What a great classic. Maureen O Hara reminds me so much of my Grandmother during WW2. I've revisited this movie every so often during the years, and it's always worth watching again. 👍
I am not sure how many times I have watched this film, lots, and enjoy it every time. I hope that I was a good a sergeant as Sgt Kelly, he is aggressive and disciplined, thoughtful of his troops but not soft, and he tries to impart his knowledge and experience whenever he can, I obviously don’t know who wrote his lines and created the character but I think whoever it was did a great job, they might have had a military advisor who helped but as it was made in 1943 the writer could have been working from experience or based Sgt Kelly upon himself. The star attraction is obviously Maureen O’Hara a truly beautiful woman, she was one of those actresses who didn’t need a huge script, she only had to smile and she would have bowled men, and I dare say women, over without uttering a word. There is one small technical issue within the film, the Lewis gun was officially withdrawn from service in 1946, however the British army had virtually replaced all Lewis guns in favour of the Bren gun by 1942 in frontline units, like this unit in the desert, it was issued to Home Guard units and regular infantry units in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧, motor torpedo boats and Air Sea Rescue launches and many other units, so whilst it was remotely possible for there being a Lewis gun in the North African campaign it is unlikely and therefore a boo-boo by the filmmakers. If that tiny little issue is all I have to write about then that is a very well done for the props department. Thanks for sharing this with us all, even those who have seen it time and time again, one of the best WWII that doesn’t concentrate on the battlefield but on the soldiers and their situation and the dilemmas that throws up for them to deal with. Thanks again 😀👍🇬🇧🏴🇺🇸🇺🇦
I saw this movie on 🇺🇸 📺 over 50 years ago, 1971 to be exact, & couldn’t remember the title, only that Henry Fonda was in it. So I’m glad to find it again to have a good laugh 😹 at the nazi marking on the plane 58:50 -> The Germans appeared to be paratroopers all of them, normal since they’re airborne. Otherwise, the movie is perfect 🤩 for me. & of course that they couldn’t have an authentic Junkers 52 at the time for the movie.
Poor old Canadian yokel, Henry Fonda getting shafted by the sophisticated set. Just part of the character development as our hero eventually shows his true strengths and courage. Maureen O'Hara is the most luminous and beautiful Hollywood star who over the years appeared in countless movies, in every genre, always portraying strong and resilient feminine characters. Modern writers and actresses of the Woke brigade could learn a lot by watching her performances and learn you don't have to act like a man to be seen as strong.
I was just trying to think of O'Hara's the other day I was thinking about the movie that John Wayne and her played in where he was in Ireland I think or somewhere like that and married her but I can't think of that movie I would really like to watch that again. what brought it to mine I was driving through Southeast Tennessee heading to Kentucky and I saw a valley that looked just like that scene from the movie that the her and John Wayne starred in where they were in Ireland. God bless everyone thanks for the correspondence
@@sirrathersplendid4825you are probably so right I was trying to put myself in that position and wonder where there I would have watched the black and white movie when I was 15 or 20.
I think this movie back during WWII is an inspiration to every man serving is to be a potential leader and use his initiative. The Sergeant and the Corporal as NCOs have won wars not Officers, who else would lead men into combat to take objectives or complete missions. During combat it's the NCOs that make or break a unit in combat.
As a veteran (just a lowly l/cpl) , I can confirm what we all suspected - the NCO’s run the show. A good nco can make a good unit great, and a bad one will ruin it. I knew I didn’t have the right temperament to be a good sergeant and happily fk’d off as an enlisted goofball 😊
What a great wartime film! I thought that I must have seen them all by now, at 72, with a father who fought in the war and all the years to see them. A great story about a boy becoming a man with some great character acting, Henry Fonda just pulls off being Canadian, however.
that is such a nice thing to do be trying to flicking through the channels with the remote and you are so bored about to drift off to sleep because there's nothing worth watching and bang pop the brand new movie that 50 years old that you have never seen before. it's so sad trying to find something worth watching in the period that I'm living in now😢
At first glance, I didn’t recognize Maureen O’Hara. I knew she was beautiful, but I’ve never seen her at this young age. This is such a great movie and I am happy to have found it for the first time. A great Patriotic film. Just what we need going into the last hundred days plus of this election year of 2024.
A good film that I haven't seen before. I have seen a few Henry Fonda films and also Maureen O'Hara ones with John Wayne she was an awesome actress. Thanks for uploading this.
Do not forget Thomas Mitchell as the Sergeant. Who was Mitchell? Check out his 1939 resume: Gone With The Wind, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Hunchback of Notre Dame and Won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Stagecoach. I challenge anyone top pick a better year then Mitchell had in 1939.
Thank you, DPB, for a great movie w/ Henry Fonda and recently passed(2015) Maureen O'Hara! Her final years were in a suburb of Boise, Id, where I reside!
The armoured car is a passable imitation of a Marmon-Herrington, presumably mocked up by the prop department. One suspects actual MHs were thin on the ground in California in 1943. In the same way, the troops are using Great War-surplus Lewis guns rather than Bren guns.
Before being sent out on patrol the sergeant is addressed by the corporals and privates as "sir" despite him not being an officer. Presumably the scriptwriter and director was not military!
I think that this is done in American films mostly. In British made films most are addressed by the rank up to a Warrant Officer which is the highest non commissioned rank who would be addressed as Sir or Maam who held that rank and still applies today in the British Armed Forces. In this particular film it was probably due to not enough research into the ranks of the British or commonwealth forces. Still a good film though tbh.
Minhas omenagens a Henry Fonda e Ana Fonda de oliveira minha mãe por pertencer a essa geração que tem um legado na história que Deus abençoe a todos 🇧🇷
take note of when this was made. note the message at the end. If you want it. You must stand up and fight for it. When did America forget this ? Because we certainly have forgotten it.
I'm a 71 year old , 10 year Army Vet , 9 of those in Air Defense ! Hawk and Stinger , did I hear Fonda tell one to shoot the pilot and the other to shoot the tail gunner , with Enfield Rifles ? Holy Jesus ?
My dad hated flashbacks in movies, said it made the story hard to follow. For me, I’m generally ok with them if they move the story forward (by going backward, yea, I get the irony). Flashbacks offer serve to fill in plot holes or expand characters. But in this movie flashbacks showed Maureen O’Hara, so all the rules, both dads and certainly mine, flew right out the window. I think I’d wastch a movie consisting of nothing but flashbacks if they featured Miss O’Hara.
An excellent movie Not sure if I have ever watched this movie before. The pineapple scene rings a bell , but it was used in several movies about Tobruk.
@28:47 Lost in the Desert, you navigate by the Sun & Moon when you don't have a compass and also move by night. @34:32 Yet with no compass, the Brit's know which way is NE lol. @45:00 Unloading his rifle would not prevent a suicide by a soldier still wearing an ammo belt. @46:00 Instead of doing a burial party, it would have been wiser to strip all of the dead for anything of usefulness, esp. canteens of water, food and spare weapons & ammo.....oh and maybe a compass. @55:00 Great makeup artists made the chapped lips look. @1:14:00 The Germans are wearing Parachute helmets, so they must be from the Ramcke Brigade and this entire movie is based upon the oasis of Gialo. Love the ending when she calls him "Daddy" 👍❤
At about 21:00 when the fighter plane is about to crash into the back of the truck, it has dropped its undercarriage, presumably trying to land. But why does it aim at the escaping truck?
😂 An entire scene of them smoking, and then burring 1 cigarette! You will never see that in today's war movies! 😂 Interesting tidbit, those are German paratroops they are fighting. Very rare to see that in movies, they are usually generic Infantry or SS.
The old movies with 30 seconds of credits first are so much better than 15 minutes of stupid producer's animation and a half hour of credits at the end.
A very young Peter Lawford in an uncredited role as a soldier around 16:35. It's weird how they seemed to think of tobacco smoke as a form of sustenance, almost like food 48:30.
@@elizabethmartin4328 'virtue' was part of the conscious motivating thoughts . But i feel it was and sadly still is ,motivated by Humans inability to address its 'unevolved' subconscious , 'Primal dominant ',self destructive instincts...Lovely Name Elizabeth ; )
What a great classic. Maureen O Hara reminds me so much of my Grandmother during WW2. I've revisited this movie every so often during the years, and it's always worth watching again. 👍
Such a great Actress she even appeared n afew of John Wayne movies
Way to many ads. Not worth watching when every 2 minutes you put in a ad to make money. You didn't make this content. I know you control the ads.
I'm 68 years old, and as much as I've heard of this Henry Fonda classic, I've never seen it.
Thank you, Mr. Donald P. Borchers, for uploading it.
Hidden Gem. 1943 WWII Movie. First for me. Well worth the watch. Enjoy. Thanks.
I am not sure how many times I have watched this film, lots, and enjoy it every time. I hope that I was a good a sergeant as Sgt Kelly, he is aggressive and disciplined, thoughtful of his troops but not soft, and he tries to impart his knowledge and experience whenever he can, I obviously don’t know who wrote his lines and created the character but I think whoever it was did a great job, they might have had a military advisor who helped but as it was made in 1943 the writer could have been working from experience or based Sgt Kelly upon himself.
The star attraction is obviously Maureen O’Hara a truly beautiful woman, she was one of those actresses who didn’t need a huge script, she only had to smile and she would have bowled men, and I dare say women, over without uttering a word.
There is one small technical issue within the film, the Lewis gun was officially withdrawn from service in 1946, however the British army had virtually replaced all Lewis guns in favour of the Bren gun by 1942 in frontline units, like this unit in the desert, it was issued to Home Guard units and regular infantry units in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧, motor torpedo boats and Air Sea Rescue launches and many other units, so whilst it was remotely possible for there being a Lewis gun in the North African campaign it is unlikely and therefore a boo-boo by the filmmakers. If that tiny little issue is all I have to write about then that is a very well done for the props department.
Thanks for sharing this with us all, even those who have seen it time and time again, one of the best WWII that doesn’t concentrate on the battlefield but on the soldiers and their situation and the dilemmas that throws up for them to deal with. Thanks again 😀👍🇬🇧🏴🇺🇸🇺🇦
The script was written by Lamar Trotti, who wrote Drums Along the Mohawk and Young Mr. Lincoln among many others.
I saw this movie on 🇺🇸 📺 over
50 years ago, 1971 to be exact, & couldn’t remember the title, only that Henry Fonda was in it.
So I’m glad to find it again to have a good laugh 😹 at the nazi marking on the plane 58:50 ->
The Germans appeared to be
paratroopers all of them, normal since they’re airborne.
Otherwise, the movie is perfect 🤩 for me.
& of course that they couldn’t have an authentic Junkers 52
at the time for the movie.
"Nothing higher than a sergeant."
How did I miss this amazing movie in my life. Outstanding performance.
Poor old Canadian yokel, Henry Fonda getting shafted by the sophisticated set. Just part of the character development as our hero eventually shows his true strengths and courage. Maureen O'Hara is the most luminous and beautiful Hollywood star who over the years appeared in countless movies, in every genre, always portraying strong and resilient feminine characters. Modern writers and actresses of the Woke brigade could learn a lot by watching her performances and learn you don't have to act like a man to be seen as strong.
ye gods! how old are you.... 16?..you aren't maga by any chance?she was an ACTRESS
@kwakkwak triggered.
First, just try convincing a woke young woman to watch a black/white movie…. Good luck!
I was just trying to think of O'Hara's the other day I was thinking about the movie that John Wayne and her played in where he was in Ireland I think or somewhere like that and married her but I can't think of that movie I would really like to watch that again. what brought it to mine I was driving through Southeast Tennessee heading to Kentucky and I saw a valley that looked just like that scene from the movie that the her and John Wayne starred in where they were in Ireland. God bless everyone thanks for the correspondence
@@sirrathersplendid4825you are probably so right I was trying to put myself in that position and wonder where there I would have watched the black and white movie when I was 15 or 20.
I think this movie back during WWII is an inspiration to every man serving is to be a potential leader and use his initiative. The Sergeant and the Corporal as NCOs have won wars not Officers, who else would lead men into combat to take objectives or complete missions. During combat it's the NCOs that make or break a unit in combat.
As a veteran (just a lowly l/cpl) , I can confirm what we all suspected - the NCO’s run the show. A good nco can make a good unit great, and a bad one will ruin it. I knew I didn’t have the right temperament to be a good sergeant and happily fk’d off as an enlisted goofball 😊
Ditto!!!
What a great wartime film! I thought that I must have seen them all by now, at 72, with a father who fought in the war and all the years to see them. A great story about a boy becoming a man with some great character acting, Henry Fonda just pulls off being Canadian, however.
that is such a nice thing to do be trying to flicking through the channels with the remote and you are so bored about to drift off to sleep because there's nothing worth watching and bang pop the brand new movie that 50 years old that you have never seen before. it's so sad trying to find something worth watching in the period that I'm living in now😢
At first glance, I didn’t recognize Maureen O’Hara. I knew she was beautiful, but I’ve never seen her at this young age.
This is such a great movie and I am happy to have found it for the first time.
A great Patriotic film. Just what we need going into the last hundred days plus of this election year of 2024.
A good film that I haven't seen before. I have seen a few Henry Fonda films and also Maureen O'Hara ones with John Wayne she was an awesome actress. Thanks for uploading this.
I thought I’ve seen every movie with Henry Fonda and Maureen O Hara. What a great find and I really enjoyed it
Do not forget Thomas Mitchell as the Sergeant. Who was Mitchell? Check out his 1939 resume: Gone With The Wind, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Hunchback of Notre Dame and Won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Stagecoach. I challenge anyone top pick a better year then Mitchell had in 1939.
And the bumbling Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life.
Thank you, DPB, for a great movie w/ Henry Fonda and recently passed(2015) Maureen O'Hara!
Her final years were in a suburb of Boise, Id, where I reside!
The armoured car is a passable imitation of a Marmon-Herrington, presumably mocked up by the prop department. One suspects actual MHs were thin on the ground in California in 1943.
In the same way, the troops are using Great War-surplus Lewis guns rather than Bren guns.
... and Great War helmets (leather chinstraps with buckles).
Ah, there is Walt Disney, British style!😂
And Maureen O'Hara is the only woman who could wear a witches hat so elegantly in her first scene.
Maureen O'Hara is in it; enough said - such a beautiful woman! Only 23 years old in this film! WOW
What a great movie, love these characters
great film nice to see that us brits are being represented
Before being sent out on patrol the sergeant is addressed by the corporals and privates as "sir" despite him not being an officer. Presumably the scriptwriter and director was not military!
I think that this is done in American films mostly. In British made films most are addressed by the rank up to a Warrant Officer which is the highest non commissioned rank who would be addressed as Sir or Maam who held that rank and still applies today in the British Armed Forces. In this particular film it was probably due to not enough research into the ranks of the British or commonwealth forces. Still a good film though tbh.
Restaurant scene is just like the comedy drama “ School For Scoundrels “ with Ian Carmichael and Terry Thomas 😂
Minhas omenagens a Henry Fonda e Ana Fonda de oliveira minha mãe por pertencer a essa geração que tem um legado na história que Deus abençoe a todos 🇧🇷
Been seeing this HENRY FONDA desert war classtc in rerins on t.v. since the 1960e . Always worth a watch
I guess, after all the hardships during The Great Depression, Tom Jode's family moved to Canada.
How did all of us who are Henry Fonda fans, as well as Maureen O’Hara fans, miss this movie until now?
Fonda on his own kept this classic going
take note of when this was made.
note the message at the end.
If you want it. You must stand up and fight for it.
When did America forget this ?
Because we certainly have forgotten it.
"When the going gets tough, the tough get going." And don't forget to " zig-zag.
Most of us are tough and ready to fight. What do the red striped on our flag stand for ?
Very good movie.....great acting all around...and the war scenery is always wonderful....thanks for uploading this.
I'm a 71 year old , 10 year Army Vet , 9 of those in Air Defense ! Hawk and Stinger , did I hear Fonda tell one to shoot the pilot and the other to shoot the tail gunner , with Enfield Rifles ? Holy Jesus ?
Wow 👌 wonderful 😍 👏 story within a story. Terrific acting too.
Glad you liked it. Welcome.
Thank you
Thank you for sharing this film with us ❤🎉😊
My dad hated flashbacks in movies, said it made the story hard to follow. For me, I’m generally ok with them if they move the story forward (by going backward, yea, I get the irony). Flashbacks offer serve to fill in plot holes or expand characters. But in this movie flashbacks showed Maureen O’Hara, so all the rules, both dads and certainly mine, flew right out the window. I think I’d wastch a movie consisting of nothing but flashbacks if they featured Miss O’Hara.
Note the advertisement for war bonds at the very end: you could buy them on the spot after viewing the movie!
Whenever i open a can of pineapple i think of this movie.
An excellent movie
Not sure if I have ever watched this movie before.
The pineapple scene rings a bell , but it was used in several
movies about Tobruk.
Thanks
good movie,, thanks for sharing this ...
the more u watch this the more u know that real soldiers were involved in making this film REspect to all
Made in Hollyweird by actors and crew who knew nothing of war, only what they imagined.
@@belleriffraffperhaps.
Great show I've done how many times I've seen it thank you very much.
Maureen O'Hara was pure class.
@28:47 Lost in the Desert, you navigate by the Sun & Moon when you don't have a compass and also move by night.
@34:32 Yet with no compass, the Brit's know which way is NE lol.
@45:00 Unloading his rifle would not prevent a suicide by a soldier still wearing an ammo belt.
@46:00 Instead of doing a burial party, it would have been wiser to strip all of the dead for anything of usefulness, esp. canteens of water, food and spare weapons & ammo.....oh and maybe a compass.
@55:00 Great makeup artists made the chapped lips look.
@1:14:00 The Germans are wearing Parachute helmets, so they must be from the Ramcke Brigade and this entire movie is based upon the oasis of Gialo.
Love the ending when she calls him "Daddy" 👍❤
The Saturday Night Live skits of these letters home movies are so funny.
Very good movie. And I love the Buy War Bonds poster at the end.
Very. Good. Movie. 🎉🎉🎉👍💥
He recovered completely, joined the American Army, was quickly promoted. Then singlehandedly won The Battle of the Bulge by blowing up a fuel depot.
Really?
@@elizabethmartin4328 Did you not see the Historical Document, Battle of the Bulge ??
Very good old-time war movie. Those were the days
Great movie when movie stars new there job and no other people writing their self in history through movies
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I’m surprised I didn’t see this back when there was just a few VHF, then UHF, channels when movies were shown late night, especially on weekends.
Henry Fonda saying,"What Rot." 😂😂😂
Very good film.
Glad you like it. Welcome.
I feel cheated. The movie's called "Immoral Sergeant", and they edited out all the nasty parts.
How old is Maureen !!?! Wow,great looking young lady! Even Hank is at that young age!!!
She is probably in Heaven. Died in last couple yrs.
SGT. is a proud rank to earn
Thank You Henry Fonda for Serving our Country of the United States of America! ❤
From a Navy Veteran Myself
Movie should be called can of pineapple. Because everything centers on that can of pineapple. ❤
Great old flick. Anyone else spot john mills as `Symes` when they were collecting their mail. 3:46
In North Africa the British always wore short pants yet the Germans never did.
"Kiss her, man! Kiss her!"
Ha! Thanks for watching.
At about 21:00 when the fighter plane is about to crash into the back of the truck, it has dropped its undercarriage, presumably trying to land. But why does it aim at the escaping truck?
The pilot probably dead.
Good
Maureen O Hara what an amazing beauty.
😂 An entire scene of them smoking, and then burring 1 cigarette! You will never see that in today's war movies! 😂
Interesting tidbit, those are German paratroops they are fighting. Very rare to see that in movies, they are usually generic Infantry or SS.
I'm inspired, wait until my gril friend fines out from now on I'm GOVING THE ORDERS...if it's Ok....
The old movies with 30 seconds of credits first are so much better than 15 minutes of stupid producer's animation and a half hour of credits at the end.
Nice movie 🎥😊
Great flick
Maureen O'Hara, nee Maureen FitzSimons, most probably of Norman Irish descent
A very young Peter Lawford in an uncredited role as a soldier around 16:35. It's weird how they seemed to think of tobacco smoke as a form of sustenance, almost like food 48:30.
Addiction is its own hunger. Tobacco smoke gives a heightened awareness of calmness. The peace pipe and all that.
It's supposed to suppress hunger pangs. Maybe so.
Relieves tension and somewhat a pain killer, esp. emotional pain.
Great movie
Canadians where great cooks,dish washers wet nurses.
A pretty good movie.
Sehr gut film.
Fancy they could not load there 303s.
What did they all risk their Lives for ?
Virtue
@@elizabethmartin4328 'virtue' was part of the conscious motivating thoughts . But i feel it was and sadly still is ,motivated by Humans inability to address its 'unevolved' subconscious , 'Primal dominant ',self destructive instincts...Lovely Name Elizabeth ; )
Honestly I was born a generation or two too late
But then my life wouldn’t be the wonderful thing it is
Did not want to take out the Germans directly, could have booby trapped their food and ammunition easy enough, given him enough time to ex-fill.
49:16 lol
Well that was some Movie, I was wonderful. I loved It maureen o'hara was great . Tom was a rat
Von stroheim had the Russians wear the right underwear the dp said whose to know he said I will know
A proper Hollywood film. Uniforms all wrong webbing all wrong. Typical Hollywood ballsup.
It was a wartime movie