The 39 Steps - Big Ben scene

The best scene from the film The Thirty Nine Steps (1978, Don Sharp)with Robert Powell.
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[@Melvinshermen]

This is the best part of the film

[@indrianisafitri98]

I seriously wonder how they create scenes like these, it's so crazy lol

[@TaraPlayz]

Ahh the memories

[@checkleylaneproductions551]

This was made in 1978! Wow! epic dramatic music

[@Mavis308]

Love this film, played the VHS to death when I was growing up. Ordered the DVD.

[@begonasudyelortegui9074]

Gran escenario 👏🙌👌, el big ben... Para una escena, sencillamente Magistral, y Maravillosa....., Felicidades, y Felicitaciones, gran Actuación 🎭caracterización Magistra....!!l, un abrazo grande para usted....señor Robert Powell..... Espero, lea mi comentario..... Desde Santiago de Chile.

[@nuutasineria5770]

Those clock gears made those hands and that guy move fast

[@narrowgaugeenginesgaming5757]

6:44 ...

[@Guitfiddlejase]

My God I loved this version! So many people have spoken against this take...but I really loved it. Thank you so much for posting this.

[@theman2017inc]

Guitfiddlejase this version is the most faithful adaptation of Buchan’s story than the two previous versions including Hitchcock’s much lauded film

[@dn9589]

It is better than Hitchcock's original in terms of thrilling factor.

[@band0l1n]

Masterpiece

[@seankairiedimalanta6134]

thank you

[@Agga1904]

great scene

[@74dWasTaken]

Mistake I just noticed. The big ben has one more floor before it reaches the 1st roof(on the outside). But in the inside, the clock face is connected to the 1st roof completely. This is not what the big ben looks like. That's a mistake I noticed

[@hcz439]

They shouldn't break the real big ben, or it chimes to break their ears.

[@jsXanatos]

great scene. i love the original hitchcock 1935 "39 steps" too.

[@KawhackitaRag]

The part where the man hanging on the hand moves out and stops the mechanism, causing the small wheels on top (and the utterly weak and ridiculous-looking) pawl to start sputtering and chattering (with utterly ludicrous sound effects which will leave most clock nerds rolling in the aisles with laughter) is another nice touch. The gear-studded shafts jiggling (hand-jiggled off-camera?) at 5:42 look like mid-20th-century automobile parts. Any auto buffs recognize them???

[@davemurney4448]

THIS IS STILL A GREAT SUSPENSFUL FILM. GREAT ACTING BY ROBERT POWELL, DAVID WARNER AND CO.

[@agustincabrera5843]

The edn

[@Renatodonadio]

That's probably the reason because the visits in the tower must be authorized by a Member of the Parliament or the embassy in foreign countries, to avoid unattended manomission of the mechanism.

[@VeraLucia-nv3jg]

5:01 best dead ever

[@averykie]

5:12

[@Bowserjr_koopa]

That is how Big Ben was under construction

[@jaidengamingvlogs4138]

that was longer than 2.1 gd turning to 2.2

[@Cass2112]

although it strays from the original John Buchan book,this is one of the best versions, and Robert Powell is superb in the Richard Hannay role, wish they would make a film of Buchans other books,Greenmantle and Mr Standfast.

[@theswatguyxd8978]

That man broke the Glasgow of the building clock of big ben

[@simonwoods8809]

Would have been much more logical to smash the glass near the long hand and push down on it don't you think??? The steps inside the tower led neatly to that point...

[@julianjaramillo3208]

BIG BEN THE ACTER IS SUPER SUPER COOOL 😃😀

[@Guitfiddlejase]

Must agree with Croydel...This film is tremendous!!!!

[@VeraLucia-nv3jg]

0:17 Auch HEY YOU HUMAN

[@GD28-03]

Joaquim Jogos e Curiosidades ......

[@GD28-03]

0:15

[@nowyouredoingthesponge4644]

No using youtube while in repair

[@athanalconcel9083]

0:15 "Sorry" *Smashes Clock face glass* "I'll pay for that later"

[@mindysmith7126]

13 year ago

[@Sclumsy]

Ever since I first saw this clip in like 3rd grade, I’ve always looked at the clock differently when it’s 3 minutes before 11 45. I honestly want to make a film that involves an action scene involving climbing a clock face. It’s so cool.

[@luksam5713]

Big Ben: hey why did u do this to me

[@Cool2BCeltic]

Having seen Dan Cruickshank's documentary on the Palace of Westminster, there is a fair bit of dramatic licence here.

[@theman2017inc]

well that’s why films like these (and great plays) do their damndest for you to suspend your disbelief at least for 2 hours 😊

[@bskklios4310]

5:29 lol

[@BrandonLe621]

I guess he is the hammer to strike the bell

[@rickymardiant7126]

Lol

[@FedzenRandom]

lol too

[@Highhoekremitdahforghear]

5:30 "The Human Hammer Strike"

[@NickPayne]

Great scene... but Harold Lloyd made dangling from a clock look cool and exciting long before this was ever made... in Safety Last. :)

[@thornside942]

6:23 hand change

[@Lufttygger306]

NOSTALGIA

[@stormtracker8597]

Get down of big ben

[@Lufttygger306]

@@stormtracker8597 We had this on tape when I was a kid, and I watched it soooo many times One of my biggest nostalgic memories, along with the James Bond movies

[@aaasee4363]

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY HE LIVED

[@gingerladyaubern]

I love this film and this scene. Excellent reproduction of the clock faces and clock tower external building. Pity there is no footage anywhere of the film set of the 'clock tower' to show how they filmed this section.

[@Palamedes2009]

Good

[@Zombie-xp3jc]

That boy he break a glass lol haha

[@markusmetzger875]

i remember watching as a kid and thinking it was real.

[@bd-th9cg]

감사합니다

[@GreenaxolotlGGs]

Same with me

[@shantekalatoya8644]

But it was fake when I was six years old today

[@shantekalatoya8644]

Because that was like in 1980 or something

[@EXPLORER-DAD]

7:01 this guy has almost fall from the big hand!!!😱🕗

[@KawhackitaRag]

yhahahahahahaha as a clock fanatic I can tell you up-front that in general, clock gears do NOT turn two directions, back and forth. The closest you'd ever get to that is on clocks with recoil escapements, the escape wheel reverses SLIGHTLY when the pallet engages, because of the sloped face. However, this motion is tiny compared to the forward motion when a pallet unhooks. Also, some clocks with remontoires have certain wheels in the remontoire train which reverse, but only periodically.

[@croydel]

whatever you folk say about any errors in the film it dosent matter'this version of 39 steps is the best version of this classis story' by miles.

[@slink5986]

6:52 DONT BE BLOODY STUPID!!

[@MarcelMaslon]

What the

[@TimolaTesla]

If he wanted to stop the clock from moving hands, then he would just need to stop the pendullum 😂

[@KawhackitaRag]

Since I'm in a ha-ha phase right now, I might as well add that in the REAL "big ben" clock, the bells are in a completely separate area an entire floor above the clock level and NOT hanging directly over the movement as here; finally, I should add that an average-size man might be able to stop the clock; it wouldn't wreck the escapement or pendulum at all because of the remontoire.

[@descartes62]

1978

[@aditimallick982]

29 feet long

[@fenxian1]

Don't be bloody stupid!

[@OliverMelonzMPG]

5:30 A man dude that he hit in the bell

[@jaidengamingvlogs4138]

everyone: wait its not 12:00 yet

[@aditimallick982]

They can't stop the pendulum because it was very tough.

[@athanalconcel9083]

5:13 Police: "Got Him!" 5:16 "Okay Bye!"

[@Super44Saints]

Can you upload the whole movie. i seen it when i was younger and can't find it anywhere

[@KawhackitaRag]

I have to say, this is the closest anyone's gotten to recreating the actual Houses of Parliament clock mechanism in a fictional movie, although of course several key things (crucial to the plot, OF COURSE) are rather off. Firstly, what kind of escapement requires about 6 small wheels between the pendulum and anchor? The movie does not show either the pendulum or anchor, but the escapement function is implied, because these wheels are shown (2:43, 2:56) dutifully moving BACK AND FORTH in rhythm!

[@colintproductions6482]

Others people dreams: I had a dream my crush went out with me! My dreams: 2:20 3:14 5:15 6:44

[@javachip9612]

I seriously wonder how they create scenes like these, it’s so crazy lol

[@idontsubscribetoanyone594]

They build a whole replica of the clockface in a studio

[@Cool2BCeltic]

For its time, quite realistic looking, although there is a bit of artistic licence with the London skyline and the view from Big Ben. These extras in Edwardian dress do very well. Just imagine how incredible this scene would look nowadays done with CGI and maybe Jude Law playing Hannay.

[@gcgames_]

OG you were in youtube from 2006

[@marialuisaottaviano7496]

nadie mas que powell para esta pelicula

[@darrowby1972]

Planetary gears are whats jumping up and down at 5:41

[@averykie]

5:41

[@RandomFishVR]

Omg

[@Anna-bx5ec]

GG FOR BIG BEN

[@coltinanderson7423]

6:43

[@KawhackitaRag]

If you all want to see some REAL tower clock movements, I suggest googling "mark frank tower clock"; this will bring up the website of a guy in the Chicago area who collects these.

[@futurepilot6749]

13 years ago

[@laci9788]

I just love the scenes where men and women are hanging of the clock, in all films.

[@descartes62]

It's just a film you know? It wasn't filmed in the real place, they recreated the Big Ben's machine room and I think that in the early 1900 there was no break proof glass...

[@samleviathanfilms5176]

The clock mechanism is not green it’s black and there should be walls behind the clock faces with the candles lighting the clock face and the guy who fell would have died in the mechanism room and the bells layout is wrong and there should be a roof on top of the clock mechanism room

[@NeonAndrei]

@@samleviathanfilms5176 yep the film is literally broken

[@3merTVPlays]

@@samleviathanfilms5176 i was gonna say that

[@Patrick.166]

Bro is about to fall

[@nuutasineria5770]

JUST TURN THE FREAKING CLOCK OFF

[@Anna-bx5ec]

LONDON YOUR CLOCK WAS RUNNING LATE SO I FIXED IT

[@Renatodonadio]

That man risking life hanged to the minute hand trying to stop the mechanism didn't knew that you can stop Big Ben like you do with Granny Clock...only blocking with a finger the regulator arm (pendulum) :-D

[@KawhackitaRag]

(actually, it looks to me like some person off-camera is manually shaking these salvaged gears... nice "special effects" lol). About the only thing I can say nice about this is that they at least made the dials, clock room, and PART of the movement look similar to reality... but then again, look at the large gear to the left in 2:43, in a REAL clock the main wheels (and most gears except the escape wheel and one closest to it) move so slowly that they appear motionless!

[@steviesuperstar]

great film wish some one would up load it all, also powel is great in this. funny thing, why didnt they just turn the clock off

[@slambotv1334]

steviesuperstar because the agents were in the clockwork room

[@blue_hedgehog_gaming_clock9580]

@@slambotv1334 wait I have never watched this before but why did they need to stop the clock hands

[@slambotv1334]

@@blue_hedgehog_gaming_clock9580 there was a bomb rigged to go off when the minute hand reached a certain point. I’m pretty sure the full movie is somewhere on KZbin

[@aaasee4363]

DUDE U GONAN MESS UP THE BIG BEN

[@leohaverty9023]

he is trying to stop the hand

[@darrowby1972]

The planetary gears would jump out of mesh with about 25kgs of weight at the end of the minute hand. Saying that, its just a film

[@KawhackitaRag]

Another couple of obvious errors are the small gears which are made to jump around in their bearings dramatically during the climactic bomb de-activation scene; they don't look like clock gears, but rather salvaged from some old auto transmission or factory machine; there are WAY too many gears clustered together on each arbor to be realistic. Plus, with that much play in the bearings, it's a wonder this fake clock didn't self destruct of it's own accord!

[@sabsfabs4605]

Try not to fall

[@cr_3891]

😂

[@matteodizon1]

I Have To Go To London,UK So That I Can See Big Ben

[@EXPLORER-DAD]

5:14 the other guy crash to the circle of big ben

[@MarcelMaslon]

Saved in 1978

[@Anna-bx5ec]

i.. I don’t know about seeing dead people today

[@reinamanago]

so big ben is good

[@stormtracker8597]

Hey you

[@thornside942]

6:44 he fall down end the time turn 11:28

[@nowyouredoingthesponge4644]

That was scary it was less than 3 minutes before rip ears

[@MarcelMaslon]

At least 11:43AM to 11:28AM The hour hand dinit move

[@KawhackitaRag]

Since the power goes from the weight and main wheels THROUGH the hands TO the remontoire, the small wheels (seen jumping around here) would NOT be affected by a person hanging on the hands. In fact, they would be motionless after one re-set cycle since the power from the main train would no longer be available to re-set the remontoire. Since the clock was slowed by heavy snow on the hands in the '60's I would assume a person hanging on the hand would completely stop it.

[@nongnoiwatee]

4:44

[@harlearacena5083]

O my tnt

[@gregory1232]

Are you demolishing big ben

[@packo5101]

6:43😰

[@gcgames_]

2007

[@Anna-bx5ec]

BRO DA QWEN SAWH IYT HE GETTIN KILLED

[@elninjanegro]

nooooooooooo it just broke it

[@stormtracker8597]

Look wee spider

[@loganpaul5977]

At 5:30 guy got shot and hit a bell going boon

[@slambotv1334]

logan Paul indeed

[@MoisesAndrade2009]

what movie or series is this?oh let me see what it is

[@aaasee4363]

HURRY BOI HURRY HE SILPING

[@pachma405]

I would have smashed the window further up, where the hand was.

[@slambotv1334]

He couldn’t get up there and if you suggest using the door to the right, then the Prussians would literally just shoot him

[@mariamery7025]

Robert powel igual exito

[@Efifeb]

😮

[@vanhong9182]

Im not sure if the minute hand move then the hour hand should move too?

[@vennydavitalaij3019]

Is big ben look the bus look the best dead omg

[@hetcuunoi1234]

what is name movie

[@hetcuunoi1234]

hahaha he is falling in o'clock