Malta Story (1953) - Excerpts: Part 1 of 2

[gwynnne]

I remember seeing this film when it first came out - how proud of our island we were then!Judith

[Gozitan246]

Germany takes most of Europe, yet fails to take Malta.. Good game Germany.

[cooneyfriday]

"A Long Road To Freedom" - By Mary Mc Cartan is a novel documenting Malta's struggle during the Second World War! ☆☆☆☆☆

[Vomtu100]

MALTI U KBURI LI MALTI

[berlinmitte10117]

lovely scene with the people and the RAF officer on the bus

[killerlady1955]

7:52 Well nice.

[killerlady1955]

Alec Guinness makes me swoon in this film. :)

[pgjr00]

Malta were amazing

[kontralfaxxizmu]

VIVA MALTA, FAXXISTI TALJANI U GERMANIZI BQAJTU BIZ-ZOBB

[tss77]

Why not the whole excellent movie rather than excerpts I am sure it would appreciated by many.

[ingerlander]

I had a neighbour in Burlington, Ontario who was a Northern Irishman. He was manning an anti aircraft gun in Malta when a bomb landed close by. He said that, when he woke up he was the only one left alive. I asked him why it was that he lived and he replied "I don't know, it just wasn't my time". His name was Jim Rooney and he died about 1990. That scene at the beginning where all the crew of the gun lay dead reminded me of him. He was a lovely man.

[MuzDupWog]

I am half maltese half italian so this is sad for me to watch

[Noodles37UK]

@MuzDupWog Yeah, I'm half Scottish and Mum's from Valletta. But you can take pride in the Italians who fought in the Seige. I'm not Catholic, but the Knights, and everyone who fought there were heroes.

[carsieplg]

my granda served on the hms penelope light cruiser wich was the last surface ship to leave during force k in malta it was also in malta were she got the nickname hms pepperpot theres is a book about the hms pepperpots exploits in malta

[rmangion]

I have this DVD, saw it a number of times, it makes me feel more Maltese ,

[owenb18]

thanks....very nice video...(from malta and proud)

[natedoggsuffolk89]

my dad's godfather directed this

[mt451]

Is this propaganda film? Sounds so naive.... Can´t be true... :o

[kn1ghtstemplar]

it was made in 1953!!!!!

[megnmog1]

No this is not propaganda, It is all true. and much worse. As a Child living in Malta in the 50's and early 60's you could still see the the injuries suffered by the buildings that were cause by the bombing. Yeah it looks unreal but it is all fact.

[Suppressingfire]

Propoganda film? I am Maltese, have u ever read about our history? this movie is about the WWII siege on Malta but most of the action parts r taken from the real footage.

[bult1999]

man i am from malta

[michaelwright999]

thanks for that

[xsolangexx]

Alec Guinnes was a Legend!!RIP SIR we all miss you

[clareabell2007]

may the fighting spirit of malta live on....well done malta,in the fight against hitler,and the defence of the free world...

[EdericoFigallo]

IN MALTA GEORGE CROSS, a military dictatorship was in place for years before the war by the British Imperialists. Freedom was not for the Maltese in British Malta. Plus, a widespread racist attitude by many British was the cause of a written rebuke by Governor Bonham-Carter to his own officers AND THEIR WIVES! Plus, war crimes and crimes against humanity were suffered by a group of Maltese nationalists courtesy of the British! Fighting for freedom and against racism? Don't think so.

[kn1ghtstemplar]

Tu sei un Italiano e non sei Maltese porco dio!!

[lippuma]

lies!

[Josef12056]

Great film with a lot of WW2 original footage.

[kebon]

That woman in the bus speaks like a Serbo-Croat; the Maltese don't speak with that accent. Then you get the Maltese passengers saying "Sahha" in a very British accent, when they could have brought in a few local extras. As for Muriel Pavlow's "Maltese accent" - well, she too sounds like a Serbo-Croat :)

[Suppressingfire]

u'r right they said "saha" instead of "sahha" lol, only in the shelter u can hear real Maltese language when they were saying the rozary.

[cavalier080854]

MALTA and her people,worthy receipients for the George Cross.

[JNoriginali]

Naraha hasra li wara l-kuragg li wrew missirijietna l-Maltin, kull ma hadna kien salib tal-fidda. Kien jisthoqqilna aktar minn hekk, forsi almenu parti mill-flus li l-Amerka tat lill-Ingilterra (fejn bi dritt kellna sehem), imma le ahna hadna salib. U b' unur u pompa kbira nitfawh fuq il-bandiera taghna. Success.

[MinixInt]

Hekk hu kollu kemm hu ħabib. Salib fil-veru sens tal-kelma ġarrejna u ġew tawna ieħor.

[maltazep]

us salib li hadna l pajjiz taghna haduh nies ohra, individwi wahidom

[azzr1978]

malta WORLD WAR 2