The Great Escape - CAFE SCENE - FRENCH RESISTANCE

One of my favorite scenes from THE GREAT ESCAPE movie of 1963

[@CanadianCharlie64]

I seen this film a million times and it never gets boring

[@alexanderwalle3568]

He was really thinking "I trained with Bruce Lee so watch it with the elbow."

[@blabla-rg7ky]

I haven't seen this film once and it never gets boring of not watching it

[@wolfliou3678]

I have seen the film one thousand times😂

[@None-zc5vg]

@Epoch plus5 "The Great Escape" was based on real events and the people who took part in them, but the producers had to try to get round the unpleasant truth of the squalid murder of 50 of the escapers by the S.S. and the Gestapo, and they had to hype-up the action after the break-out to give the popcorn-chewing audiences something for their money. So you have to accept the second highly-fictionalised and often-improbable "half" of the picture as the only way of taking it forward. l

[@bluemarshall6180]

CanadianCharlie64 😴😴😴😴😴😴

[@mitchellhogg4627]

I always love how as soon as Sedgwick sees the two men duck behind the bar and the car pulling up he immediately knows exactly what's going on

[@briceyokem9236]

Well, I think he just decided to imitate them.

[@bigmacstack3468]

They may have told him over the phone

[@jacobmassey3897]

@@bigmacstack3468 the phone was an excuse to get him over to the counter so he could hide behind it to avoid bring hit.

[@Praise___YaH]

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[@rob5197]

Great scene one of the best in the film

[@oxmys]

Good thing those Germans didn't see he was reading "Liberation", an underground newspaper of the Resistance!

[@tapasyatyaga4041]

Great catch. I did not notice that.

[@Rokaishi]

Wew im just notice that..

[@ericronanbzh.2466]

C'est ce que je me disais en regardant la vidéo. Ce journal était clandestin à cette époque.

[@ericronanbzh.2466]

He can't read this newspaper because it's anti-nazi

[@preving]

I never saw that. good call.

[@pgiovanettijr]

We Americans have been known to crack a joke or two at the expense of our French allies but, the truth is the maquis and all the other resistance groups around Europe were exceptionally brave patriots. The Germans showed almost no mercy for resistance fighters; in the event of capture, most would have been shot where they stood. It took a lot of guts to have stood up to one of the best military forces in history when their only real weapons were guile, deception, and intelligence.

[@thomasmccaghrey9888]

The ones who were shot where they stood were the lucky ones, the unlucky ones were captured and tortured by the SS until they either gave up all they knew, died of their wounds or held out until the SS got frustrated and killed them.

[@Conn30Mtenor]

I've travelled extensively through France. Every town has two memorials. One for the dead of the world wars and another for the civilians and victims of NAZI tyranny.

[@mariocanfora9117]

@@Conn30Mtenor also in Italy

[@allthebanter9316]

To quote my great grandfathers “bloody awful cowards the french military were” “naturally, they were the only French who had to be paid to kill a nazi after all”

[@majorlagg9321]

The Fench soldiers were betrayed by their leadership who lacked vision. Their leadership relied on the Maginot Line and could never imagine the Germans would go through Belgium to invade France. Remember, French soldiers stood against the Germans to cover the British evacuation at Dunkirk.

[@jameslong3509]

The real Sedgwick was Dutchman, Bram Van Der Stock. He reached Dresden after the escape and convinced authorities he wasn’t an escapee. He then travelled on to Utrecht in his native Netherlands. He managed to get across the border. The Dutch Resistance gave him a bicycle to get him to Brussels in Belgium. Belgian resistance assisted and gave him paperwork as a Belgian. He then travelled by train into France down to Toulouse. The French resistance assisted him and others allied escapees and got them across the border into neutral Spain. They contacted the British consulate who accepted them all. They were then taken to Gibraltar and flown to Britain in summer 1944. BVDS took command of the Dutch RAF section and resumed flying near the end of the war.

[@eamonnbr]

Thank you for this Trivia. He had an amazing life.

[@veenrat]

try the movie the overval I agree on this is a good movie and like de Overval it ranks in the best films in my book.

[@linanderson2122]

B

[@17garm]

So the real person was a Dutchman. So they changed the character to Australian and then got an American to play the part. Only in Hollywood!

[@mikekemp9877]

@@17garm problem is like so many cases for instance why didnt they get a chinese guy to play charlie chan in the 30s or native americans to play the lead in westerns up until recently is in the old pre streaming days hollywood was the money man! for a movie to be sucessful over a certain budget the american box office was essential.indeed for the film to be made at all you needed us backing. so a known us actor or actors had to be included in the mix altering the story but leaving it just plausible.so there were some for instance us personnel in the camp but took no part in the escape steve mcqueen could be the hero because it could have happened! also i doubt as in the case of charlie chan or westerns there was a dutch actor prominent enough to risk a multi million pound budget on for historical accuracey.its a shame but the rules were dictated by the money! also explains why say gary cooper was a british lord or officer on the northwest frontier with his broad montana twang! as is often the case they cast the hot star first then figured out how to fit him into the plot.

[@daniellebourgade8701]

My father was prisoner in 1940 in a stalag in south Germany. He escaped alone two months later and suceeded his evasion.

[@mixmaster3028]

So he made it back to Allied lines

[@Fibonaccisghost]

I like how he figures out what's going on then just casually ducks behind the counter with the guys. He's been in the shit and knows danger when he sees it.

[@Thehipposwereboiled]

I saw it as they gestured to him from behind the counter because they can see him

[@crispytendies1433]

As an Australian, Coburn really nailed the accent, especially for someone from Nebraska!

[@MrIrishscouse]

He would pull off a similar trick 14 years later in Cross Of Iron with a passable German accent.

[@ruadhagainagaidheal9398]

As a Brit, I think James Coburn learnt his Aussie accent at the same acting school that Dick Van Dyke learnt his cockney accent !

[@dxwallace55]

@@MrIrishscouse Cross of Iron was a great, forgotten movie.....

[@MrIrishscouse]

@@dxwallace55 It sure was.

[@55vma]

And there were Australian actors about the movies. John le melion eg

[@emil2321]

Everyone else nervous running away and this guy casually takes his time and sits down to read a newspaper. Thats why he got away.

[@mizofan]

My dear friend Andrée Dumon, Belgian resistance heroine (codename Nadine), was with the Comet Line that got allied airmen and others to Spain and safety via Paris. Betrayed, she survived prison, torture and 2 concentration camps, and is still going strong aged 96. Her father, who was captured with her in an early morning raid (there's a brief youtube clip with her describing it), sadly died. Her older friend Andrée de Jongh who started that line and personally crossed into Spain many times, was caught in France near the Spanish border. Hats off to the brave resistance in various occupied countries. Oh and The Great Escape, although it takes liberties with the truth, is a superb entertaining film

[@daniellinehan63]

Heroes for all times

[@Raju-pq8vy]

🙏🙏🙏

[@craigkdillon]

The Great Escape may have taken some liberties, but I think it captured the essence and spirit of that great escape, which did happen.

[@andzhelinachervona7915]

Спасибо ❤❤❤

[@dariomolli9068]

😅

[@user-mw8um6mc3v]

The bar guy in this his acting is top draw. You can see him thinking. Brilliant job!

[@virtuosowins]

I am glad you caught it and so did I

[@wendyhardin5259]

One of the Absolute Best Movies ever made.

[@pschroeter1]

I love how the waiter puts on his smile before going over to the Germans.

[@SuperLeica1]

Makes me recall an old story from after the war! Two German fmr officers on a business trip to Paris, sit down by the table and order in fake English: "Two Martinis, please!". The waiter asks: "Dry?". The German screams: "Nein, zwei!".

[@shashijain5084]

A great movie !!! A cast that can never be replicated !!! ( Re booted ) !!! Never tire of it !!!

[@neil999ish]

No, no! Don't even think it! It would be a dogsbody if they tried.

[@classicgunstoday1972]

If this were remade today Coburn’s character (probably played by Daniel Craig)and the waiter (probably a black or asian waitress) would have a fight scene with the German officers and to be doing all these fake spiderman martial arts CGI moves all over the place with more German troops showing up and them dispatching them as well matrix style. Then they would have a long CGI car chase tearing through CGI Paris to get to the resistance HQ to help him. The Gen Zero audience would actually tout that as “more realistic”

[@ekop1778]

@@classicgunstoday1972 THEN THE GERMANS GET BLOWN UP BY SOME CGI COMPUTER GENERATED AI THING

[@chrisforbes4075]

That's what happens to non-tippers.

[@arensaini7605]

In most European countries, you are not supposed to tip. There is usually a service charge that is either incorporated in the food prices or is separate on the bill.

[@pix046]

The service charge is to get shot!

[@hacksterix6298]

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[@ben6532]

Puts a whole new meaning to resovoir dogs.

[@coolcat1684]

Chris Forbes haha!

[@TomBarrister]

With three German Officers sitting a few feet away, Sedgewick (Coburn): 1) Sits there reading "Liberation," a French resistance newspaper. 2) Mispronounces "Téléphone pour moi?" 3) Thanks the waiter by saying "mercy", rather than "merci" (mehr-SEE). 4) Speaks "Hello?" three times into the phone in a British/Australian accent, instead of "Allô?" or "Salut." 5) Stands there for almost 10 more seconds after the two resistance men duck behind the counter, as they're probably waving furiously at him, before finally putting down the phone to join them. And he's one of the lucky three out of 76 who make it to safety.

[@jameshoran8]

The three that were successful, Coburn, Leyton and Bronson all got away from Roger and his band of troublemakers. Garner and Pleasance just picked a lousy plane

[@XJarhead360]

It's a movie folks.

[@simokoistinen276]

I think that on 5th it was better for him that he waited some time before putting the telephone down and ducking for cover. It seemed more natural to answer to phone and wait for "answer" than immidiately ducking behind the counter with the resistance men.

[@alanmacpherson3225]

That is one of the worst Australian accents ever. I speak from experience being an Aussie.

[@tag427]

Thanks for posting! Great scene Love how when Coburn finally realizes what's about to happen- He makes no reaction just drops casually behind the bar!

[@leroykevin]

tag427 I assume the person on the phone tipped him off

[@countryboyblue21]

I know right, it's absolutely awesome

[@Gaudiolles01]

They just pretended a call to bring him near the bar, to protect him.

[@jygb7092]

@@leroykevin There was no one on the line once he picked up. He just connected the dots.

[@daniellinehan63]

Great actor

[@bluejjay]

Brilliant camerawork. The cafe is never in the same frame as the Nazis, as though to hint its own agenda, while the waiter's movement between the two sides is captured in one take, representing the deception that is occurring. No need for dramatic close ups, slow mos, or wordy explanations. Just great use of simple camera techniques.

[@glennpickard2239]

this scene was one of my favourite scenes too, it added some humour to an evil period in German/allied POW relations, courtesy of Herr Hitler !

[@bluejjay]

@ Interesting, I never thought to examine that closer and simply assumed, given the setting of the film. Thanks for the correction.

[@Pure_Havoc.]

L

[@penelope8557]

Baloney.

[@ALGRao-vf9ok]

My favorite scene in the movie. Don't know how many times I had seen. Somehow all details fit in place beautifully.

[@mikeagate]

My father walked into the Citroen showroom in Bern in 1953 and drove away in the classic black Citroen Avant like the one shown in this clip!

[@mrunning10]

Was he Vichy too?

[@mikeagate]

@@mrunning10 Just four words and you have exhibited your ignorance for all to see.

[@tapasyatyaga4041]

He says "Hello Hello" in a perfect American accent having escaped while three Germans are 10 feet away....brilliant

[@tapasyatyaga4041]

@Steve Terry no that was an American accent. Listen again. He may have been playing an Australian but he was speaking in an American accent. James Coburn was an American. His Australian accent was generally lousy and when he said hello there was no Australian accent whatsoever

[@tapasyatyaga4041]

@@neil5307 please LISTEN carefully. It is not "Allo" he is saying. It is "Hello." Please note the "H" sound.

[@tapasyatyaga4041]

@@neil5307 Maybe you are right. But would you stake your life on it if you were Coburn?

[@jygb7092]

@@neil5307 Why?

[@redDL89]

It seems that the phone is out of the German officers' earshot, so they didnt hear him (or at least, not clearly). The officers could also be very engrossed in an important discussion and wouldn‘t be paying much attention to an ordinary 'Parisian' sitting at an ordinary cafe.

[@hawlikd]

I seen this film many times, and it never gets old. Steve McQueen is the King of Cool with his leather aviator jacket, base ball glove and motor bike!

[@irenejohnston6802]

No he's 'the Cooler King' cos he's always being sent to the Cooler, the lockup after each attempted escape when recaptured

[@McIntyreBible]

1:27, James Coburn ducking underneath the bar counter is a humorous part of the movie!

[@spikespa5208]

And, "Oh, you'll still be here when I get out?" "Cooler"

[@vijayavenkat4038]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@philippelemoine5649]

In the frenchs coffees , the boys don't never say " bon appétit " when you drink , but ONLY when you eat 😂😂

[@thelastjohnwayne]

One of the Greatest Movies ever made. I have watched 100s of times and it never gets old.

[@k.8511]

thelastpatriot whst is it called?

[@yunarukami14]

@@k.8511 The Great Escape, a brilliant movie

[@k.8511]

@@yunarukami14 watched it, it was great!!

[@yunarukami14]

@@k.8511 Ikr

[@anthonywhelan4660]

In preparation for learning the Australian accent, James Coburn spent a few weeks in Queensland marlin fishing off the Great Barrier Reef. His accent in TGE was comparable to Dick Van dyke's Cockney accent in Mary Poppins.

[@neilpemberton5523]

Because everyone knows marlins make the best voice coaches.

[@anonUK]

I remember the DvD performance: "Cor bloimey govnor! Chip chip cherroo and all dat, bejaysus! (I thought you told me that voice coach was from London!)"

[@maggiesmith856]

In other words, terrible. In Van Dyck's other attempt at playing British, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, he just speaks with his usual American voice although his father and his children are as British as they come. Couldn't they at least have made Lionel Jeffries his father-in-law ? Then there might be some logic in it.

[@nomadicroadrat]

Miss James Coburn. No matter the movie, good or bad, his presence elevated it in whichever scene(s0 he was in.

[@majorlaff8682]

Miss? He's a Mister. Mister James Coburn to you.

[@SuperChuckRaney]

@@majorlaff8682 some languages don't use a gender pronoun, poster may not speak English as first language.

[@d942yd42]

Came here for this @@majorlaff8682

[@carlosayala5161]

​@@majorlaff8682 he ... misses ... James Coburn 🤷‍♂ And, well, I can relate. Nowadays, there are quite good actors, although perhaps not as many great actors as there were before. Back in the day, most actors were perhaps too "theatrical" and their performances did not feel real, whereas most current actors go too far with their purported "realism" and just mumble or whisper without conveying any emotion or being intelligible at all, or rather scream. I choose old time actors every day, because once Daniel Day-Lewis (almost retired), Christian Bale, etc, go for good, what will be left? An ever dwindling amount of good active actors 😕

[@duckieds6877]

Love that black Citroen : they are gorgeous!

[@Woody615]

My family has a 1954 TA 11. Same basic look.

[@Beethoven80]

I think these were sold with an MG34 mount as factory option.

[@lawrencelewis8105]

I've got two of them- a 49 11BL like this one and a 54 11B. Fantastic cars. But with bonnet louvres like on this one makes it a post-war car and I hate that stupid hood ornament.

[@damongreville2197]

I had two of these cars, but the English models: a 1949 Light15 and a 1951 Big Six. Beautiful cars.

[@Imintune...]

Lots of room to swing that gun too!!!!🤣

[@jameshoran8]

0:17 I finally, after 55 years, know what's he's saying. "Gentlemen, where are your masks? You also are not social distancing. Don't worry, our adherence team will be here shortly to address this beach of conduct."

[@maikenzupancicdanko9377]

Brilliant 😂😂

[@wijr77]

Now that's funny!

[@jkorshak]

Coming up on a quarter million dead Americans from a contagious disease, this comment has aged hilariously in a gallows humor sort of way.

[@jkorshak]

@UpSideДown And then there's the death's for lack of access due to the "sniffle virus'" limiting medical access and intervention. Let's pretend people with heart conditions, cancer, strokes, influenza, and infected with the "sniffle virus" don't lose their lives due to such a preexisting morbidity in addition to a covid infection. It is what it is. But you go, keep pretending it isn't. Almost 400,000 Americans will never get the joke.

[@jameshoran8]

I imagine the two French guys didn't last long when the Germans were lining up suspects.

[@poetcomic1]

When I was in high school a half century ago guys would get together to watch The Great Escape and Magnificent Seven on TV, they were the coolest 'guy movies' EVER and both by director John Sturges.

[@BigSkyCurmudgeon]

i'm sure you added to your anatomy lessons when you caught the "In like Flint" series of movies Coburn did. he had some real hotties accompanying him.

[@laryjohnson5736]

He knows there is no way the call is for him but he goes along with it.

[@stratfordbaby]

They don't make movies like this anymore. GREAT STUFF. The calibre of the acting was suberb. We don't have actors like this these days. Where they actually went to acting school. Trained in theatre. Then went to into film.

[@puffin51]

I loved the bottle of Johnny Walker red on the shelf behind the bar. In occupied France, yet.

[@Guitcad1]

Probably some sort of inside joke among the actors.

[@DTD110865]

@@Guitcad1Either that, or something leftover from before the occupation.

[@theyellowlightsaber3193]

I was too busy noticing cafe suzette offered apricot bols

[@paladinsix9285]

Paris was notorious for smuggling. Portugal and Spain were neutral. US booze was available in Paris, and Berlin, albeit at a premium. Another trick of Black Marketeers was to Refil a bottle with cheaper booze.

[@theyellowlightsaber3193]

@@paladinsix9285 Johnny walker isnt American though....

[@burtvhulberthyhbn7583]

Definitely my favorite shooting Nazis scene. The phone call "for you" is priceless.

[@rickkennett3192]

Maybe he thought it was the prison camp commandant calling. "Herr Sedgwick, please come back. All this escaping is making me look bad."

[@NetworkXIII]

Great movie, from a time when they made great movies

[@Paul77ozee]

I love the waiter when he’s giving the Nazis there drinks. You can see his nervous about not getting away from them as quick as possible.

[@DanielTossounian]

The french resistance has some of the bravest people who ever lived ...

[@alexanderwalle3568]

"I'm an escaped POW." Oh, how many times have I heard that one; give him a franc and send him on his way.

[@philiphatfield5666]

This scene is ridiculous. I met an old man who was a little boy in France during the occupation, and he said that German soldiers and the Gestapo and SS members were all over the place and in such large numbers, that an attack like this would be highly unlikely, and if it did happen, that idyllic little cafe would not only be razed to the ground, but that all of the employees who worked there----or ever worked there----would be taken out in the street and shot!

[@icellini]

il y a des français qui ont été fusillés pour moins que ça, ma mère a vu un gars qui insultait des officiers, il a été fusillé sur place.

[@monkchips]

Thank christ, it isn't a film then and just a documentary. I mean the other day a bloke had a sword made of light and he fought a load of aliens. Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be fiction! 😮

[@idx1941]

And perhaps that is the fate that befell the Cafe owners! Your comment is beyond stupid. There was a real French Resistance and they risked a great deal to fight back against the Germans.

[@monkchips]

@@DylansPen some little green chap was pretty handy with one.

[@monkchips]

@DylansPen who's to say what exists man? 200 years ago, if I had described a platypus, you'd have me sectioned.

[@casualobserver3145]

A great scene from one of my favorite movies and with one of my favorite actors.

[@hrlewis918]

One of the greatest scenes ever. Thank you so much for uploading this.

[@PleasestopcallingmeDoctorImath]

bloody good

[@pix046]

I like the way Sedgwick says he is Australian and he is a British officer. Nice touch.

[@lorddaver1935]

pix046 Because he was Australian, but because he was an RAF Officer (there were a lot of foreign nationals in the RAF) he was, technically, a British Officer.

[@uioplkhj]

You meant bloody good ;)

[@lorddaver5729]

@18tangles What shit?, Anyway, as an Australian who had voluntarily joined the RAF he was technically a British officer. What's so hard to understand?

[@Elitist20]

He was in the RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force), probably going through the Empire Air Training Scheme in Canada, and then being sent to the UK. They sometimes served in all-Australian Squadrons (e.g. RAAF 460 Squadron), other times they were seconded to RAF units (e.g. several members of the 'Dam Busters' Squadron 617.) He was 'British' in the sense that Australia was part of the British Empire and Commonwealth.

[@neilgerace355]

Coburn's Australian accent is hopeless!

[@Steveross2851]

The "Liberation" newspaper (0:28) was a little inside joke by the film makers back when there were no KZbin videos that could be paused. Obviously the last thing an escaping British officer trying to get to Spain would be reading in public view would be a paper called Liberation.

[@jamesdrynan]

" Telephone pour moi?! " The absolute last thing Coburn would be expecting! Funny. And once he sees the lay of the land, it's duck and cover.

[@marknelson2846]

In Copenhagen, there is (or was) an outstanding museum for the Danish Resistance. I visited with my folks in the early 1970s. The Danes and the Norwegians also fought bravely and against tremendous odds to free their countries. Hats off to all those brave people.

[@jjhpor]

I was in that museum with my German girlfriend in 1967. No doubt I was an obvious American GI. The jerk tour guide seemed to really enjoy disparaging both Germans for the war atrocities and Americans for failing to rescue the Danish in spite of their self described courage. I came away with no respect at all for the Danish or their pitiful resistance efforts. If you google "Danish resistance in ww2 you will find that there was much more collaboration than resistance.

[@marknelson2846]

@jjhpor actually, that isn't true. The Danes saved almost all of their Jewish citizens, and they did resist and large numbers. Initially, the Germans allowed the Danes to run things themselves, since they were also "Aryans." Eventually, the Resistance became a lot more involved and killed hundreds of Nazis and Danish collaborators.

[@marknelson2846]

@jjhpor actually, that isn't true. The Danes saved almost all of their Jewish citizens, and they did resist and large numbers. Initially, the Germans allowed the Danes to run things themselves, since they were also "Aryans." Eventually, the Resistance became a lot more involved and killed hundreds of Nazis and Danish collaborators.

[@BAF605]

@@marknelson2846 The saving of the Danish Jews when many other nations gave them up to the Nazis is one the great untold stories of WW2. As a Brit I think of it as THEIR FINEST HOUR. Well done for reminding us

[@stratfordbaby]

Danes yes. Norwegians NOT. There's a reason why Quisling is a word.

[@kailashpatel1706]

i love it when coburn walks off in his final scene..

[@paulleckner8235]

Spain? Si Espana!

[@elconquistador932]

One of my favorite movies of all time. Some great stunts as well as suspense.

[@voiskumbeaver3285]

I'm always surprised to be reminded James Coburn, Charles Bronson and John Leyton are the only ones who escape successfully.

[@edwinreid8355]

I like to think that roughly half of the 250 men would've escaped no bother if that Cavendish Chap hadn't tripped up between the tunnel & the trees & caught that guard's attention. It's especially fortunate for Bronson's character considering that as the tunnel king, he suffered from claustrophobia.

[@voiskumbeaver3285]

@@edwinreid8355 Like Billy Liar missing the train to London, that's a scene that never fails to upset me!

[@edwinreid8355]

Now I've heard of Billy Liar & I know it's originally a Play cos an ex work colleague of mine is a filmmaker who worked on a stage adaptation of it but I've never seen it.

[@voiskumbeaver3285]

@@edwinreid8355 That's right, it was a novel by Keith Waterhouse, then a play with Albert Finney in the title role then a film with Tom Courtenay. Well worth a look.

[@nickvanderpool4822]

@@edwinreid8355 Wasn't Cavendish also the surveyor who bungled the length calculations and caused the escape slowdown as well?

[@Matteo-ks6fn]

Great movie. Great actors. Great story. Great action. What else needed?

[@jessicaregina1956]

Hot french chicks.

[@Matteo-ks6fn]

@@jessicaregina1956 Fries will do

[@blaws6684]

So many great moments in this movie This is one of the very best

[@badgermcspoon11]

Why do these clips appear on my videos to watch......absolutely love it! 50 years since I seen that clip. Great upload.

[@robertdean1929]

Love how the French pore a brandy for toast.job well done.love this movie So many great actors

[@xpat73]

Not a good idea for Coburn to answer the phone in English within earshot of 3 germans. LOL.

[@user-mw8um6mc3v]

To be fair....he answered in Australian 😐

[@artygunnar]

Hállo is acceptable in many languages

[@lawrencewright2816]

In French it’s “Alo”

[@prafter7]

@@lawrencewright2816 as in alo alo. Renee

[@christoph404]

@@lawrencewright2816 I think you will find its " Alo Alo" LOL

[@lostcelts1536]

I’ve seen this movie at least 20 times and it’s still great.

[@Stansman63]

One of the best scenes from this great movie.

[@user-rd2px2io2b]

Love this scene, but scares me nevertheless!! The Great Escape dvd is amongst my unique collection and I watch it often!❤ another favorite film.

[@corylynch6920]

Fun fact: the actor playing Sedgwick was James Coburn, a versatile character actor who voiced Henry J. Waternoose of the Disney/Pixar film Monsters, Inc. (2001); it was one of his final movies before he passed away in 2002.

[@williamwingo8952]

He suffered from severe arthritis later in life and did a lot of voice work.

[@jennifersman7990]

Very versatile actor, Coburn did westerns (Magnificent 7, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid), Spy spoofs (In Like Flint), Thrillers (Charade, The Last of Shiela) even guested on the Muppet Show. And won a Supporting Actor Oscar on his first nomination playing a monstrously abusive father in Affliction

[@glen1555]

Never noticed the bottle of Johnnie Walker Red Label before

[@yash1one556]

This is one of my fav scene from the movie !

[@malcolmabram2957]

"You are resistance?" "What makes you think that?"

[@zarsvirus]

The movie the great escape is truly a great film.

[@christoph404]

this was filmed in the Bavarian town of Fussen, the cafe is obviously a set made to look like its in France, the location shooting was based around that town , it is south of Munich, all the other location scenes were in and around the town, the railway station scene where David McCallum gets shot and the chase with Bartlett around the town, Steve Mcqueen's famous motorcycle jump over the barbed wire fence was filmed a few miles to the west of Fussen near the village of Pfronten.

[@mannixflinn6227]

chris mac thank you for the info. I'm going to Bavaria next year and will add these locations to my list.

[@chriskelleher349]

Fussen is famous.

[@nicholasschroeder3678]

It's beautiful there

[@benoitpellet1657]

@@nicholasschroeder3678 Also a good shooting off point for visits to the various castles of King Ludwig.

[@nicholasschroeder3678]

@@benoitpellet1657 I've seen Linderhof, but not the others.

[@19brittani]

The OG of drive by shooting... the resistance

[@manuelernestogrimaldobazan716]

That was one of the best scenes of that movie, and James Coburn was a great actor that, for some reason, always made me laugh. Grimaldo

[@vinniemoran7362]

Hard to believe studios kept turning down this story when director John Sturges presented it to them. It's not till he made the hit movie "The Magnificent Seven" that they gave him and this script the time of day.

[@louisliu5638]

Fun Fact: BOTH of these movies were funded independently by two Jewish brothers. That's WHY they don't appear on the TOP 100 list of HOLLYWOOD movies. The big studios DID NOT make the films. They distributed them, but didn't make them.

[@Kunsoo1024]

Can you name the three actors who were in both movies?

[@j.randle3803]

@@Kunsoo1024 Good questions....James Coburn, Charles Branson, Steve McQueen

[@Jimdixon1953]

The last thoughts to flash through those Germans minds were probably “Where did they get that MG42?”

[@steveconkey7362]

That's what I was thinking too!!!

[@demonprinces17]

Lots of gear lying around after a battle, or stole it

[@stephenle-surf9893]

La resistance did not hold back! Mac10? Pah!

[@ernesthill2681]

Good eye for detail =)

[@terrydouglas5008]

@@demonprinces17 a german supply sergeant probably traded it for cash or services of a local madam.

[@TairnKA]

Another of my favorite movies. Just another customer, who would suspect (hiding in plain sight)?

[@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists]

This COULD have been the first time James Coburn shouted "duck, you sucker" ! loved this scene!

[@paulleckner8235]

"Telephone, monsieur." Huh?! Excellent!!

[@janeiwasduncan8463]

One of my favorite scenes!!🎈🎈

[@paulleckner8235]

@@janeiwasduncan8463 Mine too! The waiter did not want an innocent man to catch a bullet.

[@anamariadepaulo1902]

A CENA É TÃO BEM FEITA QUE AS VEZES ESQUEÇO QUE É UM FILME .MAS GRAÇAS A DEUS ESSA ÉPOCA JÁ SE FOI...

[@cricri6624]

" Bon appetit messieurs " You will never heard a french tell this sentence when he brings you something to drink.

[@chrissinclair4442]

Love the thumbnail. Looks like a French impressionist painting.

[@hugonubario]

been a long time since I watched that movie a great scene and still surprised me!

[@kelvinbourke7962]

The star of this scene is the extraordinary Traction Avant Citroen - used by both the Germans and French Resistance during WW11.

[@vito7428]

World War 11?

[@user-bn2wt7pf2b]

This is the only reason I look forward to Christmas.

[@TheMashedTomatoes]

I love the sound when the car peels out of the cafe!

[@highplainsdrifter699]

Half of the magnificent seven cast are in this classic movie. Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn .

[@theyellowlightsaber3193]

Why do you think they were cast in Seven, theyd already worked together in this, half the casting director's job was done. Ofcourse what they didnt allow for was that McQueen and Bryner didnt get along but the best laid plans of mice and men....

[@nicoman3914]

Looks like Detroit on a Saturday night.

[@Schlomothebest]

😂

[@spikespa5208]

Without innocents getting caught in the line of fire.

[@ge2623]

Come on now. I'm from Shitcago and we make Detroit look like a kid's tea party with shootings.

[@angelajohnson6659]

Can't be nico yo momma wasn't in the clip!

[@ge2623]

@@angelajohnson6659 She was with me.

[@philippelemoine5649]

I'm french and I smile when I hear the boy to speak french with a strong english accent 😁😁😂

[@Reichsritter]

It doesn't sound off to me and I speak somewhat good French

[@ronaldofranca8470]

Fantastic movie, I saw many times. Great Victory: land, sea and air.

[@cryhavoc9748]

Using a belt fed MG42 in a drive by. I never would have thought that up.

[@ge2623]

If you don't want to miss.....MG42 is the way to go.

[@spikespa5208]

Back seat floor ankle deep in shell casings after a burst that long with an MG-42.

[@ge2623]

I heard that some of the French Resistance got exempted from paying income tax for the rest of their lives. Now THAT'S a "thank you!"

[@None-zc5vg]

That would have meant no-one paying income-tax

[@ge2623]

@@None-zc5vg "Some"

[@aldeventos]

This scene is so satisfying … fantastic movie! Epic

[@goodyeoman4534]

Always loved this scene.

[@bighands69]

James Coburn was the real deal. He served in the Marines in the pacific.

[@marcroche9324]

Donald Pleasence was an RAF pilot. LOL!

[@stvdagger8074]

​@Brett Mitchell No, George H W Bush was the last combat serviceman President. He flew TBM Avengers in the Pacific. He was even shot down once. He was rescued by a US submarine.

[@billh.6135]

I always thought it was easy to get Lee Marvin and James Coburn mixed up. Don't really no why, they don't resemble each other to any great extent. Anyone else find this to be true?

[@None-zc5vg]

stv dagger It's ironic that the Bush family poured money into Nazi Germany and were even involved in a '30s plot to turn the U.S. into a dictatorship (A plot foiled by a former U.S. Marine General and war-hero).

[@michaelc.6532]

USA#1 !! Obama was born in 1961. The draft ended in 1973 so Obama never was draft eligible.

[@calvacoca]

Yes it happened. Many German soldiers and officers were assassinated by the resistance. But for each german killed, dozens of french civilians where killed in retaliation, or sent in concentration camps. At the beginning, many resistants were young boys and girls, who did not always think about the consequences of their solitary acts. Then, the resistance was better structured, with hierarchical levels, trained personnel, and extensive communication networks.

[@theophrastus3.056]

It didn’t happen like this. The Germans weren’t that easy to kill. And the resistance wouldn’t shoot four mid-level officers, as the Nazi retaliation would have meant dozens or even hundreds of civilian hostages shot. And no top Nazi would be at a cafe with just three others, all armed with nothing but pistols, and nobody standing watch. It’s Hollywood, not history. People who were shot in something vaguely resembling this were usually collaborators or resistance members who had betrayed their comrades. There were even special isolation procedures for any resistance member who was arrested, but then released. It was common for the Gestapo to “turn” them by threatening to kill their families if they didn’t cooperate. So the resistance couldn’t just take their word that they’d been able to fool the authorities and were released because they were not suspected of being anti-Nazi. Anyone who was caught & released was kept apart from any & all resistance activities for a considerable period of time, if not permanently. We do the actual resistance against fascism no honor by presenting it in such simple scenarios. The real history is much more complex and fraught with danger.

[@None-zc5vg]

It's an exciting picture but the producers threw authenticity to the wind once the escapers had left the camp: in order to have a picture that audiences (especially those in the U.S.) would want to watch, they couldn't stick to the real (rotten and depressing) facts of the original escape.(the escapers were captured in ones and twos and the Gestapo were (mostly) forced to kill them (some were reluctant to do it but not a few enjoyed it): the alternative was to make an upbeat out-and-out chase-picture in picture-book locations. The inconvenient "elephant in the room" murder of the "Fifty" was condensed into a group affair, all over-and-done-with in a few seconds, nice and 'clean' and [sort-of] painless.

[@jjhpor]

@@None-zc5vg There really aren't any socially acceptable techniques to show the horrors of war or the behavior of occupying armies, regardless of who is fighting or occupying what victim location. Humans somehow feel the need to do so likely because we place a high value on courage and resistance to tyranny.

[@jessiejames7492]

i was searching fr this movie. forgot the title. now like magic it appears. seems like youtube could read my mind

[@WhisperingJohn]

My favourite film

[@michaelvalenzuela2528]

"Pernod" goes best when served at room temp, with a burst from a 7.92 mm.

[@jdubhub68]

A time when going to the bar for shots is risky.

[@TeutonicNordwind]

One of the greatest movies ever made for sure. The shadows are coming from every which direction though! Watch when the Frenchman answers the phone, he casts a shadow behind him and when he serves the Germans, he is casting shadows on them.

[@martinquerre9614]

SO WHAT?????

[@TeutonicNordwind]

@@martinquerre9614 That's not realistic. Do you need that explained to you? You see, there's this think called the sun. It's very hot and very bright and our planet, while also spinning itself, revolves around the sun because of the sun's gravitational pull...

[@TeutonicNordwind]

@@ithecastic No, you "just" spent time commenting on a two month old comment

[@EMJE272]

one of the best movies ever made

[@peterfranks6243]

God, I loved the 1960s war movie's...

[@carlfalk7251]

Peter Franks?

[@peterfranks6243]

@@carlfalk7251 ???

[@alexandrebertrand-lafleur3114]

Sedgewick: Resistance? Waiter: You're English? Sedgewick: No, i'm a Australian! (in French): Hum, Dites-moi.. Waiter: You could speak english, we understand! Sedgewick: Very good!

[@topfunt7043]

*bloody good

[@alexanderchinnappan1785]

Not Very Good, Bloody Good

[@thomascollins4325]

Great scene from a great movie!!!

[@tuliomartin6404]

🇧🇷 BRASIL, 07/03/2023. Com 67 anos, entre outros um dos melhores filmes que já vi 👏👏👏

[@rawdog42]

Here's to the Fifty.

[@rockrabbitt]

yes,it's bloody good!

[@chikakomaki6598]

One of my favorite scene :)

[@billmiller7613]

One of my favorite scenes

[@omnipotentdwarf571]

That's got be be a shock to be an escaped prisoner and be told he got a phone call.

[@Colin_Pole]

It's from the camp . . . They want to know how his escape is going.