I was hooked on Combat as a kid but didn’t see every episode. Thanks to this channel and UA-cam I get a second chance. Combat is an underrated classic.
I also was hooked to it but I didn't see all the episodes due to the hour that it was aired (school nights) but I was permitted to watch it during summer vacation.
That was a great episode. I like Robert Duvall as an actor and he played his role perfectly. The enemy was a conniving bastard but you have to respect his clever ingenuity and tenacity.
@@jduff59 That's true. Though, 5 years later he was chosen for the role of Tom Hagen in "Godfather" and in 1983, he won a best actor academy award for "Tender mercies". Careers are being built up step by step.
Robert Duvall played an excellent German in this show watching these programs again makes me feel like a kid all over I used to watch this show all the time
I hate to disagree with you! I don't like his "accent" and I think he is a better cowboy than German officer! Don't get me wrong, Duvall is convincing and a great actor. Maybe because he is so young in this episode of Combat!
Robert Duval es un gran actor y cada papel que interpreta es impecable, hasta el acento que saca en inglés parece real y que fuera alemán realmente, actores como el pocos
@@roberttuckey5676 Yes! Toy Thompsons, 30cal. M1s', BARs, 50.cal 50s and 30.cals too, Greese 45s, and some original german weapons too that the t.v. series couldn't garner ; collectors items by the "freight, train- house- full. My grand father snagged and swastika arm- band in France, and a p38 German Luger( excellent pistol). German left-overs were in wide demand ; like their toys and weapons , or both.
@@hugbug4408 I had a 30 cal on a tripod and a 50 cal that shot bullets. I went to the army navy store and bought dummy grenades too. Had a wooden training rifle. Joined the Young Marines instead of the boy scouts. Had a ball.
Well as long as one doesn't ask what the heck LT. Hanley was doing there all alone, it was a great episode. Tension, acting, writing, all well done. Thanks for uploading this series!
I’m assuming that he was on his way back to the Platoon command post and just passing through the town. And there, the Germans were laying traps for when the Allies passed through.
Also, why didn't Duvall's character or even Hanley go around back of the railway station and retrieve the M-14 that Hanley knocked out the window? great episode anyway.
Rick Jason and Robert Duvall do a great actor performance ! I'm glad to watch combat now, because 1965 my parents had to television. Thank you very much for uploading !
When I was a lad of ten I loved watching this show. One time I talked my dad, a Canadian veteran of WWII into watching it also. To put it mildly, he wasn't impressed.
Top notch a Rick Jason episode. Vic Morrow gets most of the accolades, but as Lieutenant Hanley plus Robert Duvals acting is top tier stuff. Robert at 69.
I have worked with scales like that for 30 years. The weighing platform can only be depressed if the balance beam pivots upward, but that was not possible in this instance because the balance beam was pinned, as is always done prior to placing a load on the platform. Even if the beam had not been pinned, simply removing the counterweights and setting the slide weight to the "zero" position would have allowed him to leave something as light as his helmet or a shoe on the platform to keep it from rising again as he stepped off. Of course, the audience wasn't supposed to be able to notice such things. Overall, I'm surprised how good a show "Combat" really was. I remember watching it as a young kid, but I never actually understood any of the story lines when I was that young. I feared I might be disappointed when seeing it as an adult, but this is about my fifth episode and I've been pleased with them all.
I was 13 at the time in 65. Back them action was the reason I watched. Now an adult, I realize every show has an actual plot. Thanks to the technology to be able to watch this and other great shows of this era.
"Hills are for Heroes", directed by Vic Morrow, is the closest thing to a full fledged movie they ever did on the show. Rick Jayson and Jack Hogan did a great job acting. It was an intense 2 part episode. Morrow took about a full month to film it driving the producers crazy being they were usually done within a week. It was expensive to shoot. But it became the favorite of all, and really displayed Morrow well as a director.
I watch this as a child. I applaud the set builders of the town and the French speakers. This was done on an American set but it does look like French provincial towns.
IMO this may be the best episode. Don't know how much of this was true, but very enlightening to the tactics used in times of war.. Has Robert Duvall ever played a bad part?
One thing i really enjoyed about this show is they still spoke german and french instead of all english. Duvall played an alien in some show he spoke in the same cadence he does here.
Robert Duvall is a great actor. His role as the Marine Corps Pilot with his family in early 60's America was a truly great one. He should have got the Academy Award as "The Great Santini". Combat had some fantastic guest stars. Thanks again for posting these classics!
This is one of the few episodes that I remember from when I was a kid. I would have been seven years old when this was on. I don't know why it stuck in my memory but I was wondering when I would see this. Of course, in 1965 I would have had no idea who Robert Duvall was but I remembered the conversation with the nun in the train station.
im rewatching Combat! until now i havent gone along with pointing out bloopers but i guess its not being disrespectful its just pointing out bloopers. like the cars on the highway in a scene and Hanley calling littlejohn "peabody". did you see one in this episode? at the end Duval removes the last mine with a knife, leaves it on the ground to toss the mine then Hanley picks up the knife off the wall. i was 11 when this aired, i guess i was 8 or 9 when the show started. i couldnt watch with my father like some. i did play "army" with the kids all over the neighborhood. i got a hold of a plastic tommy gun with the comp broken off and i even made a map of the neighborhood and pulled it out like the sarge is always doing. great times.
Davidautofull Also when Hanley first steps off the scale, he steps on a coil of the nun's sash cord he used to pull the cart toward himself. After the cut scene he begins to walk away and the sash cord is no longer on the floor.
I can remember as a kid, just about everyone in the neighborhood was outside playing army. Today kids are looking at their cell phones inside. My how times have changed.
This was the Combat! series forte...great writing, acting and production value with top notch guest stars. It excelled as a weekly drama over The Gallant Men in these aspects. However, the series made the summer 44 campaign in France, a campaign of sweeping mechanized movement, massive troop concentrations, and awful airpower, drag on in asymmetric warfare style, kind of like a European Vietnam. The Gallant Men, on the other hand, made more sense as to what actually happened in Italy and had action sequences that just kicked ass by any standards. (See episode "And Cain Cried Out".) This series also made skillful use of real footage.
The first centerfire rifle I ever shot was an M-1 Carbine a friend brought back from the War. I was probably 10 or 12? Pretty sure I was channeling Lt. Hanley when I squeezed the trigger.
I WATCHED COMBAT AS A TEEN 1968 ILLINOIS MOVED TO CALIFORNIA 1969 GOT DRAFTED OUT OF CITY COLLEGE SAN FRANCISCO THE REST IS HISTORY LOVED THE SHOW RIP VIC MORROW WHO DIED ON LOCATION A HELOCOPTER BLADES BEHEADED HIM A FEW YEARS AGO I HEAD WAS SO SAD
Not sure if the Germans would have gone to so much trouble to boobytrap one French village. They did have a plan to destroy Paris in 1944 but the German in command, Dietrich von Choltitz, decided not to carry out Hitler's orders. The 1966 movie "Is Paris Burning?" tells the story. Duvall had already gained fame as Boo Radley in "To Kill A Mockingbird" in 1962. He would later portray a German officer using almost the same accent in "The Eagle Has Landed".
Wow, this really does not look like a movie back lot, does it? I really liked the show back in those years...some kind of ambient sound could have made it all more believable yes?...
That’s a good comment, haven’t thought of that before. I’ve laid digital sound effect tracks and it would not have been easy with analog tape back in the 60s. So it ends up being more like theater. They do add footsteps at least..
I noticed in the opening scene when the German soldiers were firing @ the Jeep, one of them was firing semi-automatic as heard by the sound effects. Of course, I know about the StG44 "assault rifle" but he didn't have one & I believe the FG42 rifle was dedicated only for airborne troops.
Two things I noticed. One, he didn't retrieve his rifle he knocked out the window, and two, he didn't move the nun away from the bomb on the bridge while Duvall was dismantling it, but, such is the script.
It amazes me that you think it's good to set boobie traps in a town where innocent women and children might blow themselves up. That you think that shows cunning, and competence rather than irresponsibility, and cowardice.
@@unitedwestand5100 but there weren’t women and children in the town though dingus, they were evacuated and the American army was coming. Why waste valuable explosives on civilians when you can use it in the enemy?
@@blitzkrieg9408 ,. LOL Evidently you didnt watch the show... Civilians were returning, because the Germans left. One man and his son were victims of a boobie trap, and the nun would have been if not for the Lt. When a coward sets such devices he has no regard or control over who falls victim to them.
@@unitedwestand5100 evidently you didn’t pay attention to details since there weren’t civilians the Germans set mines so when the GI’s come through they’ll trip. They had no idea the civilians were coming till the nun told them. And the mine killed a partisan, partisans are considered like militia, which are ‘legal’ to kill under the Geneva convention since they’re armed. Quit bein such a snowflake
Herr Robert Duvall was Gute within his Duetch words, just not Excellent Enough! Luckily, this was a Show of Das 1960's . Superb Actor of his acting career!! May He Rest in Peace with all Past Actors & Actresses!
Hanley shouldn't have let more than a foot separate him & Duvall most of the time, and tied Duvall's legs together or one arm when he didn't need to use them to hamper any escape attempts, and made him take his boots off too....
More of the traps should have been blown in place for the Americans safety. Only on TV would one keep trusting an enemy combatant. Excellent show. Robert Duvall made a good German soldier. The show reminded me of my Combat Engineer training days.
The Germans did a lot of booby traps as they retreated in both WW1 and WW2. Reminds me of the American soldier in Platoon who gets both arms blown off while trying to open a Viet Cong ammo box while he was looking for money or souvenirs. I would assume that American soldiers were forewarned to be careful of booby traps...
Gary, It seems that some folks will call you stupid names merely for asking a question. Well l will treat your question with respect and answer you. The Lt. after seizing control of the enemy soldier, should have come back to the jeep and seen to the health of his driver. Another reason he did not check on him is that he could have seen him get it and knew he was dead right off. In that case why bother. However, there is no good reason to call you a flaming name just for asking a question.
@@jbjoeychic You neglect the fact that it was a Hollywood drama, and yet your accusation is with Lt. Hanley, personally, you child. WHEN THE DIRECTOR SAYS "CUT", THERE IS AN END TO IT.
I'm good with memories. But I don't remember one single episode watching combat when I was young. Lol!. But now I know all the guest stars. Which I didn't when I was young.
Robert Duvall was in this episode, and then reappeared in the final episode of the entire series, in color, in 1967. In that one he plays an American pilot who was shot down a couple of years earlier, but went AWOL, posing as a member of the civilian French resistance in order to be with a French woman he fell in love with. The woman was played by Claudine Longet (who also starred in more than one COMBAT! episode), who got off nearly scot-free after killing her Olympic skiier boyfriend during a booze and coke-fueled argument in Aspen, CO. in 1976.
@@jamescalifornia2964 Duvall, I assume (not Longet)? If so, that's cool. He was in a lot of things before taking off as a star. He was in a special 1-hour episode of Twilight Zone made in 1964, just before the series ended, which never aired and was shelved until resurfacing on TV in the 1980s. It's in the DVD collection today.
Yes, he should also have found a way to return the "borrowed" rifle to the Resistance fighter but maybe that was the plan after transferring his POW. 🤔
I was hooked on Combat as a kid but didn’t see every episode. Thanks to this channel and UA-cam I get a second chance. Combat is an underrated classic.
I also was hooked to it but I didn't see all the episodes due to the hour that it was aired (school nights) but I was permitted to watch it during summer vacation.
Same here. Was so happy to see these videos!❤😊
I was 13 when they showed this episode. I’m now 72 love this show. Never get tired of it ever.
Robert starred in 3 episodes of Combat 2 in color 1 in Black in White,Outstanding actor 👌
That was a great episode. I like Robert Duvall as an actor and he played his role perfectly. The enemy was a conniving bastard but you have to respect his clever ingenuity and tenacity.
Mr Duval . A true great of our television screens
I liked him in “ To Kill A Mockingbird “. He played Boo who was a Korean War vet with PTSD or shell shock.
Great story and acting relationship between two fine veteran actors. Combat episodes are still very interesting to watch and stand the test of time!
Definitely.
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The writers of Combat surely did their research on German mines of WW2. Another superb Combat episode-- The Enemy.
I watched this episode maybe 100 plus times.... Mind blowing acting!
You had a hard time understanding the plot!
The one thing I like about COMBAT is how many famous movie actors began their acting careers playing bit-parts in this wonderful TV series.
Just like the Twilight Zone , Hitchcock and other drama series..
Two great actor that's foe sure wow great show wish TV was like this today we need some good shows now thanks RIP Vic And Rick J
brilliant show - any time - any era - any planet ... Blessings for Vic Morrow !!!
Great show ,my dad and I watched it every week .Robert Duvall is one of the best actors around. Thanks for showing Combat!
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Same here - I don't remember this one, and who knew Robert Duvall back in those days?
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@@jduff59 That's true. Though, 5 years later he was chosen for the role of Tom Hagen in "Godfather" and in 1983, he won a best actor academy award for "Tender mercies". Careers are being built up step by step.
First of two times he put on a Wehrmacht uniform.
Awsome story of one of the Reich's most resourceful engineers. Brilliant writing.
Robert Duvall as a German soldier.
The man can ACT.
Also, I prefer the B&W episodes.
Gives a more "gritty" feel to the action.
They got the ratings and were slated to make the shift to color but the producers etc agreed with you (Me too ;
Robert Duvall played an excellent German in this show watching these programs again makes me feel like a kid all over I used to watch this show all the time
I hate to disagree with you! I don't like his "accent" and I think he is a better cowboy than German officer! Don't get me wrong, Duvall is convincing and a great actor. Maybe because he is so young in this episode of Combat!
He plays a German in more than one episode of Combat!
We loved Combat! And Rat Patrol as kids.
I was Rat Patrol guy. All sorts of vehicles and our side "The Good Guys" always won.!!!!!
Great episode! One more for the collection ¨The Very Best of Combat!¨Robert Duvall is great too!!!
Robert Duval es un gran actor y cada papel que interpreta es impecable, hasta el acento que saca en inglés parece real y que fuera alemán realmente, actores como el pocos
Not long after WW2, still very recent in everyone's memory . . . this show . . . was a favorite ! 🇺🇸
I was 12. I played army with my friends and had a camo Helmut and Thompson like Saunders. Loved the show too.
@@roberttuckey5676 Yes! Toy Thompsons, 30cal. M1s', BARs, 50.cal 50s and 30.cals too, Greese 45s, and some original german weapons too that the t.v. series couldn't garner ; collectors items by the "freight, train- house- full. My grand father snagged and swastika arm- band in France, and a p38 German Luger( excellent pistol).
German left-overs were in wide demand ; like their toys and weapons , or both.
@@hugbug4408 I had a 30 cal on a tripod and a 50 cal that shot bullets. I went to the army navy store and bought dummy grenades too. Had a wooden training rifle. Joined the Young Marines instead of the boy scouts. Had a ball.
Well as long as one doesn't ask what the heck LT. Hanley was doing there all alone, it was a great episode. Tension, acting, writing, all well done. Thanks for uploading this series!
Good point.
I’m assuming that he was on his way back to the Platoon command post and just passing through the town. And there, the Germans were laying traps for when the Allies passed through.
Also, why didn't Duvall's character or even Hanley go around back of the railway station and retrieve the M-14 that Hanley knocked out the window? great episode anyway.
@@jockob1671 M1 carbine I believe
Rick Jason and Robert Duvall do a great actor performance ! I'm glad to watch combat now, because 1965 my parents had to television. Thank you very much for uploading !
The nun was also in the start of Sound of Music and for many years played Lila Quartermaine on General Hospital on ABC
How green was my valley and the flying tigers..and our man Flint..
Lila Quatermaine was a classic character in soap opera history!!!
This was as good as a human drama as the Fugitive. They both use to teach you a moral lesson.
Bobby Duvall - Boo Radley !!!
One of the greatest actors of all time. Salute !!!
That's right!!
Wonderful in the day in '65 when I was 10. This and the 'Outer limits' T.V. show was most 'far out'. Robert at 67.
When I was a lad of ten I loved watching this show. One time I talked my dad, a Canadian veteran of WWII into watching it also. To put it mildly, he wasn't impressed.
Top notch a Rick Jason episode. Vic Morrow gets most of the accolades, but as Lieutenant Hanley plus Robert Duvals acting is top tier stuff. Robert at 69.
I have worked with scales like that for 30 years. The weighing platform can only be depressed if the balance beam pivots upward, but that was not possible in this instance because the balance beam was pinned, as is always done prior to placing a load on the platform. Even if the beam had not been pinned, simply removing the counterweights and setting the slide weight to the "zero" position would have allowed him to leave something as light as his helmet or a shoe on the platform to keep it from rising again as he stepped off. Of course, the audience wasn't supposed to be able to notice such things. Overall, I'm surprised how good a show "Combat" really was. I remember watching it as a young kid, but I never actually understood any of the story lines when I was that young. I feared I might be disappointed when seeing it as an adult, but this is about my fifth episode and I've been pleased with them all.
I was 13 at the time in 65. Back them action was the reason I watched. Now an adult, I realize every show has an actual plot. Thanks to the technology to be able to watch this and other great shows of this era.
So many switches, det cords and pressure plates implanted so very fiendishly. This fellow had a diabolical genius going on
Love seeing those clean backlog locations subbing as a dirty war zone
I don't think they were backlogged.
Rick Jason is awesome.
And I've never seen Robert Duvall looking so young lol he was a good-looking young man, wasn't he?!
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"Hills are for Heroes", directed by Vic Morrow, is the closest thing to a full fledged movie they ever did on the show. Rick Jayson and Jack Hogan did a great job acting. It was an intense 2 part episode. Morrow took about a full month to film it driving the producers crazy being they were usually done within a week. It was expensive to shoot. But it became the favorite of all, and really displayed Morrow well as a director.
Rick Jason is how it is spelt.
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Puedo ver la película en Español..como lo puedo hacer
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great show i used to watch this show on a old black and white tv when i was young!
I watch this as a child. I applaud the set builders of the town and the French speakers. This was done on an American set but it does look like French provincial towns.
Very realistic.
Totally Revving video" Rick Jason Gave a Captavating performance
👏 An Robert Davue great performance also" His young Hay day's"
IMO this may be the best episode. Don't know how much of this was true, but very enlightening to the tactics used in times of war.. Has Robert Duvall ever played a bad part?
I guess you consider his role in the Godfather as a good guy? (LOL)
@@j.j.hallhall4455 Bad part was meant as a bad acting job. Not good or bad type of guy.
One thing i really enjoyed about this show is they still spoke german and french instead of all english.
Duvall played an alien in some show he spoke in the same cadence he does here.
such a great classic! they dont make em like they used to
rick jason the star - 1965.
robert duvall the legend - 2014
Julio and
Robert Duvall is priceless--Lonesome Dove, Broken Trail, The Godfather-------------
M*A*S*H
"I love the smell of Napalm in the morning." - Apocalypse Now
The Twilight Zone
Great santini, falling down
Open Range, with Kevin Costner.
A excellent American actor playing a German soldier with a good German accent not the first time he has played a German officer or soldier on film
Robert Duvall is a great actor. His role as the Marine Corps Pilot with his family in early 60's America was a truly great one. He should have got the Academy Award as "The Great Santini". Combat had some fantastic guest stars. Thanks again for posting these classics!
That's right "sports fans"!
This is one of the few episodes that I remember from when I was a kid. I would have been seven years old when this was on. I don't know why it stuck in my memory but I was wondering when I would see this. Of course, in 1965 I would have had no idea who Robert Duvall was but I remembered the conversation with the nun in the train station.
Yes . . . I too, was the same age !
I was 8 years old when this was on. I remember it because I was fascinated with all the booby traps and mechanisms, and how they were disarmed!
One of the top episodes ,love Duval . 🖖✌️
im rewatching Combat! until now i havent gone along with pointing out bloopers but i guess its not being disrespectful its just pointing out bloopers. like the cars on the highway in a scene and Hanley calling littlejohn "peabody".
did you see one in this episode? at the end Duval removes the last mine with a knife, leaves it on the ground to toss the mine then Hanley picks up the knife off the wall.
i was 11 when this aired, i guess i was 8 or 9 when the show started. i couldnt watch with my father like some. i did play "army" with the kids all over the neighborhood. i got a hold of a plastic tommy gun with the comp broken off and i even made a map of the neighborhood and pulled it out like the sarge is always doing. great times.
Davidautofull or the worn slick street tires on the jeep at the start
Davidautofull Also when Hanley first steps off the scale, he steps on a coil of the nun's sash cord he used to pull the cart toward himself. After the cut scene he begins to walk away and the sash cord is no longer on the floor.
Perhaps he didn't "walk away", maybe he sashayed away....
Farley X Wilbur yep! Well spotted!
I can remember as a kid, just about everyone in the neighborhood was outside playing army. Today kids are looking at their cell phones inside. My how times have changed.
one thing I love about Combat is that it didn't dumb things down by having everyone speak English
ONe of my favorite episodes, and yes Robert Duvall is amazing, as the Great Santini or a clever German officer.
Yes..thank you for your service. Glad you're here!!
This was the Combat! series forte...great writing, acting and production value with top notch guest stars. It excelled as a weekly drama over The Gallant Men in these aspects. However, the series made the summer 44 campaign in France, a campaign of sweeping mechanized movement, massive troop concentrations, and awful airpower, drag on in asymmetric warfare style, kind of like a European Vietnam. The Gallant Men, on the other hand, made more sense as to what actually happened in Italy and had action sequences that just kicked ass by any standards. (See episode "And Cain Cried Out".) This series also made skillful use of real footage.
Eleven years later, Duvall would get to exercise that accent again as 'Oberst Radl' in "The Eagle has landed".
He did the same in a Wild Wild West episode as "The Falcon". "A bird oof a deefrent feather wouldn't you ahgree Hindorf?"
Adoro esse filme ! Parabéns
Combat was extremely well done for TV war...German soldiers speaking German...
Americans speaking American Gibberish, go on......
@@dehoedisc7247 I don't know anymore of what you are talking about than you do. You speak jibberish,so..fuh-cough.
@@hermanator74301 ha ha, very good Dale.
The first centerfire rifle I ever shot was an M-1 Carbine a friend brought back from the War. I was probably 10 or 12? Pretty sure I was channeling Lt. Hanley when I squeezed the trigger.
1:18 front tire gets shot out, 1:29 it's full of air again, self sealing and refilling too.
Tom Selleck
Those were never made available for the civilian market.
Great episode !!
Robert one of my top ten actors in the history of the movie industry.
I WATCHED COMBAT AS A TEEN 1968 ILLINOIS MOVED TO CALIFORNIA 1969 GOT DRAFTED OUT OF CITY COLLEGE SAN FRANCISCO THE REST IS HISTORY LOVED THE SHOW RIP VIC MORROW WHO DIED ON LOCATION A HELOCOPTER BLADES BEHEADED HIM A FEW YEARS AGO I HEAD WAS SO SAD
Ricky Wright At least it was quick. If you have to die..... Good man!
Don't know how the fountain can be a flaming wreck when covered with water... Where are LTA Hanley's men ?
I'm glad Robert Duvall didn't get killed... We would have never seen him in Apocolypse now. :-)
So correct. But on a positive note, you would have likely seen on an Apocalypse later.
Love the smell of my palm in the morning.
HaHa right He will always be remembered for that.
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Six years of training for how to meet "The Enemy" and all I got to show for it is this pocket watch with two wires sticking out of it.
by 5
full of suspense all the way through the film, excellent
A small foley editor mistake in the opening gun battle. The sound of a machine pistol, an MP-40, was overlaid and none of the Germans were using one.
Robert was a truck driver while persuing an acting career in the fifties
Sometimes Truck Drivers MAKE MORE THAN ACTORS ! Capeesh?
Not sure if the Germans would have gone to so much trouble to boobytrap one French village. They did have a plan to destroy Paris in 1944 but the German in command, Dietrich von Choltitz, decided not to carry out Hitler's orders. The 1966 movie "Is Paris Burning?" tells the story.
Duvall had already gained fame as Boo Radley in "To Kill A Mockingbird" in 1962. He would later portray a German officer using almost the same accent in "The Eagle Has Landed".
" I Love The Smell Of Napalm In The Morning , It Smells Like ... .. Victory "
Robert Duvall in the 60s. Wow. What a good actor. I wonder how long he studied German in order to get his accent right for this part.
About 9 minutes....
One of the first things taught to me in basic training is don't pick up souvenirs.
How is a cake a souvenir to a hungry man?
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Pick up the cake.
You'll be a meal for a few hungry dogs...
Wow, this really does not look like a movie back lot, does it? I really liked the show back in those years...some kind of ambient sound could have made it all more believable yes?...
That’s a good comment, haven’t thought of that before. I’ve laid digital sound effect tracks and it would not have been easy with analog tape back in the 60s. So it ends up being more like theater. They do add footsteps at least..
Did anyone else notice the Duracell on the top of the batteries under the floorboard of the signal room?
That's a sharp eye that you have. I'll have to keep an eye peeled for that. Thanks.
The french guy is firing his bolt action rifle without using the bolt!
Lt. Hanley should have had a side arm since he was an LT. He could have stopped Duvall from escaping.
I noticed in the opening scene when the German soldiers were firing @ the Jeep, one of them was firing semi-automatic as heard by the sound effects. Of course, I know about the StG44 "assault rifle" but he didn't have one & I believe the FG42 rifle was dedicated only for airborne troops.
the show still comes on i like it
One of my favorite episodes
Had to say "what happened to his "45" side arm? Shame he lost it!
He didn't retrieve his abandoned M1 Carbine from outside the train station window either...err, or at least not before the ending. 😳🤦♂️
Bobby D - Boo Radley!!!
One of the best there has ever been
Two things I noticed. One, he didn't retrieve his rifle he knocked out the window, and two, he didn't move the nun away from the bomb on the bridge while Duvall was dismantling it, but, such is the script.
Un grande Robert espectacular su actuacion ❤🎉
Yeah, Duvall is great at speaking a Texan dialect but this German doesn't get it. Great show!!! Thank you so much for putting this on here.
Half the time it sounds like he is Chinese haha
I never liked any Hanley episodes but this one is his best.
The Pillbox is a really good one
He did very well in Hills Are For Heroes, under Vic Morrow's direction.
If you offered to tango with Robert Duvall. He probably would have danced with him ha!
The nun at the beginning is from the sound of music with Julie Andrews
Good Lord!
I was a little kid! This was on ABC (I think) ...and so was 12 O'clock High...on another night. I'm pretty sure my bedtime was right after.
GR, I could never miss the great Anna Lee. She lived a long time.
Finally! An episode that’s mostly accurate. A well educated German soldier that knows his business. Not a goof like every other German in movies
Lol.
It amazes me that you think it's good to set boobie traps in a town where innocent women and children might blow themselves up.
That you think that shows cunning, and competence rather than irresponsibility, and cowardice.
@@unitedwestand5100 but there weren’t women and children in the town though dingus, they were evacuated and the American army was coming. Why waste valuable explosives on civilians when you can use it in the enemy?
@@blitzkrieg9408 ,. LOL Evidently you didnt watch the show...
Civilians were returning, because the Germans left. One man and his son were victims of a boobie trap, and the nun would have been if not for the Lt.
When a coward sets such devices he has no regard or control over who falls victim to them.
@@unitedwestand5100 evidently you didn’t pay attention to details since there weren’t civilians the Germans set mines so when the GI’s come through they’ll trip. They had no idea the civilians were coming till the nun told them. And the mine killed a partisan, partisans are considered like militia, which are ‘legal’ to kill under the Geneva convention since they’re armed. Quit bein such a snowflake
Herr Robert Duvall was Gute within his Duetch words, just not Excellent Enough! Luckily, this was a Show of Das 1960's . Superb Actor of his acting career!! May He Rest in Peace with all Past Actors & Actresses!
What do you mean, 'RIP'? He's still alive as of this date! He is a living legend!
Hanley shouldn't have let more than a foot separate him & Duvall most of the time, and tied Duvall's legs together or one arm when he didn't need to use them to hamper any escape attempts, and made him take his boots off too....
More of the traps should have been blown in place for the Americans safety. Only on TV would one keep trusting an enemy combatant. Excellent show. Robert Duvall made a good German soldier. The show reminded me of my Combat Engineer training days.
The Germans did a lot of booby traps as they retreated in both WW1 and WW2. Reminds me of the American soldier in Platoon who gets both arms blown off while trying to open a Viet Cong ammo box while he was looking for money or souvenirs. I would assume that American soldiers were forewarned to be careful of booby traps...
Ever see "The King Of Hearts"?
We were
That's what they tell you but how many listen? Especially during WW II when you could bring home guns and knives and even blue eyed blondes.
just step back a couple steps sister, that should make us safe.
Jerry should have run the other way before the fountain blew
Fontainebleau?
This was a good one!!!!
HANLY NEVER CHECKED TO SEE IF HIS DRIVER WAS DEAD OR NEEDED MEDICAL AID??
At What Point in the desperate situation with the German, did he have the OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO? You flaming IDIOT?
Gary,
It seems that some folks will call you stupid names merely for asking a question.
Well l will treat your question with respect and answer you.
The Lt. after seizing control of the enemy soldier, should have come back to the jeep and seen to the health of his driver. Another reason he did not check on him is that he could have seen him get it and knew he was dead right off. In that case why bother.
However, there is no good reason to call you a flaming name just for asking a question.
@@dehoedisc7247 Angry yet?
@@sirbum1918 doesn't really matter, does it? Unless one takes sides and assumes the upper hand.
@@jbjoeychic You neglect the fact that it was a Hollywood drama, and yet your accusation is with Lt. Hanley, personally, you child. WHEN THE DIRECTOR SAYS "CUT", THERE IS AN END TO IT.
Now this is something you have said that I can emphatically agree with!
This is one of the best pictures that come at made 5/28/24
That’s the baldest military tread jeep tire I have ever seen.
Lol
It had seen better days, that's for sure!!!!
I'll bet they used that Jeep around the studio lots as a utility vehicle but hadn't changed the tires for 20 years ('45-'65). 🤔🤯😆
Because of this drama TV, l became a soldier
KillerBebe, thanks for your service!!
I'm good with memories. But I don't remember one single episode watching combat when I was young. Lol!. But now I know all the guest stars. Which I didn't when I was young.
Robert Duvall was in this episode, and then reappeared in the final episode of the entire series, in color, in 1967. In that one he plays an American pilot who was shot down a couple of years earlier, but went AWOL, posing as a member of the civilian French resistance in order to be with a French woman he fell in love with. The woman was played by Claudine Longet (who also starred in more than one COMBAT! episode), who got off nearly scot-free after killing her Olympic skiier boyfriend during a booze and coke-fueled argument in Aspen, CO. in 1976.
🎥 Was also in _Route 66_
@@jamescalifornia2964 Duvall, I assume (not Longet)? If so, that's cool. He was in a lot of things before taking off as a star. He was in a special 1-hour episode of Twilight Zone made in 1964, just before the series ended, which never aired and was shelved until resurfacing on TV in the 1980s. It's in the DVD collection today.
I did watch this when it was relatively new. I remember the scale.
Should have retrieved his M1 carbine. He had spare ammunition for that.
Yeah, I thought too... well, its TV drama - what can you say, lol!
I wondered why Duvall didn't get the M1 when he left LT on the scale.
Yes, he should also have found a way to return the "borrowed" rifle to the Resistance fighter but maybe that was the plan after transferring his POW. 🤔
Lt Hanley blows up a well and beautiful statue, just to prove a point
...and also a flammable one as shown after exploding. 🤔 Yikes!