A BRIDGE TOO FAR (1977) | The Parachute Drop | MGM

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  • @valhallaproject9560
    @valhallaproject9560 2 роки тому +512

    Best airborne operation ever on film. Sound of the jump was perfect.

    • @geodes4762
      @geodes4762 2 роки тому +25

      The jump scenes were very good. Overall the movie told the story pretty much the way Ryan wrote it. There were some scenes though that I found a little hokey. The scenes with Elliott Gould made that Colonel look like a real clown. I’m sure it was done that way because Gould was more of a comedian than a serious actor. Robert Redford did Major Julian Cook no favors in the way he portrayed him. Cook was a genuine hero for the leading that bloody river crossing. Again though the producers ruined the portrayal of Cook by trying to inject some inappropriate humor. Ryan O’Neil was not a believable player of Gavin. Understand the makers of the film were trying to draw an audience by including a lot of “in vogue” actors but the American “actors” I found all fell flat! On the other hand, the actors selected ti play both the Germans and the British were excellent

    • @lyndoncmp5751
      @lyndoncmp5751 2 роки тому +13

      Geo Des
      It was very inaccurate when they showed the 82nd taking the Nijmegen bridge, and in broad daylight. In reality it was the Grenadier Guards tankers who raced across the bridge and took it. The 82nd hadn't yet reached it after their river crossing. They were at Lent by the railway viaduct, about one kilometre from the bridge when the Grenadiers tanks were taking the bridge.

    • @lyndoncmp5751
      @lyndoncmp5751 2 роки тому +2

      It was also around dusk when the bridge was taken, and there were still Germans around even afterwards. The tankers weren't sitting there doing nothing except drink tea. Only five tanks got across that evening and two were damaged. Their mission was to take the bridge and stop the Germans from taking it back that night.

    • @geodes4762
      @geodes4762 2 роки тому +7

      @@lyndoncmp5751 That whole scene with Redford waving the tanks across the bridge was done solely for theatrics. It has been called out by a number of viewers in the past as just inaccurate historically. The producers of the movie evidently felt Redford needed to have a more standout role. Julian Cook’s real life heroics in leading that death defying river crossing were evidently not enough for a “star” like Redford.

    • @2259r3z
      @2259r3z Рік тому +2

      @@geodes4762 I agree that overall it's a great movie, but certain subplots are a little distracting and unnecessary. My least favorite is the James Caan subplot. It has nothing to do with the rest of the movie and seems out of place. The relationship between him and the officer he saved and the officer character himself just don't seem very believable. The makers of the movie got some criticism at the time for casting Ryan O'Neil as James Gavin, with some people saying O'Neil was too young to play a general, but in reality he was almost exactly the same age as General Gavin at the time of Market Garden. Gavin was 37 in 1944, and O'Neil was 35 or 36 when the movie was filmed.

  • @Geronimo_Jehoshaphat
    @Geronimo_Jehoshaphat 2 роки тому +179

    Epic. So glad Attenborough did the sequence without music too.

    • @robertcottam8824
      @robertcottam8824 11 місяців тому +7

      Yes, you’re right: The absence of music makes it feel absolutely authentic.

    • @gooser__43
      @gooser__43 2 місяці тому

      Yes, excellent soundtrack 👌 👏

  • @TonyLovell
    @TonyLovell 2 роки тому +261

    This is an adacious, expensive and risky shot. I like how they have enough C-47s to make it seem huge.

    • @2259r3z
      @2259r3z Рік тому +41

      They had only a few flyable Dakotas, eleven I believe (?), that they had scrounged up from several sources, but they made it look like more by the way they filmed and edited it. Notice that in most shots there are never more than six to ten in the shot at any one time. They just kept showing the same aircraft over and over but from different angles to make it look like a long, continuous stream of planes. In the few shots that show more than a half dozen or so in the frame, they did a trick in editing where they were able to double and tripled up the same group of aircraft into one shot.

    • @CherryCokeNixon
      @CherryCokeNixon Рік тому +16

      Before they could fake it like Band of Brothers

    • @mardiffv.8775
      @mardiffv.8775 3 місяці тому

      The movie crew received C-47's from all over the world: Israel and Finland, it remember correctly.

    • @ae4164
      @ae4164 2 місяці тому +1

      Audacious. But I agree with you.

    • @hrafnofthule5962
      @hrafnofthule5962 Місяць тому +2

      @@mardiffv.8775also Denmark, I knew a girl her father flew one of the planes in this sequence, he was from the Danish airforce.

  • @stevethomas2559
    @stevethomas2559 2 роки тому +427

    My Uncle was a Para at Arnhem. He was machine gunned in the leg as dropped and taken prisoner. He had a blood transfusion in a German field hospital and always maintained he was lucky to have been caught. He said had it been a British field hospital they would have taken his leg off.

    • @shaunoakman5609
      @shaunoakman5609 2 роки тому +83

      Hi Steve, my grandfather dropped in with 1 para, he was a brew gunner, lost his left leg & his best mate in a grenade blast fighting at oosterbeek, till he passed, he had nothing but praise for the German medics. That's all he really said about his time at arnhem

    • @einfachignorieren6156
      @einfachignorieren6156 Рік тому

      @@shaunoakman5609 what a waste of german supply, for fool like him

    • @bobmetcalfe9640
      @bobmetcalfe9640 Рік тому +20

      He was probably wrong. The Germans performed far more amputations than either the Brits or Americans. Not sure about the Russians.

    • @arefkr
      @arefkr Рік тому +1

      @@shaunoakman5609Credit when it's due

    • @JJvideoman
      @JJvideoman Рік тому +71

      ​@@bobmetcalfe9640imagine the audacity to tell two people with first hand accounts from direct family that they're probably wrong 😂

  • @fair2guy
    @fair2guy 2 роки тому +172

    dude that pov shot at 2:12 in 1977?? way ahead of its time!

    • @91Redmist
      @91Redmist 2 роки тому +18

      Epic scenes.

    • @Frankie2012channel
      @Frankie2012channel Рік тому +20

      Several camera operators jumped along with the others. This was REAL FILMMAKING!

    • @fredericdubuffet5517
      @fredericdubuffet5517 3 місяці тому

      En français s v p

    • @alejandrogreco2594
      @alejandrogreco2594 2 місяці тому +3

      there is an actual scene of a camera men during exercises of paratrupers before normandy, may be is for this.

  • @garyK.45ACP
    @garyK.45ACP Рік тому +73

    Hard to believe this move is 46 years old...and it was only 33 years after the actual event.😲

  • @mollyfilms
    @mollyfilms Рік тому +35

    Just witnessed probably the best directed parachute drop in history.

  • @drxym
    @drxym Рік тому +218

    The studio got the British army parachute corps to jump for this sequence. There is obviously a lot of different camera angles and superimposing footage on top of itself to make it look like a huge spectacle but it's still impressive. My dad was one of the parachutists in the jump though I can't see his face anywhere.

    • @geofftodd3979
      @geofftodd3979 Рік тому +11

      Done by 3 Para!

    • @davidsinclair7439
      @davidsinclair7439 Рік тому +23

      You can see your dad at 2:42, 23rd paratrooper from the left

    • @Jaysol24
      @Jaysol24 Рік тому

      Honor and Gratitude to Your Dad for OpMG @drxym, my Dad may have been there too; was C-47 co-pilot stationed in England first, then in Orleans after that if I heard it right. Didn't talk much and didn't say much twice. Was fantastic, did everything well, was not his equal but am still a candidate..Regards.

    • @anglerfish1001
      @anglerfish1001 Рік тому

      My dad was in a TA unit, 289 Para Bty, when they filmed this. They were going to be part of the jump as seen in the film but apparently, because they were civilians, they were not insured, so didn’t get to do it.

    • @mindslaw4961
      @mindslaw4961 11 місяців тому

      My high school history teacher was one of the jumpers too. Man had some great stories.

  • @garyK.45ACP
    @garyK.45ACP 2 роки тому +37

    One of the top WW2 movies ever.

  • @AngloSaxonWheatFarmer
    @AngloSaxonWheatFarmer 2 роки тому +76

    I love these old movies, I wish they still made them like this with all the practical effects and the equipment

    • @damselnoir5905
      @damselnoir5905 Рік тому +11

      I don't think they know how anymore; they're so addicted to green screens and computer-generated characters and props that everything looks phony and like a Marvel movie.

    • @lgjm5562
      @lgjm5562 Рік тому +1

      Hollywood can't afford practical effects like this anymore. And in other ways I'm glad they won't try to make it today.

    • @fisk0
      @fisk0 Рік тому +7

      Gee, you mean you wouldn't want this to be depicted as a rollercoaster ride with a cut every second, no wide/establishing shots and just a spinning camera and non-stop screaming for the entire duration of the scene?

    • @arefkr
      @arefkr Рік тому +1

      @@damselnoir5905They know, but now CGI is cheap and cheap is what every producer is aiming at

    • @hastekulvaati9681
      @hastekulvaati9681 Місяць тому

      Watch Tora Tora Tora.
      The amount of real life WW2 hardware they trashed in that film is heartbreaking… but it looks great.

  • @johnclay7644
    @johnclay7644 8 місяців тому +3

    Great cinematography from 77

  • @CatchDude
    @CatchDude Рік тому +53

    I love how the heath is in bloom where they land, all nice and purple, in this movie. The landing happened in september, when it blooms in real life (half august till halfway through september, roughly). So they even got that detail down, since the landing happened on great fields of heath in september, just west of Arnhem.

    • @twobyfour
      @twobyfour Рік тому +2

      My thought too. I visited for the commemorations in September 2014, The DZs and LZs were in full bloom and watched modern British paras jump on to those historic grounds, that was quite something.

    • @HappySpanker2016
      @HappySpanker2016 11 місяців тому +1

      I grew up in Ede, very close to drop zone Y. My grandmother told me of the impossible noises she heard those days and that the people of Ede scavenged the parachutes to make wedding dresses.

    • @oilersridersbluejays
      @oilersridersbluejays 9 місяців тому

      Heath? Heath Ledger?

    • @ConsciousAtoms
      @ConsciousAtoms Місяць тому

      Except that the first day para drop was not on heath but on pastures. The second day para drop was on Ginkel heath.

  • @pikiwiki
    @pikiwiki 2 роки тому +86

    So interesting to watch this knowing there was no CGI back then

  • @stevemance2812
    @stevemance2812 Рік тому +48

    The most realistic airborne landings recreated for the movies ever.

  • @danielplainview2360
    @danielplainview2360 Місяць тому +3

    "A BRIDGE TOO FAR" released in 1977 was a follow-up to the original "A BRIDGE TOO CLOSE" released in 1975, and was eventually concluded with the release of "A BRIDGE JUST RIGHT" in 1980.

  • @Nperez1986
    @Nperez1986 2 роки тому +24

    NO CGI = AMAZING!

  • @Darth-Nihilus1
    @Darth-Nihilus1 2 місяці тому +1

    I love these older movies because they use real people with real equipment. Truly a masterpiece of a movie

  • @billace90
    @billace90 Рік тому +33

    Even the cameraman jumped.
    It doesn’t get any more realistic than that.

  • @pschroeter1
    @pschroeter1 2 роки тому +90

    Wow. I think that was almost more impressive than Band of Brothers because it was real and not CGI.

    • @Klassiker-
      @Klassiker- 2 роки тому +8

      Much better than Band of Brothers. Shame though, that the planes are in the wrong color here, and the C47s didn't fly in finger-five formation during parachute-drops.

    • @jamesdiaz793
      @jamesdiaz793 2 роки тому +10

      @@Klassiker- It's a movie, not a documentary.

    • @Dave-hu5hr
      @Dave-hu5hr 2 роки тому +1

      Almost.. ? 🥔

    • @AustinCDennis
      @AustinCDennis Рік тому +6

      ​@@Klassiker- it's not much better because Band of Brothers had planes getting shot at.
      Recreating what Band of Brothers did without CGI is impossible.

    • @Senzotan
      @Senzotan 9 місяців тому

      ​@@jamesdiaz793Says the Braveheart fan. Why not just paint them pink.

  • @SaltimusMaximus
    @SaltimusMaximus 2 роки тому +14

    I have a relic british para helmet that came from a house in Oosterbeek, I got it off a guy who was involved in the making of this film, always loved this film and to get it was utterly fantastic

  • @MaoTseTong
    @MaoTseTong 2 місяці тому +4

    50 years old and 1000 times better than nowadays CGI 💩

  • @hiramabiff2017
    @hiramabiff2017 Місяць тому +1

    I never knew this was a re-make of a 1946 film " Theirs Is the Glory ". I watched it on tv the other day and it was quite well put together for a movie that old.

    • @sugarkane4830
      @sugarkane4830 Місяць тому

      And many of the men in “ Theirs is the glory” where actual vets.

  • @sixbells99
    @sixbells99 10 місяців тому +9

    Incredible footage before the days of CGI where you could just paint in multiple parachutes. Most of the jumpers if not all were British paratroopers, many of which would face real combat in the Falklands a few years later and performed just as well as their counterparts in WWII against a larger enemy and missing kit after most of their equipment and helicopters sat at the bottom of the sea after their cargo ship was sunk. Despite the odds being against them, they still won out!! "They are in fact - men apart - every man an emperor."

    • @jamiejudd8018
      @jamiejudd8018 9 місяців тому

      Well said sir🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

    • @Mrz-sb1hw
      @Mrz-sb1hw 9 місяців тому +1

      British sir, man for man the greatest army in the world especially the great SAS unequal in combat.

  • @Hey_MikeZeroEcho22P
    @Hey_MikeZeroEcho22P 2 роки тому +13

    GAWD!!!!! I Just LOVE that 'fox hound ( Rally-around ) horn'!!!!!

  • @GP-fw8hn
    @GP-fw8hn 2 роки тому +31

    fantastic movie. very realistic and well done

  • @davidmurray5399
    @davidmurray5399 11 місяців тому +11

    The Drop of the 1st Parachute Brigade was nearly perfect, it was described by some of the men as a "canteen drop", a practice drop with a NAAFI wagon waiting to dish out tea and buns. What got things off to a bad start was Lathbury's insistence on all the battalions waiting on the drop zone until order groups were done, wasting valuable time. Frost had his men assembled and ready to move within a half an hour, and was first off the mark toward the river road. Lathbury's plan had all three battalions marching on divergent routes that made it nearly impossible for the battalions to support on another if problems arose, which they certainly did.

    • @derek-press
      @derek-press 11 місяців тому +1

      I can imagine the frustration of the men must have been hitting the roof

    • @IndieVolken
      @IndieVolken 2 місяці тому +1

      and the fact the drop zone was so far from the target

    • @mickywanderer8276
      @mickywanderer8276 Місяць тому

      @@IndieVolken The division wanted to put gliders right down on the bridge to secure it immediately. They talked with 6th Airborne that had done it on D-Day and the glider pilots said that they can do it. They also suggested dropping a brigade just south of the bridge. It wasn't the greatest landing zone but they were willing to risk it. High command, wasn't.

  • @KuijperRob
    @KuijperRob 11 місяців тому +4

    i walked there along the field as a 10year old kid..imagioning the whole thing happened here..the Ginkelse Heide..then visited the Airborne Museum in Oisterwijk....impressive..it was a long desired dream to visit the place in my holidays with my parents..

  • @hupra72
    @hupra72 2 місяці тому +1

    The 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, did this drop in Deventer, Holland. This place is about 30-35km from Arnhem. They didn't use the original drop zone, Ginkel Heath, in the film for some reason. It is still in the same state as it was back then too. Having made this parachute descent twice (once in Normandy, too), I can tell you that it is an absolute honour to commemorate what they did and who they are and say thanks to the citizens of Holland and a huge thank you to the Dutch Government and Military for allowing the Brits, Americans and Polish to join them. To see the children in the cemetery is very moving as they lay the flowers on the graves.

    • @roelkerkhoff578
      @roelkerkhoff578 2 місяці тому

      They used the bridge in Deventer as “Arnhem bridge” for the film, but they jumped on the heath near the village Speuld (some 20km north of Ginkel Heath). Ginkel was not used because of the A12 highway and its traffic could no be stopped for the jump. Furthermore Ginkel Heath could be reached via many roads, making crowd control difficult. That’s why they used Speuld Heath.

  • @redgeneral5792
    @redgeneral5792 2 роки тому +34

    1:47 Dude in the middle is having a bad day.

    • @eoghannolan741
      @eoghannolan741 2 роки тому +11

      My god spinning out

    • @sillyone52062
      @sillyone52062 Рік тому +3

      ​@@eoghannolan741"If I my chute don't open wide, I've got a reserve by my side"

    • @Mikey-pq4zf
      @Mikey-pq4zf 29 днів тому

      "Roman Candle"

  • @erikmann3640
    @erikmann3640 8 місяців тому

    One of the best films ever made. I wish they still made pictures like this. I would love to see the assault on Pegasus bridge and the fight until they were relieved. Amazing story.

  • @shaidorsai4834
    @shaidorsai4834 2 роки тому +25

    As a Former Paratrooper I've often wondered what it would have been like to The Very Last Jumper out of The Very Last C-47.

    • @2259r3z
      @2259r3z Рік тому +10

      You likely would have had a long walk back to the assembly area 😄

    • @subaruadventures
      @subaruadventures Рік тому +4

      You are never a FORMER Paratrooper, you always will be but i see your point and wondered the same, even the first. And yes i am a Paratrooper from Australia (not serving anymore).

  • @Okiedog1
    @Okiedog1 2 роки тому +69

    That POV drop at 2:15 is really thrilling

    • @xenomorph6961
      @xenomorph6961 2 роки тому +11

      Yes, listening to the trooper forcing his breathing and an almost "phew" when then canopy deploys really made these scene. No CGI back then!

    • @Ragingmaja
      @Ragingmaja Рік тому +5

      I was really impressed by that, very cool seeing the parachutist perspective.

    • @jhnshep
      @jhnshep 11 місяців тому +1

      as an ex para one thing I can say is the silence after the canope opens is deafening, wonderful experience

    • @Orignal_Français
      @Orignal_Français 11 місяців тому

      There is another one, quite sad, later in the movie, from a Paratrooper that injured by the germans who had captured hours ago the landing field. He is crying, helpless...

    • @modellbaugoaly9293
      @modellbaugoaly9293 10 місяців тому

      if posible visit the museum in Ahrheim. There they have a kind of simulation path. Okay not for the jumo, but for landing with the glider and the fight. It is in the original building, where the german gernarl of the beginning of the clip is. (later it became the headquater of the landing troops)

  • @richardwilliams5312
    @richardwilliams5312 11 місяців тому +1

    Wont get a classic like this anymore 😪

  • @patrickcannady2066
    @patrickcannady2066 Рік тому +4

    Anthony Hopkins as Colonel Frost with the fox horn.

  • @blackbird5634
    @blackbird5634 Рік тому +21

    For two solid hours EVERY single time I watch this, ALL I want in life is to wear a red beret and jump into Arnhem with the 1st Parachute Battalion. It's been that way since I first watched this as a boy in 77'.

  • @UKVeteran2024
    @UKVeteran2024 Рік тому +3

    I met one of the guys that jumped at Arnhem on Airbourne Forces Day, and MP. Such a privilege.

    • @hannahw90hw
      @hannahw90hw 2 місяці тому +1

      My grandad was here. he was a British paratrooper. He got shot and taken prisoner where he got gangrene ad had his arm amputated. He didn't talk about it much, but he was a very brave man, that's for sure. And very lucky to have lived.

    • @UKVeteran2024
      @UKVeteran2024 2 місяці тому

      @@hannahw90hw they were incredibly brave, you must have been really proud of him.

  • @altonbunnjr
    @altonbunnjr Рік тому +9

    And no CGI, all real aircraft and men.

    • @glenchapman3899
      @glenchapman3899 Рік тому +1

      well eleven aircraft, and if you watch closely a fair number of dummies jump out of those craft lol

  • @jamesross1799
    @jamesross1799 Рік тому +3

    Couldn't agree more with the comment bellow. Used to watch this with my grandad a lot (he wasn't airborne he had been R.M but he seemed to have a massive respect for op market)

  • @SanDeezyBreezy61986
    @SanDeezyBreezy61986 Рік тому +12

    Probably as close to what a mass airborne drop actually looked like and sounded like in WWII.

    • @johnrife7134
      @johnrife7134 Рік тому +6

      They dropped too high but other than that you're probably right.

  • @KENKENNIFF
    @KENKENNIFF Місяць тому

    I like the contrast between the gruff military voices of the soldiers and the gentle dream-like vision of men floating through the sky.

  • @davidwagner9644
    @davidwagner9644 2 місяці тому

    My Grandfather was there in 1944 and 1976 when filming took place. We came all the way from North West Ohio to Holland. I was 7.

  • @esajuhanirintamaki965
    @esajuhanirintamaki965 2 роки тому +25

    There was some Finnish Air Force C-47:s too. The Finnish pilots were enough young, and they were able to fly their planes in reguired formations. The other countries had difficulties to find experienced and still young pilots.

    • @hrafnofthule5962
      @hrafnofthule5962 Рік тому +2

      You mean for the movie or the real event? I knew a Danish girl, her father was a Danish airforce pilot that flew a plane for this scene in the movie.

  • @christopherparrisjr.3146
    @christopherparrisjr.3146 Рік тому +6

    Superbly filmed!

  • @jonathanakehurst4489
    @jonathanakehurst4489 Рік тому +5

    Incredible drop scene! 😮❤

  • @Mobius118F
    @Mobius118F Рік тому +1

    I love the *spring-e* noise when they jump weirdly calming to me.

  • @marcwilliams2504
    @marcwilliams2504 13 днів тому

    my favourite movie of all time.

  • @christopherjcarson
    @christopherjcarson 11 місяців тому +1

    Remarkably the hotel turned field hospital at Arnhem
    is still visited by Veterans and their families.
    Some life long friendships have continued
    as a result!

  • @sayjack1328
    @sayjack1328 2 роки тому +16

    Yea, there is no CGI in that one.

  • @gabrieldjatienza6971
    @gabrieldjatienza6971 2 роки тому +9

    Unbroken record of 35,000 men !!!

  • @tuffsheddweller
    @tuffsheddweller 3 місяці тому

    One of the few WWII films that nailed the hard, rough landing of the paratroopers.

  • @dondraper3871
    @dondraper3871 8 місяців тому +2

    My son: "But dad, without CGI no film could faithfully depict grandiose and large scale battle scenes"
    Me: "Oh my sweet summer child..."

  • @wadesuen778
    @wadesuen778 Рік тому +2

    Jesus, this was filmed during the time without any CGI!

  • @brunoalsantos
    @brunoalsantos 7 місяців тому +1

    Fantastic footage!!

  • @Play2Win1958
    @Play2Win1958 Рік тому +4

    Incredible

  • @peterdebrie
    @peterdebrie Рік тому +1

    Visited the airborne monument today on Ginkelse Heide and walked one of the airborne routes.

  • @hardihard1610
    @hardihard1610 2 роки тому +6

    they don`t make movies like this anymore.

  • @jamesross1799
    @jamesross1799 Рік тому +4

    They actually had Johnny frost as an advisor for the film

    • @justonecornetto80
      @justonecornetto80 Рік тому +1

      It had General Sir Brian Horrocks, Roy Urquhart, James Gavin and J.O.E Vandeleur as advisors as well.

  • @Markus_Andrew
    @Markus_Andrew 2 роки тому +8

    They don't make them like this anymore! They must have rounded up every airworthy C-47 Skytrain in the world for this movie.

    • @2259r3z
      @2259r3z Рік тому +4

      @The Richest Man In Babylon I've read that they had eleven.
      "Air filming was done in the first weeks of September 1976, culminating in a series of air drops of a total of 1,000 men.[citation needed][17] Supplies were dropped from a number of Dakota aircraft. The Dakotas were gathered by the film company Joseph E. Levine Presents Incorporated. All aircraft were required to be CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) or FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) registered and licensed to carry passengers. An original deal for the purchase of 10 fell through when two airframes were rejected as passenger configured without the necessary jump doors. Eleven Dakotas were procured. Two ex-Portuguese Air Force, 6153 and 6171 (N9984Q and N9983Q), and two from Air Djibouti, operating from Djibouti in French Somaliland, F-OCKU and F-OCKX (N9985Q and N9986Q) were purchased by Joseph E. Levine. Three Danish Air Force K-685, K-687, and K-688, and four Finnish Air Force C-47s, DO-4, DO-7, DO-10 and DO-12, were loaned for the duration of the parachute filming."

  • @robertmunoz7543
    @robertmunoz7543 Рік тому +3

    Never snows in septembre!🤔
    Jman

    • @RangaTurk
      @RangaTurk Рік тому

      Forest on the side of roads provides plenty of camouflage as only a few leaves start to turn yellow around this time so I believe this operation wasn't thought through as much as it could have been if a Kettenkrad motorcycle could tow a 20mm flak gun. A fleet of them can be concealed in woods with netting and could be traversed on swampy ground towards the flanks of formations landing on or near main roadways. The area around Wyler isn't wooded and just as well. Some forests are so thick you could almost get away with concealing a whole regiment in them.

  • @mikewinston8709
    @mikewinston8709 Рік тому +4

    My cousin was one of the jumpers for the film; serving in 1 Para. They were paid £75.

    • @jussim.konttinen4981
      @jussim.konttinen4981 Рік тому

      Four Finnish Air Force C-47s, DO-4, DO-7, DO-10 and DO-12, were loaned for the duration of the parachute filming, by the so-called People's Front government.

  • @BattleAxe1345
    @BattleAxe1345 Рік тому +2

    That trooper in 1:48 at right was twirling around like crazy! That looked scary.

    • @Ჽum
      @Ჽum Рік тому +2

      Yeah, that's really bad.

    • @BattleAxe1345
      @BattleAxe1345 Рік тому

      @@Ჽum Could have gone VERY wrong, lol.

  • @miller84631
    @miller84631 2 роки тому +3

    Ex 82nd airborne here; we used c130's and c17's

    • @rubedogg6969
      @rubedogg6969 Рік тому

      C123, C130 and C141’s great times!

  • @AllanGildea
    @AllanGildea 8 місяців тому

    Absolutely gobsmacking.

  • @АндрейЮ-м2э
    @АндрейЮ-м2э Рік тому +2

    No CGI
    Good real scene 👏

  • @BobbyD262
    @BobbyD262 2 роки тому +6

    Love Unsworth's fog filters. Looks like there's a WW II flashback scene from Superman the movie for some reason, haha.

  • @joseph291
    @joseph291 8 місяців тому +1

    The micro to macro details of that plan. Fantastic.

  • @brianibbetson9686
    @brianibbetson9686 3 місяці тому

    Currently reading Al Murray book, Black Tuesday. Brilliant read.

    • @IndieVolken
      @IndieVolken 2 місяці тому

      sound good - listened to him on history hit podcast recently

  • @artin80
    @artin80 4 місяці тому

    The dropping was on the Ginkelse heath, between Arnhem and Ede. There is a monument and a memorial plaque concerning this action at the time.

  • @dr.jones.3832
    @dr.jones.3832 2 роки тому +4

    Amazing👍

  • @Razziazor
    @Razziazor Рік тому +4

    This was only battalion sized, looking at the number of planes. Can you imagine what it must have looked like when they dropped a whole division?

    • @ryszakowy
      @ryszakowy Рік тому +2

      most likely exactly the same because it would be impossible to see it all at once but i know what you want to say

    • @canerguener8664
      @canerguener8664 11 місяців тому

      Search for pictures in b/w.
      Amazing

  • @carlmarston1687
    @carlmarston1687 10 місяців тому

    Market Garden seemed like such a good idea

  • @yatsumleung8618
    @yatsumleung8618 Рік тому +3

    82nd Airborne jumps:
    504th PIR: Husky, Avalanche, Market Garden
    505th PIR: Husky, Avalanche, Overlord, Market Garden
    507th PIR: Overlord, Varsity (as part of 17th Airborne Div)
    508th PIR: Overlord, Market Garden
    325th GIR: Avalanche, Overlord, Market Garden
    101st Airborne jumps:
    501st PIR, 502nd PIR, 506th PIR, 327th GIR: Overlord, Market Garden
    1st Airborne jumps:
    1st Para Brigade: Husky, Market Garden
    1st Airlanding Brigade: Husky, Market Garden
    4th Para Brigade: Slapstick (not a jump, just amphibious landing), Market Garden
    6th Airborne jumps:
    3rd Para Brigade, 5th Para Brigade, 6th Airlanding Brigade: Overlord, Varsity

  • @ianwyj1
    @ianwyj1 8 місяців тому +1

    An actual parachute jump too, nothing CGI about it

  • @col4574
    @col4574 2 роки тому +2

    That lion always gets me

  • @zaid9161
    @zaid9161 2 роки тому +6

    Very nice

  • @kurtthewicked9009
    @kurtthewicked9009 Рік тому +2

    In the beginning, Gen. Bittrich says, roughly, "But one time to command so much power". If someone's German is better than mine, please correct me.

  • @wolfgangi
    @wolfgangi Рік тому +1

    just realizing how influential this scene was to a lot of more modern WW II movies

  • @Plumbump
    @Plumbump Рік тому +2

    Thousands of hard men jumping out of a perfectly good airplane with the express purpose of meeting you.

  • @threeone6012
    @threeone6012 2 роки тому +11

    Little known fact, some of the most amazing CGI came out of the 1970s.

  • @Nperez1986
    @Nperez1986 2 роки тому +10

    They mitigated risk by jumping higher in the film. That's too high for a real combat jump. Helps lower insurance premiums

  • @robertlehnert4148
    @robertlehnert4148 Рік тому +2

    "Gory, gory what a hellva way to die..."

  • @kayschmitz1155
    @kayschmitz1155 Рік тому +3

    hard 2 believe that this was the last german victory in the west, no matter how much yarn is spun by the losers afterwards

    • @glenchapman3899
      @glenchapman3899 Рік тому +2

      Yeah and even if the radios had worked they might have still pulled it off. Or the Germans didn't get a complete set of the operational plans. Germans really rolled a triple 6 on the luck roll with this one lol

    • @kayschmitz1155
      @kayschmitz1155 Рік тому +1

      @@glenchapman3899 lost is lost

  • @熊五郎-v1g
    @熊五郎-v1g 2 роки тому +3

    🌀😱👀♥️ ノルマンディー上陸作戦の いいところ、落下傘部隊 カッコいい‼️

  • @DerekHoscorner
    @DerekHoscorner 2 роки тому +3

    Awesomeness job

  • @jilldecker6257
    @jilldecker6257 Рік тому +1

    The sound track makes the movie..

  • @TheGrenadier97
    @TheGrenadier97 2 роки тому +7

    Back when CGI wasn't a (every) thing.

    • @johnrife7134
      @johnrife7134 Рік тому +2

      The only reason CGI is so overused is cost.

  • @AllanKlo63
    @AllanKlo63 8 місяців тому

    Great stuff this. Now I just have to watch this movie.

  • @artin80
    @artin80 4 місяці тому

    De dropping was op de Ginkelse hei, tussen Arnhem en Ede. Er staat een monument en een gedenkplaat inzake deze actie destijds.

  • @joseph291
    @joseph291 Рік тому

    THE ORGANISATION PROCEDURES ARE GREAT.

  • @sirloin8745
    @sirloin8745 9 місяців тому

    ‘Ahh, it must just be a training exercise’.

  • @Grayman58
    @Grayman58 2 роки тому +22

    I had this movie poster on my bedroom wall when I was a teenager . I stole it from the cinema lobby during the movie when things were quiet in those days the poster was pinned to a A frame stand .
    WHO. DARES WINS . 🇬🇧👍

  • @がっちゃんM
    @がっちゃんM 2 роки тому +6

    これDVD持っているんですが、何回観てもすごいですね。CGじゃなくて、本物の兵隊さんが降下してるんですもの。
    昔の映画って、スケールが違いすぎる('◇')ゞ

  • @stuc3195
    @stuc3195 Рік тому +4

    I understand that this scene was filmed using some 350 active servicemen of the 1st battalion parachute regiment.
    Actual British Paras used to film a scene of a movie on British Paras is somehow very fitting

    • @rhannay39
      @rhannay39 Рік тому +1

      3 Para.

    • @veronicabennett4359
      @veronicabennett4359 9 місяців тому +1

      In 1946 a film was made of the Battle of Arnhem called "Theirs is the Glory". It was actually shot at Arnhem and featured men of the 1st Airborne Division who had fought in the battle as extras. I believe it can be found on UA-cam.

  • @frankvandergoes298
    @frankvandergoes298 Рік тому +2

    Even though they were heavily outnumbered ad hoc German Kampfgruppe such as training battalion Kraft soon rallied and attacked the landing grounds, causing delays to the time table.

  • @ko900
    @ko900 Рік тому +1

    No CG. 😮
    Though quite impressive!

  • @tomevans4402
    @tomevans4402 Рік тому

    Great movie

  • @geofftodd3979
    @geofftodd3979 Рік тому +1

    The drop was performed br the Third Parachute Bn, British army

  • @carrisasteveinnes1596
    @carrisasteveinnes1596 2 роки тому +3

    How on Earth did they play this scene out...?

    • @ryszakowy
      @ryszakowy Рік тому +1

      they got working planes
      and loaded jumpers on board
      they had one shot so they set up as many cameras as possible to get almost every angle possible
      and they not figuratively, LITERALLY went to the exact spot real paratroopers were dropped

  • @gris186
    @gris186 Рік тому

    Never watched this scene before but it's easy to see where Band of Brothers got their inspiration from

    • @OneofInfinity.
      @OneofInfinity. 11 місяців тому +3

      Yes from the real drops in Normandy just like this one from the ones at Arnhem 🤦‍♂

  • @jdee8407
    @jdee8407 Рік тому +2

    They look like jellyfish in the sky.