Now here's a great bit of fun film trivia for you. The actor -- Derren Nesbitt -- who plays the cold-blooded black-uniformed uber-Nazi Gestapo officer Major Von Halpen first seen at 2:09, who Clint Eastwood eventually drills right between the eyes with a Luger pistol fitted with a silencer, is not only British in real life (he is still alive and 88 years old), but he's also actually Jewish. His full name is Derren Nesbitt Horwitz. I'm sure he had some fun jokes thrown his way at family gatherings after he made this movie.
And mr Eastwood is firing with Erma MP40 submachine gun in his both hands. The recoil must have been enormous!!! How much Clint Eastwood lifts weights in his young days? 500 lbs?
Spot on! For better or worse: 2.The top traitor part is somehow forced quality of putting too much complication into a short version of the drama, 1. Fighting on top of the gondola didn't add story to ths 12-min clip, 😓😂🕹
@@motionattached When the producers went looking for a McCLean novel for a WW2 film they found out that all of his WW2 books had options on them. So they approached McClean do write a totally new adventure as a screen play. McLean was well paid and also had the rights to write the novel from the screenplay. Yes it was well written. I have a magazine that is totally dedicated to the entire film production
@@garfieldsmith332 Thanks for sharing. I am just wondering if people like you who knows the entire film production still have good time to watch the movie, the screenplay must be great. 😂🕹🍿
In 1935, the German company Heinkel built and flew the world's first practical military helicopter. This machine, called the “Heinkel He 49,” was designed as a reconnaissance aircraft and could reach speeds of up to 100 kilometers per hour. The movie story was around 1943-44, It might be different look as the one in the movie though. 🍿🎉
@@motionattached What are you talking about? The Heinkel HE 49 is a plane. Not a hellicopter. The Germans had nothing which resembled even remotely the hellicopter you see in the movie. The one henlicopter they had was the Flettner, which looks nothing like the one in the movie... and was mostly experimental. The movie suggests officers were flying around in hellicopters... which is total nonesense. Even Hitler never set his foot on a hellicopter as these early contraptions were mostly unsafe and useless.
@@jujufactory As my mother would say: "It's a Mooooovie!" The Germans weren't speaking English either back then for the benefit of the invading commandos.
For me, the only real highlight of the film was the original Ju 52 . That was the real star, on loan from the Swiss Air Force, I believe. What a beautiful aircraft.
At the beginning, when Col. Wyatt Turner said "we get him before he talks", I wondered how could they control when he talks, and let it go. After all, movies are just some entertaining for some good time. 🍿🎉
@@commandingjudgedredd1841 Since 1936, the German aviation industry developed various helicopters. These helicopters were technically advanced, but because of the Allied air offensive, series production could no longer take place.
@@motionattached I think genuine German kit was rather hard to come by. Remember "Battle of the Bulge" with it's Patton tanks painted up to try and look like Tigers?
Yes... but not the Bell helicopter shown in the movie, the basic type of which wasn't in production until after WWII (the very end of 1946, I believe) -- think Korean War (remember the TV series and movie, "Mash"?). The Germans had a wire-frame-type twin rotor craft that flew some, not the circa-1953 version shown in the movie. The Americans had an early Sikorsky single-rotor craft that began flying rescue missions in the Pacific and Burma theaters in 1944 (albeit, in limited numbers and limited missions).
@@motionattached Nothing in this movie can be taken seriously. The whole movie is overwritten and the entire plot is completely contrived and beyond improbable, but it's still a great action movie.
@@johnc2438 A Luftwaffe helicopter actually landed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, but was a FW 61, obviously none were flying in the 60's but a Bell was used instead.
Strange that Richard Burton and Alistair McLean didn't like each other, yet they're buried a few feet from each other in the same cemetery in Switzerland.
Yes you’re right, but when people watch these movie and read these books they think it’s historically accurate - people are stupid they believe what you tell them. I know it’s just a story but you at least get the basics right. Can you imagine the bull$#!t movies Hollywood is going to make about the war in Ukraine!? Zelenskyy will be played by Chris Hemsworth with Anthony Hopkins as “Putin” 🇷🇺
A good war film but the wardrobe dept was really lazy. As a start Major von Hartmann should not be wearing his black dress uniform but a gray green service uniform. They also pinned all the medals they could think of on him ..German Cross in Gold, Close Comber Clasp in Gold, Iron Cross 1st Class etc...all to make him look "German" but all they succeeded in doing is making him look ridiculous.
What a waste of resources to try to rescue one guy. It's easier to change the plans so if he reveals the old plans to the Germans they do not gain from the information.
It was based on the screenplay and the novel by Alistair MacLean. The magic of movie is to make a novel drama look and feel like a true story, and you have a good time, and producers take good money. 😂🕹🍿🎉
Artistic licence by Alistair McClean in his book. Besides, the Germans had experimented with Autogyros, an early form of helicopter, also attaching a small one man variant to U boats
So that army general could fly over from Berlin to interrogate the captured allied general. If people are more suspicious abour the play, we could question how the british operational could be so sure to "get him out before he talk", then the whole entertaining wouldn't exist. 😂🕹😂
@@johnc2438 No you are wrong cupcake, the helicopter was barely an experiment towards the end of the war in 1944-1945, never used officially, stop the cap kid.
A 2-hour "full movie" might suit you better. Also You could provide specifics of some context missing which lead to deviation of the drama, and which is helping. 😂🕹
@@motionattached I tell you what is missing, the ending with the little not book and I know why you left it out. and of course, "Broadsword calling Danny boy."
That is scientific view, but not entertaining view. Every movie is based on fictional novel, not a documentary report, so as the life to certain degree. 😂🕹🎉🎉
One of the all time great war films
It was garbage, as Burton admitted.
I agree!
The into with the soft snare drum building up to the view of the plane , great stuff
Outstanding film. You won't see this ever remade.
It is very hard to beat that cast, 😂🕹
I can see someone doing a remake, with lots of explosions, lens flares, jump cuts, DEI cast and butchered story line.
Thank goodness for that. Hollywood would butcher the remake with a bunch of metro sexual , effeminate weasels and politically polite bull cookies
@@motionattached All of the actors were too old in this awful film.
@@MarkHarrison733 , that might be true,
Broadsword calling Danny Boy ........... a timeless classic they don't make movies like this any more.
1960s were a golden era for movies 😂🕹
@@motionattached This film was garbage, as Burton confirmed.
@@MarkHarrison733 Everyone could complain about the movie, but not Burton. 🧩
@@motionattached He looked 50.
Most commandos were in their 20s.
In twenty years someone will be saying the same thing about any number of war films...You are just on a nostalgia trip
Apparently Burton was tanked for most of the movie. Inside joke was the film should have been called "Where Doubles Dare".
😂😂🕹
Burton was tanked his entire life. His liver had a stunt double. 😅
Burton’s acting was excellent in this film.
@@pat5882 utterly show his leading role style, which almost left no room for Clint Eastwood to play his capacity. 😂🕹
The sloshed Adler
Ingrid Pitt AND Mary Ure?
Salut, casting director. You hit the jackpot here
😂🕹, the cast is the best.
Now here's a great bit of fun film trivia for you. The actor -- Derren Nesbitt -- who plays the cold-blooded black-uniformed uber-Nazi Gestapo officer Major Von Halpen first seen at 2:09, who Clint Eastwood eventually drills right between the eyes with a Luger pistol fitted with a silencer, is not only British in real life (he is still alive and 88 years old), but he's also actually Jewish. His full name is Derren Nesbitt Horwitz. I'm sure he had some fun jokes thrown his way at family gatherings after he made this movie.
thanks for sharing this interesting part. 😂😂
Dude looks more like a thunderbird than a German officer
@@marcuscelt7014 Audiences look for entertaining more than educational 😂🕹
@@marcuscelt7014 I'd say he looks like Joe 90.
He played the role well.
Love the scene where Burton informs the German officers that he is Himmler's brother when they try to admonish him for flirting with the bar maid.
That was quite entertaining, I took out the Himmler thing because it was quite reckless move per my second thought. 😂🕹
Causes like Himmler he had something similar!
If I do a whole night bender on gear, I can do a 100% Richard Burton in the morning - ‘Broadsword calling Danny boy’ 👍
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i cannot do a Richard Burton impression but I say that every time I see Richard Burton.
@@riff2072 😂
Isn't there a famous Irish song: "Oh Danny boy, the broad broadswords are calling"?
Great Movie. 😊
😂🕹
Yupp ..."Tough Times ...you need tough people ...to get you through tough times ...it's the stuff of tough 💪 my dad used to say, "Tough Titty" 😅
That was short for, "Tough titty", said the kitty, "but the milk's still good!"
The tram scenes are my childhood. Any Return to Castle Wolfenstein children here?
Yes
But cannot avoid watching it every time and great. Instrumental theme
Amazing how 2 men and a woman never once ran out of ammunition ..😅
They brought along a lot of spare mags. At least it showed them reloading.
10-15 32-rnd mags isn't that much to carry. I had 12 30-rnd mags for my HK94A3 in a ballistic nylon rifle case. And it wasn't that heavy.
And mr Eastwood is firing with Erma MP40 submachine gun in his both hands. The recoil must have been enormous!!!
How much Clint Eastwood lifts weights in his young days? 500 lbs?
Left out the 2 best parts. 1. Fight on top of the gondola. 2. Burton discovers the traitor and makes the traitor jump out of the plane.
Spot on! For better or worse: 2.The top traitor part is somehow forced quality of putting too much complication into a short version of the drama, 1. Fighting on top of the gondola didn't add story to ths 12-min clip, 😓😂🕹
The castle is actually real but never had a lift.
Sounds like an interesting invention for this movie, 😂🕹
I'm watching this and wondering why it's so hard to find a good movie made these days. Most new movies are TRASH.
Because we lose the time, gain for money. 🕹🎉
A great film with Richard Burton and Clin Eastwood.
truly great 🕹🍿
@@motionattached with the magic walkie talkies that can reach London From the German Alps. lol
@@ronmailloux8655 movie is just the magic of fantasy with a good time, 🕹😂🍿
@@motionattached haha
The two women were gorgeous!
Mary and Ingrid.
My favorite Alistair McClean adaptation, mainly due to Eastwood and Burton..
that is so true, 😂🕹
McLean wrote the screenplay first. Then later wrote the novel from the screenplay.
@@garfieldsmith332 Thanks for sharing. It was a great screenplay. 🍿🎉
@@motionattached When the producers went looking for a McCLean novel for a WW2 film they found out that all of his WW2 books had options on them. So they approached McClean do write a totally new adventure as a screen play. McLean was well paid and also had the rights to write the novel from the screenplay. Yes it was well written. I have a magazine that is totally dedicated to the entire film production
@@garfieldsmith332 Thanks for sharing. I am just wondering if people like you who knows the entire film production still have good time to watch the movie, the screenplay must be great. 😂🕹🍿
The hellicopter is an anachronism.
In 1935, the German company Heinkel built and flew the world's first practical military helicopter. This machine, called the “Heinkel He 49,” was designed as a reconnaissance aircraft and could reach speeds of up to 100 kilometers per hour. The movie story was around 1943-44, It might be different look as the one in the movie though. 🍿🎉
@@motionattached What are you talking about? The Heinkel HE 49 is a plane. Not a hellicopter. The Germans had nothing which resembled even remotely the hellicopter you see in the movie. The one henlicopter they had was the Flettner, which looks nothing like the one in the movie... and was mostly experimental. The movie suggests officers were flying around in hellicopters... which is total nonesense. Even Hitler never set his foot on a hellicopter as these early contraptions were mostly unsafe and useless.
@@jujufactory As my mother would say: "It's a Mooooovie!" The Germans weren't speaking English either back then for the benefit of the invading commandos.
Highly unlikely the Germans would be using an American Bell 47, which was delivered to its first customer in December 1946.
@@nicolj434 Thanks, that is true. The director might use a fancy model for visual impact, 😂😹
For me, the only real highlight of the film was the original Ju 52 . That was the real star, on loan from the Swiss Air Force, I believe. What a beautiful aircraft.
You forgot to put in the part where Darth Vader and the Star Wars Troopers arrive!
At the beginning, when Col. Wyatt Turner said "we get him before he talks", I wondered how could they control when he talks, and let it go. After all, movies are just some entertaining for some good time. 🍿🎉
Not realistic, but a whole lotta fun.
thst is almost the essence of a movie🕹😂🍿
What’s with the Bell 47 helicopter in a WWII film? Is this a time travel movie?
I love this movie!! But if you look up the REAL SclhossAdler, it has a road RIGHT up to the front door.
I consider Burtons face more gestapo than the rest of the whole lot, but of course that wouldn't blow his cover as the real Johann Schmidt.
The Germans had a helicopter in WW2 it was a Fokker Aggelis Fa 223 and that not it in the movie! That bird looks like a bell!
That is true. A trade-off between entertaining and research, 😂🕹
Yes I was always skeptical about the use of a Bell. Surely there was enough funds to bodgey a similar design to the Fokker?
@@richard63 The director could regret to use the Bell instead of the Fokker if knowing commercial successes of this movie, 🕹🎉
Great flick. Well done except for that helicopter scene…
It is an amusement that most people are skeptical about the helicopter. A mistake that the director made was picking a wrong model of a helicopter😂🕹
@@motionattached I’m not questioning the idea of a chopper. Germans had them. It’s the type that I have problem with.
@@notyou6950 a wrong model 😂, maybe the director could not help with a fancy look, 🕹
Beautiful summary!
Thanks. 🕹😂🍿
Lankaster merrins bury everything 😊 endless ruins speak shakespeare for themselves😊 but no movie is required😊 game over😊
The magic of movie is about making a fictional novel into real-like drama, and audiences have a good time and somehow believe it. 😂🕹🍿
Umm, no Bell-like helicopters in that era...
That is true, might be different look, but helicopters were produced both in Germany and USA by then.
Yup. But there was a distinct lack of the very few genuine German helicopters, after WW2.
@@commandingjudgedredd1841 Since 1936, the German aviation industry developed various helicopters. These helicopters were technically advanced, but because of the Allied air offensive, series production could no longer take place.
@@motionattached I think genuine German kit was rather hard to come by. Remember "Battle of the Bulge" with it's Patton tanks painted up to try and look like Tigers?
Allister Maclean also wrote Ice Station Zebra and Guns of Navarrone
Thanks for sharing, Allister Maclean was a great screenwriter.
Helicopters in WW II ?
In 1935, the German company Heinkel built and flew the world's first practical military helicopter.
Yes... but not the Bell helicopter shown in the movie, the basic type of which wasn't in production until after WWII (the very end of 1946, I believe) -- think Korean War (remember the TV series and movie, "Mash"?). The Germans had a wire-frame-type twin rotor craft that flew some, not the circa-1953 version shown in the movie. The Americans had an early Sikorsky single-rotor craft that began flying rescue missions in the Pacific and Burma theaters in 1944 (albeit, in limited numbers and limited missions).
@@johnc2438 Yes, quite different model, the director tried to find a fancy substitute for visual impact, which you don't buy, 😂🕹
@@motionattached Nothing in this movie can be taken seriously. The whole movie is overwritten and the entire plot is completely contrived and beyond improbable, but it's still a great action movie.
@@johnc2438 A Luftwaffe helicopter actually landed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, but was a FW 61, obviously none were flying in the 60's but a Bell was used instead.
I saw a lot of film cutting in the opening scene
The time is not on our side, 😂🕹
Amigo no sé qué esté peliculón no tenga sustitutos en español para todos qué ne estendemos el Inglés viva México no lo olvides
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Broadsword Calling Dannyboy!
Mary Ure was married to Robert Shaw.
Thanks for sharing. 🍿🎉
One of the brothers of my grandfather was Gestapo 🙈
Aka "my great uncle"
cool how all the germans speak english so burton and eastwood go un noticed..
Strange that Richard Burton and Alistair McLean didn't like each other, yet they're buried a few feet from each other in the same cemetery in Switzerland.
Sounds like a pure coincidental.
Ah yes, Derrin “Liver Lips” Nesbitt.
Would have fitting in real well in Thunderbirds .
1) Germans didn’t have helicopters like that in WW2. And 2) the SS didn’t wear black uniforms in WW2.
1) movie is not a documentary film. And 2) most movies are based on fictional novels, audience get good time, and producers get good money, 🕹😂🎉
Yes you’re right, but when people watch these movie and read these books they think it’s historically accurate - people are stupid they believe what you tell them. I know it’s just a story but you at least get the basics right. Can you imagine the bull$#!t movies Hollywood is going to make about the war in Ukraine!? Zelenskyy will be played by Chris Hemsworth with Anthony Hopkins as “Putin” 🇷🇺
A good war film but the wardrobe dept was really lazy. As a start Major von Hartmann should not be wearing his black dress uniform but a gray green service uniform. They also pinned all the medals they could think of on him ..German Cross in Gold, Close Comber Clasp in Gold, Iron Cross 1st Class etc...all to make him look "German" but all they succeeded in doing is making him look ridiculous.
What a waste of resources to try to rescue one guy. It's easier to change the plans so if he reveals the old plans to the Germans they do not gain from the information.
I need to watch this movie. Is it based on a true story???😂
It was based on the screenplay and the novel by Alistair MacLean. The magic of movie is to make a novel drama look and feel like a true story, and you have a good time, and producers take good money. 😂🕹🍿🎉
Don’t get why they put a helicopter in the movie?
Artistic licence by Alistair McClean in his book. Besides, the Germans had experimented with Autogyros, an early form of helicopter, also attaching a small one man variant to U boats
So that army general could fly over from Berlin to interrogate the captured allied general. If people are more suspicious abour the play, we could question how the british operational could be so sure to "get him out before he talk", then the whole entertaining wouldn't exist. 😂🕹😂
@@motionattached Agree, great movie though. Thanks for posting.
@@rob_1359 Great point. Thanks
10 tonnes bombs didn't exist...The tallboy weighed 6 tonnes
😂😹🕹
There was no helicopter back then
Wrong. The Germans and Americans had early copters flying then. Not many, but they were flying.
I always thought that as a child then found out much later that they did.
@@johnc2438 No you are wrong cupcake, the helicopter was barely an experiment towards the end of the war in 1944-1945, never used officially, stop the cap kid.
Great movie. Lousy history.
A good suggestion for hollywood nazi interrogators would be speaking to the suspects in german, they might not be as fluent as they are in english.
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A great film but utterly ridiculous
That sounds like a good entertaining, 🕹😂🎉
Great film.... crappy and annoying editing here !!!!!!
search where eagles dare full movie 🕹🍿🎉
Editing fail. No context. Useless.
A 2-hour "full movie" might suit you better. Also You could provide specifics of some context missing which lead to deviation of the drama, and which is helping. 😂🕹
You must be the only person watching this video who has not seen the movie.
@@motionattached I tell you what is missing, the ending with the little not book and I know why you left it out. and of course, "Broadsword calling Danny boy."
@@riff2072 Thanks for understanding. I do feel that was little bit putting a sophisticated plot to extreme situation. 🍿🎉
@@riff2072 😂🕹
Terrible overlong film about middle-aged commandos.
It was a big commercial successes. Movie is basically for ordinal average people, not for super intelligent person, 🕹🍿🎉
@@motionattached Burton absolutely hated it.
This film was complete garbage, as Burton confirmed.
That is scientific view, but not entertaining view. Every movie is based on fictional novel, not a documentary report, so as the life to certain degree. 😂🕹🎉🎉
@@motionattached They should have cast actors who were the right age.
@@MarkHarrison733 Two ladies and Derren Nesbitt were at right age, 🕹😹
@@motionattached Nesbitt was middle-aged.
It was stupid casting him as a Nazi.
Also it was supposed to be a British operational, 😂😹