More to the point was the Colour version ever on general release as the dvd version i have is B/W if the colour format is actually available could someone please point me in the right direction please
@colintraveller it was available on vhs originally, an official dvd release never came out, a bootleg dvd was available a while back on ioffer though.
my granpha was an italian soldier in Lybia during the war, and he remember very well the sound of the pipe during the second battle of tobruk...... when the soldiers hear the sound of the pipe and see the pipers in first line they run away!!!!
(The italian solliers weren't cowards but the situation was very critical!!!!)
@hollywoodwerewolf The Black Bear was a Millitary Marching song and it is a light song so it makes for better morale. Trust me I play the bagpipes and I can tell in those conditions is would be alot harder to play, with the bullets shooting by your head and all that.
I am struggling to find a copy of this to buy that is in colour. I first saw the film when I was roughly 7 and it has been my favourite film ever since and it was a colour version I watched. Now every copy sold says on the back "restored to original black and white for your viewing pleasure"......fuck off I just want the colour version.
@SOLDIERF1 Hell with that uniform on and bagpipes trailing me, I wouldn't want to wear a helmet. Let people know who's coming their way. Confussion is often the best technique to an ambush :)
I'm repeating what was written in Stephen Ambrose's book "D-Day", as told to him by veterans of the war. While a steel helmet would not stop a rifle round, it did offer better protection than a brightly-colored beret. Whatever it took to tip the odds in one's favor, I guess.
Why all the negativity and hatred let us all rejoice that Hitler and fascism was destroyed .Europe was liberated and everyone opposed to such evil was victorious is that not enough.Germany today is the driving force for reconciliation and peace in our continent let us look to the future whilst acknowledging the past let our children read of war as a tragedy that they will never have to endure.Love and peace to all.
The moment when the shell lands right behind Lieutenant Commander Maud is genuinely inspiring. That occasionally near suicidal cultural strain that the British have to not let anything phase them or intimidate them is one of the big reason the island still stands liberal B-)
I hate how this movie almost totally ignores what the Canadians landed at Juno they faced opposition second only to Omaha and pushed further inland then the British or Americans
Kinda like Iraq's WMD's, they switched storys mid-way in the war.
First it was about freeing poland, despite the poles where mass murdering sudetan germans whom where aquired after handing that german corridor to the poles after ww1, and Hitler begging Britain to stop the mass murder, and the soviets massing on there borders.
Then after the war we handed Poland over to the Communists for half a century, all fucking lies, and still more lies, and more lies and more lies, and on and on and on.
@CelticAngloPress I see now, your one of those idiots that think your better than others because of your skin color. You really are out of touch with reality.
No I don't actually, you said that, now you're using ad-hominems and slander/race baiting since you have no ability to critique the facts, and thus feel the insecure need to withdraw into name calling.
Your intellectual honesty, or rather dishonesty is revealing, typical conformist mentality.
the americans know one thing sean the fucking lot in british are and all ways will be better fighters .and we are still training them to fight to this day.
I've always liked The Longest Day; never seen it in color before. Looks pretty cool. I understand Richard Todd (Maj. Howard) actually took part in that engagement (as himself).
A German Machine gunner was asked one time in a documentery about the scotts invadeing the beach and why he didnt kill the bagpiper, the german soldier replyed "He was to crazy to shoot."
I have to admit the yanks had a harder time than us British and the Canadian...but every single man who took part in any section of those landing deserves 110% pure respect.
Didn't know Bill Millen was Mark Knopfler's uncle, but the event itself iis one evernt Hollywood got right in that film. BTW, Lord Lovat, a Commando Brigadier, was wearing the badge of Lovat's Scouts, a Territorial (ie reserve) regiment founded by his father (or was it Grandpa?) in the Boer War.
This is Mark Knopfler’s uncle, whom he sings about in the tremendous “Piper to the End” from the Get Lucky album.
Against orders from World War I that forbade playing bagpipes on the battlefield because of the high risk of attracting enemy fire, Lord Lovat, then 32, asked Private Millin to play on the beachhead to raise morale.
... Lord Lovat replied: “Ah, but that’s the English War Office. You and I are both Scottish, and that doesn’t apply.”
Too bad they skip the landing battle, but the film makes up for it with some rather superb little writing and acting. The direction isn't half bad too.
Before i get the whole "OH TYPICAL BUTTHURT EUROFAGGOT" reply, If you read up about Operation Overlord, the troubles on omaha and utah might well of been avoided if the americans adopted the british idea of the engineer tanks and such, plus in terms of troops, most of the british contingent had taken part in amphibious landings before, i know some of the US divisions took part in the landings in sicily and in operation torch, so i'd say that this must be a contributing factor to US casualties.
@flargle1967 You do know that brit plans weren't very welcome by us ,mostly because they failed more often an succeeded. The BEF, DD Tanks, Gliders 9more often than not did they flip and kill people), Operation Market Garden, etc.
@satedwhitewidow LOL, yes it does - I remember a panel discussion on WWII about 20 years ago, they had German veterans there... and the British guy asked one of the German officers, "I'm glad you didn't, but why didn't the piper ever get shot?" - The German replied it was "bad luck to shoot a "dummkapf" ! But he then got serious and replied, how can you shoot a guy playing the pipes for his regiment !
Al the nostalgia apart. That commander was a enemy onto his own soldiers. Read any transcript available. His soldier were told to march and march with al the British stuff in them. The germans loved it I was Headshot alley for that moment in the war.
ofc you dont shoot the player he is working for you. Ugh a loss of life just one can order it.
@ 3:41 Richard Todd, Playing Major John Howard, meets the actor playing himself. Richard Todd meets the actor playing himself (a role he turned down because "I did not do anything special that would make a good sequence"). "I was, in effect, standing beside myself talking to myself," he noted
@wwwonderful - Americans 5% of the DDay landings?...where did you get that from?...There where a total of about 155,000 assault troops involved across 5 beaches and the yanks counted for 73,000 including over 15,000 US Airborn...The rest were made up of 62,000 Brits and over 20,000 Canadians / Anzacs
@jackwagon257 Sean Connery lives in the Azores, has a French wife, and from time to time acts the Scottish nationalist. Expats make me want to spit, so patriotic they become once abroad. Go to Scotland and hear the Scots moan about everything. Send them abroad and hear them crying in their whisky about how they miss the homeland. The same applies to the Irish, the English, the Italians ... only the drink and the songs differ
I can't wait for the hollywood revision of this film, where some American is playing an elecric guitar singing Elvis (even though not a star for 20 years) as they cross "reagan bridge". It will happen....
@paintballKid545 To some degree i disagree. sections of gold, sword and juno where just as bad as some parts if not worse than omaha beach. Some parts of omaha where probably just a stroll up the beach as where parts of the British and canadian beaches. Also on utah the americans suffered extremely light casualties.
@paintballKid545 Was a self-made problem really. Not to lessen the sacrifice the Americans made on Omaha Beach, but if the USAAF had dropped their bombs over the right place, it wouldn't have been as bad as it was. Unlike at the other beaches, the bombardment didn't do much against the fortifications there; they were mostly intact. From a strategic point of view, one might argue that it would have been smarter to ignore Omaha Beach and concentrate on the other 4 sectors.
@paintballKid545 only because the Americans bungled their DD tanks, otherwise Omaha beach was a walk in the park like the rest. The normandy beaches were defended by old men and little boys
@Studmasterify And i bet you also believe that the film U whatever when the americans captured the enigma machine is true, sorry but that was done by the brits although holywood would try and make you think otherwise. Which is also the same with Burma the ANZACS and the Brits were there with a token force of americans, yet again according to holywood Washington or was it lincoln won the fight. Holywood makes it all up as it goes along, they steal other countries history as they have none.
@bullettoothburrows We took Point du hawke easier then omaha. And without the US taking that point the german artillary would have fired on all the landing beaches
@paintballKid545 Its spelled 'Pointe du Hoc' and who's 'we'? Am I talking to a vetran? But Historically, that of course could have been a major possibility.
3. It only seems like a walk in the park because Saving Private Ryan was mostly computer animation. All this, is real. These are real high budget films. They had to hire all these actors, get all the extras in to certain scenes, go to and film on location, make a believable set which meant getting veterans and civilians to help with what everything looked like, and use real explosives.
Down, Winston, down Winston!... Et le major Howard relevé par le commando de Lovat, sonneur en tête! très Britannique (Ecossais) ça! Du panache! Merci à eux!
This must be colorized (unless they shot the non-stock parts on color film then turned it into b&w the way that Coen Bros. movie about the barber was made--they mistakenly ran a color reel of it somewhere!) but I've never heard that and doubt it. But it looks like someone did a good job colorizing it and it works in this instance, much as I loathe colorization.
@theMillerWolf Now take a good hard look and listen to Flannigan, the man who points out the fact that the leader boy wasn't old enough to be at Dunkirk and yells :Come out you dirty schlobs! Flannigan's back!!"
That is a young Sean Connery. (I checked IMDB, this was a "Who's Who" of Hollywood at the time.)
I hear color version is bootleg, but how come when i watched it (color version) ages ago on our national tv. shouldn't that be prohibited or something?
Rutgeer47, actually the real guy William Millin was an Englishman in real life and according to him when he arrived at the bridge a paratrooper yelled "Who are you playing at you mad ba$*#rd? Every German in France now knows were here you silly ba€*#%d !"
@haenealMp44 "actually the real guy William Millin was an Englishman in real life ..."
This is William Millin, son of a Glasgow policeman who spoke with a strong scottish accent you're talking about? Well, if he was an Englishman he certainly hid it well!
Oh and with private Flannagan( Sean Connery) and private Claugh LOL. Claugh:There he goes. He's at it again. You ever here such a bleeding racket in all your life.(pulls out tissues and uses them as earplugs). Flanagan: Yeah, it takes an Irishman to play the pipes.
I wish they put out the color version on DVD I already have the movie in black and white but I would've wanted to see the Pointe du Hoc scene in color
It might interest you to know that Richard Todd was actually there on D Day at Pegasus Bridge with an officer called Todd Sweeney, i was told Richard nickname was Sweeney Todd .Good old Oxon Bucks Light Infantry my grandfathers old regiment.
@animegamer77 You can still get a new copy (on VHS only) from Amazon. The color version (I've got both as well, ordered a copy of the color version prior to its release) was released during the 50th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion in 1994. Just Google "The Longest Day (D-Day 50th Anniversary, Exclusive Color Version).
Aye big Sean playing an irishman that can t be right
FingersGreen0 5 days ago
What a tame beach landing....
nojyt 1 week ago
Strike sure the London Scottish!!!!
M6SPW 1 week ago
this is the sort of thing you can achieve when you are UNITED as one with Englischland Sctotchland...say NO to independence... its shit
termin9r 2 weeks ago
@termin9r Hello Shit for Brains! Alba gu Brath....Scotland Wull and so will Mr Salmond. You afraid to be on your own AW!
strathpipe 2 weeks ago
@termin9r
Clearly, you know nothing.
firework179 5 days ago
More to the point was the Colour version ever on general release as the dvd version i have is B/W if the colour format is actually available could someone please point me in the right direction please
colintraveller 3 weeks ago
@colintraveller it was available on vhs originally, an official dvd release never came out, a bootleg dvd was available a while back on ioffer though.
jiggawoo 3 weeks ago
my granpha was an italian soldier in Lybia during the war, and he remember very well the sound of the pipe during the second battle of tobruk...... when the soldiers hear the sound of the pipe and see the pipers in first line they run away!!!!
(The italian solliers weren't cowards but the situation was very critical!!!!)
TheMediatore88 1 month ago
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bleushift 1 month ago
0:18
now theres a Shite for shore eyesh
Glaswegianmark 1 month ago
@Glaswegianmark
Military march yes, but the tune was to sound to folks that the castle was secure and to return to home.
argyll1854 3 weeks ago
Let that Bulldog go and he'll take a few prisoners !!
mathiastheok 1 month ago
@mathiastheok Were you looking at the same video that dog was scared to death and was trying to get away....and that was a kid on situation.
strathpipe 2 weeks ago
@strathpipe Rhetorical..... look it up. Please for the sake of humanity.
mathiastheok 2 weeks ago
@mathiastheok For the sake of the dog? way too late for you.
strathpipe 2 weeks ago
4:38 marching into combat...
LIKE A SIR!
redmunkee 1 month ago
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redmunkee 1 month ago
Connery is, and always will be the man.
troutbum1374 1 month ago
"Dawn't be darft!"
CaptainWatson234 1 month ago
the piper knew only one song.
hollywoodwerewolf 1 month ago
@hollywoodwerewolf It would take one mighty good piper to play anything under those conditions.
freeman8128 1 month ago
@hollywoodwerewolf The Black Bear was a Millitary Marching song and it is a light song so it makes for better morale. Trust me I play the bagpipes and I can tell in those conditions is would be alot harder to play, with the bullets shooting by your head and all that.
DrinkToIreland 1 month ago
I beleive Sean Connery was running late, and after finishing this scene he rushed over to the set of the first ever Bond film, "Dr. No".
tromuniapp 1 month ago
The Longest Day certainly makes a good argument that war is NOT Hell, but merely an inconvenience.
FLCLCBSC 1 month ago
I am struggling to find a copy of this to buy that is in colour. I first saw the film when I was roughly 7 and it has been my favourite film ever since and it was a colour version I watched. Now every copy sold says on the back "restored to original black and white for your viewing pleasure"......fuck off I just want the colour version.
ginjaninja1988 1 month ago
One of the most profound scenes in any film! To think it was true! Proud to be Scouse, hahaha.
WMUnited 1 month ago
Sean Connery!!!
olysfinest 2 months ago
Would they go into battle wearing berets? I think not, or am I wrong?
SOLDIERF1 2 months ago
@SOLDIERF1 Hell with that uniform on and bagpipes trailing me, I wouldn't want to wear a helmet. Let people know who's coming their way. Confussion is often the best technique to an ambush :)
aceflyer89 1 month ago
@SOLDIERF1
They did until it was found that many of the commandos who were killed had been shot through the head. They then started wearing their helmets.
Ironhandjohn 1 month ago
@Ironhandjohn I doubt a steel helmet would have stopped a German round.
ginjaninja1988 1 month ago
@ginjaninja1988
I'm repeating what was written in Stephen Ambrose's book "D-Day", as told to him by veterans of the war. While a steel helmet would not stop a rifle round, it did offer better protection than a brightly-colored beret. Whatever it took to tip the odds in one's favor, I guess.
Ironhandjohn 1 month ago
@Ironhandjohn I certainly agree with you there. Atleast it would stop shrapnel and such things.
ginjaninja1988 1 month ago
@SOLDIERF1
They did here, and they did on Mount Longdon.
2210ethan 1 month ago
"Hold Until Releived!!".
kingbushwickthe33rd 2 months ago
Reminds me of when I was 10 years old in the summer of'69.
I went to see"The Longest Day".
kingbushwickthe33rd 2 months ago
Its Jack Churchill!!! =D
RenegadeOfSociety 2 months ago
Why all the negativity and hatred let us all rejoice that Hitler and fascism was destroyed .Europe was liberated and everyone opposed to such evil was victorious is that not enough.Germany today is the driving force for reconciliation and peace in our continent let us look to the future whilst acknowledging the past let our children read of war as a tragedy that they will never have to endure.Love and peace to all.
forsythbill1 2 months ago
In one of the DVD subtitles, the ignorant a-wipes put Millin's name as "Miller"!
krelllabs 2 months ago
Sean Connery sounds manic
Trashcansam123 2 months ago
The moment when the shell lands right behind Lieutenant Commander Maud is genuinely inspiring. That occasionally near suicidal cultural strain that the British have to not let anything phase them or intimidate them is one of the big reason the island still stands liberal B-)
rotator1471 2 months ago
I read somwhere that they were talking about remakeing "The Longest Day".
If it's true I just hope to God they dont fuck it up. It's just to good of an old movei to half ass a new one.
Herbymac0811 2 months ago
I hate how this movie almost totally ignores what the Canadians landed at Juno they faced opposition second only to Omaha and pushed further inland then the British or Americans
CommonwealthPatriot 2 months ago
@CommonwealthPatriot The British don't forget the Canadians.
NickerSkids 2 months ago
Commander Colin maud with Captain tapes on -.-
IconicLobster 2 months ago
1:15 u like that dog
MrWheelman82 2 months ago
Kinda like Iraq's WMD's, they switched storys mid-way in the war.
First it was about freeing poland, despite the poles where mass murdering sudetan germans whom where aquired after handing that german corridor to the poles after ww1, and Hitler begging Britain to stop the mass murder, and the soviets massing on there borders.
Then after the war we handed Poland over to the Communists for half a century, all fucking lies, and still more lies, and more lies and more lies, and on and on and on.
CelticAngloPress 3 months ago
@CelticAngloPress Some people have such a hard time staying in reality, and your a good example.
TheBardicDruid 3 months ago
@TheBardicDruid
Interesting how you say that, yet your inability to refute the facts is much more telling.
Sorry, did I pass a cold breeze of reality over your warm blanket of conformity?...would seem so.
CelticAngloPress 3 months ago 2
@CelticAngloPress I see now, your one of those idiots that think your better than others because of your skin color. You really are out of touch with reality.
TheBardicDruid 3 months ago
@TheBardicDruid
No I don't actually, you said that, now you're using ad-hominems and slander/race baiting since you have no ability to critique the facts, and thus feel the insecure need to withdraw into name calling.
Your intellectual honesty, or rather dishonesty is revealing, typical conformist mentality.
CelticAngloPress 3 months ago 4
@CelticAngloPress No actually I looked at your Youtube page, told me volumes.
TheBardicDruid 3 months ago
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CelticAngloPress 3 months ago
Whole war was based on a lie.
Communists won that war, no two ways about it, if one where to look at the world today.
CelticAngloPress 3 months ago
the americans know one thing sean the fucking lot in british are and all ways will be better fighters .and we are still training them to fight to this day.
OUTDOORY 3 months ago
I've always liked The Longest Day; never seen it in color before. Looks pretty cool. I understand Richard Todd (Maj. Howard) actually took part in that engagement (as himself).
Finarphin 3 months ago
@Finarphin Not 100% true. Todd was in a glider and part of the paras but he wasn't the top guy. Major Howard who Todd played was not in the film.
NickerSkids 2 months ago
How did you come by a colorized version of this film? I saw this movie in the theater in the early 1960s.
Thestargazer56 3 months ago
I love how the Brits wear the berets, much better than how the US Army wears 'em nowadays
theMillerWolf 3 months ago
A German Machine gunner was asked one time in a documentery about the scotts invadeing the beach and why he didnt kill the bagpiper, the german soldier replyed "He was to crazy to shoot."
ShaddySoldier 3 months ago
The British have easy on the beach but they went inland they got a real hard time fighting.
glsblink 3 months ago
Shelling is bad for dogs you know!
TheGoggleFace 3 months ago
I have to admit the yanks had a harder time than us British and the Canadian...but every single man who took part in any section of those landing deserves 110% pure respect.
R.I.P. Glorious Dead.
MrNoonieD 3 months ago
Didn't know Bill Millen was Mark Knopfler's uncle, but the event itself iis one evernt Hollywood got right in that film. BTW, Lord Lovat, a Commando Brigadier, was wearing the badge of Lovat's Scouts, a Territorial (ie reserve) regiment founded by his father (or was it Grandpa?) in the Boer War.
Horsemarine100 3 months ago
This is Mark Knopfler’s uncle, whom he sings about in the tremendous “Piper to the End” from the Get Lucky album.
Against orders from World War I that forbade playing bagpipes on the battlefield because of the high risk of attracting enemy fire, Lord Lovat, then 32, asked Private Millin to play on the beachhead to raise morale.
... Lord Lovat replied: “Ah, but that’s the English War Office. You and I are both Scottish, and that doesn’t apply.”
thisismyname007 3 months ago 17
@thisismyname007 Lord Lovat really said that? Wow! That is one cool Scottish commando. Too bad on what happen to him after the war.
hound3000 3 months ago
@thisismyname007 : Quite !
MusicPredominates 1 month ago
From the footage in omaha, it wasnt really like private ryan, they were shot at but no one really got hit before they even came out of the DUKW's
JollyBiscuit 3 months ago
Too bad they skip the landing battle, but the film makes up for it with some rather superb little writing and acting. The direction isn't half bad too.
degree7 3 months ago
Before i get the whole "OH TYPICAL BUTTHURT EUROFAGGOT" reply, If you read up about Operation Overlord, the troubles on omaha and utah might well of been avoided if the americans adopted the british idea of the engineer tanks and such, plus in terms of troops, most of the british contingent had taken part in amphibious landings before, i know some of the US divisions took part in the landings in sicily and in operation torch, so i'd say that this must be a contributing factor to US casualties.
flargle1967 3 months ago
@flargle1967 You do know that brit plans weren't very welcome by us ,mostly because they failed more often an succeeded. The BEF, DD Tanks, Gliders 9more often than not did they flip and kill people), Operation Market Garden, etc.
bestshowontheweb 3 months ago
Thank the Lord for Peter Lawford and his turtle neck battle sweater. Must be regular British issue for Invasion landings....lol
Rittisan 4 months ago
It takes a real man to storm an open beach in a multinational war with nothin but a helmet, a rifle and good intentions.
It takes a fucking legend to do that with nothin but your pipes.
satedwhitewidow 4 months ago 56
@satedwhitewidow BWAHAHAHAHA!! high five!!
RalphMarx 3 months ago
@satedwhitewidow ever heard of jack churchill? marched intae war with bagpipes. And instead of a gun used a bow and a claymore
DrinkToIreland 3 months ago
@satedwhitewidow LOL, yes it does - I remember a panel discussion on WWII about 20 years ago, they had German veterans there... and the British guy asked one of the German officers, "I'm glad you didn't, but why didn't the piper ever get shot?" - The German replied it was "bad luck to shoot a "dummkapf" ! But he then got serious and replied, how can you shoot a guy playing the pipes for his regiment !
57mab 2 months ago 21
@57mab
Al the nostalgia apart. That commander was a enemy onto his own soldiers. Read any transcript available. His soldier were told to march and march with al the British stuff in them. The germans loved it I was Headshot alley for that moment in the war.
ofc you dont shoot the player he is working for you. Ugh a loss of life just one can order it.
MrRizikoo 1 month ago
@satedwhitewidow
Love that mannlicher style rifle Lovat is carrying !
raymondville 2 months ago
@satedwhitewidow He was wearing a kilt too. He says that in an interview.
soup460 2 months ago
@ 3:41 Richard Todd, Playing Major John Howard, meets the actor playing himself. Richard Todd meets the actor playing himself (a role he turned down because "I did not do anything special that would make a good sequence"). "I was, in effect, standing beside myself talking to myself," he noted
BartUK8 4 months ago
@wwwonderful - Americans 5% of the DDay landings?...where did you get that from?...There where a total of about 155,000 assault troops involved across 5 beaches and the yanks counted for 73,000 including over 15,000 US Airborn...The rest were made up of 62,000 Brits and over 20,000 Canadians / Anzacs
BritAU2TH 4 months ago 2
the british always had a certain style about waging war, courtesy of the celtic folks
nomadnametab 4 months ago
i love how even though sean conory is a scottsman he has the famous line of "it takes an irishman to play the pipes"
jackwagon257 4 months ago
@jackwagon257 Sean Connery lives in the Azores, has a French wife, and from time to time acts the Scottish nationalist. Expats make me want to spit, so patriotic they become once abroad. Go to Scotland and hear the Scots moan about everything. Send them abroad and hear them crying in their whisky about how they miss the homeland. The same applies to the Irish, the English, the Italians ... only the drink and the songs differ
wwwonderful 4 months ago
@jackwagon257 Maybe those words were in the scenario
wwwonderful 4 months ago
I can't wait for the hollywood revision of this film, where some American is playing an elecric guitar singing Elvis (even though not a star for 20 years) as they cross "reagan bridge". It will happen....
mheslop 4 months ago
@mheslop hahahhahaa epic comment....read up on mad jack chruchill he killed a german officer with a bow and arrow
3tangle3 4 months ago
4:44 some man is pushing a bike across the bridge during the bombardment
theirondukesboy 4 months ago
Was this movie made the same year as Mary Poppins?
Kralhonj 4 months ago
I like the bit where Major John Howard (played by Richard Todd) meets Richard Todd the paratrooper (ie. himself) played by another actor.
shumble32 4 months ago 2
They should all have disembarked with a bagpipe, it makes man invincible!
TheFoolsCrook 4 months ago
Scottish nationalist Sean Connery playing 'Flanagan'... the evil of it all...
rvkan 4 months ago
can he not play something they like ?
bigrider2806 4 months ago
black bear is actually a retreat march for when they head back to the barracks :P
ramzzzzz10 4 months ago
come out ye dirty sobs Flanagan's back
MAnnaconduit1 5 months ago
Its like a walk in the park compared to Saving Private Ryan
Studmasterify 5 months ago
@Studmasterify yep, the american troops in the longest day did have a hard time as well though.
jiggawoo 5 months ago 5
@jiggawoo yes cause they released their tanks too early making them sink
stephanosmixail 4 months ago
@jiggawoo The americans had the hardest time in reality
paintballKid545 4 months ago 2
@paintballKid545 agreed
jiggawoo 4 months ago
@jiggawoo mostly on Omaha but the everyone had quite a hard time
moleman9000 3 months ago
@paintballKid545 To some degree i disagree. sections of gold, sword and juno where just as bad as some parts if not worse than omaha beach. Some parts of omaha where probably just a stroll up the beach as where parts of the British and canadian beaches. Also on utah the americans suffered extremely light casualties.
swanyAJ 4 months ago
@swanyAJ ya thats ture lets just all say that all those brave men suffered hard and all fought well
paintballKid545 4 months ago
@paintballKid545 Was a self-made problem really. Not to lessen the sacrifice the Americans made on Omaha Beach, but if the USAAF had dropped their bombs over the right place, it wouldn't have been as bad as it was. Unlike at the other beaches, the bombardment didn't do much against the fortifications there; they were mostly intact. From a strategic point of view, one might argue that it would have been smarter to ignore Omaha Beach and concentrate on the other 4 sectors.
TheRawke 4 months ago
@paintballKid545 only because the Americans bungled their DD tanks, otherwise Omaha beach was a walk in the park like the rest. The normandy beaches were defended by old men and little boys
engliscwarrior 3 months ago
@engliscwarrior Do you know anything about history?
paintballKid545 3 months ago
@paintballKid545 not early in the war... America wasn't even in it then ;)
DrinkToIreland 3 months ago
@DrinkToIreland I dont know what i said that you commenting too.
paintballKid545 3 months ago
@paintballKid545 oh nothing i was just wondering if you heard of him :D
DrinkToIreland 3 months ago
@jiggawoo not all of them - Teddy Roosvelt with its 4th ID has a lauck and by accident met ungarder beach.
misiekszuper 3 months ago
@jiggawoo that is because the yanks did not have bagpipes.......and tanks
janak19771977 3 months ago
@janak19771977 we did have tanks but they sank
paintballKid545 3 months ago
@Studmasterify And i bet you also believe that the film U whatever when the americans captured the enigma machine is true, sorry but that was done by the brits although holywood would try and make you think otherwise. Which is also the same with Burma the ANZACS and the Brits were there with a token force of americans, yet again according to holywood Washington or was it lincoln won the fight. Holywood makes it all up as it goes along, they steal other countries history as they have none.
wisetrucker 4 months ago
@Studmasterify I'd run the other way if a bunch of mad Scots charged me with bagpipes and I'm Scottish.
Quiksilver4eyes 3 months ago
@Studmasterify this was filmed in 1962 49 years ago no real special affects compared to days films
MrTedwise 3 months ago
@Studmasterify Maybe the Americans should have realized not to launch an offensive directly in front of a cliff face.
bullettoothburrows 3 months ago
@bullettoothburrows We took Point du hawke easier then omaha. And without the US taking that point the german artillary would have fired on all the landing beaches
paintballKid545 3 months ago
@paintballKid545 Its spelled 'Pointe du Hoc' and who's 'we'? Am I talking to a vetran? But Historically, that of course could have been a major possibility.
bullettoothburrows 3 months ago
@bullettoothburrows Sorry i was trying to remember the spelling and by we i mean the Americans
paintballKid545 3 months ago
@Studmasterify its Sword / Juno , its was a cake walk for the Brits , Omaha was the killing ground , dont get confused XP
RalphMarx 3 months ago
@Studmasterify 1. That movie was fake
2. Why are you even making the comparison?
3. It only seems like a walk in the park because Saving Private Ryan was mostly computer animation. All this, is real. These are real high budget films. They had to hire all these actors, get all the extras in to certain scenes, go to and film on location, make a believable set which meant getting veterans and civilians to help with what everything looked like, and use real explosives.
bestshowontheweb 3 months ago
Black and white was batter FOR ME
EITY10 5 months ago
part of the largest invasion in the history of man , plays the bagpipes like a boss
pattonspie 5 months ago
Down, Winston, down Winston!... Et le major Howard relevé par le commando de Lovat, sonneur en tête! très Britannique (Ecossais) ça! Du panache! Merci à eux!
ANTOONMAKA 5 months ago
James bond + pipes = demise of the nazis
mrmemanme 5 months ago
lol i guess those 2 english soldiers didnt like the bag pipes, gotta love the scots eh?
webb20k 6 months ago
@webb20k one of the Englishmen was an Irishman.
blobby1972 6 months ago
@blobby1972 yeah just noticed hahaha
webb20k 6 months ago
@blobby1972 lol just don't make the mistake of calling an Irishmen British it won't end well ;)
blobby1972 6 months ago
@SatanicCod piper Bill Millin..
kilatsabit 6 months ago
Lol, "If you can't drive, carry it!" I love that guy.
itak365 6 months ago
Very unrealistic, filming this in black & white!!!
wwrigle2 7 months ago
This must be colorized (unless they shot the non-stock parts on color film then turned it into b&w the way that Coen Bros. movie about the barber was made--they mistakenly ran a color reel of it somewhere!) but I've never heard that and doubt it. But it looks like someone did a good job colorizing it and it works in this instance, much as I loathe colorization.
Onlymusical 7 months ago
Oh sean connery. Even when you play a scot, we still can barely understand you.
bestshowontheweb 7 months ago
@bestshowontheweb Sean Connery is Scottish
theMillerWolf 3 months ago
@theMillerWolf Now take a good hard look and listen to Flannigan, the man who points out the fact that the leader boy wasn't old enough to be at Dunkirk and yells :Come out you dirty schlobs! Flannigan's back!!"
That is a young Sean Connery. (I checked IMDB, this was a "Who's Who" of Hollywood at the time.)
bestshowontheweb 3 months ago
@theMillerWolf I misunderstood that. yes. That was the joke.
bestshowontheweb 3 months ago
@bestshowontheweb
he is a scot ,laughs,born in edinburgh
belindakennedy 3 months ago
@belindakennedy Thats the joke. he's a scot, playing a scot. I just think it's hard to understand him sometimes, no matter the role.
bestshowontheweb 3 months ago
Got to love that smile at the end!
8010cookie 7 months ago
There was an official color version VHS release back in the 90s If I remember right.
historyman9 7 months ago
wow colour
KingsofSparta 7 months ago
I Didn't know there was a colour version where kan I get this
TheHillbillyHermitt1 8 months ago
There is a colour version on the Internet, as a torrent download.
dunkelheit616 8 months ago
I hear color version is bootleg, but how come when i watched it (color version) ages ago on our national tv. shouldn't that be prohibited or something?
noblees 8 months ago
i wonder if someone today in the 21st in any army would have the cajones to strike up a tune and inspire men during battle?
Sidewinder5O4 8 months ago
come on winston
TravisDrago 8 months ago
ahhahah Funny Brits
TravisDrago 8 months ago
VERY NICE JOB. BRAVO.UPLOAD MORE LIKE IT BRAVO MAN.
sakisort 9 months ago
Rutgeer47, actually the real guy William Millin was an Englishman in real life and according to him when he arrived at the bridge a paratrooper yelled "Who are you playing at you mad ba$*#rd? Every German in France now knows were here you silly ba€*#%d !"
haenealMp44 9 months ago
@haenealMp44 "actually the real guy William Millin was an Englishman in real life ..."
This is William Millin, son of a Glasgow policeman who spoke with a strong scottish accent you're talking about? Well, if he was an Englishman he certainly hid it well!
sirderam1 5 months ago
@sirderam1 Son of a Glasgow policeman playing the pipes and speaking with a Scottish accent Whatever Next?
strathpipe 5 months ago
Oh and with private Flannagan( Sean Connery) and private Claugh LOL. Claugh:There he goes. He's at it again. You ever here such a bleeding racket in all your life.(pulls out tissues and uses them as earplugs). Flanagan: Yeah, it takes an Irishman to play the pipes.
haenealMp44 9 months ago
I wish they put out the color version on DVD I already have the movie in black and white but I would've wanted to see the Pointe du Hoc scene in color
haenealMp44 9 months ago
Awww.... You cut off the best part of the movie!
Commander Colin Maud: What is the matter lad?
Soldier: Engine won't start sir! Full of sea water, I think!
Commander: My old grandmother used to say: "Anything mechanical, give it a good bash!" *hits engine with cane* Try now!
*soldier turns on engine, engine revs; suprised look on both faces*
Soldier: Thank you sir!!
Andybato 9 months ago 2
I really don't understand British English....
watanabe757 9 months ago
It might interest you to know that Richard Todd was actually there on D Day at Pegasus Bridge with an officer called Todd Sweeney, i was told Richard nickname was Sweeney Todd .Good old Oxon Bucks Light Infantry my grandfathers old regiment.
carroj9 9 months ago
the colours look amazing.it looks like it was shot in colour.
masterstarfox 9 months ago
oh man i love these old movies. No glorification, no special effects, no graphical editing, no exaggerated camera movements and perspektives
mumugamer2006 10 months ago
Hold until relieved, hold until relieved.
tharos 10 months ago
0:19 sean connery
davvvvo 10 months ago
It's cool to see it in color, but in color most of the backdrops and effects look more fake.
solidsnake2234 11 months ago
Cut those men down... JOHN Wayne
MrDesertRatAZ 1 year ago
the british army always has had this certain way all its own.
nomadnametab 1 year ago
Colour. Boooooo.
cochranexyz 1 year ago
WHEN WAS IT RECOLORED!?
bestshowontheweb 1 year ago
How did you get the color version!?
I only got the B&W one.
animegamer77 1 year ago
@animegamer77 found it on ioffer its a bootleg
jiggawoo 1 year ago
@jiggawoo It may be a bootleg but it's a damn good one.
animegamer77 1 year ago
@animegamer77 You can still get a new copy (on VHS only) from Amazon. The color version (I've got both as well, ordered a copy of the color version prior to its release) was released during the 50th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion in 1994. Just Google "The Longest Day (D-Day 50th Anniversary, Exclusive Color Version).
CYBERVISIONSdotCom 8 months ago