♦War Classics♦ 'Attack On The Iron Coast' (1968) Lloyd Bridges, Sue Lloyd
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- 1968 | Approved | Action, Drama, War | June 5, 1968 (USA)
Stars: Lloyd Bridges • Andrew Keir • Sue Lloyd • Mark Eden
During World War II, a commando leader named Major Jamie Wilson leads a group of soldiers on a suicide mission to destroy a Nazi naval stronghold on the French coast.
Since society cast me aside at age 57 I have been able to not give a shit and watch 1 old war film a day , my father and granddad where both in Germany in 45’, my old man was born in 28”, great blokes , thanks society u done me a favour even If I do have to live on a pathetic budget despite paying tax for 40 years 😂❤ thanks for posting this classic !
" Since society cast me aside at age 57 I have been able to not give a shit and watch 1 old war film a day " You cast yourself aside , take responsibility for your decisions in life .We all make life choices and that is down to the individual. I moved from the UK to Ukraine 4.5 years ago and i am still in Ukraine .
My old man was in the British navy during ww2 and it effected him so stop blaming others for things you have no control over .
Paying taxes for 40 years ?, think yourself lucky it was only 40 years and if you can not budget your money stop winging
Society has cast iTself aside. I'm not really sure when iT happened.
Don't let society beat you, go on a cruise and join in
It certainly was mad...but it worked
Understand, I feel cast out also.
Great WW2 movie. Loved the action-packed stylish scenes.
What a BEAUTIFUL Movie! Thank You. ❤
Glad you enjoyed it
And they lived happily ever after! Good movie! Thanks!
Amazing that the training parts were filmed in St Gatherings dock in London , you can see the towers of London bridge in the background . I passed my Lifeboat mans certificate there
Good short and a war movie of what may have taken place. That's Entertainment. We enjoyed this.
Actually, it is based on the raid on Saint-Nazaire.
Of course, they could not get a working old WW1 destroyer for this movie, so they used a minesweeper:
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Hope our military is up to par like that..thanks for movie.👍
36:33 - 36:48 That’s my great uncle lol! Dick Haydon, from my mother’s side! I never knew who he was until she showed me this movie. I’ve never met him unfortunately.
Very cool!
Superb battle scene at the end with the commandos
@daviddragonetti5025 Perhaps, but worse movies have been made. I give it a B+ grade overall.
That was well worth a second watch.
For movie buffs who collect character actors, Andrew Keir, who plays the RN captain, went on to play the Duke of Argyll in "Rob Roy"
Played Professor Quatermass in Quatermass and the Pit and was seen in Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.
Great film 👍🏿😎 courageous and brutal in every aspect.
A good movie, but I just can't see Lloyd Bridges without thinking “Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.”
* sniffs glue anyway *
Right about then my lungs were aching for air.
1:04:25 They didn't use boot polish. It shines, smells and is hard to wash off later. They burned a cork (plenty of that aboard ships) and smeared the soot on.
In just seeing the comments so far haven’t watched the film yet, but if this is what I think it is, Jeremy Clarkson of Top gear did a great documentary of the raid. Worth looking into.
Absolutely....I believe his Father- in- Law won a VC.
The description is sadly inadequate. It's a true story of an attack on the port of St Nazaire to destroy an exceptionally large naval dry dock which in event was successful. There have been several versions of this dangerous operation. In this one, it seemed that the only true fact was that the dock gates were destroyed.
I was also thinking about some of the inaccuracies. However, the film was maed in the late 60s and I imagine that details of the raid were still classified as Secret under the 30 year rule. So I think that maybe the filmakers did whet they could with the information that was made available to them at the time? Still a great fil, though.
Just as the main story could only have been St. Nazaire, the back story of the failed raid could only have been the Canadian raid on Dieppe.
He's humble and well read also. I've got 75 pounds on him but I'd hate to face him on a football field.
I raised my daughters to be tough. My one daughter did a 26 mile marathon and she said it was easier than a college soccer game. . Best regards.
That one daughter is a tough cookie
Great Film! thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Let's be honest, despite all the name changes of characters and ships, this film was essentially the real raid on St Nazaire. The early scenes in the boardroom and the end scenes were false, but the whole concept was pretty much St Nazaire. In the real raid the ship's captain and several of his officers were killed, and the ship did not explode until several hours later - after most of the commandos were either killed or captured, although they had achieved their mission goals. When the ship finally blew, it destroyed the dock entrance for the remainder of the war, thus achieving all that was expected. The film was really a mockery of the real event, so in that sense the true heroes were not given the credit they deserved, thus it was disgraceful. As far as I can recall, there was no Canadian Major involved in the raid, over 100 British commandos and naval crew were killed, a handful taken into captivity, and two who managed to escaspe through the German lines, through France and Spain into Switzerland.
There is a memorial to all the officers and men involved. Fortunately, the true story is on record.
My uncle was an RM on one of the ships he did come home..
The Commandos were an Army Unit originally.
I think the Late 60s was a time when US actors appeared in British films in the hope we could sell them in the US.
James Caan appeared in a bloody awful 60s film X1. I think it was called. Instead of being an officer and relying on his junior officers and NCOs, James Caans character did it all. By himself.
A better film with an American playing a real British CO is The Cockleshel Heroes
Apart from the mythical "Canadian" officer Jose Ferrer, it's a good British film.
@@andrewmstancombe1401 Actually the reason why they had American actors was because the British Film Industry did not have the money to make bigger budget films. Hollywood was happy to stump up the cash, but the price was to have an American in lead role. Name any great Brit film - Great Escape, Bridge over the River Kwai, U-570, etc - they were all purely historical British events.but with Amercan stars.
Why was your uncle - an RM -on one of the escort ships? They took no part in the raid, nor were they expected to. the only other boats involved were those intended to take the commandos back,: all of them manned by RN, and all of them destroyed by German gunfire.
@andrewmstancombe1401 is your uncle still alive if so has he seen the Medal if Honor game European Assault were the first level is that raid in France????????????????????# still don't know why EA didn't let you ues the British anti tank weapon the pehat against the Panzer MK4 that shows up in that levels fourth part were your guy who's a American who was attracted too the British trying too escape the French city through the church cemetery when the last group of Germans with said tank shows up too stop them I doubt that American hand grenades aka MK2 model can destroy a Panzer MK4 tank do your agree?????????????????????
@@reggriffiths5769 They had an escort home. Met out at sea around 0700. Not many made it.
@@AndrewFosterSheff69 I'm sorry Andrew, your (or your Uncle's) story does not ring true. There was no-one to take back from the raid; they were all killed or taken prisoner, apart from two who managed to get to Switzerland. The escorting ships did not have commandos on board, either on their way to, or back from St Nazaire! If your uncle was on an escort ship, then he was Royal Navy, not a Royal Marine! You say they ("they" implies more than one) were "met out at sea," but o-one wes met at sea, for there was no-ne to be met!!
If your Uncle was an RM, he would have been a member of the raiding party, in which case he was captured. You say he survived the war, so capture was all he would have experienced. So.....either he was telling you a fake story or was one of the two men whe evaded capture. The only other possibility is that he was a seaman..
I think you need to read the history to get the facts.
There's another film with Trevor Howard - blowing up the dock at Saint-Nazaire.
Even The " DAMBUSTERS " were involved 😂
@ 0:35 "Guess I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue"
Looks like he chose a bad time to quit smoking!
He’ll be OK as long as he keeps sniffing glue
@@Stefanakos246 i wonder if anyone left the iron on?
I looked through the comments just for that 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Pretty decent war flick
all time classic
Yes it is!
Had to laugh at the cock-ups. The Training dock sequence looked just like Liverpool, although the Tower bridge was used, representing London docks. The eventual appearance of the RAF was a clip taken from the Dam Busters, with three Lancasters with the Upkeep bouncing bomb loaded. The fire at the end looked just like Battersea power station! - - As Reggriffiths put, below, the real location was St Nazaire, not the fictional one.
The. Ones who never came back. Are the true hero's they went to war as young boys and came back hero's who gave us freedom
he sure picked a bad day to give up smoking , cant watch lloyd bridges and not keep seeing Airplane
BAsed on a true incident. The British mission was to destroy an important drydock employed to service German ships.
The raid on St. Nazaire. Actual ship was a lend lease U.S. destroyer. Cambletown.
@@nomadmarauder-dw9re Is it important to you for it to be a US ship? THEY WERE NEVER LEND-LEASE, THAT WAS A TERM FOR THE WAR MATERIEL SENT TO RUSSIA. To be brutally honest, to be used as a ram, and a final job as being an explosive's carrier, is about all those 50 "DESTROYERS FOR BASES DEAL" ships were worth. Rust buckets, unreliable, and not armed with the tools to either defend or attack modern ships. The US certainly screwed their ally over. By the way, the commando leader named Major Jamie Wilson, a BRITISH officer. Insulting to have a Canadian played by a Yenghi. Bridges had no trace of speaking the English language correctly, as a real Canadian would do. And an additional, deliberate insult is that it wasn't a Canadian who led the force, but a British Lieutenant Colonel Charles Newman, VC, OBE, TD, DL
IF the US had done the decent thing and stopped supplying the Nazis with materials used in their war efforts, then they could, maybe, claim the high moral ground. BUT THEY DIDN'T, did they?
@@nomadmarauder-dw9re "Campbeltown"
@@None-zc5vg oopsie! My bad! Now, pardon me, my Lucid Absinthe is getting warm.
As usual, MGM played fast and loose with the actual facts of the St Nazaire raid. HMS Campbeltown was a destroyer and didn't explode until hours later in daylight. Nor did Commandos 'rescue' the real Navy commander (Ryder) from the German HQ.
it's mad.... its just mad enough to work...... there ya go, that's all ya need then !
There navigation went a bit awry. I'm pretty sure the attack location was the same as the St Katherine's Dock training ground.
Anyway it was nice to see it pretty redevelopment.
A Canadian would never behave in such a way...
Which other movie? You must know as you have mentioned it
This movie closely follows the raid on Saint-Nazaire.
Of course, they could not get a working old WW1 destroyer for this movie, so they used a minesweeper, as well as creating a more dramatic way of exploding the charge in the ship's hull.
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Impactante.
Mandelbaum!Madelbaum!Mandelbaum!It’s GO TIME!
"Opération chariot" 28 mars 1942 Saint Nazaire, France
Is it me or is the last piece of music identical to that of 633 Squadron's end scene as well?
"You can't kill a Squadron..."
Correct. Although the film had an original music score they also used some tracks from Ron Goodwin's score from '633 Squadron.'
Where is the action?
The Aspect ratio is wrong. It should be 4 by 3!
The protagonist seems to be sporting maple leaves on beret and shoulders. Is he supposed to be Canadian? American movies with Canadian content got a special entree into Canadian theatres, earning a few extra profit points in the 5os and sixties. Dont remember the details.
The film was one of six made by Oakmont Films, a low budget subsidiary of Mirisch Films who had made 633 Squadron. Most Oakmont films had an American star (to ensure success at the American box office) so that is why Lloyd Bridges is a Canadian as American troops didn't participate in the St Nazaire raid. The only Oakmont film without an American star was 'Mosquito Squadron.' But its star David McCallum was well known in the USA because of 'The Man From Uncle.' His character Quint Munroe is supposedly Canadian as he wears an RCAF uniform not an RAF one.
Lloyd Bridges must of been a very nice humanbeing ....
He was even considered for the role of Captain Kirk.
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St Nazaire?
A good movie. Thanks
You're welcome!
At 5:29, the lady by the child has a large bruise on her right side of the nose. I wonder if she wore glasses off screen.
39.30 The Actor who played a Guard in Colditz the British tried to bribe but was too clever then promoted to Corporal !
i cant help but think, the losses on both sides would have been far less,
if they hadnt all stood in the open firing from the hip..
bit of a training issue i imagine
I heard somewhere that the Hays Code in the US resulted in gangster and cowboy films back then having to have everyone firing from the hip, as if carefully-aimed shots were somehow unacceptable. No idea of the detail or truth of that, but maybe there was some lingering impact on the acceptability for film on daytime TV which influenced such things?
@@sean_d sounds likely..
The Hayes commission were draconian..
@daviddragonetti5025 the part i like is the fact NO ONE CAN GRASP FRIGGIN SARCASM
the stiff necked responses on this thread are far funnier than the hoaky action scenes
@@sean_d The Hayes code was losing effect by the late 60s, if it was even adhered to at all anymore.
@@ripvanwinkle2002That missin grasp is in every thread. Entertainment is holy, damn iT. Give me 100 push-ups and 10 rosaries.
this was a good movie, lots of old faces i havent seen in donkey's years...............
Damn you too
i don't usually comment on shows, but even if they stole the storyline from another movie, this wasn't so bad. I have seen many far worst. The one complaint I have is when the German fighter attacks them, there is no way he could have carried more then 2 bombs, yet , there were 6-8 hitting all around the ship.
They didn’t steal the story line if it was based on a true event during WW2
Wrong aspect ratio. Are people blind, or desperate for a war movie ? The movie deserves better.
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Lloyd shoulda got them some training at sea to avoid sea sickness. He's willing to kill 8 guys in training??? and he missed a detail like that. Well so did the brass at D-Day. That's why military intelligence is an oxymoron.
with all that attacking of the lron Coast , l hope this wasnt the week Lloyd Nolan decided to quit amphetamines
Or double up.
40:00 No bulges on the belly or wings of the attacking airplane. Where are all those bombs coming from?
HMS Campbelton
This looks like the movie gift horse
Why water down history, wrong boats and ship, wrong personnel , wrong nationalities, wrong location, same objective and outcome. Disappointedly much too much free license with reality. Turned off at 25.07 bye
Gizmo..............2/1/25.....
I guess they needed an American actor to sell the film to US audiences, and sticking Canadian insignia on him made him look "almost British"...
Yes, that was common practice back then.
Ditto Alan Ladd as a Canadian paratrooper in "The Red Beret" . . . though to be fair, in that one he was actually an American paratrooper who joined the Canadian army under a false name.
They also did it with Rock Hudson in "Tobruk" - made him into a Canadian so he could join the British Commando raid. George Peppard didn't really count in that one, as he was playing a German.@@michaelmanning5379
Unfortunately, this movie adds too much fiction to history. The real raid included far more ships than in the movie, and there was RAF air support, although somewhat limited. The bomb didn't go off until the following day, and the explosion killed 360 people, including a group of 40 German officers and local officials. The Lloyd Bridges character is fictional and there was no hero who set the bomb off, which exploded the next day due to a faulty timer fuse. I think the movie wasted too much time on fictional melodrama, and telling the real story of the raid would make a much better movie.
American rip off version off the raid Operation Chariot - but must say - those lady actresses- wow they were gorgeous 😂❤
classic example: Old men talk young men Die!
Canadians
Blackface
Trudeau would be proud
tHIS WAS A bRITISH CAMANDO RAID. Rewriting as a bunch of gunho yanks is an insult to all the British camandos who died on this raid.
This is almost the worst war film I have ever seen in 65 years. 3/10
Can I suggest X1 with James Caan also playing a Canadian in the Royal Navy teaching his sailors how to suck eggs by doing all training by himself.
Obviously, it's based on the real X craft subs.
I couldn't finish the film.😂
The Adolfs are in for it daddy'o.
BASED? on a true raid
Yes
This film is an absolute insult to the men who took part in operation chariot, (The mission they've copied off.)
How did a US actor turn up in command, going home to his wife & his luxury home.
If you're unaware of operation chariot, watch the Victoria Cross documentary presented by Jeremy Clarkson, & you can watch the real heroes, & not a North American accent to be heard.
I should have finished my last comment by saying that the script is nonsense, the direction is silly. It's a ridicouluse remake of a classic British film portraying the remarcable, brave & sucsesful British commando mission.The Americans had bugger all to do with it.
bravo!
What was the other film?
Everyone needs a "reformed sitting experience" ... brings up wonderful mental pictures of magnicienr bowl movements, fuuly viewed in live action on MCNBC , etc , etc ... what kind of nut case could have written this nonsense ?????????????
Contact "US" if you want to learn to speak English in advertising!
Fanciful account on a real raid
If it was left up to the Brits there would be no more Brits and we would all be speaking German.
Talk fest.
A rip off of "The gift horse"
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@@talpark8796Oh aye, if it's nae the bimmsters oot fir a pint daddy'o 😂
Comic book drivel.
I did not manage to get 15 mins in. Awful film, a waste of time
St Nazaire brave men captain awarded vc as germans recomendation,true heroes shame on todays society ,appauls me