When in a combat situation, soldiers will speak their minds. I had, during Desert Storm, a 2nd Looie say " F**k you!" to me. I replied, "What's that, sir? I don't believe that I heard you CORRECTLY!" He then said, "F**k you, Specialist!" I replied, "That's better, sir." Cool guy.
@@user-xt9kl1vm3z Good spotting on your part! The thing is there weren't any flying ME 109's around in 1960 when they made the film but 108's were close enough and had to do. At least they didn't paint Luftwaffe markings on AT-6's or P-51's.
The movie is great but there are several inaccuracies. For exemple the German Air force made 300 sorties on D-Day not one with thwo meager fighter planes@@Frankie-O
My favourite funny bit is when they take the Orne River bridge. "What the devil are you doing over there? That's the German side!" "Anyone can make a mistake."
Read up on Josef "Pip" Priller. The Man was incredible! Full of "beans and vinegar"! He had no problem mouthing off to superiors when he believed them wrong. Finished the war with 101 kills, all Western Front. 90 were fighters and 11 were 4 engine bombers.
I visited Normandy for the 65th anniversary in 2009, then rewatched it with my great Uncle in 2011. Showed him an invasion map, and he pointed to the spot and said, “Omaha, Easy Red 13, first wave, attached with the 29th ID.” He never talked about with anyone before. I was honored. ❤️🇺🇸❤️
The Messerschmitts attacking the beaches are Bf 108's, unarmed 4-seaters. In reality Priller and Wodarcyk used Focke Wulf 190's, but the movie company could naturally not find any flying planes of the type. Both pilots survived the attack.
Fw 190 A-8's. They gun sounds are all off. The A-8 had two 13mm (.50cal) MGs and 4 20mm cannon (or sometimes 2 20mm/2 30mm. The 13mm would sound much heavier and you didn't even hear autoconnon.
I was just thinking that. I worked for a recently-retired Air Force lieutenant colonel. He said nobody could handle fighter pilots except another fighter pilot or a former fighter pilot. Fighter pilots were insubordinate from the moment air combat was invented, in 1915. Neither Eddie Rickenbacker nor "Red Baron" von Richthofen were known for being amenable to orders. Chuck Yeager blatantly disregarded orders during a test flight of the X-1, when instead of landing he switched his engines back on and went straight up, reaching Mach .8 before he glided in. Waiting for him was a written order from his colonel demanding an explanation. The colonel was said to be a very scary dude.
@@thomasthomas2418 Right! I remember now. Another story is about Yeager being with him when they had to present their credentials to a guard because of a no-exceptions rule. The guy was quaking in his boots when he saw Boyd's face, but he still had to ask for credentials, and Boyd willingly handed them over. After Yeager's mad-dog stunt with the X-1 and his written explanation, Boyd said to him privately that he understood how Yeager felt, but dammit, don't jeopardize our participation in the program!
I still love the scene a little later with Flanagan and his friend complaining about the bagpipes: "there he goes again! have you heard such a bleedin' racket in all you're life?" "aye it takes an Irishman to play the pipes!". then they put cotton wool in their ears.. 😁
I've often thought, how much extra did they have to pay Sean Connery, the most well-known Scotsman of our time, to say that line? Although my Belfast mom reminded me, "Connery is an Irish name."
The joke among German soldiers back then was that if the planes passing overhead were white, they were American, if they were black, they were British, but if nothing was overhead, that was Luftwaffe.
Yes, but the flak and the JG shooted down 4500 allied aircrafts during the Normandy Battle! The Luftwaffe loosed 3000 aircrafts.. The aerial battles were gigantic. This film is just propaganda..
The other joke was, if the British flew overhead, the Germans would take cover and if the Germans slew overhead, the allies would take cover. When the Americans flew over EVERYONE would take cover! 😂😂
@@neweddard9358 "The guy who mistook the sound a bolt action rifle makes for the clicker was morbidly funny." The problem with that scene was, the German fired two, quick shots. A bolt action wouldn't do that.
I've read Ryan's book many times. It's never failed to amaze and amuse me how, on one of the most serious and vicious days in history, moments of actual comedy managed to bubble up to the surface.
I like the way the book ends actually with Rommel making it back to France, unsure if they can push the Allies back, just as the clock strikes midnight, reminding the reader that yes everything you just read took place in one day. Makes me wish that scene had made it into the film.
“Where is everybody?” “What?” “I said where is everybody?!” “I can’t here ya. It’s dem bells. I’ve had em in my ears for ten hours...*DING DONG DING DONG* “
I had a friend, many years back, who was in the Luftwaffe, at the time. He said that they had hundreds, maybe thousands of planes but they had no fuel to get them into the air. Attacking Germany's fuels supplies was one of the master strokes in winning.
@@gwine9087 In June, 1944, The fighter groups attached to the two 'Channel Wings' were nowhere near Normandy; JG26s had 2 groups in Eastern France trying to oppose USAF bomber raids and one In the south of France resting and refitting. JG2 had one group in the Paris area but the other two were being rebuilt in Germany--so by day's end on June 6 at least two groups managed to make it to the Paris area airfields. In addition all the known German airfields on or near the French coast were getting the hell bombed out of them day and night so whatever fighter aircraft assigned to those fields had to relocate as well.
The most 2024 thing ever would be their descendents being tracked down somehow and someone owning some on a pigeon farm, then suing RUclips for a Cease and Desist and damages due to slander, it actually getting taken up in court, and this video forced to be made private.
@Joseph Papilson I gave Dunkirk 3 views. As a huge Nolan fan, I cannot understand how anyone enjoyed that movie. 0 characters, subpar action sequences, and it didn't even show the most important and dreadful parts of the battle...
The one shot scene battle for Caen in The Longest Day is so cool to watch, one of the best battle scenes in a film. This entire movie is epic and great.
As a small kid my jaw dropped seeing this spectacular movie & seeing (wide eyed) those hundreds of soldiers on the wide screen makie it more realistic'
I have this on dvd and there are some funny sequences: >German switchboard operator frustrated as the Underground is cutting off the transmission lines >The reply a cheeky English paratrooper gives when brought before a high ranking German official:” Awfully sorry; old man. Simply landed here by accident” >The comment a US soldier says when seeing Ponte du Hoc for the first time: You ask me, four grandmas with brooms could sweep us off that side faster than flies off a sugarcane” Humor aside; this is a riveting film. It gave a good sense of the conflict all across northern France.
Back in the 1980's, one of the men at the machine shop where I swept up, had the same laugh. He complained that he did not get, November 11th off as a holiday. One of the other men added that, Fritz, you lost that war!!
The Reauters reporter who calls the homimg pigeons "Damned traitors!" Was actually Canadian journalist Charlie Lynch. He even wrote about it in his memoir "You Can't Print That!"
"Okay, we have 5,000 extras running across the beach, explosions are rigged, we've got the planes ready...ACTION!" (When the scene is over) "WOW! Amazing scene, good work every..." CAMERAMAN: "Um, I think I left the lens cap on. Can we do it again?"
IKR? I wish these translations were a little more accurate. I think English translators followed word for word, instead of putting down an English equivalent of German slang. (German slang is treacherous, especially Swabian dialect.)
The priest in the paras who dropped i his musette bag in the water and was diving to get it out with an incredulous nco trying to get him to get going. once he found his bag 'Let us go about Gods work this night' Quite mad.
The Chaplains are often quite committed men. I was reading the memoirs of a British tank officer who landed at Normandy and he spoke glowingly of his chaplain. This chaplain would go to destroyed & crippled tanks and recover the bodies. He refused to take anybody with him from the tank regiment because, as he put it, the men constantly worried about death so he didn't want them to be exposed to death or reminded of what sort of horrible things could happen to a man in a tank that gets knocked out. He would vomit from the stench and horror of it all, but then he'd record the coordinates of where the remains were buried so they could be recovered and properly interred.
They changed the Nationality of the Priest for the movie. This actually happened to Fr. Sampson of the American 101st Airborne. He was later captured and was about to be shot when a German Sgt who was Catholic stopped it. Later he was freed by advancing US forces. He again was captured at Bastogne and spent the rest of the war as a POW.
That is in Four Stars in Hell the history of the 101. It was his Mass kit. He realized after he found it that every time he dived in he was saying Grace before meals.
The part where Pluskat goes down to the beach bunker with his German Shepherd to watch for ships coming in. Moments before Pluskat finally sees the invasion fleet there is a clip of the dog sneaking out of the bunker.
The Bundeswehr was pretty cool when I served in the late 80's-early 90's in Germany. At that time, it was the West German Army. Oh, am I showing my age!
@@jusnuts1443 Every time I hear a Elvis song it's takes me back to Ray Barracks.Put it this way he had a better time there than I had! But at least we can always say "Elvis have left the building!"
@@jusnuts1443 Yes I believe you! We know how screwed up The Army in West Germany was especially in the 1970's!They did not called it Junky Germany for nothing.
thousands of ships come down and see for yourself you fool shelling starts Pluskat Pluskat what's that noise and the old French guy waving the flag out the window in pure joy while nearly getting blown of his feet gets me every time love this movie
You left out the followi g scene where the French guy rides up on his bicycle, wearing his Franco-Prussian War tin helmet, with the champagne. "If you ask me, Flanagan, there's a lot of very peculiar blokes on this beach".
French Fireman's Helmet. He was I believe the Mayor, and also head of the volunteer fire Brigade. Several scenes earlier in the movie. BTW the French "Adrian" helmet was used in WWI, and in 1940 too.
June 6, 1944. Happy Birthday to the wife of field marshal Erwin Rommel. Field marshal Rommel was not at his post, he was in Berlin celebrating with his wife on her birthday.
I wish there had been a moment in the scene where Lt Col Priller and his men, in two planes, are firing at the landing Allied machine gunners, and the German soldiers fighting the defensive battle on the beach would cheer. Ich hätte mir gewünscht, dass in der Szene, in der Oberstleutnant Priller und seine Männer in zwei Flugzeugen auf die landenden alliierten Maschinengewehrschützen schießen, die deutschen Soldaten, die sich am Strand zur Wehr setzen, jubeln würden.
My uncle landed on Juno but I do not know if it was on D-Day ( I never asked). Went up through the Netherlands into Germany and managed to survive the war. A lot of his friends did not.
One of my favorite scenes is at the Bridge the British paratroopers have taken and in the confusion they're missing their unit's doctor and he ends up coming over from the German side of the Bridge to which he tells their commander "Sir anyone can make a mistake."
Since the translation is a bit rudimentary, here is the exact wording of the phone scene: Priller: Yes. On the line. What's going on now? Officer: Now listen carefully, Pips. The invasion has begun. Yes, the invasion... You have to deploy immediately. Priller: What the hell do you expect? What should I do with just 2 machines? Where are the groups you took from me, you idiots? Officer: Priller. Official order. Get ready to go immediately. Immediately. Understood? Priller: Wait, damn it, if it's not too much trouble for you, maybe be so kind as to at least tell me where this invasion is taking place? What, Normandy? Normandy. That's very gratifying. I would like to thank you very much, my dear Hans, then we are finally screwed.
I mean who wouldn't argue with their Commanding Officer when you and another pilot are the only Fighter Planes available to counter the Invasion of Normandy. The Luftwaffe never had many planes stationed in Western Europe, a lot of them were redeployed to the Eastern Front.
You left out the part where the beach master bashes the jeep that won't start and takes his dog Winston for a walk! And what about the part with the nuns walking through the gunfire at the harbor to treat the wounded?
It was a mix. The shot of the Germans in their planes wasn't very good, but the hundreds of men running on the beach and the explosions were damn good.
The Luftwaffe only had about 50 aircraft (likely less) available, with half trained pilots and simply didn't make a show. They were hammered on the ground by allied aircraft and not available.
The Germans did put up more planes than the "two fighters" and sank a few ships. The 'German planes' used in this picture were civilian Messerschmitt 108s which looked like Me/Bf 109s from some angles.
Strange, I watched the film on Netflix two years ago and I could have sworn the Germans spoke English, everybody including people who were not Americans, British, or Canadian, spoke English. Now people are telling me that I’m wrong, and that the version I watched never existed. I’m just experiencing a Mandela effect? I remember clearly that the Germans spoke English, I remember the actor saying “Straight towards me!” In English, not German like all the other clips on RUclips are.
There actually was a version where the German actors spoke english, scenes from this version were used in the trailers at the time of the films release.
Charlie Theanteater there were 2 scenes filmed for the movie,,,mostly what is shown is the subtitle version...much better to hear their native language
@@smgri I watched this movie a bazzillion years ago on ABC TV for an evening broadcast and yes, even the Germans were dubbed into English. However since then, TLD has been a staple of the cable channels and has been the 'everyone speaks their own language' version.
The original Movie was a multilanguage movie. I have the DVD where you can select the original dub, where the french speaking french, the germans german and the brits/scots/americans speak english. It is pretty immersive if people speak their native languages instead of dubbing everything.
I love the fact that the film is done in German, French, and English, as opposed to Ralph Fiennes speaking English with a fake German accent and the only German word he says is Ja.
Spain had a sizable fleet of them, you can see them in Battle of Britain. Czechs also made a few after the war (sold some to Israel too the irony!), but that's on the other end of the Iron Curtain.
Since Priller and his wingman in reality flew Focke Wulf 190's, it might have looked better to use NAA Texans instead. Preferably with modified cockpits...
German actor Heinz Reincke plays "Pips" Priller in this movie. Too bad directors could not find real Focke-Wulf 190A8's, relics,for the background scenes. Does anyone know what planes are in the background? Trainers?
@balanb312 Outside the window at the base? They were a big painting with Nord 1000 Penguins. (Frenchbuilt Bf 108 Taifuns) .The same type used in the flying scenes.
Priller did the right thing. Discretion the better part of valour. Nothing else a pilot could do but put in a brief appearance against overwhelming odds.....
Since I was a kid.....this has always been my favorite scene from this great movie. Also loved that the Germans spoke in German with subtitles. PILLER: "Head for home....hee, hee, ha, ha......The Luftwaffe has had it's great moment.....Hee, hee, ha, ha". BTW: I was today years old when I found out (by reading these comments) that this really happened!!!
Interesting how Priller’s mount is not only the incorrect Messerschmitt single seater, but the incorrect fighter plane manufacturer entirely, as well as an incorrect paint scheme and incorrect fuselage markings/livery.
One can nitpick the camouflage scheme and all, but what are the chances of the film crew finding two intact BF 109E/F/Gs for filming at that point in time? Obviously they had to make due with what they found/had. The only ones available then that are close enough are probably the Spanish Ha-112s, and even then I'd assume it would be nitpicked all the same.
@@UXB1000 I realize that obviously. What I’m suggesting is that as long as the aircraft looks nothing like a Focke Wulf FW190 A-8, which what Priller flew in 1944, the least they could do was not represent a camo scheme from JG27 as it appeared in Libya in 1942.
Poor pigeons they weren´t traitors,they must have been too frighteined in the middle of all that confusion and noise too.And the germans didn´t died there as one of them said before going to Normandy.
Before CGI . . . all those men on the beach, waiting for the camera airplane to fly over, triggering the strafffing movie squib explosions, all running up the beach. . . . . .all the uniforms, all the real landing craft. . . .a moving camera, so you know it's not shot thru a glass painting of a background.
When Priller cleared the clouds and saw the massive armada he kept yelling "What a show! What a show!! " Also 24 Yr old James Doohan was on Juno Beach, had his right middle finger shot off a few days after D Day
@@tomgjgj He did not unfortunately, you can notice his missing finger in only 2 scenes in all the Star Trek episodes. He also killed an enemy machine gunner on D+1
Another great line:
Priller to his CO: "You were a lousy pilot when we flew in to Russia. Now you're flying a desk *And you're still a lousy pilot!*"
Funny.
When in a combat situation, soldiers will speak their minds. I had, during Desert Storm, a 2nd Looie say " F**k you!" to me. I replied, "What's that, sir? I don't believe that I heard you CORRECTLY!" He then said, "F**k you, Specialist!" I replied, "That's better, sir." Cool guy.
ME 108 trainer aircraft!
I agree so funny and remember-Priller always was a hot head😂😂😂
@@user-xt9kl1vm3z Good spotting on your part! The thing is there weren't any flying ME 109's around in 1960 when they made the film but 108's were close enough and had to do. At least they didn't paint Luftwaffe markings on AT-6's or P-51's.
''your prospects for a long sleep are excellent. the invasion has begun.'' what a great line.
Just the 2 of them flying to Normandy themselves, there was nobody else left.
The movie is great but there are several inaccuracies.
For exemple the German Air force made 300 sorties on D-Day not one with thwo meager fighter planes@@Frankie-O
My favourite funny bit is when they take the Orne River bridge.
"What the devil are you doing over there? That's the German side!"
"Anyone can make a mistake."
That's one of my favorites too! Another is during the bombardment "Those 5000 ships you say the allies haven't got - well, they've got them!"
"If it isn't too much trouble, would you tell me where the invasion is?" I love this guy!
My favourite German in the whole movie. "What the hell can I do with only two planes?!"
@@LordZontar The real Josef Priller, was the german "military adviser" for this film. Sadly he got a heartattack and died later that year aged 45.
Read up on Josef "Pip" Priller. The Man was incredible! Full of "beans and vinegar"! He had no problem mouthing off to superiors when he believed
them wrong. Finished the war with 101 kills, all Western Front. 90 were fighters and 11 were 4 engine bombers.
You could try a German Bier brand "Riegele," Josef Priller was the manager after the second world war.
Normandy! Well, that's just great! That's the end of us!
The Luftwaffe has had its great moment! We call this Galgenhumor (gallowhumour) in germany :D
I like to think it's the German way of saying, "That was the Luftwaffe's finest hour!"
Funny enough that's also what we call it in norwegian Galgenhumor :)
I visited Normandy for the 65th anniversary in 2009, then rewatched it with my great Uncle in 2011. Showed him an invasion map, and he pointed to the spot and said, “Omaha, Easy Red 13, first wave, attached with the 29th ID.”
He never talked about with anyone before. I was honored. ❤️🇺🇸❤️
The Messerschmitts attacking the beaches are Bf 108's, unarmed 4-seaters. In reality Priller and Wodarcyk used Focke Wulf 190's, but the movie company could naturally not find any flying planes of the type.
Both pilots survived the attack.
Are they still alive?
Priller died of a heart attack in 1961.
One has to use what one can lay ones hands on... :)
I remember seeing a priest artillery pass as Tiger in Hogan's Heroes
Fw 190 A-8's. They gun sounds are all off. The A-8 had two 13mm (.50cal) MGs and 4 20mm cannon (or sometimes 2 20mm/2 30mm. The 13mm would sound much heavier and you didn't even hear autoconnon.
You had to love Priller...typical, insubordinate fighter pilot! :)
I was just thinking that. I worked for a recently-retired Air Force lieutenant colonel. He said nobody could handle fighter pilots except another fighter pilot or a former fighter pilot. Fighter pilots were insubordinate from the moment air combat was invented, in 1915. Neither Eddie Rickenbacker nor "Red Baron" von Richthofen were known for being amenable to orders. Chuck Yeager blatantly disregarded orders during a test flight of the X-1, when instead of landing he switched his engines back on and went straight up, reaching Mach .8 before he glided in. Waiting for him was a written order from his colonel demanding an explanation. The colonel was said to be a very scary dude.
@@ernestitoe Yeah, that was Colonel Albert Boyd. A friend told me that, on a good day, he was spring loaded to the "pissed off" position!
@@thomasthomas2418 Right! I remember now. Another story is about Yeager being with him when they had to present their credentials to a guard because of a no-exceptions rule. The guy was quaking in his boots when he saw Boyd's face, but he still had to ask for credentials, and Boyd willingly handed them over.
After Yeager's mad-dog stunt with the X-1 and his written explanation, Boyd said to him privately that he understood how Yeager felt, but dammit, don't jeopardize our participation in the program!
Don't forget "'Calm Yourself Pluskat; where are those ships headed? Straight for ME!!!!!!!!!!!
DIREKT AUF MICH ZU!
Actually Pluskat was on leave when the invasion started.
@@anthonyeaton5153 I also read that he was with a prostitute.
"Those 5000 ships you say they don't have? Well, THEY HAVE THEM!!"
Blimey, even James Bond was at the Normandy landings!
So was Goldfinger
So was Karl Stromberg (The Spy Who Loved Me).
So was Goldfinger.
007 was a Navy man 😊
@@flankspeed Just like Ian Fleming ;)
I still love the scene a little later with Flanagan and his friend complaining about the bagpipes:
"there he goes again! have you heard such a bleedin' racket in all you're life?"
"aye it takes an Irishman to play the pipes!". then they put cotton wool in their ears.. 😁
Thats Sean Connery before he became James Bond. :)
@@HappisakVideos I'm pretty sure they delayed Dr. NO so he could finish his parts in this film.
@@HappisakVideos He was later in Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People.
I've often thought, how much extra did they have to pay Sean Connery, the most well-known Scotsman of our time, to say that line? Although my Belfast mom reminded me, "Connery is an Irish name."
@@kevinohalloran7164 To this day, when my old man doesn't believe someone, he says, "That's about as convincing as Sean Connery's Irish accent!" 😂
The joke among German soldiers back then was that if the planes passing overhead were white, they were American, if they were black, they were British, but if nothing was overhead, that was Luftwaffe.
😂😂😂😂
When the Luftwaffe turn up the Allies take cover, when the RAF turn up the Germans take cover. When the Americans turn up everyone takes cover!
Yes, but the flak and the JG shooted down 4500 allied aircrafts during the Normandy Battle! The Luftwaffe loosed 3000 aircrafts.. The aerial battles were gigantic. This film is just propaganda..
The other joke was, if the British flew overhead, the Germans would take cover and if the Germans slew overhead, the allies would take cover. When the Americans flew over EVERYONE would take cover! 😂😂
don't forget thats that scene where you got those germans and americans where they're at that wall and they walk right past each other without knowing
I remember it vividly!!
That was literally right out of the book .
The guy who mistook the sound a bolt action rifle makes for the clicker was morbidly funny.
@@neweddard9358 Yeah, tragedy in war. A blunder.
@@neweddard9358 "The guy who mistook the sound a bolt action rifle makes for the clicker was morbidly funny."
The problem with that scene was, the German fired two, quick shots. A bolt action wouldn't do that.
I've read Ryan's book many times. It's never failed to amaze and amuse me how, on one of the most serious and vicious days in history, moments of actual comedy managed to bubble up to the surface.
I like the way the book ends actually with Rommel making it back to France, unsure if they can push the Allies back, just as the clock strikes midnight, reminding the reader that yes everything you just read took place in one day. Makes me wish that scene had made it into the film.
2:05 "Das var der grossen augenblick den Deutschen Luftwaffe... Ha ha ha ha..." (There goes the great glance/eyeblink of the German Luftwaffe!)
"augenblick" means "moment". He says "that was the great moment of the German airforce"
Das WAR der GROßE Augenblick DER deutschen Luftwaffe.
“Where is everybody?”
“What?”
“I said where is everybody?!”
“I can’t here ya. It’s dem bells. I’ve had em in my ears for ten hours...*DING DONG DING DONG* “
Red buttons 🤙🏻
10 hours after hanging on the parachute, which got caught on the bell tower.
"what the hell can I do with only two planes?"
😂
I had a friend, many years back, who was in the Luftwaffe, at the time. He said that they had hundreds, maybe thousands of planes but they had no fuel to get them into the air. Attacking Germany's fuels supplies was one of the master strokes in winning.
@@gwine9087 In June, 1944, The fighter groups attached to the two 'Channel Wings' were nowhere near Normandy; JG26s had 2 groups in Eastern France trying to oppose USAF bomber raids and one In the south of France resting and refitting. JG2 had one group in the Paris area but the other two were being rebuilt in Germany--so by day's end on June 6 at least two groups managed to make it to the Paris area airfields. In addition all the known German airfields on or near the French coast were getting the hell bombed out of them day and night so whatever fighter aircraft assigned to those fields had to relocate as well.
@1tiercel Well yeah. Same with weaponry. What's the point of having a gun if there's nothing to fire from it?
@@nickmitsialisyea
According to Cornielus Ryan, the pigeons did correct their course and arrived safely at their intended destination.
Tray-torrs 😂
The most 2024 thing ever would be their descendents being tracked down somehow and someone owning some on a pigeon farm, then suing RUclips for a Cease and Desist and damages due to slander, it actually getting taken up in court, and this video forced to be made private.
Back when a good ol' WW2 film was a good ol' WW2 film!
@Joseph Papilson I gave Dunkirk 3 views. As a huge Nolan fan, I cannot understand how anyone enjoyed that movie. 0 characters, subpar action sequences, and it didn't even show the most important and dreadful parts of the battle...
The one shot scene battle for Caen in The Longest Day is so cool to watch, one of the best battle scenes in a film. This entire movie is epic and great.
Are you talking about the battle for Ouistreham?
@@whiteknightcat Yes.
@@DylansPenI was gonna say...the battle for Caen was worse than all the beaches put together
As a small kid my jaw dropped seeing this spectacular movie & seeing (wide eyed) those hundreds of soldiers on the wide screen makie it more realistic'
I have this on dvd and there are some funny sequences:
>German switchboard operator frustrated as the Underground is cutting off the transmission lines
>The reply a cheeky English paratrooper gives when brought before a high ranking German official:” Awfully sorry; old man. Simply landed here by accident”
>The comment a US soldier says when seeing Ponte du Hoc for the first time: You ask me, four grandmas with brooms could sweep us off that side faster than flies off a sugarcane”
Humor aside; this is a riveting film. It gave a good sense of the conflict all across northern France.
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I think they said sugar cake.
That German pilot's laugh tho...
Back in the 1980's, one of the men at the machine shop where I swept up, had the same laugh. He complained that he did not get, November 11th off as a holiday. One of the other men added that, Fritz, you lost that war!!
They know irony
@@murdzstang2777 Fritz was a private in the Wehrmacht. He had stories to tell. He was a German, but not a member of the Nazi party.
Deranged laughter
I don't think we're coming back? Well, head for home!
The bagpipes were played when my family, the Frasers of the Lovat Scouts, stormed the beach.
The Reauters reporter who calls the homimg pigeons "Damned traitors!" Was actually Canadian journalist Charlie Lynch.
He even wrote about it in his memoir "You Can't Print That!"
What a remarkable moment, so historical & phenomenal, Great !
"Okay, we have 5,000 extras running across the beach, explosions are rigged, we've got the planes ready...ACTION!"
(When the scene is over) "WOW! Amazing scene, good work every..."
CAMERAMAN: "Um, I think I left the lens cap on. Can we do it again?"
But Pips didn't say so long. He said "What? NORMANDY?! HOW DELIGHTFUL, HANS, SEE YOU IN HELL!"
IKR? I wish these translations were a little more accurate. I think English translators followed word for word, instead of putting down an English equivalent of German slang. (German slang is treacherous, especially Swabian dialect.)
More like: "What? Normandy? How delightful! Then we are ultimately in the ass. Good bye!" (...wir sind endgültig am Arsch...)
Aye, It takes an Irishman to play the pipes.
I love the length of the command stick for the ME 109 E.🤣
I believe those two fellows actually flew FW 190s .
The priest in the paras who dropped i his musette bag in the water and was diving to get it out with an incredulous nco trying to get him to get going. once he found his bag
'Let us go about Gods work this night'
Quite mad.
The Chaplains are often quite committed men. I was reading the memoirs of a British tank officer who landed at Normandy and he spoke glowingly of his chaplain. This chaplain would go to destroyed & crippled tanks and recover the bodies. He refused to take anybody with him from the tank regiment because, as he put it, the men constantly worried about death so he didn't want them to be exposed to death or reminded of what sort of horrible things could happen to a man in a tank that gets knocked out. He would vomit from the stench and horror of it all, but then he'd record the coordinates of where the remains were buried so they could be recovered and properly interred.
They changed the Nationality of the Priest for the movie. This actually happened to Fr. Sampson of the American 101st Airborne. He was later captured and was about to be shot when a German Sgt who was Catholic stopped it. Later he was freed by advancing US forces. He again was captured at Bastogne and spent the rest of the war as a POW.
That is in Four Stars in Hell the history of the 101. It was his Mass kit. He realized after he found it that every time he dived in he was saying Grace before meals.
The part where Pluskat goes down to the beach bunker with his German Shepherd to watch for ships coming in. Moments before Pluskat finally sees the invasion fleet there is a clip of the dog sneaking out of the bunker.
My dear Pluskat, where are these ships heading?
STRAIGHT FOR ME!!!
Was that a young Shawn Connery falling into the water ?
Yes, it was Sean Connery.
No - it was however the better known actor Sean Connery...
Yes indeed it is Sean Connery
They told him Alex Trebek was fighting for the Germans
@Maz Robinson a bagpipe. very deadly to human ears.
The Bundeswehr was pretty cool when I served in the late 80's-early 90's in Germany. At that time, it was the West German Army. Oh, am I showing my age!
I trained with them in the 70s and 80s nice 3 DM to a dollar.
@@davidbrady4951 We are both showing our age. But, Hell! I don't give a Damn!
@@jusnuts1443 Every time I hear a Elvis song it's takes me back to Ray Barracks.Put it this way he had a better time there than I had! But at least we can always say "Elvis have left the building!"
@@dennisholiday1868 You are lucky. I stayed in the barracks that Jeffrey Dahmer stayed in while he was in Germany. No, I am not joking.
@@jusnuts1443 Yes I believe you! We know how screwed up The Army in West Germany was especially in the 1970's!They did not called it Junky Germany for nothing.
2:53 My country's army in a nutshell
LOL
A young Sean Connery.
At least you weren't born a Frenchman! Thank your lucky stars! Oh, I know. I'm gonna catch Hell for this one.
thousands of ships come down and see for yourself you fool shelling starts Pluskat Pluskat what's that noise and the old French guy waving the flag out the window in pure joy while nearly getting blown of his feet gets me every time love this movie
2:43 One of Sean Connery's first movies.
True-it was also the same year "Dr. No" came out.
His last role before appearing as James Bond
You left out the followi g scene where the French guy rides up on his bicycle, wearing his Franco-Prussian War tin helmet, with the champagne. "If you ask me, Flanagan, there's a lot of very peculiar blokes on this beach".
Yeah, he wanted to pour drinks for everyone, but realized he did not have enough.
French Fireman's Helmet.
He was I believe the Mayor, and also head of the volunteer fire Brigade. Several scenes earlier in the movie.
BTW the French "Adrian" helmet was used in WWI, and in 1940 too.
The first French steel helmet (the Adrian helmet ) was introduced in WW1.
@@bnipmnaa As worn by Winston Churchill when he was serving on the Western Front in 1916.
June 6, 1944. Happy Birthday to the wife of field marshal Erwin Rommel. Field marshal Rommel was not at his post, he was in Berlin celebrating with his wife on her birthday.
The German meteorologists ensured their commanders that the weather would be to bad for an invasion.
@@andrewcrumb8027 Man were they so wrong.
Marcks had the same birthday.
Rommel was not in Berlin for his wife's birthday, but at his house in Herrlingen.
Now listen to me Pips, gets me every time :D
The first scene where he calls him.
"PRRRILLER!"
Meanwhile, at Omaha Beach.... *Saving Private Ryan intensifies*
I wish there had been a moment in the scene where Lt Col Priller and his men, in two planes, are firing at the landing Allied machine gunners, and the German soldiers fighting the defensive battle on the beach would cheer.
Ich hätte mir gewünscht, dass in der Szene, in der Oberstleutnant Priller und seine Männer in zwei Flugzeugen auf die landenden alliierten Maschinengewehrschützen schießen, die deutschen Soldaten, die sich am Strand zur Wehr setzen, jubeln würden.
Die deutschen Soldaten hatten keinen Grund zum Jubel denn sie sahen, was auf sie zukam.
Not likely they had other things on their mind.
2:44 Sean Connery surprise
My uncle landed on Juno but I do not know if it was on D-Day ( I never asked). Went up through the Netherlands into Germany and managed to survive the war. A lot of his friends did not.
Dutchman here. They were all heroes 🕊
The German on the horse is Goldfinger.
Andrew giordano also funnily enough Sean Connery was in this movie too
Andrew giordano well spotted.
Gert Frob
Gerd Froebe...!
Auric Goldfinger. Thanks! That one got passed me.
One of my favorite scenes is at the Bridge the British paratroopers have taken and in the confusion they're missing their unit's doctor and he ends up coming over from the German side of the Bridge to which he tells their commander "Sir anyone can make a mistake."
My Grandad was at Dunkirk, he said it was the best time of his life………..
He was a Luftwaffe pilot..
Since the translation is a bit rudimentary, here is the exact wording of the phone scene:
Priller: Yes. On the line. What's going on now?
Officer: Now listen carefully, Pips. The invasion has begun. Yes, the invasion... You have to deploy immediately.
Priller: What the hell do you expect? What should I do with just 2 machines? Where are the groups you took from me, you idiots?
Officer: Priller. Official order. Get ready to go immediately. Immediately. Understood?
Priller: Wait, damn it, if it's not too much trouble for you, maybe be so kind as to at least tell me where this invasion is taking place? What, Normandy? Normandy. That's very gratifying. I would like to thank you very much, my dear Hans, then we are finally screwed.
"Don't call me 'Pips, old boy'."
@@RideAcrossTheRiver That was a small part of the first scene, what I wrote is about the second.
@@Ul.B Two stinking crates!
@@RideAcrossTheRiver That's not even in the German text. It's also a bad translation because it means "2 stinkende Kisten". Kiste means box.
@@Ul.B Poor translation from the English script. 'Crate' is MUCH more Pips.
"Where did you end up?"
"In the courtyard of a convent!"
Also, the chilly Mother Superior who 'unhands' the soldier from her person. LOL
those are Messerschmitt Bf-108 Taifun trainer aircraft, pilot & student sat next to each other.
As stolen in The Great Escape!
I can't believe how long the control columns are in those aeroplanes!
A lot of big actors with little screen time
The reporter in the trench with the British accent is actually Charles Lynch, a Canadian.
Saving Private Ryan actor who played the sniper is a Canadian: Barry Pepper.
lmao the scene with the pigeons. I watched the movie last night but i missed that part.
[Tommy Boy asking Richard about that broken off car door on the driver's side] What did you do?
He was so angry at them splitting his squadron to strengthen where they thought the invasion was he could barely care about putting up a strong fight
I mean who wouldn't argue with their Commanding Officer when you and another pilot are the only Fighter Planes available to counter the Invasion of Normandy. The Luftwaffe never had many planes stationed in Western Europe, a lot of them were redeployed to the Eastern Front.
Flanagan is James Bond (Sean Connery).
You left out the part where the beach master bashes the jeep that won't start and takes his dog Winston for a walk! And what about the part with the nuns walking through the gunfire at the harbor to treat the wounded?
Cardenden LLoyd carrier,not a jeep!
Wheres the craps game?: "Put the dice in the cup, I like the sound when you throw em around..." "Who put this cup in the game?!"
“Come Winston, Come”
Like my grandma said, give it a good whack. (or something like that).
Try it now. It works!
I love everybody about this film, but one of the facts I love about this movie, is that it didn't focus on one character but EVERYBODY!!!!!
John has a long mustache.
Chair is against the wall.
"In ordnung. Los. Pronta!"
Not pronta, RUNTER means down
awful special effects can be excused because of the age of the film, brilliant retelling of a brilliant story
It was a mix. The shot of the Germans in their planes wasn't very good, but the hundreds of men running on the beach and the explosions were damn good.
German is a great language to use when angry. Priller was such a character.
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The Luftwaffe only had about 50 aircraft (likely less) available, with half trained pilots and simply didn't make a show. They were hammered on the ground by allied aircraft and not available.
Sean Connery knows how to pronounce Clough!
I do hear it.
The Germans did put up more planes than the "two fighters" and sank a few ships.
The 'German planes' used in this picture were civilian Messerschmitt 108s which looked like Me/Bf 109s from some angles.
Strange, I watched the film on Netflix two years ago and I could have sworn the Germans spoke English, everybody including people who were not Americans, British, or Canadian, spoke English.
Now people are telling me that I’m wrong, and that the version I watched never existed. I’m just experiencing a Mandela effect? I remember clearly that the Germans spoke English, I remember the actor saying “Straight towards me!” In English, not German like all the other clips on RUclips are.
There actually was a version where the German actors spoke english, scenes from this version were used in the trailers at the time of the films release.
Charlie Theanteater there were 2 scenes filmed for the movie,,,mostly what is shown is the subtitle version...much better to hear their native language
@@smgri I watched this movie a bazzillion years ago on ABC TV for an evening broadcast and yes, even the Germans were dubbed into English. However since then, TLD has been a staple of the cable channels and has been the 'everyone speaks their own language' version.
The original Movie was a multilanguage movie. I have the DVD where you can select the original dub, where the french speaking french, the germans german and the brits/scots/americans speak english. It is pretty immersive if people speak their native languages instead of dubbing everything.
It's a shame that they only had Me.108 trainers available for this film. They dont look as aggressive as the correct 109s.
By this time Josef Priller would have been flying his FW190A-8 bearing the fuselage markings 13 - + -
Hey...as those 109s are strafing the beach, are there big cardboard cutouts of tanks on the dunes? LOL
These 2 germans stold the show in this movie, wish they had a longer screen time
Priller. The greatest piece of over-acting in the entire movie.😂
I love the fact that the film is done in German, French, and English, as opposed to Ralph Fiennes speaking English with a fake German accent and the only German word he says is Ja.
The aircraft they're flying is Messerschmitt Bf-108 Taifun which was certainly not a fighter aircraft but a rather nice little "sports airplane."
Yep! I think they were pretending to be BF109's
Not for the very first time in Movies :-)
But only because all the few remaining BF109's that survived the war are now in Museums overseas. or destroyed.
Spain had a sizable fleet of them, you can see them in Battle of Britain. Czechs also made a few after the war (sold some to Israel too the irony!), but that's on the other end of the Iron Curtain.
Since Priller and his wingman in reality flew Focke Wulf 190's, it might have looked better to use NAA Texans instead. Preferably with modified cockpits...
I like how the Luftwaffe's bullets don't make any impacts, but the Allies do lol.
A goof had been detected.
i forgot the rest of this movie, but for some reason i have always remembered 2:01 XD
You can see how they fired over the troops and not at them directly. So the ground troops could report that they were there.
German actor Heinz Reincke plays "Pips" Priller in this movie. Too bad directors could not find real Focke-Wulf 190A8's, relics,for the background scenes. Does anyone know what planes are in the background? Trainers?
Unarmed ME108. According to another comment French built version.
@balanb312 Outside the window at the base? They were a big painting with Nord 1000 Penguins. (Frenchbuilt Bf 108 Taifuns) .The same type used in the flying scenes.
Thanks for telling me that they were talking in German, that the Gunfire was Gunfire, that the laughter was laughter. FFS
It's for the hard of hearing.
The German Luftwaffe pilot looks exactly like the Landlord Mr Ditkovich in the Spiderman series with Tobey McGuire. What a joke....
and that matters, why?
heinz reincke as pips priller. also a legend. and sean connery as flanagan
Traitorous pigeons! WTF!
Later in the war they were lined up to a wall and shot.
lionhead123 And ate in a nice pie.
They remember what Capt Blackadder did to Speckled Jim, their ancestor, in WWI.
@@stvdagger8074 "He's a hound and a rotter and he must be shot !"
😂😂 .. UNORGANIZED .. BLURP !! 😂😆
ALLIED VICTORY AND DISASTROUS.... AXIS CONUNDRUM ... 😆😂😆
RIP Sean Connery
As if Mines and direct machine-gun fire weren't enough
"I wonder where bitte, bitte means?" 😂
Very good 👍 old movie 🎥
007 leading the landing craft charge !
Priller did the right thing. Discretion the better part of valour. Nothing else a pilot could do but put in a brief appearance against overwhelming odds.....
Since I was a kid.....this has always been my favorite scene from this great movie. Also loved that the Germans spoke in German with subtitles.
PILLER: "Head for home....hee, hee, ha, ha......The Luftwaffe has had it's great moment.....Hee, hee, ha, ha".
BTW: I was today years old when I found out (by reading these comments) that this really happened!!!
Interesting how Priller’s mount is not only the incorrect Messerschmitt single seater, but the incorrect fighter plane manufacturer entirely, as well as an incorrect paint scheme and incorrect fuselage markings/livery.
One can nitpick the camouflage scheme and all, but what are the chances of the film crew finding two intact BF 109E/F/Gs for filming at that point in time?
Obviously they had to make due with what they found/had.
The only ones available then that are close enough are probably the Spanish Ha-112s, and even then I'd assume it would be nitpicked all the same.
@@UXB1000 I realize that obviously. What I’m suggesting is that as long as the aircraft looks nothing like a Focke Wulf FW190 A-8, which what Priller flew in 1944, the least they could do was not represent a camo scheme from JG27 as it appeared in Libya in 1942.
I don't think the subtitles is exact translation when priller communicates with his wingman
Alex Seals yes it is. I speak german and its right.
No - I am German and there are some mistakes !
Poor pigeons they weren´t traitors,they must have been too frighteined in the middle of all that confusion and noise too.And the germans didn´t died there as one of them said before going to Normandy.
Before CGI . . . all those men on the beach, waiting for the camera airplane to fly over, triggering the strafffing movie squib explosions, all running up the beach. . . . . .all the uniforms, all the real landing craft. . . .a moving camera, so you know it's not shot thru a glass painting of a background.
2:03 Best line in the video
I love when Red Buttons complains about the bellsl. BING BONG eh...
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great laugh :)) 2:06
When Priller cleared the clouds and saw the massive armada he kept yelling "What a show! What a show!! " Also 24 Yr old James Doohan was on Juno Beach, had his right middle finger shot off a few days after D Day
His right middle finger? Ahhh. Tragic. Hope he got a substitute finger afterwards.
@@tomgjgj He did not unfortunately, you can notice his missing finger in only 2 scenes in all the Star Trek episodes. He also killed an enemy machine gunner on D+1
@@timothybuckley6960 Shame. A middle finger can be very useful in some situations.
@@tomgjgj LMAO, so true
there were never that many casulties on Gold beech