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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ม.ค. 2022
- WW2 Desert War action film. Leo Genn, Kieron Moore, Robert Brown and Michael Medwin. A British army infantry squad in the desert is assigned to an OP (Observation Post) for artillery. Facing being overwhelmed, they fight doggedly to keep it at bay from the German Army. (Sadly a bit out of audio sync. If anyone has any ideas on how to rectify, I'd be grateful for future uploads!).
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1950's British war films are bloody brilliant!!
This movie needs a restored version.
When people making war movies had actually fought in wars.
Leo Genn and Kieron Moore are steady as ever. Good movie.
my dad was there in tunisa fighting with these boys,said they fought like ten tigers,then he went to sicily and the to italy,hell he was everywhere according to his muster out papers,at the age of 19,god bless our allies and there sacrifices,i watch these movies to see the conflicts my dad went through in his youth,live and learn
I just finished re-reading an old book I have about the Battleaxe Division- 78th Infantry Division. It was raised as an assault division for the Tunisian campaign. Fine performance by county regiments. It had a heavy component of Irish regiments later on. It suffered heavily in the Tunisian and Italian campaigns but performed very well.
@@rashidahmad7830 that damn hitler brought out the best in most of the men of this earth,called upon,they answered the call from all over the world,makes me proud to be a man,my god i hope we will not have to do this again,my dad said we wouldn't have to fight another world war,said ww2 was bloody enough for any country to learn from,germany was nuts
Mustered out at the age of 19, I can only imagine the crap this man went through before most guys graduate from high school . Kudos to your Father and men like him . True Hero's .
Do you know why he was allowed out of the army? Sick? Or disability?
From what I've read, the 8th Army went through the desert, invasion of Sicily, invasion of Italy, and were brought home specially for the Normandy invasion as Monty wanted battle-hardened veterans there! They then fought through to Berlin.
This was their big gripe: they'd seen their share of battle, when some units sat in England in defence. (The irony is they performed badly in Normandy.)
But I wasn't aware that they let able-bodied men return to civvy street with a war still to be won? The casualties from the battles in Normandy depleted British manpower and there was no fresh reserves anywhere. It did concern the war leaders.
I'm not disparaging of the 8th Army, far from it, I'm repeating from Max Hastings book on D-Day. I would be "less than enthusiastic" about facing machine guns in NW Europe if I'd fought thru the desert and the Mediterranean area, etc.
@@TeddyBear-ii4yc no no, he did the whole tour,went in at 18 and they used him all over the place,i have in my possession his mustering out papers he was in 12 engagements,all i have is fragments of his history,as he would not talk about his time there unless it was funny and his exploits on leaves in towns that weren't even on maps,dad felt like the other men i'd talked to,in the 60's and 70's,he joined and they gave him any assignment he wanted,damn war,he was a stern man,and a damn good father,i miss him,god bless all of you who had a dad half as good as mine,the war changed men forever,i saw it,many times he did said he should have died with his friends,god says different
Wow, I’m stunned, what a good and unsentimentally violent film. I’d contribute to having this restored. A new favourite.
This film is very worthy of full restoration. Better than many already redone. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for the comment, it IS a very underrated film!
suprisingly good..gritty story.. worth watching
Thanks, Gene!
Now THAT’S a war movie !
Watched this when I was a boy. Great movie. Based on the Tunisian campaign. Total legends! 👍🙏💙
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you 😊
The story was good enough to keep me interested, even with the poor audio and visual presentation. I still managed to enjoy the movie. Thanks for posting it.
You're welcome... I couldn't see how, the transfer suffered, I suspect even though a poor video/DVD quality, but I'd anyone has any ideas, as I've already stated, to rectify it, if be grateful. Thanks for watching!!!!
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It's not only a good movie I watch, but also a part of my good old school days and youth.
A Big Thank You !
@@Charlesputnam-bn9zy You're welcome, Charles!
I remember watching this on either a NY or Philly tv station on a Saturday afternoon in the early 70's
Those Thompsons never run out of ammunition.
They never do in movies :D ...Different story in real life. All I can say is keep it on semi as much as one can. A 20 rd. mag is gone by the time someone gets to the end of counting to 2-mississippi...lol
Great movie!
I remember seeing it on TV when i was a kid.
There was another great but almost forgotten one of the past.
Thanks Middlesex. Great film. Had seen it before many moons ago.
You're welcome, Michael, glad you enjoyed it!
Great movie , very underrated.
Robert Brown was in t vs Ivanhoe with Sir Roger Moore.They became good pals and of course worked together in the Bond movies.
Your newest subscriber-for-life thanks you for your channel.
What a great movie! I didn't even notice the audio was out of sync after a while.
I've been looking to view this film for years. It's an early Hammer film that's almost impossible to find in the USA. Thanks for the upload!
You're welcome, pal. I apologise, I can't get to the bottom why, on transfer, it was out of sync.
@@psmiddx2096 The sync problem is usually caused by a video file going through format changes. Looks like it was converted from VHS to a video file, and then probably converted again on upload.
@@Justin_Kipper it was on CD ,,, anyway, smoke a kipper, I'll be be back for breakfast as the Brits say: th-cam.com/video/GeuYZEtgTHQ/w-d-xo.html (VHS , the CD, then you youtube, things move on, that's progress)
Percy Herbert served in WW2. He was captured in Singapore in 1942. His experiences as a POW enabled him to advise the Director in the filming of Bridge over the River Kwai.
Maybe my favorite film ever. Phenomenal
You know it's based on a book by a French author
On not over.
Was Percy Herbert at Singapore? and thus a prisoner of the Japanese?
He's like that other archetypal British squaddie, Victor Maddern. :-)
@@TeddyBear-ii4yc yes. He was in the 18th Infantry Division. They arrived just in time to go into the bag, as POWs. He suffered 3.5 years as a POW of the Japanese. His experience allowed him to advise the film director of the Bridge on the River Kwai.
If my great grandad. We're alive he would be saying. "Are we there yet?"
Excellent movie. Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome, thanks and glad you enjoyed it!!
Estupenda película clásica del género bélico de principio a fin. Simplemente genial en todos los sentidos y con algunos hechos muy interesantes sobre lo que debe hacer un líder de combate en pleno terreno de acción.
Saludos y bendiciones a todos los cinéfilos de corazón desde Venezuela.
Eh friend, you realise that if there was something in Venezuela that the Britsh Government wanted, it would be these men on your street corners manning road blocks. ;-)
P. S. And dancing & drinking with your women! :-)
merci pour ce film devenu introuvable et jamais diffusé
You're welcome, Jean-Claude, glad you enjoyed it!!!
Another film with great cameo actor Percy Herbert. I think he died in nearly all the war films he acted in, Guns at Batassi aside.
A British soldier in World War II, he was captured by the Japanese army and interned in a POW camp for 4 years. He once spent six months in the cooler for stealing a tin of corned beef.
It was his idea that the marching POWs whistle "The Colonel Bogey March" in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).
Because he had first-hand experience of Japanese POW camps, he was paid an extra £5.00 per week by David Lean to act as a consultant on The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).
Thank you, guys. If you Check out Percy Herbert in "Too late the Hero", he goes more-or-less in the same way. Left behind with ciggies and some ammo etc., and ... spoiler, lol.
@@psmiddx2096 And Sea of Sand!
@@keithharvey7230
Behind a Vickers heavy mg,
with a wireless churning out Lili Marlene.
@@Charlesputnam-bn9zy One of the greatest scenes in British films about the war, and a very under-rated movie.
Despite the audio/visual flaws, a good film.
Thank you ;o)
The steel bayonet good movies
Very much like sea of sand 1958
Long range desert group!
Yes, indeed, David, another well-scripted action desert war film. Only in recent years has that, at least here in the UK re-surfaced a lot, and, on TH-cam, thankfully! Very underrated, like The Steel Bayonet.
Brilliant, thanks Ps....I see you found it! :-)
Thanks, Charles, uploaded a copy, but for some reason, a bit out of sync. Respect, pal!
And so glad to watch it again !
Just a little personal story :
That was in 1960.
I tricked my parents by hiding
my weekly school report (abysmal)
so that I could go see this movie on Sunday.
& then, when came the time to produce it the following week ...
Man, did I pay !
But it was worth it !
As to the quality, for such a rare gem,
I have seen worse of more recent productions !
Thank you !
If you like war movies, it's worth watching!
interesting on British kit - jumpers, leather jacket, what looks like BD tunics with tropic trousers
I knew Robert Brown really well when I was a kid.
Really interesting, mwbright. Another underrated British character actor.
@@psmiddx2096 I thought he was a Brit at first too, but he was an American, born and raised.
@@mwbright The Robert Brown in this movie was a Brit. The American Robert Brown was the one in Primus and Here Come the Brides.
@@eze417 I never heard him speak in anything but a British accent. That and the way he looked made him appear to be from that part of the world. So either he was raised in the UK, or it was a complete affectation. He never broke character. Anyway, I was more friends with his wife Bunny Sellers. He also had a daughter from a previous marriage who I went to school with. I remember everything about her but her name.
@@mwbright According to IMDb he was born in Dorset. There was also an American actor named Robert Brown, but he is not the one in this movie.
How you supposed to fight the war without a cuppa tea
Interesting ww2 british war movie. Rarely done from the prospect of junior officers and enlisted
Prospect? ...... Perspective, maybe.
Good movie, the sync is not that bad.
A good old war movie! Lots of action! I think the "audio" was simply the British accents.
thank you
Leo genn I think was a Lt Col in the war
War is hell..
1:08:14 ->
The Cromwell also played German tanks in
"The Black Tent" with Anthony Steele.
such a beautiful farm ruined so badly by wild sporadic fighting
The movie is based on a real story. The fighting at the farm was in the last days of the Tunisian campaign.
Interesting detail reported by obersturmbannfuehrer
Paul Carell in his 1953 book ''Afrika Korps'' :
the farm was reputed haunted.
I was expecting to see Harry Andrews at some point
Sir Michael Caine is in this as a German soldier.
One would think there would be an umbrella for the poor bloke in the tower and a good supply of drinking water up there.
Thanks for the upload, a good and interesting film. A 1957 brand movie should have much better visual, i couldn't find another version of it on internet.
The Steel Bayonet, as opposed to Wooden Bayonet,
By Jove, I Believe You've Got It Old Chap!
It's the name of the film, after all, for someone to find it. Keep up!
@ 01:09:02
There's countless men whose last view of this world was looking out of their trench at the blue sky straight above them.
An OP, is an Operation, an O.P. is an Observation Post.
Thanks for that, Peter!
Good film from Hammer with Leo Genn ably assisted by Michael Medwin and a host of familiar b pic faces like Kieron Moore, Percy Herbert, Arthur Lovegrove and Michael Ripper and I thought Michael Carreras did a good job too.
classic
And all filmed on Salisbury Plain and NOT Tunisia!
…..but where did they find the mosquitoes ? 😈
They held the farm...and then they bought the farm. They never do show the land mines do any good.
Добар филм,заслужује римејк
Always advance through the target.
to deal with russians we must have anti tank weapons and mines auto weapons and conventional force too we must not have casualties
1:08:05
The tanks are British Cromwells.
But Well Done !
The tanks had been captured earlier from the British.
@@gerry343 Cromwells saw action the 1st time
in 1944 Normandy. In Tunisia there were Churchills sent for evaluation, after their misuse at Dieppe where fist size pebbles jammed their tracks.
In this movie,
the Cromwells just played normal German tanks.
What the hell do you expect, Mark 3s?
Lol, yes indeed, I often get tripped up on The Valentine, Comet and Crusader etc!
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48:38...Moore out cold.
REspect
pity it's out of sync
Yes, wish I could have done something about that, sorry if it stifled your entertainment, David.
Traduz em português.
German Cromwell tanks PZKW VIII.
Ha, ha... indeed, very much, usually the way.
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The typist needs more education on the English language. urr ship pulled into Tunis in 1988. A dusty waste land where donkeys pull 1/2 cars. A car pulled up and arrested us for having a camera. I started yelling about the American Embassey. Finally our camera was given back but the film exposed. Nice people, right!
Por quality image, and is 1957 ☝🤭
Sorry about that, as referenced in my intro for it, couldn't understand how to rectify it.
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Great movie.
Courage in the face of certain death.
The Brits had the last laugh.
So it will be with the brave men and women fighters of the Ukraine.
Putin would have stayed home if 45 was still on office.
Weakness begets disrespect and Russia completely disrespects the weak and feeble Joe Biden, the former Senator and current occupier of the White House.
Brilliant analysis by 45 calling Putin's attack on innocent civilians a "genius" move wasn't it??
So happy that oompa loompa is Gone! That's why we came out by the millions to make sure that crooked narcissist was a one term president!
Trump is a liar without shame or embarrassment.
@@johnmartinrogers2352 He suffers from MALIGNANT narcissistic personality disorder...it's sad
@@jamesbuttery3862 This is Biden's Wag the Dog war, sorry you don't like the truth.
The cough was a lie the vax was a lie, masks a lie and now you believe them for this. Zalinsky is a pawn, and letting his country be a pawn. Why do think governments care about their citizens.
@@brettlehman1114 You forgot to add the election to your list. If you believe one of these myths you have to buy into them all.
Why are all new British officers utterly useless.
They had two whole nights to dig in with over head cover and proper firing positions and did nothing. They should have been outside the buildings except for the man in the tower.
What a crap movie.
Each unto their own, pal. I'm sure plenty of the movies YOU watch, are crappier.
Never seen so many Germans get killed in any war movie . They would not have attacked in that way . They were experts at combined arms and would not had much trouble with that outpost .
Sorry but unwatchable
Yes, sorry, Mike. This is taken from a DVD copy. I'm unsure why, on copying, it was out of sync. A poor quality copy, I imagine that doesn't withstand transfer. Sorry it didn't entertain you, on that basis.