A great sequence - filmed by my father David Waterman, himslef an ex para (3 para) and his mates. Alas David died yesterday, long may this remain on UA-cam for all to enjoy his work. RIP Dad.
Saw this movie all those years ago when it was new at the cinema. At the theater where it was playing, the lobby had a really high ceiling, and a local military modelling club had a whole fleet of C-47 model planes along with model paratroopers hanging from fine wires or threads, recreating this scene from the movie. I think it was all 1/48 scale, and looked awesome. This was a great movie, but Star Wars came out the same weekend or the next, and that movie obliterated absolutely everything at the box office that summer of 1977.
I love a story about a WW2 vet of the 82nd visiting Ft Bragg and asking a couple of young troopers how many drops they made. They said 20-30. When they asked him he said "Five: North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, and Holland."
I've always loved this part. Sometimes I miss the days when they would actually go through the trouble to film a scene like this instead of trying to recreate it on a computer.
Im keep it a secret and i die with the secret, learning that Im an anzac. My dad is truly an anzac. Death wish i serve army die before my mum, dad, family and country. Sadly mum, dad, brother are deceased.
I watched it last night age 45, it's a really impressive scene. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it or never pondered what a bunch of paratroopers falling out of a plane would look like.
But to be honest, it would be very hard & somewhat dangerous to do a massed airdrop live using 'antique' aircraft--I'm not even sure if Zimbabwe has Rhodesian Era Dakotas still flying--to say nothing of ultra experienced troops to jump from them.
It’s life. Guys had to do this. With minimal training. I applaud the producers for their realism. Many soldiers die in training. Look up the Canadian paratrooper deaths just north of Ottawa in the 60s. legionmagazine.com/en/2018/05/into-icy-waters/
Actually CGI can pull off objects and large crowds of people incredibly well. I prefer practical effects overall but to discount CGI entirely is stupid nowadays. Like With the Dunkirk movie. While I like that the director didn't use any CGI in dunkirk, not using it at all made it fall short on a few marks. Since he only had a limited amount of actors his wide shots are ruined because there is supposed to be 400k troops on the beach but he has barley any. He could've easily use CGI to make it look like 400k. He also filmed on location which is cool but it's now a modern town and looked nothing like a warzone. He could've easily used CGI to make the buildings looks bombed and destroyed or if he wanted to stick with practical he could've built a set. Practical is nice but it's not always practical or better anymore.
They did have a problem with the Horsa gliders though. None existed. Fortunately they located a microfilm that had the blueprints so they built their own.
1:53 to 2:19 brings back a lot of memories! Such good men; such close friends! And 3:01 to 3:12 is about the only parachute landing scene I've ever seen in entertainment films that depicts the actual crash-and-burn landing of a fully combat loaded paratrooper. As my years in the airborne went by, the ground kept getting harder and harder. Must have been plate tectonics. Couldn't have been age. :o)
So tragic they were not successful. I visited Arnhem and Oosterbeek last April to see where the battle happened. I spoke to the guy who runs the museum by the bridge, and said it was sad how many soldiers died, and were unable to capture the town. He said he was glad that they had tried to liberate it, and that the local school children always put flowers on the graves on the anniversary. They are all very grateful to what the British tried to do.
Isnt that just amazing, all those men doing something so special, im guessing this would never be repeated in the future on such a scale of a fight for freedom
it was actually Bernard Montgomery who said 'What Manner Of Men Are These That Wear The Maroon Beret? They are firstly all volunteers and are toughened by physical training. As a result they have infectious optimism and that offensive eagerness which comes from well-being. They have 'jumped' from the air and by doing so have conquered fear. Their duty lies in the van of the battle. They are proud of this honour. They have the highest standards in all things whether it be skill in battle or smartness in the execution of all peace time duties. They are in fact - men apart - every man an emperor. Of all the factors, which make for success in battle, the spirit of the warrior is the most decisive. That spirit will be found in full measure in the men who wear the maroon beret'
Wow! It really looks like an airborne battalion drop. Can you imagine if they could recreate the entire 1st Airborne's drop? Nearly 7,000 men by parachute and 3,000 by glider over a five mile area. That would be a sight to behold!
Well, in those days a camera small enough to carry like that would a: not be recording sound b: if a separate audio recorder was in use, the camera noise would be clearly audible. So while someone obviously had a camera with them during the drop, the breathing was added later in sound editing. (yes, I'm a veteran filmmaker)
“Where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defence, so that ten thousand men descending from the clouds might not, in many places, do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?” Benjamin Franklin in 1784
@@robertcollett7115 mr Franklin was using the word prince in regards to a very wealthy man ei: in those times keeping a army large enough to defend everything domestically would have taken a ludicrous amount of mount
This is great. I saw this a few months after graduating from jump school. They almost tossed us out of the theatre for all our hooting and cheering. :) And... a friend of mine at the time was in europe and took part in the jump for the movie.
In a behind the scenes featurette of the movie that can be found on UA-cam, there were a few injuries such as twisted angle or foot. One person suffered a broken back.
My uncle with 2nd Parachute Battalion Co. Johnny Frost. Always said that & only that was a memory worth keeping, but the rest of campaign he could not forget.
After watching this parachute porn being 17 years old ( I was particularly fascinated by first-person shots of the jump and the landing), I ran to the closest drop zone with my money. Noobs in Russia mostly jump with round military parachutes after 3 hours training (AFF or tandem jumps being more expensive and less available), some of them deploying exactly like those in the film (canopy sleeve remains attached to the plane by static line), so the experience was close enough, minus the heavy war load and the war itself, obviously.
There's a C-47 in full D-Day markings that frequently flies out of the local airport here, and there is no mistaking it for another aircraft when it passes over. It rattles the windows. I can hardly imagine the sound that a stream of hundreds of C-47s would make, or any of the big radial-engined aircraft of that era.
There is no like old fashioned WW2 war movies where there is no crappy CGI involved. This one; Tora-Tora-Tora and the Battle of England are among my favorites.
3dfreak2000 I know this comment is 5 years late but I agree completely. I love films like Cross of Iron or The Eagle Has Landed. They both use entirely practical effects and also take a different turn rather the normal war movie perspectives.
Excellent, excellent, action packed movie: It's production was superb. Every scene brilliantly performed and directed. The cast could not possibly have been better chosen: FANTASTIC actors; ALL of them. My personal favorite, of course, was the jeep scene. The hard work that went into it's precise attention to historical detail is plainly evident. If there are, in fact, any innacuracies at all I am not able to see them. If anyone would like to discuss this for fun or . . perhaps . . disagree with me? Please.
@@steveyates6844 Excellent directing and producing from Richard Attenborough the fine acting of Anthony Hopkins, James Caan, Robert Redford, Dirk Bogarde, Liv Uhlman, Sean Connery, Lawrence Oliver, Gene Hackman etc. etc. etc, 'And of course the selfless and dangerous contribution of modern day airborne forces just for a movie, albeit an important one. It's risky enough jumping from an airplane with new and modern equipmentl. Imagine using out dated stuff that had to be over thirty-three years old at the time.
Greatest drop of the war. You didn't want to miss this one. Even if you broke your ankle hitting the ground you wanted to be there. *Oh but you didn't want to be there on day #3 drop because the Germans were crack shots and they were waiting for you. The Polish Airborne got shot to pieces in the air.
yeah this is a classice... great story.. i love the part where the british commander strolls along the bridge with his umbrella.. jejeje great stuff.. right where here .. and jerrys there..
My friend told me when he was in Paras unit during national service his friend was victim of bullying .He was scared to death before first jump and literally kicked out of the plane by his officer.
The evacuation task was incidental. The RCE Field Companies were grouped with the RE and tasked to conduct bridge/raft ops in the event that any of the bridges were blown. The lineage of these Field Companies is carried by 2 CER.
Trivia: In a behind the scenes video here on UA-cam, one person had to be taken to the hospital from a broken back during the jump and another failed to jump out of the plane and was reportedly court martialed.
@4mrtd This was actually quoted by Kurt Student the commander of the German Falschimjaeger (Paratroop) Forces and pioneer of Airborne warfare. This was another unforseen problem for the Allied Airborne forces as the last thing you want oppossing you is the guy who wrote the book on Airborne OPs just accidentally being in the same area. Student knew exactly what problems the Allied Para's would be facing and his advise was invaluable in aiding the German victory.
@tigerbait134 for sure, i love these movies, the guns of navarone is awesome, im 16 and i love the movies made from 47 to now about world war 2, but one thing i really love is the movies about the beach landings and such with the actual veterans, like to hell and back, it has the person who it is about, audie murphy as the leading role, also, the movie big red one was great, but you have to see the directors cut to get the whole thing, otherwise certain things seem random
You're right on! I did feel like a yo-yo! Up-and-down-and-up-and....'Twas a long day, indeed. The -130 jump was cancelled due to, surprise--low ceiling (this being in February). So we kept doing the balloon jumps. The guy operating the cable winch even had a mug of tea. It was all so, well, "civilized" and "British!" Loved it! "The Big Silver Pig"? Didn't hear that at the time, but so very appropriate. All The Way, Sir!
I haven't the proper facilities to round up every Uber-Troll, but I will add it to my list of things to do. God Bless the RAF and the 82nd Airborne! Huzzah huzzah huzzah!
The film company hired a battlion of British Paratroopers each soldier was paid £5 extra duty pay my first Corporal told me this as joined Para Reg two years after the movie came out
I used to live next to an old lady whose husband took part in the real thing and I believe was one of the people who helped to deliver a local woman's baby at some point of the battle!
The parachutists are just dummy weights attached to parachutes, but the planes themselves are real, and I personally think the effect still holds up to this day. Meanwhile Band of Brothers from just fifteen years ago, is already almost laughable in how obvious the CG effects are, in almost the exact same scene.
good on ya! @@richardfilewood1012 none of what's in that movie can be reproduced today. not enough C47s, gliders don't exist any more. Sherman tank and Fireflies, and Bren gun carriers, as well as other equipment used in that movie would cost to much to reproduce. and paratroop regiments got some paid training to boot
@Celeon999A "nowadays" the Americans have always taken liberties with war movies. Bridge on the River Kwai ,1960 an American blew up the bridge, even though they were no Yanks within 2,000 miles to name just one
my grandfarther was in this battle he made it out but he died in 1945 2 months away from the end of the war when he was killed by a drunk yank he stabbed him and he blead to death sad story.
it's true. well done. you can see it to the left of the airplane. but the parachute didn't fail, then he was scared. that hapen all the time, i am a paratrooper from Honduras and that hapen all the time.
i saw a doco on tv where they blamed the americans for there lack of support and failing to join up with the airborne forces. i dont think there was any love lost bewteen american and british commanders,it said that the american forces wanted to wait and consolidate but the british forces wanted to push and attack!
Many reasons for the reserve deploying being scared with british airborne forces is not one of them. The motto of the No1 Parachute Training school is. Knowledge dispels fear!! Knowing the paras what better way to tell the folks back home which is me. I am the one who pulled his reserve chute!! It actually makes a sham of the movie with British Airborne forces not issued a reserve in WW2. In WW2 the chutes where made of silk and at times did not deploy fully. The famous Roman Candle
they dont make em like this anymore because it isn't violent enough for most people who watch movies, unfortunately the good movies like these are no longer of interest to many moviegoers because there is not enough action, personally i love this movie and all those like it, but a movie such as this would make very little in todays theatres
Does anyone know where this was filmed ? I remember being blown away as a kidas to the scale of this film, the logistics must have been huge, not to mention the budget !
@BlackCountryPuddler Did the editors use some kind of complex shot overlay? The planes can hold 28 each and at one point 11 enter the frame. That's a posssibility of nearly 330. Using photoshop I let it count blocks in one shot and it counted nearly 200 chutes. Then again they could have dropped dummies in the sweeping shots.
at 1:22 you can see a paratrooper's reserve chute open as well as his main chute. not necessarily bad but it does make it more difficult to steer. /i know cause it embarrassingly happened to me once :(
@BloodyFury555 Dont remember that scene, the guy hanging from the church watching everyone else get shot up sounds alot like the one in The Longest Day.
A great sequence - filmed by my father David Waterman, himslef an ex para (3 para) and his mates. Alas David died yesterday, long may this remain on UA-cam for all to enjoy his work. RIP Dad.
RiP your dad. This is an awesome movie and he made a difference.
Greatest scene ever I rewatched again! Dad was Airborne ‘gold wings’ ever brave and remembered always
RiP, tuo babbo un grande luke
Saw this movie all those years ago when it was new at the cinema. At the theater where it was playing, the lobby had a really high ceiling, and a local military modelling club had a whole fleet of C-47 model planes along with model paratroopers hanging from fine wires or threads, recreating this scene from the movie. I think it was all 1/48 scale, and looked awesome. This was a great movie, but Star Wars came out the same weekend or the next, and that movie obliterated absolutely everything at the box office that summer of 1977.
I love a story about a WW2 vet of the 82nd visiting Ft Bragg and asking a couple of young troopers how many drops they made. They said 20-30. When they asked him he said "Five: North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, and Holland."
Practice Jump and combat Jump were counted differently
I've always loved this part.
Sometimes I miss the days when they would actually go through the trouble to film a scene like this instead of trying to recreate it on a computer.
For some reason, when I was really young, like 5 or 6, It was this part, outta the whole movie, that fascinated me the most
Im keep it a secret and i die with the secret, learning that Im an anzac. My dad is truly an anzac. Death wish i serve army die before my mum, dad, family and country. Sadly mum, dad, brother are deceased.
I watched it last night age 45, it's a really impressive scene. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it or never pondered what a bunch of paratroopers falling out of a plane would look like.
Far better than any cgi crap used nowadays!😆
Jman
Kabul81 s
But to be honest, it would be very hard & somewhat dangerous to do a massed airdrop live using 'antique' aircraft--I'm not even sure if Zimbabwe has Rhodesian Era Dakotas still flying--to say nothing of ultra experienced troops to jump from them.
It’s life. Guys had to do this. With minimal training. I applaud the producers for their realism. Many soldiers die in training. Look up the Canadian paratrooper deaths just north of Ottawa in the 60s. legionmagazine.com/en/2018/05/into-icy-waters/
Actually CGI can pull off objects and large crowds of people incredibly well. I prefer practical effects overall but to discount CGI entirely is stupid nowadays. Like With the Dunkirk movie. While I like that the director didn't use any CGI in dunkirk, not using it at all made it fall short on a few marks. Since he only had a limited amount of actors his wide shots are ruined because there is supposed to be 400k troops on the beach but he has barley any. He could've easily use CGI to make it look like 400k. He also filmed on location which is cool but it's now a modern town and looked nothing like a warzone. He could've easily used CGI to make the buildings looks bombed and destroyed or if he wanted to stick with practical he could've built a set. Practical is nice but it's not always practical or better anymore.
Hans, get the umbrella.... Its raining Tommies.
Nein Hans get ze flak
Several countries furnished C-47's to make this scene. 2 from Portugal, 2 from French Somaliland, 3 from Denmark and 4 from Finland. A total of 11.
They did have a problem with the Horsa gliders though. None existed. Fortunately they located a microfilm that had the blueprints so they built their own.
micky wanderer Yes, but none of the Horsa glider in the movie was flyable.
very accurate movie,one of the best war movies😎
It's actually quite inaccurate in a number of places.
1:53 to 2:19 brings back a lot of memories! Such good men; such close friends! And 3:01 to 3:12 is about the only parachute landing scene I've ever seen in entertainment films that depicts the actual crash-and-burn landing of a fully combat loaded paratrooper. As my years in the airborne went by, the ground kept getting harder and harder. Must have been plate tectonics. Couldn't have been age. :o)
Yes, that jump and the canopy opening shock one can never forget.
My dad did the funeral for the last guy who survived the real attacks this film is based on. RIP all those who gave heir lives for this.
So tragic they were not successful. I visited Arnhem and Oosterbeek last April to see where the battle happened. I spoke to the guy who runs the museum by the bridge, and said it was sad how many soldiers died, and were unable to capture the town.
He said he was glad that they had tried to liberate it, and that the local school children always put flowers on the graves on the anniversary. They are all very grateful to what the British tried to do.
i was 10 when this masterpiece was in theater.
Isnt that just amazing, all those men doing something so special, im guessing this would never be repeated in the future on such a scale of a fight for freedom
British paras used as extras. Chuchill said "Every man an emperor". Balls of steels I say.
it was actually Bernard Montgomery who said 'What Manner Of Men Are These That Wear The Maroon Beret?
They are firstly all volunteers and are toughened by physical training. As a result they have infectious optimism and that offensive eagerness which comes from well-being. They have 'jumped' from the air and by doing so have conquered fear.
Their duty lies in the van of the battle. They are proud of this honour. They have the highest standards in all things whether it be skill in battle or smartness in the execution of all peace time duties. They are in fact - men apart - every man an emperor.
Of all the factors, which make for success in battle, the spirit of the warrior is the most decisive. That spirit will be found in full measure in the men who wear the maroon beret'
@@scottwallace2942 Thank for correcting the Hat!
Wow! It really looks like an airborne battalion drop. Can you imagine if they could recreate the entire 1st Airborne's drop? Nearly 7,000 men by parachute and 3,000 by glider over a five mile area. That would be a sight to behold!
SurfingTX That’s because it was a Battalion doing an Airborne drop...
1st Airborne didn't do a full division drop because they didn't have enough planes.
Cheers to the men of the 1/505th PIR -- their courage and their balls! Airborne!
at 2:10 that's my dad you can hear breathing. he had the camera on his chest
ollie241189 bullshit, your not serious right?
Bullshit
Well, in those days a camera small enough to carry like that would a: not be recording sound b: if a separate audio recorder was in use, the camera noise would be clearly audible. So while someone obviously had a camera with them during the drop, the breathing was added later in sound editing. (yes, I'm a veteran filmmaker)
bullshit
“Where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defence, so that ten thousand men descending from the clouds might not, in many places, do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?” Benjamin Franklin in 1784
Charles Buxton I liked that quote,first saw it in Medal of Honor:Airborne.
Wtf the prince what prince are you fucking stupid
@@robertcollett7115 mr Franklin was using the word prince in regards to a very wealthy man ei: in those times keeping a army large enough to defend everything domestically would have taken a ludicrous amount of mount
watching this as a child, this scene made my jaw drop, and was probably the sole reason i became so intrested in studying the war
This is great. I saw this a few months after graduating from jump school. They almost tossed us out of the theatre for all our hooting and cheering. :)
And... a friend of mine at the time was in europe and took part in the jump for the movie.
Guy falling from the right plane on 1:45.. epic drop
haha, holy shit
I hope he survived
Jesus!!
In a behind the scenes featurette of the movie that can be found on UA-cam, there were a few injuries such as twisted angle or foot. One person suffered a broken back.
How the hell did you notice that? LOL, I watched this scene countless times.
My uncle with 2nd Parachute Battalion Co. Johnny Frost. Always said that & only that was a memory worth keeping, but the rest of campaign he could not forget.
God Bless your dad. Glad he came home. Pity so many others didn't.
After watching this parachute porn being 17 years old ( I was particularly fascinated by first-person shots of the jump and the landing), I ran to the closest drop zone with my money. Noobs in Russia mostly jump with round military parachutes after 3 hours training (AFF or tandem jumps being more expensive and less available), some of them deploying exactly like those in the film (canopy sleeve remains attached to the plane by static line), so the experience was close enough, minus the heavy war load and the war itself, obviously.
All time world record of 35,000 paratroopers ever deployed!!
There's nothing more beautiful than seeing hundreds of chutes in the sky.
I'm sure the Allied forces on Crete didn't so.
Or the German forces at Arnhem...
I like the little horn thing
wolfeye7 The hunting horn? Also heard later in the movie as the British defend the bridge.
There's a C-47 in full D-Day markings that frequently flies out of the local airport here, and there is no mistaking it for another aircraft when it passes over. It rattles the windows. I can hardly imagine the sound that a stream of hundreds of C-47s would make, or any of the big radial-engined aircraft of that era.
Classic scene.
For all the Canadian and American soldiers fighting right now may god bless all of them
watching this on the toilet, about to squeak out the first drop
Balls..Fucking Balls..it's a shame the youth today don't even know what these young guys did not so long ago...
There is no like old fashioned WW2 war movies where there is no crappy CGI involved. This one; Tora-Tora-Tora and the Battle of England are among my favorites.
3dfreak2000 I know this comment is 5 years late but I agree completely. I love films like Cross of Iron or The Eagle Has Landed. They both use entirely practical effects and also take a different turn rather the normal war movie perspectives.
"Battle of England"? Battle of Britain, perhaps?
thats a hell alot of extras
array s, I don’t think that’s right
Richard M I know for d day but market garden?
Not on. Market garden..
I believe it was the 1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment; the best possible "extras" ;)
As a Former US Paratrooper, I have to wonder: What was it like to be the Very Last Jumper to land form the Very Last aircraft????
As a former British Paratrooper, I have to wonder what it was like to be the No 1 at the door on the first aircraft, as I hated to be No1.
@@FHIPrincePeter
BTDT in Training Jumps. It's a real BLAST waiting on the tap on your shoulder on a Herc.
Fantastica sequenza
Excellent, excellent, action packed movie: It's production was superb.
Every scene brilliantly performed and directed.
The cast could not possibly have been better chosen: FANTASTIC actors; ALL of them.
My personal favorite, of course, was the jeep scene.
The hard work that went into it's precise attention to historical detail is plainly evident.
If there are, in fact, any innacuracies at all I am not able to see them.
If anyone would like to discuss this for fun or . . perhaps . . disagree with me?
Please.
William Phillips Not actors, but serving British Para troopers doing what they’d trained for !
@@steveyates6844
Excellent directing and producing from Richard Attenborough the fine acting of Anthony Hopkins, James Caan, Robert Redford, Dirk Bogarde, Liv Uhlman, Sean Connery, Lawrence Oliver, Gene Hackman etc. etc. etc,
'And of course the selfless and dangerous contribution of modern day airborne forces just for a movie, albeit an important one.
It's risky enough jumping from an airplane with new and modern equipmentl. Imagine using out dated stuff that had to be over thirty-three years old at the time.
I'm so glad you put this here. This was one of the first war films I ever saw and I think it deserves way more credit than it gets.
Some serious green nylon overcast there.
Who thinks a bridge too far is the best movie
Greatest drop of the war. You didn't want to miss this one. Even if you broke your ankle hitting the ground you wanted to be there.
*Oh but you didn't want to be there on day #3 drop because the Germans were crack shots and they were waiting for you. The Polish Airborne got shot to pieces in the air.
Fantastisch! Einmal solches Material zu meiner Verfügung...
just ordinary Joe's doing exceptional things
"Where the hell are you think you guys going?!"
yeah this is a classice... great story.. i love the part where the british commander strolls along the bridge with his umbrella.. jejeje great stuff..
right where here .. and jerrys there..
Why this movie never got nominated for cinematography I'll never know.
Great movie watched it today!
My friend told me when he was in Paras unit during national service his friend was victim of bullying .He was scared to death before first jump and literally kicked out of the plane by his officer.
The evacuation task was incidental. The RCE Field Companies were grouped with the RE and tasked to conduct bridge/raft ops in the event that any of the bridges were blown. The lineage of these Field Companies is carried by 2 CER.
A excelent scene and very very good filmed !
Trivia:
In a behind the scenes video here on UA-cam, one person had to be taken to the hospital from a broken back during the jump and another failed to jump out of the plane and was reportedly court martialed.
weather or not the plan was great, the troops certanly were exelent soldiers
3:45 Almost a classic Airfix British para pose
0:30...no CG here my friends, those are real paratroopers, amazing scene.
I thought exactly the same about Frost and his very brave soldiers! A film should be about their fight to keep the north of Arnhem brigde!
Great movie!
@4mrtd This was actually quoted by Kurt Student the commander of the German Falschimjaeger (Paratroop) Forces and pioneer of Airborne warfare. This was another unforseen problem for the Allied Airborne forces as the last thing you want oppossing you is the guy who wrote the book on Airborne OPs just accidentally being in the same area. Student knew exactly what problems the Allied Para's would be facing and his advise was invaluable in aiding the German victory.
why is it most the movies before were very good unlike now??
we dont have movies like this anymore....
@tigerbait134 for sure, i love these movies, the guns of navarone is awesome, im 16 and i love the movies made from 47 to now about world war 2, but one thing i really love is the movies about the beach landings and such with the actual veterans, like to hell and back, it has the person who it is about, audie murphy as the leading role, also, the movie big red one was great, but you have to see the directors cut to get the whole thing, otherwise certain things seem random
Awesome movie. Thanks for posting.
A friend of mine did the jumps for the making of the film
I agree, this film is amamzing, no computer gen images here
Why would anyone question the hunting horn call of, "Tally Ho!"; seems the perfect military signal to close with the enemy!
There were no enemy near the drop zones. Frost used the hunting horn to help gather his scattered battalion to a rally point.
@@Rhubba and Lt Col Arthur Denaro used his to signal his regiment to advance (Gulf War 1991)
Oh yeah i never noticed that before. seen this like a million times to well spotted
You're right on! I did feel like a yo-yo! Up-and-down-and-up-and....'Twas a long day, indeed. The -130 jump was cancelled due to, surprise--low ceiling (this being in February). So we kept doing the balloon jumps. The guy operating the cable winch even had a mug of tea. It was all so, well, "civilized" and "British!" Loved it! "The Big Silver Pig"? Didn't hear that at the time, but so very appropriate. All The Way, Sir!
it matters inasmuch as it has to have an American in the leading role for it to be a financial success in the US
I haven't the proper facilities to round up every Uber-Troll, but I will add it to my list of things to do. God Bless the RAF and the 82nd Airborne! Huzzah huzzah huzzah!
The film company hired a battlion of British Paratroopers each soldier was paid £5 extra duty pay my first Corporal told me this as joined Para Reg two years after the movie came out
I used to live next to an old lady whose husband took part in the real thing and I believe was one of the people who helped to deliver a local woman's baby at some point of the battle!
spyderz1303 Wow! I wish I could meet one, if I were in a history class, this will be my project " bridge too far"
The parachutists are just dummy weights attached to parachutes, but the planes themselves are real, and I personally think the effect still holds up to this day.
Meanwhile Band of Brothers from just fifteen years ago, is already almost laughable in how obvious the CG effects are, in almost the exact same scene.
I'm sorry, but you are 100% wrong. All of the paratroopers were serving soldiers, the Brits from the Parachute Regiment. How do I know? I was there!
Richard Filewood Cue embarrasses silence from
the “artic gamer” well done Mr Filewood!
good on ya! @@richardfilewood1012 none of what's in that movie can be reproduced today. not enough C47s, gliders don't exist any more. Sherman tank and Fireflies, and Bren gun carriers, as well as other equipment used in that movie would cost to much to reproduce. and paratroop regiments got some paid training to boot
Then there's the insurance liability of a few hundred extras skydiving in 'real life'....
this was filmed only a couple of miles from here.
"B company, to me! A company, over there!"
Cheers !
Jumping from a perfectly good plane is very unnatural thing. The Paras are not for me.
Yep. It's very exhilarating though!
he says:Fantastic,someday he can have so much troops
Preform a proper PLF. Land! Cmon private..get back up there. I remember the days.
wow just the scenes I was looking for! paratroopers rock and so does youtube!
Dakota DC 3. a brillant maschine !
@Celeon999A "nowadays" the Americans have always taken liberties with war movies. Bridge on the River Kwai ,1960 an American blew up the bridge, even though they were no Yanks within 2,000 miles to name just one
Well actually it was britisher Alec Guinnes who blew up the bridge by falling on the detonator....,.
cheers. will have a look
That's near where i live. they recently recovered the bodies of 2 americans, it was said they were surprised with enermy MG-42 fire too
MG 42. Run away as fast as you can or charge that pillbox.
my grandfarther was in this battle he made it out but he died in 1945 2 months away from the end of the war when he was killed by a drunk yank he stabbed him and he blead to death sad story.
AIRBORNE!!!
"There's really was The Glory"
Damn good camerawork.
"Yes, I am over here Matthew."
that paratropper on the left at 1:43... woha, hope he had a reserve ... acrobatic inlay in this scene, so the one in the middle at 1:45
it's true. well done. you can see it to the left of the airplane. but the parachute didn't fail, then he was scared. that hapen all the time, i am a paratrooper from Honduras and that hapen all the time.
You got that right.
i saw a doco on tv where they blamed the americans for there lack of support and failing to join up with the airborne forces.
i dont think there was any love lost bewteen american and british commanders,it said that the american forces wanted to wait and consolidate but the british forces wanted to push and attack!
yeah sounds better....
Fantastic,one time such supplies to my hands....
@TheLloydA1 Sorry to hear that happened to one of the brave 1st Airborne hero's, from a retired American paratrooper
I concur.
Many reasons for the reserve deploying being scared with british airborne forces is not one of them. The motto of the No1 Parachute Training school is. Knowledge dispels fear!!
Knowing the paras what better way to tell the folks back home which is me. I am the one who pulled his reserve chute!!
It actually makes a sham of the movie with British Airborne forces not issued a reserve in WW2.
In WW2 the chutes where made of silk and at times did not deploy fully. The famous Roman Candle
they dont make em like this anymore because it isn't violent enough for most people who watch movies, unfortunately the good movies like these are no longer of interest to many moviegoers because there is not enough action, personally i love this movie and all those like it, but a movie such as this would make very little in todays theatres
Does anyone know where this was filmed ? I remember being blown away as a kidas to the scale of this film, the logistics must have been huge, not to mention the budget !
Holland. They did this up first class.
@BlackCountryPuddler Did the editors use some kind of complex shot overlay? The planes can hold 28 each and at one point 11 enter the frame. That's a posssibility of nearly 330. Using photoshop I let it count blocks in one shot and it counted nearly 200 chutes. Then again they could have dropped dummies in the sweeping shots.
SurfingTX I understand they used Herc’s flying above the C 47’s out of camera shot dropping more Para’s in order to simulate this mass drop !
at 1:22 you can see a paratrooper's reserve chute open as well as his main chute. not necessarily bad but it does make it more difficult to steer.
/i know cause it embarrassingly happened to me once :(
@BloodyFury555 Dont remember that scene, the guy hanging from the church watching everyone else get shot up sounds alot like the one in The Longest Day.