This movie is more than just entertainment... it is practically an historical document. Should be must-viewing for kids today. I’m glad to see it has survived. Thanks for posting.
I was pleasantly surprised at just how good this film was. The Berlin Air Lift was a remarkable achievement by the Americans and the British, and is not given enough nearly enough attention. This film captured it perfectly ... including the awful destruction of the city itself. Great performances. Odd to see such a young Montgomery Clift - you can see his confidence here and how it impacted his acting style, vs the way he was after that accident. Thanks for making it available!
GREAT movie, WAY ahead of its time regarding the issue of ethnic bigotry. No hyper drama with people dying, simply the human drama dealt with in a mature way.
If you want to see what it was like to be in Berlin around 1949, this film captures it! Amazing and realistic. Pay close attention to the street shots. It's as if this is a documentary. Thanks for presenting this and making it possible for us to view this treasure!
My mother's younger brother was in the US Air Force in WWII but had to stop flying as he had a heart murmur. He got dizzy. Growing up in the '50's we didn't talk about the war. I really enjoyed this film. Thank you. 🛩️
This film absolutely resonates with me also. My father was a Military Policeman stationed at Spandau, English Sector Berlin with 247 Provost Company. He met my mum, living in the Russian Sector during the Berlin Airlift, but staying with her cousin in Spandau, she had also spent some time as a 'rubble woman'. They fell in love & she came to the UK to be married when Dad left Conscription. Dad's parents paid for the military flight to get her here. In August 1961 her parents were confined behond the Berlin Wall. The film should be considered an historical film.
Paul Douglas, a great actor and a very interesting account of the Berlin airlift. These old classics rely on realism and great acting and do not need no stinking cgi and action hero hype.
Poignant dramatic yet sensitive depiction of multiple sides of USA, Germany, and USSR. Clift in a role that was suited for his sensitivity and universality. Snatches of dream float on the ocean of hard reality in this film. Kudos that they did not schmaltz it up. If you have lived in Berlin, this gives good context to those years, and even now, it lurks in the alleys. Thank you.
This is a new movie to me. My Uncle was a pilot, in WW2 and was called back to service, as a reservist, and flew missions for the Berlin Air lift. He later flew for United Air Lines, for 30 years.
hey there, your dad must be the one who flew Capitol Airlines when UA got started. I worked for UA for 16 years from 1986 to 2002 when it filed for chapter 11. The last overhauled jet I worked on was the PW4090 for the 777 twin-engine widebody
This is such a wonderful story of how GREAT we Americans can be. I didn't know anyone personally who participated in the Berlin Airlift. However, my maternal grandfather (an immigrant) fought with the Allied Army in WWI. My father fought in the south Pacific and his brother fought in Europe during WWII. My uncle on my mom's side fought in WWII and Korea. They too were in the Army. I'm SO proud and grateful for ALL of the men who served!
This is a great story. It should be considered as n historical film. The real people of Berlin and the Trummerfrau who cleaned the ruble and bricks to rebuild. For an historian seeing the clothes, damage, and how people were treated is a real lesson
someone should make a movie on the supply mission dropping off ammo and food to the troops in Viet Nam remote outposts Kang Son, that was under fire for 45 days with the C130 cargo plane. i was one of the mechanics fixing the shot-up C130 when returning from the remote outpost. plane limp back with boocoo rounds in the rudder, flaps, and the engine components. i had to chisel out a hydraulic pump, a starter and an air inlet oil cooler frequently. nothing can bring down a C130 unless it does touch and go parachute jettison cargo on a short dirt strip. at least these flyboys do not have to face the firing round, just intimidation from the Red-commies. top brass should just bomb Moscow and Leningrad with the leftover WWII bombs. that was a real mistake letting the Red-commies off the Nazi grip.
It's a great film, capturing a time which is mostly forgotten - immediate post war Germany and the successful effort to keep Berlin going despite the Soviet effort to starve it out. It feels and looks very authentic, and great to see Montgomery Clift in his first film role looking so young and healthy - he was an obvious natural in front of the cameras from the start.
I saw this movie as kid about 60 years ago. I understood the flying part but not the rest. Now as a 75 year old it make a lot more sense. Glad I wondered into it again.
Although I knew about the airlift and I actually met Gail Halverson the "candy bomber" I didn't know how difficult it was to fly into Berlin. The details they showed in this film were amazing, especially flying between the buildings on final approach.
Very surprising movie. I was expecting typical film noir and instead got a true snapshot of Berlin a few years after the war, and some of the most realistic flying from any movie.
Play this film in schools for historical purposes. Children of today need to really see the past historical history of the war. And also need to know what started it.
Michael, another excellent film from the period is "The Search", also with Montgomery Clift. It's about a little boy who was separated from his entire family and interred in a concentration camp and when it's liberated he and hundreds of other children like him were sent to Bases where they could be housed until their parents could find them or have them sent to new lives in Israel. He runs away to find his mother who he believes is still alive. Montgomery Clift is the young GI who helps him. It's an amazing story and also filmed on location so the destruction and rubble is real.
Hopefully u don't feel Fox is the answer....spreading hate & fear & misinformation thru their op-eds is not news....most news outlets are good & u don't need to "think & do" what they say....u can form your own opinions from a number of sources ....
Well done ! the genorosity of the Americans did wonders for the Germans who had only recently been enemies. The Yanks worked very hard to achieve this humanitarian effort. We should remember that several died on this mission .
Mom lived in Karlsruhe (home town) after the War ended. French Occupation Zone with Algerians riding those tiny donkees. During War lived in Krakow, Poland. Escaped on train of Army Nurses as Russians approached. 95 now. Has met Adolf Hitler and Albert Einstein !
Interesting movie, wide range of characters. Very sympathetic towards the everyday Germans considering it was made only 5 years after the war ended. Thanks for the upload.
Hollywood quickly wanted to reestablish their European market which was devastated by the World War II. They were not going offend an German audience by portraying them in a negative light.
@@ricardocantoral7672 You're correct in the sense Hollywood DID want to re-establish its European markets, but its more than that. From about 1946-52, 20th Century-Fox became the top studio in Hollywood because it was making the most daring movies. Whether it was race relations ("Gentleman's Agreement," "Pinky" or "No Way Out"), legal justice ("Call Northside 777," and "Boomerang"), mental illness ("The Snake Pit" and "Whirlpool") and films which presented Germans in a nicer light ("The Big Lift," "Decision Vefore Dawn" and "The Desert Fox."), Fox was pushing the buttons.
I've seen this before, but watching it now for at least the third time. The late Paul Douglas was a fine actor, especially good in Fourteen Hours. Check it out. Wright Flyer, USAF (1968-1972). EDIT: Four years later now and the 5th time watching it.
Great film, but that scene with Paul Douglas & Felix the prison guard is INTENSE. The white-hot hatred and rage just under the surface...and for good reason...is some seriously fine acting. The fellow playing the guard expresses fear in a fantastic way as well. My fav scene in the film.
aaah the old unreliable rabbit ears, eh? and no remote, had to get off the chair to manually change channels only to find loads of black and white commercials of alka seltzer with the kerpulnk fizz, Chesterfield (cough-cough!) cigarettes, rear engine Chevy Corvairs, Ajax laundry soap knights chasing folks with a long lances, crying "stronger than dirt", Fred and Barney smoking Winstons in Bedrock......
@@jamesalexander3530 Thanks for all those old commercials' tunes in my head now! Along with Gillette razors and Aqua-Velva man! But we never had the rabbit ears antenna; my dad had to climb up on the roof while I stood by an open window telling him what effect each tweak he made was having on the reception. And we had to use 2 old black and white TVs, one on top of the other: one had only sound, and the other had only picture. We were poor, but my dad was very resourceful, cheerful, and never complained. He enjoyed watching war history dramas, and westerns, but almost always fell asleep during them, being so exhausted from working 14 hour days building sea walls, bridges, and piers. Maybe I grew to love the same type movies by finishing watching them for my dad while he slept. I don't remember ever seeing "The Big Lift" before, but it is an outstanding production. I was amazed with every scene to know that Douglas and Clift were the only actors, and that all the others were actual military personnel. They were all natural born actors, in that case! I liked when the pilot is going through the checklist and asks, "Fingers crossed?", and the immediate response is, "Fingers crossed." 🙂
My Mom lived with her family in Germany a few years after WWII due to her father in the U.S. Army being stationed in that country as part of the American occupation forces. When the time came for them to return to the U.S. they were supposed to fly back. That was just when the Berlin Airlift began and consequently no transport planes were available for the trip home. They had to return aboard a very slow-moving Liberty ship freighter which took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic.
🙏💝💜❤ME LOVIE TV PERIOD! LOVE MOVIES WHEN REALIZM IS APART OF, THIS MOVIE IS JUST THAT! Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas BOTH SUPERB IN THEIR RIGHTFUL WAYS! WATCH MOVIES THEY HAVE STARRED IN!
From an aviation standpoint, it was great to see how the flight engineer was portrayed. I sure miss aircraft that had those on board. "Thow another log on the fire. It's chilly back here." 'throw another log on the fire. It's cold back here."
A wonderful movie. Filmed in 1950 during the Hollywood-blacklist era so a bit preachy by today's standards. But the west was in a cold war with Stalinist Russia during the 48-49 Big Lift. And once again, or so it would seem. The black-and-white cinematic depictions of the Berlin rebuild are amazing.
A departed mate, John Beaton was a Sydney boy who started his career as a boy opening the bill at the Tivoli theatre as Carmen Miranda, gravitated to his own radio show on 2 CH, went to London and joined a singing quartet called The Star Gazers and were a feature of BBC radio, did a Royal Command Performance and decided that it did get much better than that, so he quit and joined British European Airways as a steward......then found himself in the Berlin Air Lift.Sometimes life imitates art...
💕👍 born 1945 in wiesbaden, still grateful tu be born in the us-occupied part of germany. gi’s liked kids and were distributing gifts to us in the streets, much needed and appriciated....
Montgomery Clift was Way better looking than Tom Cruise even after the car wreck that ruined his face. And... he would never of been so mindless to of become not only a scientology but the spokesman for that absurd twisted cult.
It seems that, even in 1950, some people realized how bizarre the cold war was, and it just got more bizarre and dangerous. I grew up during this era. I was young and didn't always understand what was going on but I could tell that something was wrong and I was scared all the time, civil defense drills, fallout shelters everywhere, blackout curtains on the windows, etc. Bizarre.
it reminds me of my time flying with the 7th Air Force as a jet engine mechanic on C130 A model three props from Tachikawa AB Japan to Kadina Okinawa stop to refuel and load up supplies to Tan Son Nhu AB in 1969-70 during the Viet Nam era. later from CCK AFB C130B in Taichung Taiwan on 90 days TDY rotation. as we were told, you fly what you fix. i missed that day flying with the flyboys. i just hopped on, to and from, when my assignment ended.
It is because the airport Tempelhof was in the american sector and not in the british sector. The british landed with their planes in Gatow (near the river Havel) in the district of Spandau/Berlin which was part of the british sector then. That is the real explanation.
Paul Douglas acting, as always, marvelous; such an accomplished actor who felt at easy in any genre and in this case his portrayal of an embittered man who hates all Germans is appalling. In those days actors were quite different from those nowadays, they were not pretty or witty, just actors who loved their job.
Herr Stieber (O.E.Hasse) at 43:47 is very much like a friend of mine in Germany back in the 70s. His name was Heinrich, but everyone called him "Churchill" because he spent most of the war in a British POW camp. He had to learn lots of shortcuts to survive during and just after the war. He was a scamster and hustler but also a true and generous friend. He eventually came to own a little restaurant in a small village and my father and I would spent many a long night there swapping stories and schnapps. Many good memories.
I liked the explanation of GCA scene. I never knew that the glide slope radar had a special gage that showed the deviation in feet. I was always told that etched markings on the screen provided that information.
Ruth Presti. Great story. Heartbreaking that our people were heroic in saving those they had recently fought from starvation. Now the powers that be starve men, women, children who've done nothing to us. Strange.
@@bigalsez Gen. Dwight D Eisenhower tried to convince Franklin Roosevelt to desegregate the military during ww2, FDR would not consider it. FDR wanted to shut down the Tuskeegee Airman program, but his wife made him continue it. Eisenhower went on to to become a 2 term Republican president and it was he who shut down the racist segregated schools that the Democrats like Orval Faubus, and Geo. Wallace vowed not to end. Ike sent the troops down and kicked open the doors for blacks as the Democrats attempted to block the doors.
For anyone who might be interested, here is some recommended reading: The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour by Andrei Cherny Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot" by Michael O. Tunnell
1:07:39 in the background you can see one of the flak towers that held off the Russians until the final surrender. The British tried to blow it up but couldn't do so effectively.
And from the Berlin Airlift came the beginnings of the concept of the C-130. Faster loading and unloading using a rear ramp that could be lowered to typical truck bed height. High wing to aid in stability during flight. Lots of windows on the flight deck for visibility in the air and on the ground.
This movie is more than just entertainment... it is practically an historical document. Should be must-viewing for kids today. I’m glad to see it has survived. Thanks for posting.
I was pleasantly surprised at just how good this film was. The Berlin Air Lift was a remarkable achievement by the Americans and the British, and is not given enough nearly enough attention. This film captured it perfectly ... including the awful destruction of the city itself. Great performances. Odd to see such a young Montgomery Clift - you can see his confidence here and how it impacted his acting style, vs the way he was after that accident. Thanks for making it available!
GREAT movie, WAY ahead of its time regarding the issue of ethnic bigotry. No hyper drama with people dying, simply the human drama dealt with in a mature way.
My father was a Air Force pilot who flew both bombers in WWIIand the Berlin airlift . He was always very proud of ‘ what we did for Berlin.”
Your father was another hero unrecognized as such but surely was one ..
If you want to see what it was like to be in Berlin around 1949, this film captures it! Amazing and realistic. Pay close attention to the street shots. It's as if this is a documentary. Thanks for presenting this and making it possible for us to view this treasure!
Thanks for posting this film
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Many good films made in the ruins of Post War Europe. Very haunting to see sights my Mom saw at 18 years old...
My mother's younger brother was in the US Air Force in WWII but had to stop flying as he had a heart murmur. He got dizzy. Growing up in the '50's we didn't talk about the war. I really enjoyed this film. Thank you. 🛩️
This film absolutely resonates with me also. My father was a Military Policeman stationed at Spandau, English Sector Berlin with 247 Provost Company. He met my mum, living in the Russian Sector during the Berlin Airlift, but staying with her cousin in Spandau, she had also spent some time as a 'rubble woman'. They fell in love & she came to the UK to be married when Dad left Conscription. Dad's parents paid for the military flight to get her here. In August 1961 her parents were confined behond the Berlin Wall.
The film should be considered an historical film.
Paul Douglas, a great actor and a very interesting account of the Berlin airlift. These old classics rely on realism and great acting and do not need no stinking cgi and action hero hype.
What a gem...worth the time to watch!!!!!!!
Poignant dramatic yet sensitive depiction of multiple sides of USA, Germany, and USSR. Clift in a role that was suited for his sensitivity and universality. Snatches of dream float on the ocean of hard reality in this film. Kudos that they did not schmaltz it up. If you have lived in Berlin, this gives good context to those years, and even now, it lurks in the alleys. Thank you.
What a good movie. Very simple plot, good acting. Thoroughly enjoyable.
This is a new movie to me. My Uncle was a pilot, in WW2 and was called back to service, as a reservist, and flew missions for the Berlin Air lift.
He later flew for United Air Lines, for 30 years.
hey there, your dad must be the one who flew Capitol Airlines when UA got started. I worked for UA for 16 years from 1986 to 2002 when it filed for chapter 11. The last overhauled jet I worked on was the PW4090 for the 777 twin-engine widebody
@@rtchow3000 It was my uncle, not my dad.
This is such a wonderful story of how GREAT we Americans can be. I didn't know anyone personally who participated in the Berlin Airlift. However, my maternal grandfather (an immigrant) fought with the Allied Army in WWI. My father fought in the south Pacific and his brother fought in Europe during WWII. My uncle on my mom's side fought in WWII and Korea. They too were in the Army. I'm SO proud and grateful for ALL of the men who served!
"how GREAT we Americans can be."....You could claim that if you had done it alone, but you didn;t, The US was just a part of it,.
Americans are a very proud race alas.
@@theoracle6639Yes the British Royal Air Force did a major airlift right alongside the Americans
This is a great story. It should be considered as n historical film. The real people of Berlin and the Trummerfrau who cleaned the ruble and bricks to rebuild. For an historian seeing the clothes, damage, and how people were treated is a real lesson
A hidden gem! From a 20 year soldier that served in Germany..
Thank you for your service!
someone should make a movie on the supply mission dropping off ammo and food to the troops in Viet Nam remote outposts Kang Son, that was under fire for 45 days with the C130 cargo plane. i was one of the mechanics fixing the shot-up C130 when returning from the remote outpost. plane limp back with boocoo rounds in the rudder, flaps, and the engine components. i had to chisel out a hydraulic pump, a starter and an air inlet oil cooler frequently. nothing can bring down a C130 unless it does touch and go parachute jettison cargo on a short dirt strip. at least these flyboys do not have to face the firing round, just intimidation from the Red-commies. top brass should just bomb Moscow and Leningrad with the leftover WWII bombs. that was a real mistake letting the Red-commies off the Nazi grip.
It's a great film, capturing a time which is mostly forgotten - immediate post war Germany and the successful effort to keep Berlin going despite the Soviet effort to starve it out. It feels and looks very authentic, and great to see Montgomery Clift in his first film role looking so young and healthy - he was an obvious natural in front of the cameras from the start.
not Clift's first film
Good acting !
Starve it out wow history really does repeat itself.
Great film? What about all the other nations involved?
I saw this movie as kid about 60 years ago. I understood the flying part but not the rest. Now as a 75 year old it make a lot more sense. Glad I wondered into it again.
A forgotten but important piece of film history, great film, and great detective work!
this is one of the lovliest, heartwarming films that i have seen in a long time. Thank you.
Although I knew about the airlift and I actually met Gail Halverson the "candy bomber" I didn't know how difficult it was to fly into Berlin. The details they showed in this film were amazing, especially flying between the buildings on final approach.
Very surprising movie. I was expecting typical film noir and instead got a true snapshot of Berlin a few years after the war, and some of the most realistic flying from any movie.
A great film! Paul Douglas is excellent.
Play this film in schools for historical purposes. Children of today need to really see the past historical history of the war. And also need to know what started it.
How about today 3 wars taxpayers are keeping going.?
What an amazing time capsule. Both entertaining and thought provoking - a movie that stays with you. Thank you so much.
First time seeing this movie. What a wonderful historical treasure of what things looked like and the original people who lived during that time.
I grew up with pictures of Berlin from the air my dad took flying over.
I agree with your statement.
Michael, another excellent film from the period is "The Search", also with Montgomery Clift. It's about a little boy who was separated from his entire family and interred in a concentration camp and when it's liberated he and hundreds of other children like him were sent to Bases where they could be housed until their parents could find them or have them sent to new lives in Israel. He runs away to find his mother who he believes is still alive. Montgomery Clift is the young GI who helps him. It's an amazing story and also filmed on location so the destruction and rubble is real.
" a few wealthy people own the newspapers - and THEY tell the people what to think and do". Sounds familiar to now doesn't it?
Stole my thought there. The more things change 🤔
Hopefully u don't feel Fox is the answer....spreading hate & fear & misinformation thru their op-eds is not news....most news outlets are good & u don't need to "think & do" what they say....u can form your own opinions from a number of sources ....
You have that right. 🗽
Why did FOX News come to mind as I read your post!!!!
@@mughug9616 you misspelled CNN !
It's amazing to compare the views of Berlin in this great movie with what they look like today.
I was in grade school during this & we all donated toys & food.
Well done ! the genorosity of the Americans did wonders for the Germans who had only recently been enemies.
The Yanks worked very hard to achieve this humanitarian effort.
We should remember that several died on this mission .
What year?
Mom lived in Karlsruhe (home town) after the War ended. French Occupation Zone with Algerians riding those tiny donkees. During War lived in Krakow, Poland. Escaped on train of Army Nurses as Russians approached. 95 now. Has met Adolf Hitler and Albert Einstein !
Great scenes of postwar Germany. Nice historical record
Great film, thanks for uploading!
This was GREAT
Excellent movie. Thank you.
Democracy and human Rights must be respected .
always enjoy watching the great actors of old. No camparison to modern ones.
wow at 74 this film is very good.
Interesting movie, wide range of characters. Very sympathetic towards the everyday Germans considering it was made only 5 years after the war ended. Thanks for the upload.
Hollywood quickly wanted to reestablish their European market which was devastated by the World War II. They were not going offend an German audience by portraying them in a negative light.
@@ricardocantoral7672 Film also used as anti-Russian propaganda
Ace Handler .....probably because they finally realized the real enemy was the Russians...
Everybody's gotta eat.
@@ricardocantoral7672 You're correct in the sense Hollywood DID want to re-establish its European markets, but its more than that. From about 1946-52, 20th Century-Fox became the top studio in Hollywood because it was making the most daring movies. Whether it was race relations ("Gentleman's Agreement," "Pinky" or "No Way Out"), legal justice ("Call Northside 777," and "Boomerang"), mental illness ("The Snake Pit" and "Whirlpool") and films which presented Germans in a nicer light ("The Big Lift," "Decision Vefore Dawn" and "The Desert Fox."), Fox was pushing the buttons.
Montgomery Clift actor legendary Best 🎭
Yes! And tear inducingly handsome.
he is not a very convincing actor when he trys to play a romantic scene with a woman, another rock hudson,
Montgomery Clift was a handsome bastard and a truly great actor.
EXCELLENT MOVIE! Thanks
I've seen this before, but watching it now for at least the third time. The late Paul Douglas was a fine actor, especially good in Fourteen Hours. Check it out. Wright Flyer, USAF (1968-1972). EDIT: Four years later now and the 5th time watching it.
I loved him as the unlikely hero in 14 Hours.
@@ricardocantoral7672 IMO he was definitely one of the finest actors that ever lived.
Thank You Uploader . Great Ol Flick . Worth a look ! .
Great film, but that scene with Paul Douglas & Felix the prison guard is INTENSE. The white-hot hatred and rage just under the surface...and for good reason...is some seriously fine acting. The fellow playing the guard expresses fear in a fantastic way as well. My fav scene in the film.
German General from "Decision Before Dawn" at 44:18. Big Lift is a very good movie and was shown on antenna TV back in the late 50s and 60s.
aaah the old unreliable rabbit ears, eh? and no remote, had to get off the chair to manually change channels only to find loads of black and white commercials of alka seltzer with the kerpulnk fizz, Chesterfield (cough-cough!) cigarettes, rear engine Chevy Corvairs, Ajax laundry soap knights chasing folks with a long lances, crying "stronger than dirt", Fred and Barney smoking Winstons in Bedrock......
@@jamesalexander3530 Thanks for all those old commercials' tunes in my head now! Along with Gillette razors and Aqua-Velva man! But we never had the rabbit ears antenna; my dad had to climb up on the roof while I stood by an open window telling him what effect each tweak he made was having on the reception. And we had to use 2 old black and white TVs, one on top of the other: one had only sound, and the other had only picture. We were poor, but my dad was very resourceful, cheerful, and never complained. He enjoyed watching war history dramas, and westerns, but almost always fell asleep during them, being so exhausted from working 14 hour days building sea walls, bridges, and piers. Maybe I grew to love the same type movies by finishing watching them for my dad while he slept. I don't remember ever seeing "The Big Lift" before, but it is an outstanding production. I was amazed with every scene to know that Douglas and Clift were the only actors, and that all the others were actual military personnel. They were all natural born actors, in that case! I liked when the pilot is going through the checklist and asks, "Fingers crossed?", and the immediate response is, "Fingers crossed." 🙂
My Mom lived with her family in Germany a few years after WWII due to her father in the U.S. Army being stationed in that country as part of the American occupation forces. When the time came for them to return to the U.S. they were supposed to fly back. That was just when the Berlin Airlift began and consequently no transport planes were available for the trip home. They had to return aboard a very slow-moving Liberty ship freighter which took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic.
Excellent movie!
As is common with me I came here,to the comments,first. Wow...am I in for a Movie!! 😀
🙏💝💜❤ME LOVIE TV PERIOD! LOVE MOVIES WHEN REALIZM IS APART OF, THIS MOVIE IS JUST THAT! Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas BOTH SUPERB IN THEIR RIGHTFUL WAYS! WATCH MOVIES THEY HAVE STARRED IN!
From an aviation standpoint, it was great to see how the flight engineer was portrayed. I sure miss aircraft that had those on board. "Thow another log on the fire. It's chilly back here."
'throw another log on the fire. It's cold back here."
Well worth watching
Tight flick.
. . Thanks Detective
Hay thanks for that, had not seen that film before. I can rememder beeing in london just after the war, all the rubbal an damage, dont need that again
A time when Douglas Commercial rulled the skies worldwide. It's amazing C54s / DC4s are stiil around today.
Very good movie!!💞🇺🇸
Bien narrado, bien como comedia, mejor como drama.
Estupenda historia.
A wonderful movie. Filmed in 1950 during the Hollywood-blacklist era so a bit preachy by today's standards. But the west was in a cold war with Stalinist Russia during the 48-49 Big Lift.
And once again, or so it would seem.
The black-and-white cinematic depictions of the Berlin rebuild are amazing.
Great film thank you.
A departed mate, John Beaton was a Sydney boy who started his career as a boy opening the bill at the Tivoli theatre as Carmen Miranda, gravitated to his own radio show on 2 CH, went to London and joined a singing quartet called The Star Gazers and were a feature of BBC radio, did a Royal Command Performance and decided that it did get much better than that, so he quit and joined British European Airways as a steward......then found himself in the Berlin Air Lift.Sometimes life imitates art...
Hard working people.They had to clean the bricks.The Germans used old paintings to see what buildings were there.
Good Movie!
A great movie on war With Paul, Cornell
Great movie! Thank You for posting.
💕👍 born 1945 in wiesbaden, still grateful tu be born in the us-occupied part of germany.
gi’s liked kids and were distributing gifts to us in the streets, much needed and appriciated....
1:08:16 the Reichstag building is in the background. Also you can see the ruins of the Kroll opera house.
GREAT FILM!
Visually Montgomery Cliffe was the Tim Cruise of the 1940's ! Smile and facial expressions similar !
Agree. Surprisingly similar. I think Clift was braver in his film roles.
He also had that something that in my opinion made him a little better actor than Tom.
Montgomery was more handsome/beautiful imo.
definitely similarities in appearance
Montgomery Clift was Way better looking than Tom Cruise even after the car wreck that ruined his face. And... he would never of been so mindless to of become not only a scientology but the spokesman for that absurd twisted cult.
It seems that, even in 1950, some people realized how bizarre the cold war was, and it just got more bizarre and dangerous. I grew up during this era. I was young and didn't always understand what was going on but I could tell that something was wrong and I was scared all the time, civil defense drills, fallout shelters everywhere, blackout curtains on the windows, etc. Bizarre.
it reminds me of my time flying with the 7th Air Force as a jet engine mechanic on C130 A model three props from Tachikawa AB Japan to Kadina Okinawa stop to refuel and load up supplies to Tan Son Nhu AB in 1969-70 during the Viet Nam era. later from CCK AFB C130B in Taichung Taiwan on 90 days TDY rotation. as we were told, you fly what you fix. i missed that day flying with the flyboys. i just hopped on, to and from, when my assignment ended.
Great movie.
I wonder what Paul Douglas would have to say about American democracy in 2024?
Finally found this movie,first saw it on DVD.
great movie
The US delivered by far the most supplies but the UK delivered over 500,000 tons also. Only US planes and personnel shown in this film.
@25:35 At the Templehof award ceremony The American Captain mentions the French and British contribution to the Berlin airlift.
It's a USA movie.
@@chipieal .. Yes.. Hollywood making it look like the USA won the coldwar again all by itself.
It is because the airport Tempelhof was in the american sector and not in the british sector. The british landed with their planes in Gatow (near the river Havel) in the district of Spandau/Berlin which was part of the british sector then. That is the real explanation.
Good movie. Started slow, but got real good.
Paul Douglas acting, as always, marvelous; such an accomplished actor who felt at easy in any genre and in this case his portrayal of an embittered man who hates all Germans is appalling. In those days actors were quite different from those nowadays, they were not pretty or witty, just actors who loved their job.
I really enjoyed this one! Thank you...🇺🇸 😎👍☕
This Movie came out quick.
1950, just 2 years after the Soviets closed off the City.
Herr Stieber (O.E.Hasse) at 43:47 is very much like a friend of mine in Germany back in the 70s. His name was Heinrich, but everyone called him "Churchill" because he spent most of the war in a British POW camp. He had to learn lots of shortcuts to survive during and just after the war. He was a scamster and hustler but also a true and generous friend. He eventually came to own a little restaurant in a small village and my father and I would spent many a long night there swapping stories and schnapps. Many good memories.
Excellent film. thx
Thanks for the First View!
Monty Clift was gorgeous.
excellent
Very interesting! Well worth watching.
I served at Westover AFB and was TDY to West Germany many times including Rhein Main.
I liked the explanation of GCA scene. I never knew that the glide slope radar had a special gage that showed the deviation in feet. I was always told that etched markings on the screen provided that information.
The way Montgomery Clift pronounced Auf Wiedersehen was comical.
In the beginning of the film is the music like all these vintage films .
Good one-TY
An amazing historical document about a time and a place. Unique and unusual role for Monty Clift. Worth watching.
Wonderfull Movie
Interesting listening to the explanation of democracy….
Ruth Presti. Great story. Heartbreaking that our people were heroic in saving those they had recently fought from starvation. Now the powers that be starve men, women, children who've done nothing to us. Strange.
Good movie been on the ending side situation, though non military.
My German Grandmother was the Best!!! Grandad died from bad kidneys, they were from Austria-Hungary...
23:00 Bad ass Honor Guard march.
By Black soldiers who never appeared elsewhere in the film--except for a truck driver. Segregated army, even after 1947 desegregation order by Truman.
@@bigalsez Gen. Dwight D Eisenhower tried to convince Franklin Roosevelt to desegregate the military during ww2, FDR would not consider it. FDR wanted to shut down the Tuskeegee Airman program, but his wife made him continue it. Eisenhower went on to to become a 2 term Republican president and it was he who shut down the racist segregated schools that the Democrats like Orval Faubus, and Geo. Wallace vowed not to end. Ike sent the troops down and kicked open the doors for blacks as the Democrats attempted to block the doors.
I cannot imagine going too war ! These older movies are as bout accurate as you can get even with the propaganda,,, newer movies look good but ....
For anyone who might be interested, here is some recommended reading:
The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour by Andrei Cherny
Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot" by Michael O. Tunnell
1:07:39 in the background you can see one of the flak towers that held off the Russians until the final surrender. The British tried to blow it up but couldn't do so effectively.
Some are still there.
@@spikespa5208 Yes, three of them are still there. Too difficult to destroy so they were repurposed.
LOVE THIS OLD MOVIES, EXCEPT THE SMOKING.
And this flick came out right when the Korean War started. No rest permitted.
And from the Berlin Airlift came the beginnings of the concept of the C-130. Faster loading and unloading using a rear ramp that could be lowered to typical truck bed height. High wing to aid in stability during flight. Lots of windows on the flight deck for visibility in the air and on the ground.