Oliver Reed Working with Iraq (1980) | The Last Great Movie Star | Movie With Saddam Hussein
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In 1980, infamous dictator Saddam Hussein financed a huge Hollywood budget movie. Being the most unlikely movie-buff, Saddam funded a production so ambitious it attracted some of the western world’s greatest film stars of the time. But who would be ballsy enough to shoot a film in a country on the brink of all-out war?
Oliver Reed, the last of the real movie stars. A truly one of a kind man’s man. Champion of the common folk, who’s personality overwhelmed everything in his path, yet not so far removed in the world of Hollywood that he wouldn’t go to the local dive bar and arm wrestle sailors on occasion. Good or bad he did exactly what he wanted whenever he wanted, no agents or producers could tell him what to do or wanted to get on his bad side for that matter. From peeing in peoples wine bottles and hanging off a balcony by his neck, to simply being one of Hollywood’s most famous drinkers, this man left legendary tales wherever he went.
Although his daily extravaganzas pushed the limits of drunken lunacy and debauchery none of this stopped him from being on set at 8am, clean and sober, to bring his unmatched charm and wit to the big screen. Oliver Reed lived on both sides of the spectrum, a charming gentleman who could show great compassion and make anyone laugh, and a mean and crazy drunk who always brought the life to a party and feared absolutely nothing or no one.
This Is Oliver Reed's stories from when he was trapped in Iraq at the start of the Iraq Iran war, bored with nothing to do…
#OliverReed #LateGreats #SaddamHussein
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Oliver never conformed. Lived life exactly how he wanted.
We only come around this way once. Oliver Reed lived his life how he wanted. Ultimately, Oliver was an enormously successful actor a brilliant actor.
" I died in a pub, full of laughter." O.R.
My brother-in-law used to play cricket against Reed's sunday team near Dorking (where Reed lived - Broome Hall ) Let's just say the games were lively !
He must have told you many stories .
Do you recall any that you could relay here ?
Thanks for uploading. I love Ollie.
Please, more of this fine gentleman, I’m a true Englishman with a family and can’t get enough of Ollie. We went on holiday to Malta Valletta,,and of course I had to pop in to the pub. My wife was asking why we had to go there all the time , I said it’s because the finest English actor went through heaven’s gate from this very room. So if your looking at this ollies family, please dig out more footage of the great legend. Cheers.
he sounded like an ass
He was certainly a very unique human being! Whatever he did was his personal choice just to put his mind at ease in the chaotic world, which he was living and fighting for his survival! They say " Laughter is the best medicine" but in the end their own medication becomes a deadly poison for themselves! Of all the work he has done for the silver screen! His presence, his personality and his beautiful eyes! Will always remind us that he was the one and the only one! Olivier Reed! A fan and an admirer from Pakistan!
Brilliant video, fitting that a Stella Atrois advert played for me after it. Gotta love Ollie!
Very interesting I live in America and you know I just realized I haven't seen a Stella Artois commercial in a long time now .
As much as Reed comes across as kind of endearing I can imagine he was fucking painful to be around.
Yep. Someone would always have to clean up the mess.
He was an authentic original, a highly intelligent Bon Vivant, not at all a Librarian.
great video
Hannibal Brooks, is how I remember Ollie. A hero to the working class & a very clever man. RIP & thank you Ollie!
"lads, back to my room for a swaray" lol
lol
Suaret
🤣🤣
It's soiree, you heathens
@@benwalsh1362 Thank you.
17 years old! And her Mum comes along with a cake!!
Yeah that’s weird
@@gromitpesley Another British ex-hero that turns out to have been at the least a sexual control freak and at the worst an abuser of innocents. I had a total celebrity crush on the man until i saw this, totally out of order. His young wife has done interviews since and explains the experience from her point of view, which was obviously completely inexperienced. He was an interesting man who succumbed to debauchery in the end, alcohol, exaggerating the negative in us all.
@@GaryMcKinnonUFO his young wife seemed to speak well of him
@@MrEricharper She did, i was surprised.
@@GaryMcKinnonUFO It is a shame, watching his drunk antics doesn’t me laugh as much now because of it.
I remember reading about you in the paper when i was 7! Small world. 🌍
what a unique person, lived how he wanted
You honestly think a once big movie star wanted to make B-movies in Iraq ? This is sad - a former A-list celebrity desperately trying to make some money for himself.
@@johnt7630 p¡$$ 0ff
I'll say it again.. beautiful eyes ..
Is this the full length episode? Seems rather short
This from Wikipedia:
Reed died from a heart attack during a break from filming Gladiator in Valletta, Malta, on the afternoon of 2 May 1999.[50] He had downed eight pints of lager, a dozen double rums and half a bottle of whiskey,[51] in a drinking match against a group of sailors on shore leave from the H.M.S. Cumberland at a local pub, when he suddenly collapsed, dying enroute to a hospital in an ambulance.[52] He was 61 years old
I reckon he thought it was a glorious way to go, Power to Ollie
He'd been arm wrestling them as well apparently and winning!
While I respect the man's lust for life, that decision was utter stupidity. You can have a passion for life and live with a fiery zest for it as well as not conform to those around you but..... doing things that obviously have serious life altering consequences none for the better, is just just plain foolish.
@@fitzgeraldanthony9333 Yes, I think people tend to romanticize his louche life, but I imagine he had a fair amount of self hatred to contend with.
The man the myth the legend, Oliver Reed. One of Britain's finest sons. Preferred the company of the working class to that of his fellow actors. Refused to leave for life abroad when every other A list celeb had already flown the coup due to the extortionate tax rates. Sadly missed, and the world is much more a dull place without him.
Guys like him are the only people who figure out what life is. A brief spark of existence just be what the heck you wana be and who gives a hoot!
Thank you sir, I do. LIFE ....BE IN IT.
There is something about him and his mannerisms that reminds me of Phoenix's Joker.
Oliver: "Well you see, I am the alcohol"
A wonderful movie !!!!! I love Oliver Reed !!!!!
"Oliver Reed and boredom is not a good mix." 😆
Ollie, proper brit lad abroad, true legend :)
Also a very fine actor, just proves you can drink a lot yet still be professional at your craft.
Unfortunately it shortens the amount of time you can be professional at your craft.
@@tonimarx6405 life's too short anyway, Mr grumpy :)
If he wanted to have a good time and enjoy himself with drinks and mates, fair play
@@tonimarx6405 Anthony Hopkins got away with it, he managed to stop before it was too late.
@@onlyme219 Alcoholic babble.
@@tonimarx6405 Still a fine actor
Is Hugo Speer narrating this?
Only 5 years before this, Oliver Reed had been a big star. How the mighty fall ! Resorting to a B-movie with Saddam Hussein in Iraq ! Sure it was funny seeing him drink, but his reputation for drunkenness led to his movie career ending prematurely. No director would touch him. Shame because he was so talented.
Why do you think acting a movie in Iraq is a fall?
What a fuckin legend never a dull moment around Ollie 😂
A "fuckin legend" ? Resorting to making a B-movie in Iraq for Saddam Hussein ? Sad to see such a fine actor's career in decline here.
Yeah.
After Ollie, they broke the mould.
There was no mold ,god made Ollie free hand
He would make a great Joker.
Fucking class act.
More like that asshole that gets the cops called on you every time he's around.
About the same time OR played the villainous Italian general in LION OF THE DESERT, filmed in Qadaffi's Libya.
would sooner drink with a drunk than a tea total-er
yes my sister used to serve them both in the Red lion Ockley
En gladiador 2000 se comio el papel de proximo lastima que fallecio antes del estreno jamas la pudo ver 🥲
Iraq✌🏻🇮🇶
Wow! I had no idea he was dating a 17 year old at his age! That shit would not fly at all nowadays.
Not worked well for Phillip Schoefield😂
Great man
@Pauline Roff, not really - sad to see a once fine actor, making a B-movie in the Middle-East to earn a bit of money, because no-one else would hire him.
?what was the name of the iraq movie?
Clash of Loyalties
That was a big cake don't you thing.
By the pool he seemed to of lost a lot of weight.
Shadows & Dust
Wish He was an Australian... My drinking hero...
I thought Iraq was a very dangerous place at this time under Saddam Hussein? I can't see alcohol and movies being filmed now.
this was just at the start of when everything was kicking off, they got kept in the safer areas but there was still thousands of Iraqis dying at the time
@@alfiekelly3563
No it wasn't stop trying to feed your western narrative to justify you b.s war. Oh and "safe areas"? this was filmed in Baghdad.
Iraq in 82.
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@@DennisTheMenace-1999 Oh how do you mean? I'm no expert and definitely don't support the war, just going off info from the full documentary n trying to be helpful. Would like to here what your thoughts on it are tho
@@alfiekelly3563 - Iraq wasn't as bad as our Western overlords told us it was, just like Syria wasn't that bad 5-10 years ago but that didn't stop them from destroying and destabalising that nation either.
They're not protecting the people of those lands, they are disrupting and destabalising these nations as a whole and then constructing a regime/government there in which they are happy with and can control, not one that the people there are happy with. It's pure evil.
In 1980 it was only dangerous if you spoke out, Saddam had improved living standards substantially and the filming crew were his guests.
Also you may be confusing Saddam with the more religious extremists, alcohol was permitted under Ba’ath party rule
So his girlfriend was 17 at the time and her mother even baked a cake to celebrate this relationship?
Have you ever eaten a dundee cake? Lol
why not ...
Why does he remind me of Eddie Izzard?
Fucking thaaaankyou I was trying to place who a particular smile of his reminded me of for hours! Scrolled to this and I can sleep now!
his 17-year old girlfriend kind of looks like sansa stark
..before Europe became the Third world . . . .!
Let's applaud alcoholism.
Better that than feminism
Let's applaud free will
better than africans 'smoking weed' as per todays vile 'culture' . . . . . . .
Functional alcoholic
I wouldn't say functional
"with" Saddam. Well, not. Kindly be correct. Though, clearly a decision by Reed made after the apparent attacks on innocent people. Sure, Lion of the dessert might seem problematic, but this is morally worse. The film itself is slow and mediocre - despite Reed.
Just hearing about what he got up to makes me embarrassed for him and vomitty
Stay safe and try not offend anyone.
He can’t be that great since I’ve never hear of him
One of the greatest actors of all time and the greatest hell raiser to boot id do some research if i was you educate yourself
Your opinion can't be that important since I've never heard of you.
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@Cuntboy McCuntface hahahahahaha so good