The Great Escape Theme

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  • Опубликовано: 28 дек 2008
  • The theme for John Sturges' "The Great Escape" (1963).
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  • @DaveKnowlesQPRTBlock
    @DaveKnowlesQPRTBlock 2 года назад +605

    If I watch it enough times, McQueen will jump that second fence !!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @joeschenk8400
      @joeschenk8400 2 года назад +28

      There is always hope !

    • @Telliewren
      @Telliewren 2 года назад +30

      Steve should have used the Mustang Fastback instead of the motorcycle.

    • @foksmashdoor2272
      @foksmashdoor2272 Год назад +11

      Why didn’t he lay low and wait till dark to cut through the fence. Makes me so mad 😡

    • @badboyhal0
      @badboyhal0 Год назад +13

      @@foksmashdoor2272 he wouldnt have been able to anyway as the germans were already chasing him as he stops at the fence they turn up and he doesnt make the jump over the fence so the germans would have caught him either way

    • @lazz3446
      @lazz3446 Год назад

      David Knowles. Enjoy. ruclips.net/video/-CdKhTsmAVo/видео.html🙂

  • @Hikerman-to7ox
    @Hikerman-to7ox 7 лет назад +602

    when you're in detention but you see an open window

  • @lucyrawlinson3157
    @lucyrawlinson3157 2 года назад +541

    My grandad had this as the final song at his memorial service, we all walked out of the chapel with this playing. A moment I’ll never forget and great song choice!!!

  • @callsign_woodsman
    @callsign_woodsman Год назад +137

    Lost my 18 years old brother to cancer 35 days ago. He loved this movie and the soundtrack. He watched it before he lost his consciousness and had to get hospitalized. My dad played this soundtrack while he was in the ICU, so my brother could enjoy it one more time.
    Hoping that he is with his favorite actors Steve McQueen and Gordon Jackson, enjoying the heaven.
    In memory of Hızır Yiğit Ardıçlı (05.05.2005 - 26.05.2023) You escaped the camp, pal.

    • @eddyrich8358
      @eddyrich8358 7 месяцев назад +8

      God bless your brothers memory!

    • @callsign_woodsman
      @callsign_woodsman 7 месяцев назад +6

      @@eddyrich8358 May we reunite in heaven one day. Highly appreciated, sir. God bless.

    • @cfs7338
      @cfs7338 7 месяцев назад +1

      May your brother rest in peace.

    • @jb2046
      @jb2046 7 месяцев назад +3

      Way too young and my condolences bro.

    • @199gSauerkraut
      @199gSauerkraut 6 месяцев назад +1

      Your brother is now by god. 🙏
      God bless him.

  • @stevenhobin
    @stevenhobin 9 лет назад +2346

    In Germany this film was called "The Great Capture"

    • @Paisly_
      @Paisly_ 4 года назад +116

      popularside percy Haha what? Which parallel universe are you from? It‘s called „bursted chains“.

    • @Paisly_
      @Paisly_ 4 года назад +339

      Oh that was a joke wasn’t it

    • @lucaslo5469
      @lucaslo5469 4 года назад +91

      @@Paisly_ lmao

    • @daltonlinaburg7951
      @daltonlinaburg7951 4 года назад +32

      DonGondola You could of just deleted the comment

    • @skfoxjrxzz5051
      @skfoxjrxzz5051 4 года назад +100

      @@daltonlinaburg7951 but it wouldn't be funny

  • @thekingcobra63
    @thekingcobra63 3 года назад +102

    "Colin's not a blind man if he goes with me, AND HE'S GOING WITH ME!"

    • @Cjk007
      @Cjk007 3 года назад +6

      “Ives, what do they call a mole in Scotland.” “A mole.”

    • @brianallsopp69
      @brianallsopp69 3 года назад +3

      Great to see Donald Pleasance playing a good guy for once. He usually played creeps , but he served in WW2 and was a brave man .....

    • @mryeeter8175
      @mryeeter8175 3 года назад

      Cooler all of you now!

    • @aleksanderkorecki7887
      @aleksanderkorecki7887 14 дней назад

      ​@@brianallsopp69 And he was a POW.

  • @ragejoona431
    @ragejoona431 6 лет назад +677

    Saw the movie for the first time yesterday, damn was it a well spent 3 hours. Every character is likeable, it's entertaining, funny, action packed, sad, tragic, pretty much everything a masterpiece should be.
    9,5/10

    • @randywhite3947
      @randywhite3947 4 года назад +25

      RageJoona this is easily a 10/10

    • @teslo8020
      @teslo8020 4 года назад +21

      @@randywhite3947 Nah I agree, never give anything a 10/10, otherwise you're saying literally nothing is better, which there is, or will be.

    • @Finarphin
      @Finarphin 4 года назад +12

      Number 3 on my all time list; and I've seen a lot of movies.

    • @ELLIOT1311
      @ELLIOT1311 3 года назад +1

      @@Finarphin What’s your top 5?

    • @Finarphin
      @Finarphin 3 года назад +7

      @@ELLIOT1311 1. Fantasia, 2. The Seven Samurai, 3. The Great Escape, 4. My Darling Clementine, 5. It's a Wonderful Life.

  • @lindseybanks4745
    @lindseybanks4745 2 года назад +369

    We played this at my dads funeral yesterday, a fitting tribute to a wonderful man rip dad love always and forever lindsey.xxxxxxx

  • @LuxCirilo
    @LuxCirilo 8 лет назад +1430

    Like if you remember them
    Hilts 'The Cooler King'.
    Hendley 'The Scrounger'.
    Bartlett 'Big X'.
    Ramsey 'The SBO'.
    Danny 'Tunnel King'.
    Blythe 'The Forger'.
    Sedgewick 'Manufacturer'.
    Von Luger 'The Kommandant'.
    Ashley-Pitt 'Dispersal'.
    MacDonald 'Intelligence'.
    Willie 'Tunnel King'.
    Ives 'The Mole'.
    Cavendish 'The Surveyor'
    Werner 'The Ferret'.
    Griffith 'Tailor'
    "Dedicated to the 50ty".

    • @loserplaysleague3943
      @loserplaysleague3943 8 лет назад +31

      That's Captain Hilts.

    • @chrismax18
      @chrismax18 8 лет назад +18

      +Hannah Krigman 20 days isolation!

    • @LuxCirilo
      @LuxCirilo 8 лет назад +19

      ***** hahahaha..."oh no I've lost my wallet!.. they will send me to the russian front!" *juiishh

    • @RaySpruance
      @RaySpruance 8 лет назад +6

      Include czech airman Arnošt Valenta, member of 311. Squadron RAF

    • @noahflatt165
      @noahflatt165 7 лет назад +2

      LuxCirilo ri

  • @33Luger
    @33Luger 4 года назад +386

    Sitting here in Coronavirus quarantine, perfect tune for the times.

    • @paulholland5270
      @paulholland5270 4 года назад +27

      the great lockdown escape

    • @juggarnaut0
      @juggarnaut0 4 года назад +7

      we all get shot

    • @clearcreek69
      @clearcreek69 3 года назад +7

      With Von Luger as the Coronavirus

    • @georgecampbell9638
      @georgecampbell9638 3 года назад

      Indeed

    • @paulsteinhauser434
      @paulsteinhauser434 3 года назад +8

      @@clearcreek69 Actually the real commandant of the camp, was pardoned at the trials by his own prisioners.
      He never harmed a POW and followed the Geneva Conventions, he went toe to toe with the SS and Gestapo, he served the Luftwaffe for Germany not Hitler, and even said aloud he is anti-nazi.
      He died two months before the film was released but heard there was one being made of the escape.

  • @1432CW
    @1432CW 5 лет назад +141

    Seventy-five years ago today, on Friday March 24th, 1944, the actual mass-escape "The Great Escape" was based on took place.

    • @dapdne4916
      @dapdne4916 2 года назад

      OK how about more about the real one?

  • @MexAm120902
    @MexAm120902 2 года назад +120

    I showed The Great Escape to a class of English as a Second Language students at the high school level. They loved it. They got so involved in the story. But what fascinated them the most were the ingenious inventions that the prisoners came up with to accomplish their goal. Both the boys and girls really got into this movie.

  • @jayive34
    @jayive34 8 лет назад +536

    Time to have this song stuck in my head all day.

    • @randommob8509
      @randommob8509 4 года назад +2

      jayive34 me to

    • @intuitive7274
      @intuitive7274 3 года назад +4

      Me too

    • @MrVabbiu
      @MrVabbiu 3 года назад +2

      As usual

    • @ekhozo6850
      @ekhozo6850 3 года назад +4

      Mexican Army paratroopers use this tune as their anthem, but with lyrics added to it. Check it out, "Himno de los Fusileros Paracaidistas".

    • @GFrost88
      @GFrost88 2 года назад +1

      Same here and I whistle to it

  • @owenjones7517
    @owenjones7517 9 лет назад +157

    "Cooler, 30 days...."

    • @Jurassic0Al
      @Jurassic0Al 8 лет назад +18

      +Owen Jones
      "Ten days' isolation, Hilts."
      "*Captain* Hilts."
      "Twenty days."

    • @TheDelta016
      @TheDelta016 8 лет назад +3

      +THESATURNSSC1 "Hilts, what did you do in the states? Study physical education?"

    • @6CrazyHorse
      @6CrazyHorse 8 лет назад +3

      Oh you'll be still when I get out!!!

  • @KujaStar
    @KujaStar 4 года назад +184

    For more years than I can remember, this was my mother's ring tone on her phone. She passed away yesterday at the age of 53, following complications from a COPD related Heart Attack. Listening to this piece has given me some comfort, it really does embody her mischievous and stubborn nature, and I'll miss her.

    • @ivlivssosae
      @ivlivssosae 4 года назад +7

      All the strength and good will to you, kind sir

    • @joyjoylove8532
      @joyjoylove8532 2 года назад +4

      Aww thinking of you. And your mom may she rest in peace.

    • @deaneccleston7450
      @deaneccleston7450 2 года назад +1

      53 is no age at all. Sending hugs

    • @christianlennon714
      @christianlennon714 Год назад

      From Northumberland I’m so sorry for your loss, I lost a fiancé of 7 years to suicide along with my baby daughter as she wanted kids didn’t know she was pregnant, I was too busy into professional songwriting instead of giving her the love and worship she deserved as I thought we had all the time in the world for children then I lost my wife of 10 years to cancer, I seriously thought & believed God Hated me for some reason but I could never imagine or comprehend the pain of losing a mother

    • @DaL33T5
      @DaL33T5 Год назад

      I'm sorry to hear of her passing. May she find peace and rest in the great beyond.

  • @derricklafrance9440
    @derricklafrance9440 2 года назад +59

    I like how the theme of this movie is uplifting patriotic when just about everything went wrong in the story.

    • @ReddwarfIV
      @ReddwarfIV Год назад +9

      Probably because, even if they failed to escape, they were still tying up enemy resources to stop them.

    • @OGMaverickGaming
      @OGMaverickGaming 10 месяцев назад +4

      @@ReddwarfIV It's the duty of every POW to escape

  • @Michael-xg5gn
    @Michael-xg5gn 10 лет назад +335

    My all time childhood film! This tune makes me emotional everytime! Raise a glass to the 50!

    • @sammymartin5388
      @sammymartin5388 4 года назад +2

      to the fifty drity germsns

    • @richardwright8189
      @richardwright8189 4 года назад +12

      so im not the only one who gets emotional with this theme?

    • @eldoncollins7254
      @eldoncollins7254 3 года назад +8

      Raise a glass to the fifty heroes.

    • @intuitive7274
      @intuitive7274 3 года назад +7

      @@richardwright8189 me too. To the 50

    • @intuitive7274
      @intuitive7274 3 года назад +5

      @@eldoncollins7254 absolutely To the 50

  • @Pandonaut
    @Pandonaut 10 лет назад +464

    Possibly the best movie about World War II based on a true story ever.

    • @djjim01
      @djjim01 10 лет назад +20

      Right-O. The Great Escape, The Longest Day, The Battle Of The Bulge & The Enemy Below are among the best WW II movies ever made !!

    • @jamesdown3139
      @jamesdown3139 10 лет назад +3

      agreed! one of the few triple A ww2 movies that didn't get abused too much by Hollywood bullcrap

    • @tofueats5346
      @tofueats5346 10 лет назад +25

      djjim01 I really liked "A Bridge Too Far"

    • @SoDakMashup
      @SoDakMashup 10 лет назад +26

      Bridge on the River Kwai. They built a bridge, ran a train over the bridge and then blew it up! Greatest action scene of all time.

    • @bassinblue
      @bassinblue 10 лет назад +22

      And Saving Private Ryan. Not a true story, but the story was made, in order to keep viewers entertained, as we saw some real events. I don't think any war movie captures the image of WW2 better than SPR

  • @mikeshearer1250
    @mikeshearer1250 7 лет назад +97

    One of the GREATEST movies EVER MADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @erniebarker9369
      @erniebarker9369 2 года назад

      dont think so. 50%per cent total fiction, no americans were involved in the escape

  • @lnm6053
    @lnm6053 8 лет назад +547

    Currently digging a tunnel to get out of my parents basement 😂😂😂👍🏼

    • @chalked9815
      @chalked9815 7 лет назад +15

      Thats hilarious

    • @mattbannon4981
      @mattbannon4981 6 лет назад +7

      Haha did you make it!!

    • @kd7bwb12
      @kd7bwb12 6 лет назад +2

      Would it not be easier to simply pass through the monitor on your computer, into that video game you’ve been playing, for years... and years...
      ... then you can still say you live in your parents basement, sort of... kind of... with that anime waifu you claim is yours...

    • @e.andrewkapp3643
      @e.andrewkapp3643 6 лет назад +2

      Just finished tunnel to get out of my cubicle!

    • @tenacious645
      @tenacious645 5 лет назад +1

      Interesting

  • @DrJohnZoidberg125
    @DrJohnZoidberg125 8 лет назад +500

    Sent by the actual movie

    • @o0long2be30
      @o0long2be30 8 лет назад +6

      Probably the best Steve McQueen film out there.

    • @legion637
      @legion637 8 лет назад +5

      +DrJohnZoidberg125 Indeed.
      People think they're so cool if they're sent by RUclipsrs.

    • @tomhopkins941
      @tomhopkins941 8 лет назад +2

      +TheXWitcher amen to that

    • @mrhuman5092
      @mrhuman5092 8 лет назад +2

      +PipCheese© they Dont think they know

    • @Kameli000
      @Kameli000 6 лет назад

      DrJohnZoidberg125 idk if u knew but theres game called the great escape and it was made before the movie :p

  • @goodwin315vids
    @goodwin315vids 10 лет назад +356

    whistling this as i left school for the last time today :)

    • @rebeccadawe9595
      @rebeccadawe9595 5 лет назад +2

      goodwin315vids same xD

    • @muddershmucker7374
      @muddershmucker7374 5 лет назад +23

      More like whistling this as I get sent back to detention

    • @billh.6135
      @billh.6135 5 лет назад +5

      @@muddershmucker7374 Ha ha.

    • @jade728
      @jade728 5 лет назад +7

      How's life put of school going

    • @KaizerBeatz-vf9wf
      @KaizerBeatz-vf9wf 4 года назад +5

      This comment reminds me of Recess (the cartoon). That was also set in a school & its theme song was a parody/homage to the Great Escape theme

  • @barricade8957
    @barricade8957 4 года назад +49

    Schools should play this on their PA on the last day of classes for the year.

  • @aileenlightbody91
    @aileenlightbody91 4 года назад +58

    One of the best film themes ever.

  • @notsure002
    @notsure002 10 лет назад +18

    RIP William Ash (April 26, 2014), the real-life inspiration for the Cooler King.

    • @YoungTurntNiggaCaleb
      @YoungTurntNiggaCaleb 3 года назад +5

      Yeah your actually right i read about william ash. They said that he was one of the best escape artist in ww2.🙏🙏🙏❤ RIP

  • @23palin
    @23palin 9 лет назад +57

    One of the best films ever made, Steve McQueen at his best

    • @erniebarker9369
      @erniebarker9369 2 года назад

      he was attention seeker, riding around on motor bike didnt happen and stealing a plane,they would have been shot down in minutes,

    • @fernmann7
      @fernmann7 Год назад

      Whatever, hater

    • @IamBATMAN2024
      @IamBATMAN2024 10 месяцев назад

      @@erniebarker9369crawl back under the rock in which you came! 😂

    • @Jonesyb90
      @Jonesyb90 7 месяцев назад

      Great actor god rest his soul but should never have been there as no Americans took part in the great escape.

  • @hunnymccann9349
    @hunnymccann9349 2 года назад +53

    This was my inspiration to rescue my cat who got stuck on the other side of a security rail fence …I couldn’t go over but I could go under playing this while building the great escape cat tunnel 😂😂 no soil down my trouser leg though and relieved I now have a safe kitty ❤️

  • @Swamp_Fox_
    @Swamp_Fox_ 3 года назад +12

    IT'S COMING HOME LADS

  • @Avexle
    @Avexle 11 лет назад +47

    I FINALLY FOUND IT! THIS TUNE HAS BEEN IN MY HEAD SINCE I WAS 9 AND I FOUND IT!

    • @IamBATMAN2024
      @IamBATMAN2024 10 месяцев назад

      I hope you’re not British 😅

    • @bastogne315
      @bastogne315 8 месяцев назад

      Spent 35 years looking for a song...turned out to be Chumba wumba I wouldnt piss on you...😂

    • @IamBATMAN2024
      @IamBATMAN2024 8 месяцев назад

      @@bastogne315 you mean mouthful of shit? 😅

    • @IamBATMAN2024
      @IamBATMAN2024 8 месяцев назад

      @@bastogne315 I get knocked down?

  • @joeywildman1100
    @joeywildman1100 8 лет назад +64

    I don't know what this nerdcubed is but I'm ashamed most people aren't coming to this cause of the great escape :(

    • @unknowncuyler5449
      @unknowncuyler5449 8 лет назад +3

      +Joey Wildman Im here because of the GREAT ESCAPE! such a good movie!

    • @joeywildman1100
      @joeywildman1100 8 лет назад +2

      ***** That makes sense but I think it's just so iconic to the great escape. it's like hearing the star wars theme and saying you heard it on something that's not star wars

  • @bobpiec
    @bobpiec Год назад +10

    This has to be one of the Best WW11 movies made. I had 4 co-workers who were POWs that were captured at Dunkirk and they loved the movie.Great Story Line, Wonderful Cast.

    • @PrimroseParadox
      @PrimroseParadox Год назад +7

      World War Eleven? Doc, just how long was I out for?!

  • @kyawthu755
    @kyawthu755 8 лет назад +721

    So bored
    Just sitting here
    Listening to this song
    Throwing my baseball at the wall
    Letting it bounce back
    Catching it
    Rinse
    Repeat

  • @bindair_dundat
    @bindair_dundat 9 лет назад +123

    Steven McQueen the Cooler King. I love this movie.

  • @SuperThompson63
    @SuperThompson63 7 лет назад +533

    I'm French, i was in Saint Etienne for the Euro football game between England and Slovakia on June 20th. I was surrounded by English fans, and for the last 15-20 minutes of the game they were just singing the Great escape theme !
    I asked one of the English guy who was next to me why they couldn't stop singing this and he told me :
    " Cause in three days we will escape from the EU!"

    • @ziizee66
      @ziizee66 7 лет назад +1

      thom v - your story I liked vm it made me giggle. take care :-)

    • @rainbowqueen6593
      @rainbowqueen6593 7 лет назад +2

      Thorn v: lol lol lol. Priceless...

    • @jsmg-jaeremisxmgamer7109
      @jsmg-jaeremisxmgamer7109 7 лет назад +4

      This mоvie is now аvailable too watch here => twitter.com/7aef42b2f50531def/status/795842396885897216 The Great Escаpe Theme

    • @SuperThompson63
      @SuperThompson63 7 лет назад +1

      Bakewell i really hope so

    • @jockmcscottish7569
      @jockmcscottish7569 6 лет назад +8

      We are still waiting

  • @Telliewren
    @Telliewren 2 года назад +18

    Like so many, my father turned me on to this movie back when I was a kid. I've loved it all my life and for my 60th B-day my daughter took me to Sagan Poland to see the site of Stalag Luft III. This music ran in the back of my head the whole time there. For fans of the movie and history buffs of the whole story it is an incredible trip.

    • @kathywescott8879
      @kathywescott8879 10 месяцев назад

      Anytime anyone asks me my favorite film..THIS..THIS is my choice

  • @jeffwalther3935
    @jeffwalther3935 4 года назад +44

    When on long hikes with heavy packs as a boy scout in the '60's, we used to whistle THIS IDEAL tune as best we could, on an endless loop which I guess now, after military training, along with breath management, puts one into a light and positive mood and trance that melted our awareness of fatigue, boredom, hunger and pain - and bonded us together very pleasantly over the long miles and time. We were our own radios then, so to speak, and it was the BEST show in town at the time and we knew of no better.

  • @71superbee3
    @71superbee3 10 лет назад +141

    German commander: "Cooler !"
    McQueen : "Cooler."

    • @Brooke-rw8rc
      @Brooke-rw8rc 10 лет назад +10

      Whenever someone says the word "cooler", whether it be in reference to beverages or beverage storage units, I have to say, "Coolah, Ives."

    • @fabelstirling9119
      @fabelstirling9119 6 лет назад +2

      That’s one of my favorite lines

    • @RealDapperDude
      @RealDapperDude 4 года назад

      Uh, you'll be here when I get out???

    • @u.s.paratroops4633
      @u.s.paratroops4633 4 года назад +1

      That's Capt Hilts.....30 days...cooler

    • @gillesteixeira3452
      @gillesteixeira3452 3 года назад

      what a pitty when he was so close to get into Switzerland.... too bad

  • @wblayney1992
    @wblayney1992 9 лет назад +103

    I was just procrastinating

    • @cxtch8997
      @cxtch8997 9 лет назад +3

      Oh the procrastinator brad

  • @eddielung31
    @eddielung31 8 лет назад +118

    Maggie Simpsons's version always pop up in my mind

  • @chardtomp
    @chardtomp 4 года назад +27

    Elmer Bernstein, one of the greatest movie theme composers of all time!

  • @Thegadgetman16
    @Thegadgetman16 9 лет назад +43

    Whenever exam seasons finish, this should be playing.

    • @paddystrongjaw9995
      @paddystrongjaw9995 3 года назад

      Exam season, what exam season? I really dodged a bullet there

  • @GregoryKarastergios
    @GregoryKarastergios 8 лет назад +145

    I was set here by the officer. He told me to go the cooler.

  • @cityhawk
    @cityhawk 4 года назад +11

    If this doesn’t motivate you through the roughest part of your day, nothing will.

  • @ExploreWithEthan
    @ExploreWithEthan Год назад +11

    One of the best films of all time.

  • @skudaarkaat1
    @skudaarkaat1 8 лет назад +8

    TRULY, THE GREATEST GENERATION! Young people of this country: NEVER FORGET THEM!!!!!!!

  • @MultiGeraghty
    @MultiGeraghty 11 лет назад +8

    Possibly the GREATEST MOVIE THEME EVER COMPOSED!!

    • @IamBATMAN2024
      @IamBATMAN2024 10 месяцев назад

      Nah there’s better but we all have different likes don’t we lol

    • @markcf83
      @markcf83 7 месяцев назад

      For certain.

  • @bigmanjeeb
    @bigmanjeeb 11 месяцев назад +8

    One of my favourite films of all time. Was just thinking that this is a film that I don’t think can be remade, at least in a good manner. Timeless classic

  • @ktcarl
    @ktcarl 4 года назад +9

    This movie and music was obviously the inspiration for 'Chicken Run'.

  • @fentonabad4714
    @fentonabad4714 10 лет назад +50

    My God, this is the most swashbucklingly brilliant theme ever. I always feel like taking on the world when I hear it. :))

  • @GUARDSMAN133
    @GUARDSMAN133 10 лет назад +18

    This great movie and theme always makes me think of my dad, who was a POW at Stalag Luft I at Barth Germany from 1944-1945

  • @eldoncollins7254
    @eldoncollins7254 3 года назад +11

    Raise a glass to the fifty.

  • @762459
    @762459 2 года назад +2

    Suddenly I have the urge to dig tunnels.

  • @Darknessgta4
    @Darknessgta4 10 лет назад +220

    RIP James Garner

    • @AchievementGladiator
      @AchievementGladiator 9 лет назад +3

      ***** david Attenborough.

    • @QuentinBuetow1970
      @QuentinBuetow1970 9 лет назад +3

      What_Would_Happen? - WRONG. Before you speak and deign to dare contradict and correct someone else, be sure of your facts. He is correct: Sir Richard Attenborough.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Attenborough

    • @Batmanthe3rd
      @Batmanthe3rd 6 лет назад +2

      Pretty much nearly fucking everyone that was involved with the making of this film is now dead

    • @dawsonkaiser3598
      @dawsonkaiser3598 5 лет назад +2

      RIP Charles Bronson

    • @Filosofem2008
      @Filosofem2008 5 лет назад +1

      rip all .. i guess nobody is still alive ....maybe karl otto alberty ...

  • @reik.1830
    @reik.1830 8 лет назад +61

    To the fifty.

    • @beyond1957
      @beyond1957 3 года назад +2

      Yes the fifty and all those since.

  • @1spunkymonkey2
    @1spunkymonkey2 7 лет назад +21

    Prison guard -10 days in the cooler Hilts
    Hilts- "Captain Hilts"
    Prison guard- 20 days!

    • @RealDapperDude
      @RealDapperDude 4 года назад

      That was the commandant in that part of the exchange.

  • @sirtophamhatt8204
    @sirtophamhatt8204 3 года назад +24

    So this inspired Oliver's theme song in Thomas & Friends

    • @lordvader1672
      @lordvader1672 3 года назад

      And Indiana Jones theme as well

    • @Grandmaster_Dragonborn
      @Grandmaster_Dragonborn 3 года назад +1

      @@lordvader1672 For real??

    • @lordvader1672
      @lordvader1672 3 года назад

      @@Grandmaster_Dragonborn well I mean Indiana Jones and great escape theme inspired Oliver's theme

    • @lordvader1672
      @lordvader1672 3 года назад

      @@Grandmaster_Dragonborn but it is possible this theme could of inspired Indiana Jones theme seeing great escape came out in 1967 and Indiana jones was what in 81 or 85

    • @beckypratt8218
      @beckypratt8218 3 года назад +1

      And the chicken run theme!

  • @kwas101
    @kwas101 10 лет назад +33

    Great movie...Steve McQueen was pretty damn cool...not to forget Charles Bronson, Richard Attenborough, Donald Pleasance...what's not to like?

    • @possumGFX
      @possumGFX 9 лет назад

      Rob McKay
      I got the feeling they are the thing Brits actually like the most.

    • @th3mightyeagle417
      @th3mightyeagle417 8 лет назад

      +possumGFX what do you mean by that?

    • @winstonellis1857
      @winstonellis1857 5 лет назад

      Brits were often quoted - during WW2 - that the Yanks were "Over paid, over sexed and over here." Answer to @@th3mightyeagle417 - Old Gretty, who remembers WW2.

  • @MidNightStudiosFilms
    @MidNightStudiosFilms 7 лет назад +18

    The great escape is the kind of brilliant film that the filmmakers of today would not even try to remake(look at how they messed up Ben Hur...)

  • @al3xish0t5
    @al3xish0t5 Год назад +4

    one of the greatest movies of the 20th century

  • @harpersmythe658
    @harpersmythe658 Год назад +11

    One of my all-time favourite films. I have lost count of the number of times I have watched it. ❤❤

  • @enricorossi4909
    @enricorossi4909 3 года назад +8

    Mitico, tutto: interpreti, storia, ambientazione, regia...e colonna sonora indimenticabile! Meditate, cinematografari odierni...

  • @artygunnar
    @artygunnar 8 лет назад +21

    I came here because when I was young I saw this about a bunch of prisoners of war trying the most daring prison escape of all time. Their leader was squadron leader Bartlett, aka Big X. Unfortunately he didn't make it to picadilly, so in honor of him I want to go to picadilly one day!

  • @alltownarentwe3297
    @alltownarentwe3297 9 месяцев назад +1

    RIP David McCallum, The Man from Uncle

    • @bumbumpy
      @bumbumpy 19 дней назад

      ruclips.net/video/CjmOkqU6Roo/видео.html

  • @TrueSigmaChad
    @TrueSigmaChad 4 года назад +13

    Besides the fact it is one of the greatest WWII era movies with a great cast, the music score is also one of the greatest ever written. Many of the music cues heard in the nighttime shots of the men moving between prison barracks or out in the forest at night reflect the influence film composers Eric Korngold and Max Steiner had on Bernstein's music. That was the Hollywood "sound," created by refugees from Hitler's Germany, and powerfully translated in this film by Bernstein.

    • @haltestelle793
      @haltestelle793 4 года назад +1

      Can you be any more vague?

    • @Finarphin
      @Finarphin 4 года назад

      I agree with you. I think this is the best original score written for any movie.

  • @chrislucas2921
    @chrislucas2921 8 месяцев назад +3

    My favourite war film of all time 🙂 R.I.P. Steve McQueen ❤️

  • @punkgrl325
    @punkgrl325 12 лет назад +6

    One of my favorite movies of all time.

  • @MadMan731
    @MadMan731 4 года назад +11

    I am still humming this after finally seeing The Great Escape. Very catchy.

  • @wendykelly8551
    @wendykelly8551 4 года назад +13

    Was on a bus once years ago and an elderly man's mobile went and this was the tune.... Often wondered if it had more of a meaning to him xx

  • @samuelluftensteiner68
    @samuelluftensteiner68 7 лет назад +9

    hearing this for the first time after a VERY long time I only now realize what a HUGE obeisance to this score the Chicken Run soundtrack was...

    • @wabawoooIII
      @wabawoooIII 7 лет назад +2

      Chicken Run itself was a claymation remake of this.

  • @ablestmage
    @ablestmage 10 лет назад +26

    Just finished my yearly Christmas-time viewing of the film.. such a great movie! To the fifty!

  • @maxmob8058
    @maxmob8058 8 лет назад +6

    When I was little I remembered watching The Great Escape over and over and over.

  • @garymcalea3815
    @garymcalea3815 2 года назад +1

    This was used as the the final March off for my passing out parade as we left the parade square at Swinderby

  • @deckthelols4813
    @deckthelols4813 9 лет назад +1225

    Anyone else here because they enjoy the film? Not some stupid RUclips video or whatever.....

    • @danielmayayo4533
      @danielmayayo4533 9 лет назад +11

      Me

    • @xaivergooms1538
      @xaivergooms1538 9 лет назад +20

      Arguably the best Steve McQueen movie

    • @istwilhelm508
      @istwilhelm508 9 лет назад +1

      Xaiver Gooms close poss mag seven or the blob

    • @PoissonVisageStudios
      @PoissonVisageStudios 9 лет назад +12

      Xaiver Gooms It is the best. It's without a doubt my favourite historical film ever made, and one of my favourite films of all time.

    • @vincentadema
      @vincentadema 9 лет назад +9

      DeckThe Lols Absolutely. Great theme tune and one of my favorite movies.

  • @donr1954
    @donr1954 12 лет назад +3

    This movie was full of stars and there will never be one like it again

  • @linus7845
    @linus7845 2 года назад +2

    I was whistling this on the last day of high school as i left

  • @JustSomeCanadianGuy
    @JustSomeCanadianGuy 2 года назад +2

    When you try to duck out of work 20 minutes early.

  • @prestonyoung1000
    @prestonyoung1000 10 лет назад +7

    The Great Escape is one of my Favorite Movies.

  • @Spiderman-qu2wu
    @Spiderman-qu2wu 2 года назад +5

    A great, classic theme tune to an all time classic film, never grow tired of listening to this, just fantastic. 👍🏼👍🏼

    • @mcrdl76
      @mcrdl76 2 года назад +1

      Ok Spidey 🙃

  • @ceretomer5987
    @ceretomer5987 8 лет назад +12

    Love this song. To me, this song embodies the spirt and bravery that those prisoners of war had. Add to that the planning and execution of that Great Escape. Great movie, great actors and characters.

  • @mathiaswilhelm1902
    @mathiaswilhelm1902 6 месяцев назад +2

    Every Christmas I always watch doesn’t matter how many times

  • @sillyone52062
    @sillyone52062 10 лет назад +35

    For the 50!

  • @jeffjeeves6337
    @jeffjeeves6337 10 лет назад +11

    My dad took me to see this when I was a kid, must have seen it a hundred times since!,as usual mqueen makes of with the entire film!!!!!!!!!

  • @tuneharukawano6005
    @tuneharukawano6005 2 года назад +1

    高校時代です、マックイーンかっよかったです!!

  • @spukster9086
    @spukster9086 5 лет назад +4

    I'm 22 and I like this film. But it more strange and at the same time cool that my brother is 10 years old and he loves it too! And this music is so positive.Thanks for it!

  • @Fromond96
    @Fromond96 11 лет назад +6

    I remember there was this school camp I went to at the start of Year 8, and at night, because everyone honestly wasn't tired on the first night, we all left our cabins and began running amok the entire camp-site. It was interesting, because eventually the staff caught onto us, so they were walking around torches as large as spotlights.
    It was very fun, just sneaking around the dark, one-by-one, we were getting caught and being sent to write lines in 'the cooler'. This theme was in my head.

  • @pubertjones8093
    @pubertjones8093 11 лет назад +3

    the legacy of the great escape will always live on

  • @shipofbats9134
    @shipofbats9134 3 года назад +1

    Ive literally been playing this on repeat for the past 15 minutes and im loving it

  • @quincyjones6382
    @quincyjones6382 2 года назад +1

    Great movie and theme song, especially the motorcycle jump by Steve McQueen!

  • @angusmaxim3450
    @angusmaxim3450 8 лет назад +236

    Chicken Run!

  • @WhisperingJohn
    @WhisperingJohn 7 лет назад +13

    My top 3 film.

    • @___axg96___63
      @___axg96___63 7 лет назад +6

      I'm guessing you also enjoy seeing Jaba the Hut in Star Wars? jk

    • @noahflatt1368
      @noahflatt1368 7 лет назад

      ___Axg96 ___ ny

    • @filmmaker4181
      @filmmaker4181 7 лет назад

      Epicgamer390 9c hahaha

  • @blueroo2001
    @blueroo2001 6 лет назад +2

    Just watched this movie again for upteenth time! Such a great tribute to the 50 killed and "the Greatest Generation". Love it; even if I do know most of it by heart. This is the era they really knew how to put a great movie!

  • @whirliebuster
    @whirliebuster 2 года назад +3

    One of my top movies of all time. Love it.

  • @jvierra3358
    @jvierra3358 10 лет назад +7

    The point of the movie is not the war. It is the soldier; the warrior.; the voracity of man when frustrated by a nearly demonic adversary. The final survival is the smile after a seeming loss. It is the battle against tyranny that counts.

    • @rogerlynch5279
      @rogerlynch5279 9 лет назад

      Couldn´t have phrased it better, that is why I love the scene with Steve McQueen in the whire after the motor bycicle crash so much

  • @omarurameshi5971
    @omarurameshi5971 4 года назад +9

    My friend's name is Danilson, when we were young he left the school in secret because he was tired so everybody named him "Danny the Tunnel King" 😭😭😭😭

  • @user-co1ex9yn3m
    @user-co1ex9yn3m 2 года назад

    見所の沢山ある、いい映画でしたね。今は、こんな惹き付けられる映画はありませんね❗
    何回、観てもあきません😀

  • @endthefed5304
    @endthefed5304 3 года назад

    i remember watching this on TV when I was growing up in the 70's. loved this flick and the theme music was great.

  • @markuscamp8525
    @markuscamp8525 4 года назад +5

    I played this song after finishing my last final in College.

  • @tejasaabsaab5129
    @tejasaabsaab5129 4 года назад +4

    Listening to this makes me feel i miss the old days so much.

  • @angelamartin5003
    @angelamartin5003 7 месяцев назад +1

    Had to look for this I had this tune in my head for the last couple hours.

  • @sollatzo
    @sollatzo 2 года назад +1

    Two of the greatest war movies, this and Kelly’s Heros