Just a brilliant war film, with breathtaking scenery, and great acting by A list actors makes for a classic film that I still love to this day......
@k.bheemsenrao17537 ай бұрын
The fantastic music has. doubled the pleasure of watchinh this all time greatest movie. The opening music got etched in my mind for ever.
@pateagle7191 Жыл бұрын
The uncredited actors and extras should've gotten an award. They did a great job.
@mikeagate Жыл бұрын
Do you have a back story?
@kennethkonda87644 жыл бұрын
I saw this movie for the first time in 1978 with my father. Till today I have a passion for a very few of those time movies, this is one of them.
@raybuck81994 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the opportunity to relive some great memories I have from working on this movie as a standby prop. I was only 20 and this was my first foreign location film. I spent 11 months on this film and both Burton and Eastwood were really good people with no airs and graces, down to earth. Quick note, we were in Austria for 3 months shooting all the exterior shots and about seven months in the MGM studios in Borehamwood Hertfordshire.
@mikeagate4 жыл бұрын
Ray Buck: You are a very lucky man indeed. Had I known about you before our drive to Werfen from Watford, I am sure I would have picked your brain for all the location shots like those along the snowy road with the dynamiting of the telegraph poles or the road leading up to the the airport in the red Mercedes bus or the highland pastures hut where they rest upon parachuting from their Junkers Ju 52 aircraft.
@raybuck81994 жыл бұрын
@@mikeagate Hi Mike. A quick response to both your replies. I have lived in Florida for the last 40 years so the very short drive from Watford would not have found me at home. I do have a lot of interesting details and one very funny story about the dynamiting of the telegraph poles that was at the very end of shooting in Austria.
@mikeagate4 жыл бұрын
Ray Buck: I have just uploaded the film on my iCould account (not KZbin). Are you able to see any internet content on your large screen TV? Please let me know so that I can send you the link. While seeing the film I just realised that they blew up the same building they first entered from the hills near the railway station, when the soldier trips over the wire!
@raybuck81994 жыл бұрын
@@mikeagate Sorry Mike I saw your post a month ago and then forgot about it. Don't have big TV set up with internet. Those explosions at the train station in the small town Werfen. That was the coldest day of the shoot and alongside the tracks ran modern concrete high tension power lines. I was told it cost 100.000 pounds to turn them off for the day in case the explosions did some damage to the lines. The scenes with the dynamite and the car going into the ravine were shot in late March not long before we left for the UK. The very last day shooting on that mountain road with Eastwood and Burton on the motorbike it snowed heavy all day and stopped with daylight ebbing fast. Eastwood and Burton had been waiting in a hotel hours so Burton had been drinking with his wife Liz Taylor. So when Brian Hutton holding the sticks of dynamite showing Burton how to pull the spring loaded fishing line out and attach it to the poles. Burton said "There is nothing in my contract about handling dynamite" all done with a serious poker face This went on for a while until Brian gave up and handed the job over to assistant director Colin Brewer. Colin started banging them on the motor bike handlebars to prove they were not real. Finally we shot the scene and Eastwood was told to turn the bike around a few hundred feet down the road for another shot and Burton said to keep going and the did straight back to the hotel. That was our one and only shot of the day.
@renejean25232 жыл бұрын
@@raybuck8199 - Cool stories, Ray. Those are some great youth memories to look back on. I saw an interview with Derren Nesbitt who said that Burton was on four bottles of vodka a day. Maybe that's an exaggeration, but you couldn't tell by watching the film. I think if I were you, I couldn't watch the movie with other people because I'd be talking and telling stories all the way through!
@bipinpatel36453 жыл бұрын
OH! ITS MY MOVIE ONLY MINE I SAW IT AROUND 500 TIMES. THANKS FRIENDS
@ypjani6693 жыл бұрын
This movie is one of the best movie. I have seen it in 1977 and I was read the storybook of ALISTAIR MACLEAN . Thank you for pull me 50 years past time . It was a great picture . Thanks.
@liberatski3 жыл бұрын
I was just 5 years old when this was shown in the Philippines. My dad and I watched this together. I remember some scenes but not all at that time.
@mikeagate Жыл бұрын
Why not see it again here for free: 1drv.ms/v/s!AsP5t2YpxJ53jyPDDbdLF1DwcAPg
@ravishankaraleti71204 жыл бұрын
This is one of my favourite movie, thanks for your kind information
@jolie13272 жыл бұрын
Keep going and I appreciate your efforts! Not every Brit has lost their mind or is a sheep!
@mikeagate Жыл бұрын
Just saw 'All is quite on the Western Front', a German production on Netflix. What our parents went through during 1939-1945 was truly heroic. And here we are in 2022 wondering what are pronouns are! How When and Where did this happen?
@jayneforryan48302 жыл бұрын
Masterpiece of a film.
@mikeagate2 жыл бұрын
When and where did you first see this epic?
@rebeccariley64904 жыл бұрын
I'm with you all the way on this one, the passion, the love of everything about the film, topped with just the most beautiful country for the setting. I return to Austria most years for our family holiday and have known every line from the film since I first saw it. Thanks for taking the time and effort to complete this, wish I was with you !,
@billskelton89994 жыл бұрын
I went to visit the castle the same year as you. Love the film and the music is fantastic (Ron Goodwill composer) Saw the the film when it first came out.
@saravananl70803 жыл бұрын
The best movie of the time who ever had missed this movie kindly try to see thispvie fully
@k.bheemsenrao17537 ай бұрын
Wow great video! I love this film no end. Has seen this at. least,500 times!. Want to visit the filming site soon. Thanks for the upload.❤❤
@jolie13272 жыл бұрын
Thank you I enjoyed the movie! AND ALSO your tribute.
@mikeagate Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@stephenrivera4382 Жыл бұрын
One of my all-time favorite movies! Thanks, Mike. I hope to visit Werfen and the “Schloss Adler” in June of 2024!
@mikeagate Жыл бұрын
Have you seen the film of Derren Nesbitt who plays SS - Sturmbannfuhrer - von Hapen on KZbin? Here is a link if you haven't - simply riveting. You will love the location. Oh! Don't forget to also visit 'The Eagles 🦅 Nest', not far from Werfen. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmGzYXuLnKiSZ68
@richardtaylor37983 жыл бұрын
Great stuff--many thanks.
@sokombanuhu92523 жыл бұрын
I was a child in the 80s when I first watched this timeless classic. One statement I still recall is " koso call Danny boy" laughs..
@stevehutchinson53993 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading this. My favourite film of all time. Planned to go to Werfen and the cable car for my 60th last year but the pandemic put paid to that. Maybe next year.....? :0)
@yensabi2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic , what else can I say.....👍👍👍
@m.k.71993 жыл бұрын
I had the opportunity to visit Werfen and Hohenwerfen while stationed in Germany. Beautiful location and interesting history. Thank you for putting this together. I appreciated the filming. Next time leave out the music. Could barely hear you at times.
@colmanaugustus58082 жыл бұрын
Great movie acted by two super stars Richard burton &Clint Eastwood. Both are rembered for ever. A deciated movie for world.
@vinayakjambhekar13393 жыл бұрын
Many of actor of thisl war movie have left ..... long live one and only the legendary Clint Eastwood .....
@fredboat3 жыл бұрын
Thank You for the video, Enjoyed seeing the castle in the summer time, Remember the epic movie well. Later from Texas usa.
@mikeagate3 жыл бұрын
Did you that when Brian Hutton, the director was asked about the helicopter landing in the castle courtyard and that there were no helicopters in WW2. He replied, 'they will not notice it in Arkansas'!
@geraldvarichon7791 Жыл бұрын
Super bon film
@renejean25232 жыл бұрын
Man, you gotta love that music picking up pace when the cable car comes into view through Burton's binoculars. 1:20 Listen to the drumming from that point on. Just enthralling, like the whole movie.
@raaju334 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@borusa323 жыл бұрын
When I read the novel recentlyI was struck by how much less bloodshed there is in the book.
@renejean25232 жыл бұрын
Much less drumming too.
@srikrishna18583 жыл бұрын
One of the best war film climax was excellent and Alistair Maclean Novel Double cross treble cross so nice
@mikeagate3 жыл бұрын
To see this movie, why not check it here 'classic film research group'.
@Plexcom603 жыл бұрын
Yes, I saw it when it was released. Still one of the all time greats. MacLean was a great story teller.
@vinayakjambhekar13393 жыл бұрын
Even the role of back ground music composer was also created seriousness or mysteriousness of the incedents depicted in war movie
@northman0077 Жыл бұрын
Can people visit this holy mighty place?
@mikeagate Жыл бұрын
Yes. There is a small fee for the cable car ride to the castle 🏰. Great views of Werfen from the top👍
@northman0077 Жыл бұрын
@@mikeagate Thank you sir for this video. I always wanted to se this place with my own eyes. Is it free(as in move freely) to walk around and explore inside the castle yourself?
@iZacq5 жыл бұрын
Nice effort 👌🏻 But please reupload without the Music when you talk Thanks
@bluemarshall61804 жыл бұрын
But thats the music of the movie.
@akugajendra16384 жыл бұрын
Wonderful movie
@mikeagate4 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I saw this picture in 1973 when I was 17 years old. And after 45 years managed to visit Werfen, in Austria where the picture was shot in 1968!
@trotptkabasnbi66552 жыл бұрын
Speaking of discredit ,Sleepy Joe brings it upon himself
@mikeagate2 жыл бұрын
This goes way before sleepy joe. NATO and the EU have forced Putin’s hand. Compare America’s reaction to the possibility of a few missiles in Cuba 🇨🇺 and Russia’s 🇷🇺 concerns now! You and I can see this, and yet our ‘experts’ seem to be blinkered.
@robloxplayer22584 жыл бұрын
Wunderbar
@salvatorepandoropanettone9824 жыл бұрын
Straordinario.
@bluemarshall61804 жыл бұрын
7:08 A Bell 47-G in World war 2??????
@mikeagate4 жыл бұрын
Exactly! When questioned, Brian Hutton, the Director, remarked, 'they will not notice in Arkansas'!
@DaveSCameron Жыл бұрын
I read 50 millions perished? #Broadsword
@ianrogerburton16703 жыл бұрын
What a pity !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn´t understand a word that was said because the music was so darned loud !
@stuartmcmillan5123 жыл бұрын
Is it just me or is your commentary inaudable?
@mikeagate3 жыл бұрын
That is true. As I cannot re-edit this I am planning to put the dialogue in the description.
@clivepritchard36093 жыл бұрын
Where in Germany is the castle please.
@mikeagate3 жыл бұрын
The castle is called 'Hohenwerfen Castle' and is located just outside the little town of Werfen in Austria 🇦🇹. It is close to the border of Southern Germany in Bavaria. After visiting the 'Eagle's Nest' in Berchtesgaden we reached Werfen in 45 minutes.
@clivepritchard36093 жыл бұрын
Many thanks Mark for your reply. Much appreciated. 👍👍