wcatholic1 wcatholic1 All or the majority of the captured men in this camp were from the RAF (or foreign equivalent). The Luftwaffe took care of them because they were also fliers. The Geneva Convention prevented them from acting like the SS and the Gestapo as POWs had to be treated with some sort of respect, even though all the POWs were trying to escape and mess with the Germans. It also states that the punishment for escaped POWs is equal to that of a petty crime. They usually got 10 days in prison (if they were found outside the camp) or time in solitary if they were found trying to escape. The massacre that occurs at the end of the film of 50 escapees was, in fact, illegal and the members of the Gestapo and SS, along with other members of the Nazi Party, that took part in it were all tried as war criminals at the end of the war. By the camp this is based on, there is a memorial constructed by the POWs in memory of the 50 killed. The officers of the camp gave them permission to build it as the majority thought that the massacre was extreme and unnecessary although, of course, they didn't voice these thoughts until the end of the war.
degree7 I can't speak for all the German navy services, but the u boat commanders were bastards. My grandfather hated them, after having his merchant vessel sunk. He realised that was fair game, but the u boat surfaced and machine gunned all the survivors in the water. He only survived because he was hiding behind a large piece of floating debris, whilst hanging on to one of his unconscious shipmates. Luckily they were picked up within an hour by another merchantman. He got a medal.
@@bartmanfantanfart36 Pretty sure Wilhelm II died during the war and he was the only second reich leader alive at the time iirc. First reich leaders are non-existent now.
What’s even better is at the end where they’ve gained a mutual respect for one another, he recalls that line by saying, “It appears you will see Berlin before I do.”
He did but it was a great injustice to the British, Commonwealth and other allied airmen who actually participated in the great escape to give a prominent role to an American- when no Americans actually took part in the escape from Stalag Luft 3.
What y'all have failed to notice is, that while McQueen is calling him Max, it's actually a little jab at the Germans. Max is a Yiddish name, so therefore Steve calling a German soldier Max, is like calling them Krauts but less noticable by them.
The German actor who played the Kommandant of the prison camp was an escapee himself during WW2 when he served on the Eastern Front, escaping the Soviets on foot back to Germany.
wrongway1100 All right! All right! Who squealed and told wrongway1100 that the character's nickname was the Cooler King? Who?...you? Alright, for that, you'll not be getting extra lice & maggots in your broth for ten days!
I feel like a LOT of people misread the context. This was about a rivalry between pilots on opposite sides of the war. The Luftwaffe and the "Hotshot" American pilot. This POW camp was effectively the Ritz Carlton of POW camps because the Luftwaffe respected their captives.
My mother got to meet the real Cooler King in high-school. Very influential in her life. His advice that presentation was "Learn anything you can, because you never know what you'll need when you're all alone."
I like how it's a regular guard who is furious and shouty, then an officer comes who is not angry but is clearly annoyed and then the commandant comes and he's very chill and calm. McQueen tries to bluff at first but then decides to tell the truth with the commandant.
@James Miller That's not the whole story. The main reason that Americans would rarely take prisoners in the Pacific was that the Japanese had a proclivity to feign surrender and then suicide bomb their captors with a grenade. Many Americans thereafter wouldn't take prisoners, not because of some savagery on the part of the Japanese, but because taking a Japanese person prisoner was often instant death by suicide fragging.
@Delboy359 Believe it or not dropping the bombs saved lives. Any invasion of the Japanese home islands would have been costly in the extreme to both sides. Operation Downfall - the American invasion plan - was constrained by the fact that relatively few places exist along the Japanese coastlines that would have allowed for a large military landing to occur. The Japanese commanders could read a map as well as the Americans, and their defense plan, Operation Ketsugō, accurately predicted the planned American landing sites and would have put almost every military asset to oppose the invaders. The predilection for the Japanese military to fight to the last man, plus the fact that Japanese civilians were known to be training to fight any invading forces to one degree or another, meant that virtually every capable hand would bring everything from tanks and artillery to pitchforks and stones to fight off the Americans. Expected casualties on both sides were expected to be extreme - estimates at the time and since then vary anywhere from 5-20 million. While the use of nuclear weapons may be extreme, but they were a fraction of what could have been.
@@Hardcover_Pilot The Japanese made attempts to surrender, but the Americans decided to drop the bombs as a show of force to the Soviets. It was apparent that the Soviets would be a rival in the aftermath of the war. The US wanted China, which at the time had no unified leadership.
Steve McQueen was the only guy I ever saw who could play cool and comedy at the same time, his character Hilts is incredibly cool with his bone pants, boots and leather jacket and yet he plays the clown here trolling them all purely to test the wire and the patience of the gaurds despite nearly losing his life over it, unique character in cinema history for sure.
@Om Patel 1) People that are now in their late 30's could go to the premiere of Forrest Gump [edited]. That is not a long time ago. 2) If people only watched new releases, they would greatly limit their cinematic experience. The Great Escape is among the classics too.
One day, the police in the German town where the film was shot set up a speed trap near the set. Several members of the cast and crew were caught, including Steve McQueen. The Chief of Police told McQueen "Herr McQueen, we have caught several of your comrades today, but you have won the prize [for the highest speeding]." McQueen was arrested and briefly jailed.
My dad was a B-24 pilot shot down by enemy flak and became a prisoner of the Reich at Stalag Luft I 1944-45. He said the movie was well-done and accurate.
You mean the Germans didn't interrogate pilots when they were shot down? You mean it was OK for a POW to disrespect a guard, or worse, the commanding officer of the prison, and have no immediate physical repercussions? This movie is about 10% more of an accurate depiction of an actual POW prison than Hogan's Heroes.
@@montanarailroads7367 The allied pilots and especially the British ones are very lucky to have been only "interrogated" after having bombed and burned alive hundred of thousands of civilians women and children in Germany but also in all Europe (of which the grandfather of my wife)
@@Velthur Bombing civilian populations seemed to be all the rage by almost all participants of WWII, including the US, Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain. The point I was making is that POWs were rarely treated with kid gloves.
I am 67 but when L was a kid I loved this movie. and now knowing something of what it takes to become a great actor. There's so much technical stuff and then then the acting proof you don't need all the nudity and foul language, just a good story. This is for you Steve 👑 the King of cool.
I think what is lacking today in the film world is there seems to be a lack of true movie stars. I remember the days when we had real stars like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Robert Redford and I don't think we have reached those heights since. I remember going to the cinema to see the film "The Towering Inferno" starring Steve McQueen and Paul Newman and there was an excitement among the audience because not only could we not wait to see the film but we also could also not wait to see Steve McQueen and Paul Newman. Those times I miss.
RIP Donald Pleasence (October 5, 1919 - February 2, 1995), aged 75 RIP Charles Bronson (November 3, 1921 - August 30, 2003), aged 81 RIP Hannes Messemer (May 17, 1924 - November 2, 1991), aged 67 RIP James Garner (April 7, 1928 - July 19, 2014), aged 86 RIP James Coburn (August 31, 1928 - November 18, 2002), aged 74 RIP Steve McQueen (March 24, 1930 - November 7, 1980), aged 50 You will be remembered as legends.
At the theatre I was the only one among my friends who had seen The great escape. Damian Lewis killed it as Steve McQueen and for a moment he literally made him come back to life.
One THE great movies surely. We know the script backwards but its still compulsive viewing. Acting, script, cast, music, a winner in every department. And of course, Dedicated to The Fifty.
The guys who did a lot of the digging were Canadian mining engineers. One of the last ones died about 5 years ago in Toronto, Robert Weir was his name, I think.
Yes, they just added some Americans into the movie because they wanted to get the American audience to watch the movie. The entire operation was a British Empire undertaking. The Americans had nothing to do with the Great Escape.
Brilliant film to watch from start to finish by John sturges he got a lot of brilliant actors in this movie a fantastic soundtrack and a very good script as well 🎥🎥🎥👍👍👍
There was only one American in "The Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III, Sagan. It was a Flight Lieutenant Shaw who was an American who had joined the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) like several other thousand Americans prior to the US entering the Second World War. As the escapees were transiting along the tunnel to escape, (the tunnel had not reached the safety of the surrounding forest) the escape was discovered by guards, cutting off those who were waiting their turn to escape, being in the tunnel when it had been discovered.....Flight Lieutenant Shaw was in the tunnel when the escape was stopped. He exited back up the tunnel, burned his fake documents and hid his civilian clothes, all before the German camp guards could arrive at the camp end of the tunnel. 76 POWs did escape with 73 being recaptured, only three (two Norwegian RAF pilots and one Dutch RAF pilot) did successfully escape and returned to England continuing to fly in the RAF until war's end. The recaptured 73 POWs were all ordered by Hitler to be shot, but the German High Command objected, so Hitler revised his order and ordered that 50 of the recaptured POW escapees be shot by the Gestapo. The 50 of the 73 were selected by the SS SD security service deputy, Major Muller and those 50 were then taken out by the Gestapo and shot in the back of the head. Their bodies were cremated and ashes in urns were sent back to Stalag Luft III at Sagan. Post-war the Royal Air Force Police conducted a criminal field investigation and located 43 former Gestapo officers who had been involved in the murder of the 50 POWs. They were subjected to a military courts martial where 21 were found guilty and hund, while the remainder were found guilty of assisting in the murders and sentenced to prison times. A further group of 23 former Gestapo,officers were also identified but had managed to go into what was then communist East Germany, beyond the physical jurisdiction of that criminal investigation. (the book "The Human Game - The true story of the "Great Escape" and the hunt for the Gestapo gunmen" by Simon Read published in 2012 reveals the details.)
What I really love about this scene is just Hilts being a real smartass to the enemy, and not just behind they're backs, right in the Colonel's face. Most of the time, you'd be shot dead for shit like that. Steve's performance is great in this scene. A true badass. Totally worth being titled as ''Captain Hilts'' I'd totally fallow him into the battles of Berlin.
+BigJackFilms That's why most of us were just smitten by McQueen and all his film characters; he was his own person in life and film. He WAS a badass, although charming as well ..... when charm was called for. My grandson (now 29) saw this film about 10 years ago; he was impressed with McQueen, and the entire movie, of course. I explained to him that "in his day" most women wanted to be with him and most men wanted... then, my grandson interjected and said with me: ..."to be like him."
BigJackFilms it would actually have been a war crime if they'd shot Hilts. The Geneva Convention states that POWs are to be treated with respect. The worst they could get was solitary. The massacre that later occurred was illegal and everyone who was involved in it, from the members of the Gestapo that shot them to the generals that ordered it, were tried as war criminals at the end of the war. Had he not taken his own life, Hitler would've been too.
It was against the rules for Prisoner's of war to be shot... actually for many English and American soldiers their orders where to keep attempting to escape, and as the Guards where not allowed to kill them, they just had to put up with it =P
Yes I believe some German officers would shoot POWs for things like this, but the warden of this camp is supposed to be a more humane character. I got the impression that he doesn't really believe in the Nazi war effort. He makes his dislike for the SS and Gestapo guys rather obvious. A German officer who understood and appreciated the Geneva conventions would hesitate before shooting unarmed men.
Daughter just had to move into the "Cooler" dorm in college due to having contact with another student that tested positive. Sent her this to cheer her up.
"Why are you ov3er the wire?!" "Oh, I was just -- " *commotion* "What are you doing by the wire?!?!?!?" "well my baseball--" **upperlevel management comotion** "what were you doing by the wire?" "..."
@@optimisticwhovian1726 Although Michael Redgrave was the star of The Captive Heart, it was the supporting actors, such as Jack Warner, Mervyn Johns, Guy Middleton and Basil Radford, that made the film. The Wooden Horse (telling the story of an earlier escape from Stalag Luft III) starred Leo Genn, David Tomlinson and Anthony Steele.
"Well like I was telling max here-" *goring comes in on a fighter bomber (cause a normal plain wouldn't carry his weight) : "why are you over the wire?" "Well like I was telling max here-" *the entire general staff drives up* : "why are you over the wire?" *sighs* "well . . . as i-" *Hitler shows up* "Why are you over the wire?" *ten minutes later* *Otto von Bismarcks ghost appears* "Why are you over the wire?"
Hard to gather a cast of this talent now. Ocean's 11 did well fair play but it might not age the same. It's interesting that all the talent from Pleasance to Bronson to Garner to Coburn to Attenborough etc. gave each other space enough that they all shone in their own slot. Hard to achieve and the director must have been formidable.
This was the very 1st movie in a theater I ever watched. My friends birthday party at the age of 7 I think? McQueen has always been an icon in the acting and car and motorcycle racing circuits. Bullet to name just one. God bless and thank you for your entertainment you gave Americans. 😊
Hilts says to him " Before this war's over I plan on seeing Berlin from the air". At end of the movie when the commandant is being taken away he see's Hilts brought back and says: "It looks like you'll see Berlin before me".
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I'm sure Monty Python could have developed a sketch from this scene with the ever increasing rank of German getting involved.
Oh that would be funny
"You see,as I was saying to the corporal, sargeant, staff sargeant, first sargeant, lieutenant, captain..." ;)
@@Robi2009 Python would have done it right up to Hitler himself, theres a hint of the living in a shoe box sketch in there.
It would have gotten very silly.
@@Muirton66 And then Hitler's mom. And then some Jewish guy.
The Group Captain had a point. Being a prisoner of the Luftwaffe was one thing. Being a prisoner of the SS or Gestapo was something else.
wcatholic1 wcatholic1 All or the majority of the captured men in this camp were from the RAF (or foreign equivalent). The Luftwaffe took care of them because they were also fliers.
The Geneva Convention prevented them from acting like the SS and the Gestapo as POWs had to be treated with some sort of respect, even though all the POWs were trying to escape and mess with the Germans. It also states that the punishment for escaped POWs is equal to that of a petty crime. They usually got 10 days in prison (if they were found outside the camp) or time in solitary if they were found trying to escape.
The massacre that occurs at the end of the film of 50 escapees was, in fact, illegal and the members of the Gestapo and SS, along with other members of the Nazi Party, that took part in it were all tried as war criminals at the end of the war. By the camp this is based on, there is a memorial constructed by the POWs in memory of the 50 killed. The officers of the camp gave them permission to build it as the majority thought that the massacre was extreme and unnecessary although, of course, they didn't voice these thoughts until the end of the war.
Indi Heaton: Thanks for your Posting info... I didn't know all the facts.
'We're fighting the whole bloody lot of 'em!'
degree7 I can't speak for all the German navy services, but the u boat commanders were bastards.
My grandfather hated them, after having his merchant vessel sunk. He realised that was fair game, but the u boat surfaced and machine gunned all the survivors in the water.
He only survived because he was hiding behind a large piece of floating debris, whilst hanging on to one of his unconscious shipmates.
Luckily they were picked up within an hour by another merchantman. He got a medal.
@@mannixflinn6227 that's after the Laconia incident right? Donitz issued orders to U Boats not pick up survivors under the risk of allied air attack.
Can't believe they picked Steve McQueen instead of Rick Dalton
It's all because of what a mess that last season of "Bounty Law" was. Although I hear his spaghetti westerns are certain to set things aflame.
14 fists of McClusky was better
I dunno. If you look back at the recovered cut footage, Dalton was honestly a little one note. Didn't quite have the charm McQueen had.
@@MegaCrocosaurus92 LoL
You know, I heard McQueen almost passed on the film, and that Rick almost got the part...
These are the nicest ww2 era german guards i've ever seen.
@Wil Sain Oh Jesus Christ.
Meanwhile germans not giving food to the russian pows
@@Thee_Deputy facts dont care about your feelings
@@usa5439 facts don’t care about your delusions either, kitten.
@@janys6502 german POW's didn't get food either, stop comparing two evils and saying the other was better
I was expecting Hitler himself getting out of the barracks to inquire why he was crossing the damn wire.
Me too, lol
And then for some reasons the Japanese empire and the leader of Italy then leader of the 2nd riech and 1st riech
😂😂😂
@@bartmanfantanfart36 Pretty sure Wilhelm II died during the war and he was the only second reich leader alive at the time iirc.
First reich leaders are non-existent now.
Lol
"I haven't seen Berlin yet, from the ground or from the air, and I plan on doing both before the war is over." Love it.
Only in Hollywood...
What’s even better is at the end where they’ve gained a mutual respect for one another, he recalls that line by saying, “It appears you will see Berlin before I do.”
Russian army: we're going to disappoint you..
"Oh, you'll still be here when I get out?"
@@leftcoaster67 “Cooler, Hilts.”
Steve McQueen had a great screen presence, difficult to take your eyes off him and he was a true movie star. 🎥🎥🎥
He had to be convinced by James Garner to take the role, he turned it down originally because he wasn't in it enough.
At the time he was the very definition of Cool. One title says it all. "Bullitt". P.S: Robert Vaughn went to my high school (So did Prince).
He did but it was a great injustice to the British, Commonwealth and other allied airmen who actually participated in the great escape to give a prominent role to an American- when no Americans actually took part in the escape from Stalag Luft 3.
He wasn't even traditionally god looking, that's how cool he was.
@@skparkes1969 Wouldn't have marketed too well in the U.S, otherwise.
2:32 "captain hilts." "twenty days." Such an amazing scene
Oh, uhh, you’ll still be here when I get out?
"captain Hilts." "Auschwitz.""Actually Hilts will do fine".
Captain Ruffles hahahaha😂😂 genius
@@PrehistoricLEGO cooler
" Oh you'll still be here when I get out" 😅
"Well like I told Max here..."
I was trying to cut trough the wire here
Mac, not Max. Mac is what an American would call a stranger, in the same way a Scot would say to a stranger "...hey, Jimmy..."
It’s Max, mate
@@lorddaver5729 he says Max.
What y'all have failed to notice is, that while McQueen is calling him Max, it's actually a little jab at the Germans. Max is a Yiddish name, so therefore Steve calling a German soldier Max, is like calling them Krauts but less noticable by them.
what a cast this movie had
One of the all-time great ensemble casts.
Agreed .. these were real actors not like what we have today
The best of the best from both sides of the pond, British and Yanks. Unforgettable film.
Right? An amazing film
Too bad they didn’t use real names.
The German actor who played the Kommandant of the prison camp was an escapee himself during WW2 when he served on the Eastern Front, escaping the Soviets on foot back to Germany.
Can't believe Rick Dalton almost got the part
He wasn't *cool* enough.
@@CB-xr1eg Steve McQueen was... *cooler* 😉
@@thomasbaron5367 Wow, you hijacked my joke...how dare you?😑
@@CB-xr1eg *shrugs* 🙃
Aw man! Thats gotta hurt!
"Cooler".
Man, doesn't he realize Steve McQueen was the KING of COOL?
Matthew Hamersly the movie is to be renamed the great mcqueen
Matthew Hamersly Well the character nick name was the Cooler King.
wrongway1100 All right!
All right! Who squealed and told wrongway1100 that the character's nickname was the Cooler King? Who?...you? Alright, for that, you'll not be getting extra lice & maggots in your broth for ten days!
They didn't call him the cooler king for nothing.
he means steve is going to get "cooler" each time he gets sent to the clink.
Watching McQueen act always brings a smile to my face. Effortless. King of Cool
I feel like a LOT of people misread the context. This was about a rivalry between pilots on opposite sides of the war. The Luftwaffe and the "Hotshot" American pilot. This POW camp was effectively the Ritz Carlton of POW camps because the Luftwaffe respected their captives.
My mother got to meet the real Cooler King in high-school. Very influential in her life. His advice that presentation was "Learn anything you can, because you never know what you'll need when you're all alone."
That's pretty solid advice
"I was trying to cut my way through your wire because I wanna get out" love that line
At least he was honest 😂
Steve McQeen was incredible in this movie. Loved him.
Adolf Hitler: WHAT IS IT?!
*_"Well like I told Max here"_*
🤣🤣🤣😐😂😂🤣🤣🤣
LMFAO
I like to see a Hitler Parody - "Hitler learns Captain Hilts escaped again !"
I like how it's a regular guard who is furious and shouty, then an officer comes who is not angry but is clearly annoyed and then the commandant comes and he's very chill and calm. McQueen tries to bluff at first but then decides to tell the truth with the commandant.
Y did he tell the truth?
@laverndavis3400 bc he realised he can probably fool the other 2 individuals bit not a more experienced and seasoned person
Good observation
“Are all American officers so ill mannered?” “Yeah, about 99 percent.”
Damn right! 😂
That only made the Americans no better than the Japaneese and dropping the bomb on them at the end of the war made g the Americans worse.
@James Miller That's not the whole story.
The main reason that Americans would rarely take prisoners in the Pacific was that the Japanese had a proclivity to feign surrender and then suicide bomb their captors with a grenade. Many Americans thereafter wouldn't take prisoners, not because of some savagery on the part of the Japanese, but because taking a Japanese person prisoner was often instant death by suicide fragging.
@Delboy359 Believe it or not dropping the bombs saved lives. Any invasion of the Japanese home islands would have been costly in the extreme to both sides. Operation Downfall - the American invasion plan - was constrained by the fact that relatively few places exist along the Japanese coastlines that would have allowed for a large military landing to occur. The Japanese commanders could read a map as well as the Americans, and their defense plan, Operation Ketsugō, accurately predicted the planned American landing sites and would have put almost every military asset to oppose the invaders. The predilection for the Japanese military to fight to the last man, plus the fact that Japanese civilians were known to be training to fight any invading forces to one degree or another, meant that virtually every capable hand would bring everything from tanks and artillery to pitchforks and stones to fight off the Americans. Expected casualties on both sides were expected to be extreme - estimates at the time and since then vary anywhere from 5-20 million. While the use of nuclear weapons may be extreme, but they were a fraction of what could have been.
@@Hardcover_Pilot Accurate and commendable points that most ignorant Americans fail to understand.
@@Hardcover_Pilot The Japanese made attempts to surrender, but the Americans decided to drop the bombs as a show of force to the Soviets. It was apparent that the Soviets would be a rival in the aftermath of the war. The US wanted China, which at the time had no unified leadership.
No one can replace Steve McQueen.
German Oberst: "20 days."
Capt. Hilts : "Oh you'll still be here when I get out...? "
About 99 percent. Got to love that cheeky grin from Steve.
Steve McQueen was the only guy I ever saw who could play cool and comedy at the same time, his character Hilts is incredibly cool with his bone pants, boots and leather jacket and yet he plays the clown here trolling them all purely to test the wire and the patience of the gaurds despite nearly losing his life over it, unique character in cinema history for sure.
I love how he just drops all pretenses and straight up says he was trying to escape. So boss! Lol
AND the wirecutters toss!
RIP Steve Mcqueen
Now I want to see the Rick Dalton version again! Yes... Once Upon a Time.. in Hollywood sent me here lol
Even Leonado DiCaprio can't match Steve McQueen cool.
Leoanrdo Dicaprio doesnt have the testosterone Steve McQueen had
@@ganggang3873 Not many did.
The way they did this in the movie was insane, I nearly screamed like a fan girl when I saw this in the theater
Forrest Gump (1994) had a similar thing.
me too tbh
How old are you jeez
@@nutlover3609 Why?
@Om Patel 1) People that are now in their late 30's could go to the premiere of Forrest Gump [edited]. That is not a long time ago.
2) If people only watched new releases, they would greatly limit their cinematic experience. The Great Escape is among the classics too.
One day, the police in the German town where the film was shot set up a speed trap near the set. Several members of the cast and crew were caught, including Steve McQueen. The Chief of Police told McQueen "Herr McQueen, we have caught several of your comrades today, but you have won the prize [for the highest speeding]." McQueen was arrested and briefly jailed.
THE CHIEF WANTED MCQUEEN'S AUTOGRAPH ?
Vegeta Solo really?? Or u pulling my leg 🦵 ? Lol
Vegeta Solo was he driving a mustang fast back by any chance ? Green ??
Here's what the police really said: "Könnten wir ein Autogramm von Ihnen haben, Herr McQueen? (Could we have an autograph from You, Mr. McQueen?)"
how the cars movies were made
I've seen these movies thanks to my dad. I'm so glad he introduced me to them. I appreciate them.
This superb film was first released in 1963...yet stiil holds up after all these years.
Great cast, great movie. A must-see classic.
The Great Escape is an awesome movie, having seen it many times. Just wondering how they managed to get the film developed for the forged I.D. photos?
Every actor had photos of themselves, usually in glossy 8x10. Pretty sure it takes nothing to get copies and put it on a fake WWII ID card.
@@leftcoaster67 think he’s talking about back in 1944
@@cillianfee9369 Indeed. Getting film and the chemicals needed to develop them would have been a challenge.
Shtop asking deez qvestions, or its da cooler for you too.
My understanding is that they used homemade chemicals. You don't need nearly as much to develop black and white as you do color photos.
Who is here because of Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood"
I was surprised how much time this The Great Escape and McQueen got in that movie.
MrBean Dip he pulled a Forrest Gump
🙋🏻♂️
I have no idea how the RUclips algorithm knew I just saw the movie, but it recommended this clip to me the next day.
@@Dr.TJ_Eckleburg hot damn dude. That's crazy
The casting manager did Rick Dalton dirty sadly...
This is one of the greatest films ever made, seriously.
it blows
@@bobbyjoe1111 Nah, that's you who blows. Movie is awesome.
It hasn’t aged well since the 60’s, and is now pretty cheesy.
@@ArmyJames Disagree
@@bobbyjoe1111 your mother blows for bus money and still has to talk home?
My dad was a B-24 pilot shot down by enemy flak and became a prisoner of the Reich at Stalag Luft I 1944-45. He said the movie was well-done and accurate.
You mean the Germans didn't interrogate pilots when they were shot down? You mean it was OK for a POW to disrespect a guard, or worse, the commanding officer of the prison, and have no immediate physical repercussions? This movie is about 10% more of an accurate depiction of an actual POW prison than Hogan's Heroes.
@@montanarailroads7367 The allied pilots and especially the British ones are very lucky to have been only "interrogated" after having bombed and burned alive hundred of thousands of civilians women and children in Germany but also in all Europe (of which the grandfather of my wife)
@@Velthur Bombing civilian populations seemed to be all the rage by almost all participants of WWII, including the US, Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain. The point I was making is that POWs were rarely treated with kid gloves.
@@montanarailroads7367 The germans treated the Western allies quite well. The Russians? Not so much
@@ndmz903 Quite well. Revisionist history at its best.
1:22 man that was cool
I am 67 but when L was a kid I loved this movie. and now knowing something of what it takes to become a great actor. There's so much technical stuff and then then the acting proof you don't need all the nudity and foul language, just a good story.
This is for you Steve
👑 the King of cool.
Who's L?
@@ronik3636 That is I for me, myself and I.
@@artschamberg4470 But sometimes nudity works too.
Completely agree
Its crazy how qt re-created this with leo
Techs came along way huh
Even Leonado DiCaprio can't match Steve McQueen cool.
I'm here after Tarantino's Once Upon A Time In... Hollywood. What a Wonderful Recreation he did.
I watched the Great Escape yesterday and once upon a time today. Didn't see that coming
"Get my baseball" Steve was smart and cool which is rare.
One of my favorite movie scenes. Steve was just SUPER honest.
"You first ask permission!" LOL like a neighbor telling a kid to get off the property
I think what is lacking today in the film world is there seems to be a lack of true movie stars. I remember the days when we had real stars like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Robert Redford and I don't think we have reached those heights since. I remember going to the cinema to see the film "The Towering Inferno" starring Steve McQueen and Paul Newman and there was an excitement among the audience because not only could we not wait to see the film but we also could also not wait to see Steve McQueen and Paul Newman. Those times I miss.
Cool Hand Luke is phenomenal!
@@davidovics92 It is.
I've seen this movie countless times, and it's still badass McQueen!
Charles Gorman Thank you Netflix for this fine piece of movie!!
Stalag 17 is also a good one! I'm 27 now and I remember watching these with my father when I was younger these and like EVERY John Wayne movie 😂
Steve McQueen was one of the coolest guys, ever!!!
The exchange of dialogue in this scene has got to be among the most hilarious on film.
This movie has not aged well. There's no way they were treated so nicely.
RIP Donald Pleasence (October 5, 1919 - February 2, 1995), aged 75
RIP Charles Bronson (November 3, 1921 - August 30, 2003), aged 81
RIP Hannes Messemer (May 17, 1924 - November 2, 1991), aged 67
RIP James Garner (April 7, 1928 - July 19, 2014), aged 86
RIP James Coburn (August 31, 1928 - November 18, 2002), aged 74
RIP Steve McQueen (March 24, 1930 - November 7, 1980), aged 50
You will be remembered as legends.
Don't forget about. James Garner, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn.
What about Richard Attenborough? You can't forget Big X.
Paul Newman - Cool Hand Luke
Steve McQueen - The Great Escape
Two likable escapees.
At the theatre I was the only one among my friends who had seen The great escape. Damian Lewis killed it as Steve McQueen and for a moment he literally made him come back to life.
Great music and wonderful story not repeat twice in the American cinema and their conversations love to hear it many times .
One of the Greatest Movies ever made.
絶対に折れない心を持つ主人公に心を惹かれます。
私が観た映画の中で最高の映画です。
この映画は私が心が折れそうになった時はいつも見ます。
スティーブ・マックイーンさん、最高の映画を提供して頂き深く感謝しております。
私も私が観た映画の中で最高の映画です。（12歳の時TVで観てから20回は観ています。現在62歳です）
@@松本和彦-u5j そうなんですね！私は震災前に神戸で向井さんという素晴らしい方からこの映画を教えて頂きました！それからはこの映画を心から愛しています。この映画を押してくださった向井さんという方とコメントをくださったあなたが同い年でなんだかとても嬉しい気分になりました！コメントありがとうございます！
1:14 tf was that
Continuity error?
Nobody I mean nobody could have played Hilts but Steve McQueen. He made the movie !!!
One THE great movies surely. We know the script backwards but its still compulsive viewing. Acting, script, cast, music, a winner in every department. And of course, Dedicated to The Fifty.
The guys who did a lot of the digging were Canadian mining engineers. One of the last ones died about 5 years ago in Toronto, Robert Weir was his name, I think.
Yes, they just added some Americans into the movie because they wanted to get the American audience to watch the movie. The entire operation was a British Empire undertaking. The Americans had nothing to do with the Great Escape.
this is such a historical movie that changed everything...love this movie
McQueen...wow. Just wow. Oh, you'll still be here when I get out? Classic.
RIP Steve McQueen and Hannes Messemer (Hilts and Von Luger)
I love the exchange "Are all American officers so ill mannered." "Yeah about 99%"
What a great actor and will never be forgotten a true legend rip steve❤❤❤🖐
Brilliant film to watch from start to finish by John sturges he got a lot of brilliant actors in this movie a fantastic soundtrack and a very good script as well 🎥🎥🎥👍👍👍
absolutely love this movie, McQueen is great!
Austin the movie is all mcqueen
There was only one American in "The Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III, Sagan. It was a Flight Lieutenant Shaw who was an American who had joined the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) like several other thousand Americans prior to the US entering the Second World War. As the escapees were transiting along the tunnel to escape, (the tunnel had not reached the safety of the surrounding forest) the escape was discovered by guards, cutting off those who were waiting their turn to escape, being in the tunnel when it had been discovered.....Flight Lieutenant Shaw was in the tunnel when the escape was stopped. He exited back up the tunnel, burned his fake documents and hid his civilian clothes, all before the German camp guards could arrive at the camp end of the tunnel. 76 POWs did escape with 73 being recaptured, only three (two Norwegian RAF pilots and one Dutch RAF pilot) did successfully escape and returned to England continuing to fly in the RAF until war's end. The recaptured 73 POWs were all ordered by Hitler to be shot, but the German High Command objected, so Hitler revised his order and ordered that 50 of the recaptured POW escapees be shot by the Gestapo. The 50 of the 73 were selected by the SS SD security service deputy, Major Muller and those 50 were then taken out by the Gestapo and shot in the back of the head. Their bodies were cremated and ashes in urns were sent back to Stalag Luft III at Sagan. Post-war the Royal Air Force Police conducted a criminal field investigation and located 43 former Gestapo officers who had been involved in the murder of the 50 POWs. They were subjected to a military courts martial where 21 were found guilty and hund, while the remainder were found guilty of assisting in the murders and sentenced to prison times. A further group of 23 former Gestapo,officers were also identified but had managed to go into what was then communist East Germany, beyond the physical jurisdiction of that criminal investigation. (the book "The Human Game - The true story of the "Great Escape" and the hunt for the Gestapo gunmen" by Simon Read published in 2012 reveals the details.)
"You're not putting me in da coola!"
+TheSMLIFfilms Who do you think you are? Mr. Freeze?
Calm down, Mr. Freeze
Perfectly shaven prisoners, well fed. Attention to detail amazing.
Steve McQueen-----the essence of cool.
cool and yet goofy at the same time in this film, curious mix you don't usually see with any actor.
What I really love about this scene is just Hilts being a real smartass to the enemy, and not just behind they're backs, right in the Colonel's face. Most of the time, you'd be shot dead for shit like that.
Steve's performance is great in this scene. A true badass. Totally worth being titled as ''Captain Hilts'' I'd totally fallow him into the battles of Berlin.
+BigJackFilms That's why most of us were just smitten by McQueen and all his film characters; he was his own person in life and film. He WAS a badass, although charming as well ..... when charm was called for.
My grandson (now 29) saw this film about 10 years ago; he was impressed with McQueen, and the entire movie, of course. I explained to him that "in his day" most women wanted to be with him and most men wanted... then, my grandson interjected and said with me: ..."to be like him."
BigJackFilms it would actually have been a war crime if they'd shot Hilts. The Geneva Convention states that POWs are to be treated with respect. The worst they could get was solitary.
The massacre that later occurred was illegal and everyone who was involved in it, from the members of the Gestapo that shot them to the generals that ordered it, were tried as war criminals at the end of the war. Had he not taken his own life, Hitler would've been too.
38SThelma Cota: bet that intuitive, Bright red-blooded grandson Ain't appreciated in most public skules in the USA!
It was against the rules for Prisoner's of war to be shot... actually for many English and American soldiers their orders where to keep attempting to escape, and as the Guards where not allowed to kill them, they just had to put up with it =P
Yes I believe some German officers would shoot POWs for things like this, but the warden of this camp is supposed to be a more humane character. I got the impression that he doesn't really believe in the Nazi war effort. He makes his dislike for the SS and Gestapo guys rather obvious.
A German officer who understood and appreciated the Geneva conventions would hesitate before shooting unarmed men.
Seriously great actor. Steve McQueen!
Greatest movie ever made, I must have watched this movie 150 times over the years.
Definetly a different sort of camp compared to the worst kind
"Oh uh, you'll still be here when I get out?"
They should have gone with Rick Dalton over McQueen
Daughter just had to move into the "Cooler" dorm in college due to having contact with another student that tested positive. Sent her this to cheer her up.
Steve McQueen , the best of the best.
All these movie clips, I am going to see the whole film!
my favourite movie
So many excellent actors in this movie
A fantastic scene in this film. Steve McQueen at his aplombic self against the ultimate conformity of Deustland....
I just drove past Żagań and this appears in my suggested videos.
I was just waiting for Colonel Klink to show up with Sergeant Shultz and yell "What are you doing!?" (Like if your a Hogan's Hero's fan)
R. Kidd iove Hogan's heroes.
Repoooooorrrrttttt
@@owenbame1131 I know nothing I SEE NOTHING!
Dont tell me to like things.
Except Schultz would have probably tripped over the wire while yelling.
One of the greatest movies of all time.
Steve magnifique jamais égale il nous manque
"Why are you ov3er the wire?!"
"Oh, I was just -- "
*commotion*
"What are you doing by the wire?!?!?!?"
"well my baseball--"
**upperlevel management comotion**
"what were you doing by the wire?"
"..."
Great movie all around, The Great Escape and Stalag 17 are two great WW2 POW movies.
yeh I discovered stalag 17 cos of this film, less humour and more tension in that one cos of the camp spy
The Captive Heart and The Wooden Horse are very good too.
whose in those ones? @@postscript67
@@optimisticwhovian1726 Although Michael Redgrave was the star of The Captive Heart, it was the supporting actors, such as Jack Warner, Mervyn Johns, Guy Middleton and Basil Radford, that made the film. The Wooden Horse (telling the story of an earlier escape from Stalag Luft III) starred Leo Genn, David Tomlinson and Anthony Steele.
Ah thanks, don't really know any of those actors. @@postscript67
Where’s colonel Klink when you need him
One of the greatest movies ever made
What I love about this film is the German Commandant with his name Von Luger which translates to Colonel Son of a Gun.
Erwin rommel rolls up in a panzer:
*why are you over the wire?*
"Well like I was telling max here-"
himler drives up: *why are you over the wire*
Hahaha
"Well like I was telling max here-"
*goring comes in on a fighter bomber (cause a normal plain wouldn't carry his weight) : "why are you over the wire?"
"Well like I was telling max here-"
*the entire general staff drives up* : "why are you over the wire?"
*sighs* "well . . . as i-"
*Hitler shows up*
"Why are you over the wire?"
*ten minutes later*
*Otto von Bismarcks ghost appears*
"Why are you over the wire?"
@@lordseelenfresserdemonking1168 hitler arrives 'why are you over the wire '
Well like I was telling max here
Russia arrives and so on
Hard to gather a cast of this talent now. Ocean's 11 did well fair play but it might not age the same. It's interesting that all the talent from Pleasance to Bronson to Garner to Coburn to Attenborough etc. gave each other space enough that they all shone in their own slot. Hard to achieve and the director must have been formidable.
That was why Captain Virgil Hilts, yes that's his name, and mentioned in the movie, is the Cooler King.
This was the very 1st movie in a theater I ever watched. My friends birthday party at the age of 7 I think? McQueen has always been an icon in the acting and car and motorcycle racing circuits. Bullet to name just one. God bless and thank you for your entertainment you gave Americans. 😊
1:40
Perfect retort to his claim that Brits are more respectful.
And why do I sense Jack Sparrow's "Captain" antics were inspired by the scene?
Hilts says to him " Before this war's over I plan on seeing Berlin from the air". At end of the movie when the commandant is being taken away he see's Hilts brought back and says: "It looks like you'll see Berlin before me".