Una agradable sorpresa toparse con estos clásicos del género bélico con tan buenos actores que ahora son de culto. Simplemente genial la trama ahí expuesta. Saludos y bendiciones a todos los cinéfilos de corazón desde Venezuela.
Saw this at The Odeon Cinema, East Ham with my Dad in 1959, at the end, the audience stood up and applauded, they were the days that everyone stood for the national anthem after the film.
More people would stand today if we were still a champion of what is right and not a bully that demands you do as I say or else. Hey, let's turn NATO into a protection racket. People have caught on, at home and internationally, thanks to the information age. That genii will never go back in the bottle.
@@flashgordon6670 Because that's what decent, clean-living, self-disciplined, patriotic British used to do. We used to do this at school too, and we had to stand up whenever a teacher entered the room.
This film and all those actors who portrayed such heroism of that time leaves me speechless. They fought for everyone's freedom. They fought hoping they would get home again but knowing, in the heat of those battles, they probably wouldn't. Thank you for sharing this outstanding film.
A great old-school British war film. The military procedure is reasonably authentic for a feature film too (many of the audience and actors had probably actually served in WW2). They keep having to re-net the radio set regularly, they use bayonets at night instead of opening fire in the darkness and their fighting positions are well sited on the reverse of that slope. Nice to see a Bren No.1 and No. 2 working together and the Cromwells make a decent show of play-acting as Tigers too. 🙂
I agree with the other comments about colorized movies. Aside from the overtones,all films shot in black and white were composed cinematographically in black and white and are best viewed as such.
This was a surprisingly good movie. The colourization was a bit hit and miss but not enough to spoil things. I particularly liked the absence of rousing music during the battle scenes. This is a something I find irritating in many movies. Overall better than I expected from a flic with the title Steel Bayonet. 7/10
This film was probably loosely based on actual events that occurred in WW2 that involved a detachment of the 155th Battery Royal Artillery, & infantrymen of the 5th Royal Hampshire Regiment at Sidi Nisr, Tunisia on the 25th & 26th February, 1943.
I hope that it wasn't. If so, the general and the colonel were terrible tacticians. The town, and especially the tower, would have been pre-planned artillery targets with absolutely no need for the Germans to send in tanks nor ground troops. That open field around the abandoned building was surrounded by woods. A Forward Observer and a security team would have sufficed. On the other hand, the acting was done by pros.
@@GeneRoberts1961 : Well, obviously a lot of what’s in the film has been interpreted with very generous dollops of artistic license, it would seem & consistent with other British films of the postwar action or war genre!! I am also quite sure too, that the disused water tower (Observation Post) as depicted in this film, within the defended “farm buildings,” would have been the first of the tactical targets on the German’s list, of either their Krups’-88s artillery units, or as well as MG 34 machine gun teams firing high-arced fusillades at or around the tower & its base! Otherwise, either Wehrmacht infantry, mortar teams would have surely previously zeroed into the structure & destroyed it with a few well-aimed rounds already! However, these such superfluous things notwithstanding, for a 1957 Shepperton or Boreham Woods studios’ film &/or their ilk, it wasn’t a bad film & both Leo Genn & Michael Medway played their parts in it well! Interestingly, as well as being a leading actor for the stage & the ‘big screen,’ Leo Genn was also a qualified & practicing lawyer before the war in London, prior to him then subsequently turning to an acting career, & who had actively taken part in, during his war service, even notably attaining the rank of Lt. Col. in the Royal Artillery by 1943! Before being temporarily seconded to participate in the part/role of “Constable of France,” in Laurence Olivier’s epic wartime film adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Henry V.” He served before at home & later in both in the Army’s NW European Campaign (1944-45) being awarded the French ‘Croix de Guerre” & afterwards also participated in the the British Army’s legal trials & prosecutions of Nazi War Criminals from the ‘Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp’ & elsewhere at their tribunals held at Lueneberg in Lower Saxony from 1945-49, as a prosecution lawyer & court adviser then too!
The real production year of the movie was 1957 and NOT 1959 - In 1958, United Artists released this movie in the U.S. on a double bill with Fort Massacre (1958).
Is it possible to find this in the original black and white? Dunno, but going to take a look before I jump in! Anyways, the video quality surely has to be better than this if there is one or two out there.
JUST A SMALL, NIT-PICKING & ‘NERDIE’ POINT FOR FILM/MILITARY HISTORY AUTHENTICITY BUFFS! 🤣🤪 Particularly, as their long, 17” blade (1907 pattern) bayonets (And British Army Rifles too, I think?? However, I couldn’t see them long enough to make a clear enough & positive identification of their operative features on them to properly distinguish?!!) that they were using here in this film were obsolete by then & already the infantry were mainly operating the then superseded version of Lee Enfield, SMLE, .303 calibre, Mk III Rifle that had been previously deployed universally by the British Army from WW1 till the mid-to-late 1930s, & hence by this time (1943) they would have all almost certainly been replaced (Those Rifles not then left behind & lost on the beaches at Dunkirk in 1940, that is?!!) since 1941, by the subsequent model of the “Lee Enfield, SMLE, .303 calibre, No. 4 Mk I version Rifle” & its specialized, stiletto-type “pig-sticker” bayonet?!!
Wish they wouldn't have bothered with the colorization. Too much red in the sunlight. The German greys were pink, and the top of the helmets and hats were red.
The same happened in the Desert Fox with James Mason. But it makes it feel like, it was actually filmed during the war, so adds to the realism in a way. Perhaps they could remaster it, but it all costs time and money, so you should be grateful for what you’ve got.
Was all going so well till the German tanks appeared! Must have been a sale on british Cromwell's at the tank store. Probably the most recognizable tank on any battlefield with it's riveted turret. The major, Leo Genn, barrister turned actor was a Lt Col. in WW2 and should have pointed out this lack of continuity to the director. Apart from that a damn good movie but leave out the colour it's a waste of time.
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Una agradable sorpresa toparse con estos clásicos del género bélico con tan buenos actores que ahora son de culto. Simplemente genial la trama ahí expuesta.
Saludos y bendiciones a todos los cinéfilos de corazón desde Venezuela.
I remember watching this movie late on BBC2 in the late 70s, pre colorized low budget realism.
Saw this at The Odeon Cinema, East Ham with my Dad in 1959, at the end, the audience stood up and applauded, they were the days that everyone stood for the national anthem after the film.
More people would stand today if we were still a champion of what is right and not a bully that demands you do as I say or else. Hey, let's turn NATO into a protection racket. People have caught on, at home and internationally, thanks to the information age. That genii will never go back in the bottle.
Why?
@@flashgordon6670To show respect.
@@flashgordon6670 Because that's what decent, clean-living, self-disciplined, patriotic British used to do. We used to do this at school too, and we had to stand up whenever a teacher entered the room.
This film and all those actors who portrayed such heroism of that time leaves me speechless. They fought for everyone's freedom. They fought hoping they would get home again but knowing, in the heat of those battles, they probably wouldn't.
Thank you for sharing this outstanding film.
Saw it in the Regal cinema in Enniskillen after school in St. Michael's College. One of the most beautiful cinemas in Northern Ireland.
A great old-school British war film. The military procedure is reasonably authentic for a feature film too (many of the audience and actors had probably actually served in WW2). They keep having to re-net the radio set regularly, they use bayonets at night instead of opening fire in the darkness and their fighting positions are well sited on the reverse of that slope. Nice to see a Bren No.1 and No. 2 working together and the Cromwells make a decent show of play-acting as Tigers too. 🙂
Lots of great british character actors. And cromwells. Thanks for posting. Just missed it on talking pictures.
I agree with the other comments about colorized movies. Aside from the overtones,all films shot in black and white were composed cinematographically in black and white and are best viewed as such.
A damn good movie. Good dialogue, story line and realistic action.
Excellent film. Thank you.
At 74 years never saw this Movie before; quite extraordinary. If Italian Soldiers were in this play, would of been even better.
I am at 57 now....😊
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Why?
@@wilsonpickett3881he means have.....
This was a surprisingly good movie. The colourization was a bit hit and miss but not enough to spoil things. I particularly liked the absence of rousing music during the battle scenes. This is a something I find irritating in many movies. Overall better than I expected from a flic with the title Steel Bayonet. 7/10
Seen this before as a ex reservist ,myself .it must be the best fiilms ive seen yet.👍
These old movies where the main characters all look old enough to be part of Dad's Army.
Great film. Never saw it before 👍
Thanks for this invaluable movie happy new year dear uploader.😊
This film was probably loosely based on actual events that occurred in WW2 that involved a detachment of the 155th Battery Royal Artillery, & infantrymen of the 5th Royal Hampshire Regiment at Sidi Nisr, Tunisia on the 25th & 26th February, 1943.
I hope that it wasn't. If so, the general and the colonel were terrible tacticians. The town, and especially the tower, would have been pre-planned artillery targets with absolutely no need for the Germans to send in tanks nor ground troops. That open field around the abandoned building was surrounded by woods. A Forward Observer and a security team would have sufficed. On the other hand, the acting was done by pros.
@@GeneRoberts1961 : Well, obviously a lot of what’s in the film has been interpreted with very generous dollops of artistic license, it would seem & consistent with other British films of the postwar action or war genre!!
I am also quite sure too, that the disused water tower (Observation Post) as depicted in this film, within the defended “farm buildings,” would have been the first of the tactical targets on the German’s list, of either their Krups’-88s artillery units, or as well as MG 34 machine gun teams firing high-arced fusillades at or around the tower & its base! Otherwise, either Wehrmacht infantry, mortar teams would have surely previously zeroed into the structure & destroyed it with a few well-aimed rounds already!
However, these such superfluous things notwithstanding, for a 1957 Shepperton or Boreham Woods studios’ film &/or their ilk, it wasn’t a bad film & both Leo Genn & Michael Medway played their parts in it well!
Interestingly, as well as being a leading actor for the stage & the ‘big screen,’ Leo Genn was also a qualified & practicing lawyer before the war in London, prior to him then subsequently turning to an acting career, & who had actively taken part in, during his war service, even notably attaining the rank of Lt. Col. in the Royal Artillery by 1943! Before being temporarily seconded to participate in the part/role of “Constable of France,” in Laurence Olivier’s epic wartime film adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Henry V.” He served before at home & later in both in the Army’s NW European Campaign (1944-45) being awarded the French ‘Croix de Guerre” & afterwards also participated in the the British Army’s legal trials & prosecutions of Nazi War Criminals from the ‘Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp’ & elsewhere at their tribunals held at Lueneberg in Lower Saxony from 1945-49, as a prosecution lawyer & court adviser then too!
Outstanding!
very good. thanks.
I always enjoy a Leo Genn movie. He was a barrister turned actor. In WW2, he served in the Royal Artillery. Rose to be a Lt Col.
Great movie never saw this one
These soldiers don’t have the thousand mile look in their eyes or the facial expressions of having spent extended time in battle.
"Roger that, over"!!
:)
Are they actors?
The Bombardment at the beginning bring us to real Hell. 🕊🕊🕊
Que maravilha! Parabéns por postar.
It was a hammer films production made film afterwards Frankenstein and Dracula and even after or before yesterday enemy 1959
EXCELLENT
The real production year of the movie was 1957 and NOT 1959 - In 1958, United Artists released this movie in the U.S. on a double bill with Fort Massacre (1958).
Very. Good. Good. Classic. War. Movie. 🎉🎉🎉 💣 👌
We will see
Is it possible to find this in the original black and white? Dunno, but going to take a look before I jump in! Anyways, the video quality surely has to be better than this if there is one or two out there.
Exci8ting film i am glad i was not there
A decent flick. The moral of the story? war is immoral. Tku for post.
The steel bayonet. Bit of a weird title I mean what else are they made of.
JUST A SMALL, NIT-PICKING & ‘NERDIE’ POINT FOR FILM/MILITARY HISTORY AUTHENTICITY BUFFS! 🤣🤪
Particularly, as their long, 17” blade (1907 pattern) bayonets (And British Army Rifles too, I think?? However, I couldn’t see them long enough to make a clear enough & positive identification of their operative features on them to properly distinguish?!!) that they were using here in this film were obsolete by then & already the infantry were mainly operating the then superseded version of Lee Enfield, SMLE, .303 calibre, Mk III Rifle that had been previously deployed universally by the British Army from WW1 till the mid-to-late 1930s, & hence by this time (1943) they would have all almost certainly been replaced (Those Rifles not then left behind & lost on the beaches at Dunkirk in 1940, that is?!!) since 1941, by the subsequent model of the “Lee Enfield, SMLE, .303 calibre, No. 4 Mk I version Rifle” & its specialized, stiletto-type “pig-sticker” bayonet?!!
talking so loudly while on guard duty.
Wish they wouldn't have bothered with the colorization. Too much red in the sunlight. The German greys were pink, and the top of the helmets and hats were red.
When I trained they gave us Rubber ones,.. they didn't want us to kill each other, probably a good idea... do you think...?
The same happened in the Desert Fox with James Mason. But it makes it feel like, it was actually filmed during the war, so adds to the realism in a way.
Perhaps they could remaster it, but it all costs time and money, so you should be grateful for what you’ve got.
Was all going so well till the German tanks appeared! Must have been a sale on british Cromwell's at the tank store. Probably the most recognizable tank on any battlefield with it's riveted turret. The major, Leo Genn, barrister turned actor was a Lt Col. in WW2 and should have pointed out this lack of continuity to the director. Apart from that a damn good movie but leave out the colour it's a waste of time.
a steel bayonet ? as opposed to.... ?
Didn’t they use to make them out of iron?
@@darthck5066 possibly.
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ALL I REMEMBER FROM HIGH SCHOOL GEOMETRY WAS IT WAS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT PIE ARE SQUARE
which is ridiculous because,everyone knows that pIes ARE ROUND
All those mines, not one tan
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I watched this movie until he kicked his canteen over. Who doesn't cap his canteen? Stupidly contrived.
Silly title. What bayonets weren't made of steel ?
Practice ones...... DUH!
Should have left in black and white. The colour of uniforms is all wrong.
It was better in black and white. Colour fades and changes add nothing.
Look what exists there now. An American outpost. All that desprate clawing and bloodshed. Some good acting and storylines though
Plz, Mr. A.L., no colorized movies!
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Lol 😂😂😂😅
I know ww11
They sure did a bad job with their colorizing process.
Quatsch 😂
Ridiculus
Why translate you can't spell in English. It's Ridiculous... not Ridiculus.....
This movie sucked