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[reticulan5]

This is brilliant because it's very realistic.There is seldom macho heroism in war.It's 2 sides opposing and trying to destroy each other.It's as simple as that.

[killerkirbydude]

This video is better when you play "Paschendale" in the background.

/watch?v=c20-fm_WNew

[TXRog]

This is the single best motion picture ever made that pays tribute to US Naval Aviators in my humble opinion.

I first saw this great film when I was about 10 years old (after already being a dedicated warbird buff for almost a decade).

Very sad ending and even though I have seen it at least a dozen times, it never fails to capture my attention and I always hope that Forney and Lt. Brubaker make it out alive.

"Where do we get such men?"

[1caballeroaudaz]

it´s a hard movie. I see when 14 and did not understad. i was unde fire five times and viewing the clip sense it again. Congratulations

[cebubear]

I just had my 12 year old daughter watch this. She didn't do her 'duty' (wash the dishes) and because of this her 8yr old sister (and Dad) had to do it for her. She learned her lesson. If she doesn't 'hit those bridges', someone else will have to. I'm just so glad she didn't have to learn this lesson like Brubaker did. Where do we get such men? I hope she finds one to call her own one day.

[SONOFHERO52]

what a bunch of revisionist crap you people are posting here...if you don't understand EVIL has to be FOUGHT constantly...you don't deserve to be living in my country...get your Tory asses out of it..move to one of those make believe worlds you are crying over...if you want freedom...you have to understand....freedom is NEVER free...I honor the men that died in those ditches like Holden's character..if you can't ..LEAVE..and put on a skirt before you leave

[usafvet100]

God bless the Navy SAR teams who came to the rescue in those pitiful little unarmed eggbeaters that they had back then. Those boys had a lot of guts.

[CB48197]

If your wondering about "the stanage ending to a movie".Well back then movies sometimes did not have touchy feely ending,this is one of them.

[sobuliak]

at 2:35 you can see the utter hoplieness in william holdens face.this movie really laid it on line -it was one of the first movies to question the west,s involment in korea,and would become a template for movies like,comming home,the deerhunter and whole host of movies questioning vietnam made some 25 to 35 years later. a truly underated masterpiece.

[hibob418]

This scene has stuck with me for years - saw this movie late one night when I was about 10, and the ending was just so full of sadness and despair. Mickey Rooney with just an incredibly natural acting style here, not to mention Holden who dies in both of his 'Bridge' movies.

Thanks for posting.

[zloyobar]

Seeing this film as a young boy was part of the inspiration for joining the USN in 1977.

Thanks to ALL who have served this nation thanks for the blanket of freedom we rise and sleep under.

[mrstevehartman]

Where do we get such men ?

[zloyobar]

@mrstevehartman Where do we get such men ?

They are all around us everywhere....

[mrstevehartman]

@zloyobar Yes, very brave men !

[drystyx]

truly a lost classic. Can't understand why this isn't as well known as many older films that are less worthy.

I love both the Holden bridge films, and while I'm an enlisted sort like his character in Kwai, I still think this film is just a tiny tiny bit better, but both were classics, no doubt about it. The main characters all die ignobly in the mud, and show realism and yet heroism at the same time.

[kenpalmer1965]

A tragic ending to a great movie.

[fanofrhymeswithstar]

These days we won't even risk aricraft and pilots to go below 17,000ft when attacking ground targets, with possible exception to aircraft engaged in CAS of course. Even then any plane that is not an A-10 or AH-1 or AH-64 would take the high road so to speak if given the choice. My hats off to our forerunners.

[wbhiccup]

Well, gee, I hate to spoil a perfectly awful sad ending, but James Michener was a war correspondent aboard a carrier off Korea, and based this on a real incident in which everyone believed the AD prop (not F9F jet) pilot and the 2 rescue helicopter crewmen were killed. In fact, they were taken prisoner and returned at the end of the war.

[OSS4USA]

I don't care about the politics. I just like

to shoot at somebody!!!!!!

[cosmicdingo]

Cag grows some nads and stands up the too much of an executive Admiral. Great scene from a great movie.

[jdjuliann]

aPPRECIATE ALL OF THE REMARKS HERE, ABOUT THIS GREAT STORY. IT WAS A MAGNIFICENT RECREATION OF A SPOTLIGHT IN HELL, THAT US FLYERS HAD TO FACE IN NORTH KOREA. BILL HOLDEN I READ ONCE, CALLED THIS HIS FINEST PERFORMANCE, AND FAVORITE FILM IN HIS CAREER. JUSTIFIABLY, AND UNDERSTANDABLY SO. THANK THE COMMENTER WHO TOLD ABOUT THIS STORY BEING A RECREATION OF MR. HOLDENS BROTHER ROBERT. I HAD NOT BEEN AWARE OF THIS. TRULY, A MAGNIFICENT FILM.

[starfiref94c]

William Holden's brother was a Navy

fighter pilot killed in the South Pacifc during WW II. It was said that William Holden had so much influence over the studios that he literally changed the ending of this movie to what we see here.

Some pilots who flew with his brother, Robert during WW II say Holden was

portraying him in this film. It seems the ending was his way of telling the truth

about warfare.Everyone expected him to

get rescued and all three go home. It didn't work out that way.

[redriverski]

I saw this movie years before being drafted and sent to Viet Nam serving with the 101st airborne Division 68/69 Hue-Phu-Bai and was at Dong Ap Bia )aka: Hamburger hill. I never forgot the scene of William Holden( lt. Brubaker dying in that ditch and what he said about he only fought because he was sent there. I used to draw upon that when I got to feeling sorry for myself because I was stuck in a craphole in Nam while rich kids were chasing women and going to college. Terrorist are a danger.

[bobchewaing]

What you said made a lot of senses. Killing each other were not civilized and should be a better way to deal with it.

I watched this movie in 1965 and still remembered the killing scene of William Holden.

Thank You to share your personal feelings to us.

Hope one day the world peace will come.

[drexelur1]

Good points. Some people-like you-are the ones called upon to do the crappy jobs for the rest of us. Thank you sincerely for your service, anyway, as long overdue as that thanks may be.

[Dogmeat1950]

@redriverski wait. thought to be in the 101st or any unit like that you had to join,not be drafted.

[marmaloon]

While watching this I can't help but think of the HMCS Bonaventure. It even used the same aircraft as in this movie the Banshee.

[marmaloon]

Wait a minute those are Panthers aren't they? :confused:

[likepatsandGTOs]

You're correct...it is the F9F Panther. Ironically, in the book, the plane Brubaker flew was the F2H Banshee

[marmaloon]

I recall reading the book 'Hands to Flying Stations' in which was described a firepower demo by one of the Bonaventure's Banshee's, they set up a large wooden barn on the range in Gagetown, and had a flight of Banshee's make strafing runs at it, after the first Banshee had it's turn there was nothing left but splinters, that's what 4 1950's vintage 20mm cannons could do I can only marvel at the firepower modern fighter bombers have.

[154163152742]

i dont think ill ever forget seeing this scene for the first time. i was just a kid watching a war movie ... the good guys dont get killed right?

probably 40 yrs ago now. still remember it so clearly.

i think the actor who was holden's flight leader in this scene was named charles mcgraw. maybe not the greatest actor but he was good in this role.

& mickey rooney & earl holliman were both excellent, they both should've been nominated.

thnx a bunch for the vid. great great movie.

[likepatsandGTOs]

I knew of so many guys like Brubaker...with families who were called back while other active duty guys never were sent to Korea. A tragic war but not the abomination that is the Iraq 'war on terror"...Afghanistan was working in 11/01....thanks Dick for fucking us all up

[jjhays36]

abomination? how so? You american only care about TV remotes and fast food. You think you can rebuild a nation overnight with casualties (albeit small). I remember when the americans rebuilt western europe and thank god. 1945 to 1950 over 15,000 US servicemen lost their lives in occupied europe due to accidents, murder, espionage, sabatoge, partisan activity, etc... You americans are way too impatient these days.

[likepatsandGTOs]

After reading your profile, I now understand a litte better the source of your illogical ramblings. Better read up a little more of the run-up to the war and the strategic blunders that Cheney's pals led us into.

Impatient? I don't think so...incredulous is more like it that our country got into the wrong war at the wrong time. Just the fact you use the word Zionists says enough to me...and I am not a big supporter of the U.S.'s continued stipends to Israel.

[jjhays36]

Where did I use zionists in my wording? Oh it seems that you may wish I was one. I am Iraqi, emmigrated to Germany in 93 due to political pressure. You americans have it so good and yet are thankless.

[rikarman1]

That statement of yours was a generalization. An over-generalization, in fact. Not all Americans are too impatient. You know why I know that to be true? Because I am an American.

[fragmaka]

beware of China always

[hiergehts]

Say what you like but there were alot more valid reasons for our being in the Korean War then the current one in Iraq..

[jjhays36]

I can think of at lots more valid reasons than Korea. Korea was just stopping the Hegemony of Communism. I guess you dont like taking out a dictator who was troublesome in SW asia. Pity you and the lives that have been saved since Iraq was freed. التاسع من سبتمبر/ أيلول المقبل جلسة

[dessert57]

one of the best war movies ever....love the downer ending..not hollywood at all.....in fact, Will Holden demanded that he die in the ned, just like in the book...when actually the studio wanted him to live...he demanded it though...great actor! Mickey Rooney too

[redriverski]

One of the all time best war movies. Lt. Brubaker realized in the end there was not rime or reason for being there it was just fate. I felt the same way as a infantryman in Viet Nam in 68 draftee. Its just the luck of the draw and he was dealt a bad hand.

[delffs25]

GooRouix, I bet you have never been in a smelly ditch anywhere. You sit around and gripe. Speak for yourself. Don't like it here find the door.

[GooRouix]

From a smelly ditch in Korea to a smelly ditch in Iraq. The wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time. We never learn. The world's policeman stumbles again.

[fanofrhymeswithstar]

...And Afghanistan! The US is wasting ppl and resources on a corrupt government...just like Vietnam all over again. Now General Stanley "No sleep, no eat" McChrystal requests a total force of 650,000 extra troops, with atleast 100,000+ being US, according to the Counter Insurgency manual that he helped rewrite, which guarrantees a long war and more money for the Military Industrial Complex. Dwight D. Eisenhower must be turning in his grave!