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My family always loved this movie...my mom said Lee Marvin's last line in the film was one of the best comebacks in Hollywood scriptwriting...and thanks for not giving it away!

Burt Lancaster was probably one of the best actors of the 20th century, IMHO. This film is absolutely fantastic, from start to finish.

LOL save the universe in under an hour! I love Strek. Thanks.

Nice.

Love the cutaway to “the producer”. Very funny. Getting a little political are we?😊

Nice visuals in this!

I love the Beatles. I was 16 when John Lennon was assassinated and because of his death there was a resurgence of Beatlemania in the early 80's. A friend of mine had the entire White Album and copied it to cassette tape for me. I literally wore the tapes out listening to it. For some reason I've never seen this film, or "Help" (although I saw Yellow Submarine decades ago.) I need to sit down and watch it.

This film came out when I was 3. I remember when Network tv started showing it in in the 70's. My old man was looking forward to it because he hadn't seen it in the theaters in 68 (because he was married with 2 kids then). He thought it was incredibly boring and turned it off half way through. For years I avoided it and only caught bits and pieces of it. Maybe 12 years ago I sat down and watched the entire thing from start to finish and I finally got the brilliance of it. It's one of the greatest films ever made (and yes, I'm a Kubrick fanboy) and I am prepared to die on that hill.

I actually like getting old. I can now claim the excess weight I'm carrying is because of old age.

You should always pay people.

"The Year was 1964...' A year in which I spent most of the time as a fetus 😁 I actually like this one but my personal favorite from the Connery era is "From Russia With Love."

Probably a good time to revisit this since the great Donald Sutherland just passed away recently. Personally, as somebody raised Protestant in the MidWest, who attended public schools throughout his academic life, it doesn't pack the same emotional punch for me but I thought it was vaguely amusing at the time. Granted I have seen this film since the early 90's.

All us "old" people are crazy. I'm actually looking forward to turning 60 next year just so I can prove people wrong....

Hello back from an Xer.

I have to say, I never loved this film. To me it looks like they were trying to combine "Bullitt" with other crime thrillers from the 1970's. It's a triumph of style over substance. Visually it's a masterpiece but I find the story telling rather pedestrian.

Excellent movie a must see 👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

The visuals are spectacular. Dr. Kaarna I presume?

Howdy, Pard. I know. We could use more raindrops falling out this way. It's dusty, parched and brown, ready for fire. Raindrops, keep falling to cleanse us of dust, filth, corruption and lies. Rain brings clarity. The playful opening scene -- oh, it was consensual -- we understood. Whether or not our kids and grandkids would understand it is questionable, and they suffer from loneliness and isolation in our well intentioned, confusing world, where the morally bankrupt, sociopathic misfit follows a woman into a department store dressing room, uninvited and maliciously rapes a casual acquaintance, and gets off with a fine. What could be confusing about that? Let it rain. Our Butch and Sundance were smart, quick witted, handsome, and yes, they had long hair. I still do, and let me freak flag, fly. Maybe at half mast after today's Supreme Court unconstitutional, corrupt, ruling. Was it Quid pro Quo? We'll leave that to our Constitutional scholars, Justice Department, or maybe to Pemberton? They always get their man, or woman. El Niño, corporate greed, endless lies demanding that there ought'a be a law -- we've got problem 1971 audiences didn't face. Sure we had Nixon, the War, racial segregation, the Bomb and other problems. We still do, except today's bad guy is now played by a genuine autocratic megalomaniac who, if elected has threatened to be a Clear and Present Danger to our Constitutional Democracy. He makes Nixon look like a "Loser" in that convicted felon's twisted brain. Why did Nixon resign when he could have asked the Attorney General to cancel the Watergate investigation? It was a bungled burglary attempt. That's what the Republican Party would say today. The antihero with a soul and a conscience like Butch and Sundance, or their parts in 1973's The Sting are what's missing in today's Hollywood. That can no longer be done by the Hollywood CEO's and their henchmen, trained with a profit über alles perspective in every aspect of their jobs could ever risk potential income. This is the same confusion in ethics that motivates a Boeing CEO to show no remorse when their planes fail in flight, putting their pilots, flight crew, and passengers at great risk of injury and death. Safety checks cost money. There for "Losers". He must like engineers and the skilled technicians who build these increasingly complex flying machines to get it right the first time. Then we wouldn't need safety checks. I don't know, or concur with the pretzel logic used by todays business managers. Maybe the President can, as an Official act, write and executive order involving his duty to protect an American's right to safe airline travel that places the blame with CEO's when they "streamline" existing safety checks that cause more failures of their aircraft? Boeing makes many of our military's weapons, including aircraft. Is our national security at risk when CEO's change proven safety procedures when make these weapons used to defend our nation. Maybe today's Supreme ruling gives our President in his official duty to throw the man in charge in prison as an identified threat to our National Security? I've gone south, way down south in my comment today. It's 5 AM and I've not been able to calm my mind after today's loss from the Court and all the loss of freedom we've suffered in post WWII America. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is also a film about freedom. The joys of freedom, and the destruction caused by freedom used without responsibility, it's a Robin Hood story set in the late 19th century, but has lessons for people everywhere that are timeless. Thank you for your thoughtful review. Please vote 💙💙💙💙💙 this year, for America's survival and a country by, for, and of all her people.

Love this film Sidney Portier was an amazing actor with dignity and sophistication. I also ❤the Arabic hairstyles and wardrobe of Rossana Sciafono and Beba Loncar

I'm an Xer (b.1965) so I missed this in the theater but it was on network and then local television throughout the 70's and 80's, where a lot of us saw it. It's been in my collection for years, and even if you can make the case that "The Sting" is a better film, I still think this one is more fun, despite the downer ending.

Relevant now than it ever was moral of the story..Don't put your eggs into one cannister.🥚🐣

Joe thank you for your insights and your videos

The guy who monitored the radar scope with James Best's character portrayed the chubby kid janitor ("Alfred") from the 1946 Christmas film, "Miracle on 34th Street." Viva Big Rhed!

I love this movie because the castle is Turku Castle in Southwestern Finland. It's one of the oldest and most important buildings in Finland. There is no way they would be able to use the castle like this today, especially like in the truck scene. There are some scenes that were shot inside the castle too, specifically the attic of the castle.

Could you do that? You know you did as well as I. Your talking about a above ground subway L . Our playground. Don't fuck with a 1950's stop motion horny New York monster.

Hey Joe, long time no see. I can't tell you how much I loved your review of this movie. The scenes you highlighted are indelibly imprinted in my brain thanks to countless hours of watching Ch. 9's Million Dollar Movie back in the day. Watch a movie half a dozen times in one week and you'll be imprinted too !! Those were the days - thank you for bringing them back, even if just for a little while. Be well friend.

2:45 industrial slums

It was recommended but i still dont understand it

If I recall right, Jack Cardiff was also the cinematographer on "The Vikings"

Yeah, I grew up watching both of these films in the 70's and early 80's on local television. I'm not sure which one I think is better but it's interesting that half a century later, Viking themed shows and films are all the rage again. I've enjoyed shows like "Vikings," Vikings: Valhalla" and "The Last Kingdom" quite a bit recently.

I wasn't born when this film came out but I grew up watching it on local tv in the 70's and 80's. It's been in my dvd collection for at least 20 years now. I've been a James Garner fan since "The Rockford Files" debuted in 1974 and I'll generally watch anything he's in.

I absolutely LOVED this movie when I was a little kid. I didn't love it with the passion that I had for Forbidden Planet, but it was exotic and loads of fun. Sidney Poitier made an incredible impression on me. I was in a remote, subarctic Canadian town, and had never seen a Black person. I became fascinated by the Moors, and then read a lot of West African history.... which culminated, when I grew up, in some time spent visiting several West African countries and even reaching fabled Timbuktu. As for the Vikings --- well I also fell in love with Iceland, which I ended up visiting three times. But that wasn't because of The Long Ships. It was because of Journey to the Center of the Earth. The kind of "entertainment" I experienced with movies as a child actually shaped my life.

Savalas did a good job!

Frankenheimer!! Great director. Great movie.

I so wanted to see this movie on the big screen but never did. I, too, loved "Secret Agent'' and having McGoohan play the spy was God's gift to 15 year olds.

Been on my Prime Video watchlist for about 2 weeks. Didn't realise that Frankenheimer was the director. Von Ryan's Express - meh.

Good movie, Burt is so great in everything, those hostages getting shot stuck with me, just thought it was disturbing, one of my earliest memories of a theater experience was Bridge on the River Kwai, I remember leaning my head out in the aisle because I couldn’t see over who was sitting in front of me, but I remember the train falling into the river, those movie posters you showed are amazing, true art , thanks

Trains.. Once upon a time in the west.. Lawrence of Arabia.. My train favorites .. Thanx for the review 🚂

Hi Joe, great video today! I haven't seen this movie but it is definitely going to be on my list this week. My husband and I love Burt Lancaster movies . Lately we have been fixated on old 70's TV movies. We found that on RUclips they have many of the old ABC Sunday Night at the Movies, complete with the old time commercials. They really take you back in time and give the whole 70's tv experience. We have been enjoying them so much. Lately Its all I want to watch in the evenings. Tony said he felt his blood pressure drop several notches the moment he heard the ABC Sunday Night Movie theme song, because it instantly took him back to a slower place in time. :). I also love the Lady Vanishes, great movie. And Hard Days Night, sure brings back the memories. I first saw that in a drive in when I was a very little girl. I was hopelessly in crush with Ringo. Sigh! I too enjoy trains very much. Being from California originally, I never had the chance to ride on a train until my Grandfather took me to Knott's Berry Farm. Grandpa had once been a foreman on a railroad back in the early 1920's. He really loved trains. We rode the one at Knott's around the park several times that day, raising our hands up every time the bandits came on board with their cap pistols blazing! :). Tony and I also had the opportunity to live for a year in Rhinefelden, Switzerland, in 1997. He was sent there on a job assignment. We rode the trains all over Switzerland. The train station or "Bahnhoff" in Basil near where we lived looked very much like the picture you showed of Penn Station. We also rode the train all the way from Switzerland to Florence Italy and then on to Venice. From our base in Switzerland we were sent for a two week assignment to London, England. We stayed in a little nearby town called Kingston Upon the Thames. It was my first time ever riding a subway or "tube" as they call it. Then one day we rode the train across England from Victoria Station to the Satellite Ground Station on the Cornwall Coast. A little side note, my husband still keeps my London train pass in his wallet to this day because he says he likes the picture and it reminds him of our trip. We are sentimental that way. :) My train riding experiences were really beautiful and I was able to see many things I would never have been able to had we driven by car. Thanks again Joe for another video, as always I enjoy them very much.

John Sturges unforgettable Bad Day at Black Rock started it all. A true "modern" Western. Cast, dialogue and acting is like a template for coming generations. A smart film indeed.

Extremely underrated and overlooked film although in some ways the book was better.

HappySt.Patricks day brother

I agree that this is the best of the first three, and fact, I think it's the best Star Wars movie ever made. I'd put "Rogue One" behind it a bit, with the original "A New Hope" (gack) behind those two. I was 15 when I saw this and thought it was amazing. I re-watched it a few years ago and still love it.

an adventure film starring a coward😅❤🙌

Great film, winner of 2 academy awards in 1966, stellar acting, great story and incredible special effects!!!!!

Thank you for your review of this underappreciated little movie. It has a surreal quality, which is unusual for a war film. Burt Lancaster is great (of course), and the ending is worth the wait. It was Lancaster's star power that got this movie made. That and Pollocks credentials. Believe it or not, after seeing the movie, I actually read the book, by William Eastlake, that the movie is based on, and the movie is pretty faithful to the book. I always want to tell people who want to watch it, that it is NOT an action film. It goes much deeper. Also, the cinematography is incredible, and the scenes with the snow are beautiful. I watch this every December the 16th, which is when The Battle of the Bulge started. A little odd story. I grew up in a small southern town, with two television stations, and two AM radio stations. The only way to catch movies you had never seen before was late on Friday and Saturday nights. Late one night this movie came on, and I fell asleep. After that, I never ever saw it again anytime, anywhere. It just disappeared. Fat forward to December of 2023, and I caught it on the tv in the breakroom where I worked. Now that I knew the title, the next day I bought a copy on eBay. But to this day I have never understood why it just vanished from the airwaves. I hope that more people will watch your review, and give this undiscovered gem a look. It deserves to be remembered. Thanks again!

Yeah, I belonged to the legion of boys who had a crush on Haley mills.

Wow, you got to see it at the time at one of them old time movie palaces. That’s good fortune.

These are my favourite Saturday afternoon movies😂! They're sooooo comfortable, nostalgia wise. Almost like valium after a rough week😊

I'm with you, 100 %.