders without being discovered. Great film always enjoyed and was absolutely gutted to hear many years ago of the untimely death of Lewis Collins.
One of the most underrated films of all time IMO. It was a major influence on my deciding to join the Navy. Having the SAS come out of the shadows and appear briefly on screen added to its realism. Ridiculously accurate in its portrayal of the infrastructure of modern terrorist organizations as well.
It’s almost as if the shady dude who jets round the world financing marxist organisations was based on a real life character , hmmmm i’m getting the name “Soros” ...
I love everything about this fillum. The music is superb.
Found it on DVD a few years back in a Blockbuster bargain bin. Three quid it was.
I paid for it quite calmly, then sprinted the length of the shop, did a rolling dive through a plate glass window and leapt into a low-hovering chopper...
It made Britain. Safe with terrorist try us!!!
Ha ha!
Brilliant!
Good skills. Your anecdote reminds me of a great Viz questionnaire many years ago. Entitled “are you tough enough to join the SAS?” it had a series of questions that swiftly formed into a regular theme. For example question 5...You are in the queue at your local bank when an armed robber announces a stick up and tells everyone to hit the floor. Do you a). Hit the floor, don’t look up and think of your wife and children, b).try to get a glimpse of the assailant but continue to shake with fear, c). Try to negotiate for a safe outcome or d).throw a stun Grenade, produce your MP5, take out the assailant with a double tap to the head, secure all the hostages then hand the scene over to the police, when they arrive. Every scenario questioned had an option d). Featuring stun grenades, MP5s and violence.
Yeah I remember a similar one in Viz and every scenario ended with smear yourself in animal dung!
This is a brilliant film and I do have the DVD. A film I watched as a child and stuck with me ever since.
If ever anyone could have brought the "required physicality required for the role of Skellern then it was "surely Lewis Collins!!
I don’t feel Lewis got the recognition he deserved for his work he would have made a great James Bond
Aye. Deffo
Nah, Bond was a farce at that stage. Bond, the way Fleming wrote would have suited him.
He did earn his maroon beret as a member of the TA. He did apply for, and pass the hills phase for SAS Reserves. However, 21 or 23 (can't remeber which) decided not to allow him to continue his candidacy due to the fact that he was too well known.
I do too.
I heard he didn't get the james bond role because he had too much aggression
Brilliant SAS WHO DARES WINS 🇬🇧👍.
Great film. He’d actually been in the territorial parachute regiment and had passed selection for the actual reservists ‘23’ SAS .... who didn’t continue with his application, because of his celebrity status. What a guy.
Thank you for sharing this. when i was young I watched this film over & over loved it.
Word was there was a sequel in the making about Captain Skelkan taking a team into the Falklands. Big shame that didn’t happen.
My favourite film ever.
One of my favourite films.
Thank you for sharing. Love the action anf and music.
Billy Babu The story teller
Lewis is great in this movie as well as anything he ever did. Gorgeous bad ass and a great sense of humor. Does anyone know if his autobiography might finally be released soon?
Ditto!!! Lewis should had been “James Bond”!!!
He was interviewed at the same time as Roger Moore but chubby broccoli thought he was to much a hard man for the role,he also was in part time army, and had trained with the SAS, this movie blew me away when I was young and I thought Lewis Collins was the coolest actor I ever saw, what a movie the story, action and best of all the music, I met one of the real sas men who where used in the movie. Because I grew up in northern ireland my father was in the RUC and my uncle was in the UDR so security and worry and fear was always there. Thanks for uploading this video I never ever thought it was available or ever seen it before
well I was a big fan of The Professionals when it first appeared on TV, this movie is very watchable and entertaining, Lewis Collins is great in it and proves that he could carry a film without his sidekick Doyle, he really should have played Bond but that is another well documented story, in many ways Who Dares Wins is a bit like a feature length movie of "The Professionals", it has the same team making it, much of the climax filming was done inside and outside Heatherdean Hall which is the Georgian Country house that is part of the grounds of Pinewood Studios, I bought the movie first on DVD and found it was in 4x3 format, so then when it came out on blu ray I bought that because it said it was wide screen, and it is, except the top and bottom of that original 4x3 old TV format is cropped to produce the wide screen format, I think that was normal back in the 70s and 80s to shoot movies with a view to providing a 4x3 format for Tv broadcast and a cropped top and bottom for cinema screening, either way it is a film I enjoy watching, RIP Mr Collins, and thanks for the entertainment.
Really shame for Lewis collins because is career never kicked on after who dares wins! He most definitely deserved a crack at playing Bond and shame on broccoli for not giving him the chance.
Top class film.
The producer Euan Lloyd is the spit of Avengers man Patrick McNamee
I Always thought that great producer though, Paper Tiger( my favourite) The Wild Geese, The Sea Wolves, and of course Who Dares Wins
Bodie and Robert Mccall !
I learned recently Lewis passed most of the selection tests to joins 21 SAS. but he was stopped from finishing the selection process by the top brass because his celebrity status posed too much of a security risk for him to operate as a SAS trooper
Lewis didn't play the tough guy he Was a tough guy and a gentleman.
Legend has it that The Boys were used in the helicopter scenes, but it was counted as a training exercise. No union scale for you lot.
The scene I enjoyed most was the radical leader Frankie going against Arthur Currie. A mid-level Baby Boomer speaking out against a mid-level man from The Greatest Generation working as Secretary of State. Just like seeing a younger Millennial going against an older Baby Boomer today. Judy Davis was 27 when she made this and Richard Widmark was 68. She was young and thought she knew everything. How common is that today? But 27 back then was far more mature than now and 68 was near dead unless you had good genetics.
BUT, setting aside the generation differences, the first hour of the movie pandered, but once the undercover officer Skellen goes with the crew to the embassy, it gets exciting. Especially that part when his wife and baby are taken hostage by the radical crew spying on them and a police sergeant takes the neighbors house next door to rescue them.
I have a bit of a personal connection to that scene . My dads old uni mate, Colonel Al Prosser (it’s ok he’s dead now and has no family) actually installed the “fish-eye” cameras in the building next door to the Iranian Embassy that were used to locate the hostages . They recreated that in the “Skellerns mews house” scene when they installed the cameras to see where his wife & kid were being held
Classic cat-fight between Ingrid Pitt and Skellern's old woman. Not 2b missed.
“I’ll keel you , i’ll fucking keeeel yooou” - BOOM BOOM !
Great film. He’d have been an excellent Bond.
Imagine woke show biz world making a 2021 PC version of this f-ing masterpiece. LOL. Any time the SAS is slotting tangos is a good day.
I know that certain people have been indifferent about this film but i actually think that the director presented a "balanced picture"!! And "avoided the trap of partiality"!! Which for "me at least still gives it at least a degree of authenticity"!!
Fabulous film! Had the dvd many years ago but rather foolishly borrowed it out and the bugger in question did not return it so im gonna buy the blueray. Love Judy Davis. I seem to recall she played a terrorist or something in an episode of The Professionals. And ive always thought lewis would have made an ideal Bond. And hows about Gordon Jackson as Bonds boss " Q " ? 🤔
There's not a chance on this earth that over a dozen terrorists supposedly masquerading as a an American Air Force band would just be allowed to enter a building hosting the very elite of both British and US political leaders without being discovered. Great film always enjoyed and was absolutely gutted to hear many years ago of the untimely death of Lewis Collins.
Lewis great
Ingrid Pitt had a great role in this film it's well worth a watch
informative BTS from 1982
Jim Garner (2:40) was a Black Belt in Judo apparently. 😉
Wasn't this movie titled, "The Final Option"? I have the VHS tape, and the name wasn't "Who Dares Wins".
The film did sell under both titles.
500 a week LOL
Yes she good but also a passage to Indi