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@@DonaldPBorchersOG we watched this every year in the 70s on ANZAC day. god knows why they played this as the war movie on that day, it has as much to do with ANZAC day as 300 spartans or zulu. great movie and always enjoyed it though "forty thousand horsemen" would probably have been more apt. SHOOT!

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Yup, filming in slow-motion and from low angles made the ships appear big and heavy.

I couldn’t agree more. With more than sixty years in the cinematic rear-view window, “Bismarck” does indeed hold up well in the special effects category. Compare it alongside Otto Preminger’s mid-60s epic, In Harm’s Way, which depends rather significantly on its naval battle scenes. Compared with “Bismarck,” Preminger’s special effects don’t fare very well at all.

Such movies will never be made again - The corps (e.g. Blackrock) and DEI (etc) will ensure more unwatchable "woke garbage" like The Last Jedi are the movies kids will grow up with and fondly remember - What a waste of lives.

​@@litona-fp6vwYep true as night follows day

Yep slim no tats a sweet lady a man's dream girl sigh

Was it one of the ones you would tune your radio to get audio or park next to a speaker? I love the old war movies. They're corny at times but fantastic story telling. Tora Tora Tora is a personal favorite.

​@jonny-b4954 Tora Tora Tora was my Best! I'm 68 and can't see that Movie Enough.

Back then it was always those 20 lb window speakers, always happy it didn’t shatter my window, I don’t remember ever using radio all the way through the 70s either, saw Alien and Halloween at the drive in! And tons more, one small theater and two drive ins in my small north Texas town, fun fun times

When I was a kid we had a toy boat which we used to take in the bath. Somehow my sister and I heard about sinking the Bismarck, so of course we named our boat Bismarck and tried to sink it by any means possible. Including bombs of soap, water cannons (water pistols), swamping it with shampoo bubbles and tidal waves, resulting in water all over the bathroom floor, and my mother confiscating the Bismarck. Now you know the real story of how the Bismarck was sunk. Lol.

I was 13 years old and up in London with my mum. We happened to be standing in the right place to watch the scene 4.18 to 4.24 being filmed. I remember it so well.

Really liked him in Battle of Britain.

@@bessarion1771 Yes, so did I. Although I think I preferred Susanna York. for very different reasons, of course.🙂

@@Steve-Cross Of course Susanna York was a LOT more important for the movie. And better looking.

@@bessarion1771 I was only a young boy at the time. But she had a big impact on me. 😂

Kenneth More was pretty good too.

Relatable

The first part I mean

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"The Bridge on the River Kwai" Superb film about WW2.

I saw both of those movies with my dad. Takes me a long way back it does.

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poor nazi :(

That was how I saw it the first time also. With my dad. Just now I watched it one more time. I am 73.

@@luckyguy600 Yup, I'm 74.

Learn to use "torrents".... all films available for viewing via that means whenever you fancy.

you can find on free streaming great film still great today

I’d highly recommend you read the book too. It’s fiction but based on the wartime experiences of the author, Nicholas Monsarrat. He served in the Atlantic for four years, mainly on Corvettes and once on a frigate. His first hand experience is clearly shown in the writing style.

read it circa 1979 dad gave me his copy 🙂@@martinshephard6317

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I reckon that was the point in the casting.

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What a lot of people dont realise about battleship shells - unlike tank combat, where merely *piercing* the armour of an enemy vehicle is normally sufficient to knock it out, you could put a hundred shells straight through a battleship and it would still be afloat and shooting. To damage a battleship, shells not only have to go in, they also have to EXPLODE inside the hull. This contra-indicts the use of 'penetrating rod' type weapons, such as the modern day APFSDS tank shell, as a 'rod' weapon CANNOT carry any explosives, by design. Therefore the size of the penetrating head needs to be such that not only does it defeat the armour at the point of impact, it also needs to punch a hole big enough to get the body of the shell, carrying the explosives, through the hole. This means, for the same amount of armour penetration, a battleship shell needs to be MUCH bigger than a tank shell. The 120mm shell carried by an Abrams tank could probably penetrate the Bismarck, but its chances of *damaging* it are almost zero as those shells do not explode.

"this unreasonable time of cold weather"? You mean "winter"?

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 "short-time of decreased climate change"

@@ReRiderChi Be thankful you don't live in Irkutsk... currently enjoying the "globally warmed" temperature of -45ºc. (two days ago it was -62ºc !!!)

45c where I live

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Mmy parents wouldn't allow me to watch this, it was a true story, therefore it was not for children,well I'm 67 years old now and I'm settling in to see it.😢

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A remake would mean modern actors (& directors, writers etc) .... so I'm not keen on the idea.

⁠@@SuperBartleswell, it would be improper to dig up the deceased ones. Seriously, the talent exists in the British and German actor pools. It would just need to be cast very carefully.

At one point years ago I thought James Cameron was interested along with Steven Spielberg. But nothing came of it.

He was Lieutenant Esmond Knight, RNVR (4 May 1906 - 23 February 1987). His bravery on the HMS Prince of Wales cost him the sight in one eye, but his service and sacrifice, like all the other wounded and those who never returned home, will always be remembered. Thank you.

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Lightoller murdered unarmed POWs.

The officer who reads the fateful telegram about Hood blowing up is Jack Watling, who played Fourth Officer Boxhall in ANTR. Also that Coastal Command officer Captain Shepherd speaks to? It’s Russell Napier, who played Californian’s skipper Stanley Lord.

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I saw A Night to Remember long ago. Have you seen Titanic? It's the first film about Titanic. Made by the Nazis during WW2. Well, A Night to Remember is a practically frame by frame remake of it. With less emphasis on the effects of capitalism on the fate of all concerned. Worth a look.

@@nomadmarauder-dw9re Actually the first "surviving" film about the Titanic is a German film, "Nacht und Eis" (1912) "In Night and Ice." It was not the first, but it is the oldest that has survived. I posted it here: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/fqWjnZCphKeXsWQ.html Thanks for the visit!

Like you I watch it every time I come across it

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The major fictional parts are the character of Commander Shepherd, and how the Bismarck was found again after the Royal Navy lost her.

Forester has spread in his patriotic books a cheap-sale propaganda, often false and non rarely even ridicolous. His nationalist prejudices are common and offensive. The happy-ends of his stories are unprobable. All stuff good for school boys. This notwithstanding, I will look at this film once more.

Lutjens was not a nazi Gave Hitler the traditional naval salute and not the nazi one. Also the Norweigan resistance transmitted the message without one of their members being shot transmitting it. If you can find a copy I read Pursuit by Ludovic Kennedy.

@@josephtreacy667 Yes, I recommend anyone who can get hold of a copy to read Sir Ludovic Kennedy's book "Pursuit". It's a great telling of the FACTS of the Bismark saga. With input from serving officers of both navies who were involved in the action. Including Kapitan Leutnant Von Mullenheim - Rechberg who was the senior surviving officer from The Bismark. Ludovic Kennedy himself was aboard HMS Mashona and actually took a few photos of the sinking Bismark, and survivors, at the end of the action. Pursuit is a very good read. There was also a BBC documentary screened in the early 70's, presented by Ludovic Kennedy who was based on his book. That's a great watch if you can find it. I think that was also called "Pursuit".

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"The Bridge on the River Kwai" Superb film about WW2.

Absolute tragedy.

Just 3 survivors, I believe

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...She almost got torpedoed...

@@warriordragonify I know. It's so scary to think of that.

as a young generations i want to salute respect to the veteran who has sacrifice his youth n also who has lost friends n family cousin brother n sister this war also to both side i have huge respect this country for saving our freedom may the fallen military service member rest in peace in heaven . who have grandfather a royal navy officers who died in ww2 a leftenant commander one of the destroyer who got sunk by the german uboat while trying to protect the convoy supply merchant ship in 1942

The rescues were as follows HMS Dorsetshire - 86 (although 1 sailor died the following day from his wounds) HMS Maori - 25 U-74 - 3 Sachsenwald - 2 (Sachsenwald was a German weather reporting ship operating in the North Atlantic) For a grand total of 116 rescued but with 115 survivors. After the RN had departed from the scene of the final action the German submarine U-74 surfaced and searched the area of the sinking and rescued 3 survivors in a raft at 7 o'clock in the evening of the 27th May (Bismarck had sunk at 10.37 that morning) . The following day 5 u-boats searched the area and found only dead bodies, but at midnight on the 28th (the day after the sinking) the German weather reporting ship "Sachsenwald" spotted a flare and rescued a final 2 sailors in a raft. That area was again searched the following day by the u-boats (they were also joined by a Spanish Navy heavy cruiser the "Canarias"), but no more survivors were found.

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Was there really a periscope sighting that was the excuse for the British to leave behind many of Bismarck's survivors?

@@None-zc5vg No excuse necessary. I refer you to the account of Baron Burkhard von Müllenheim-Rechberg, Bismarck's senior ranking survivor who in his book "Battleship Bismarck - a survivor's story" wrote this passage about a discussion he held with Capt Martin of the Dorsetshire after being rescued. "Why," I burst out, "did you suddenly break off the rescue and leave hundreds of our men to drown?" Martin replied that a U-boat had been sighted, or at least reported, and he obviously could not endanger his ship by staying stopped any longer. The Bismarck's experiences on the night of 26 May and the morning of the 27th, I told him, indicated that there were no U-boats in the vicinity. Farther away, perhaps, but certainly not within firing range of the Dorsetshire. I added that in war one often sees what one expects to see. We argued the point back and forth until Martin said abruptly: "Just leave that to me. I'm older than you are and have been at sea longer. I'm a better judge." What more could I say? He was the captain and was responsible for his ship. "Apparently some floating object had been mistaken for a periscope or a strip of foam on the water for the wake of a torpedo. No matter what it was, I AM NOW CONVINCED THAT, UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES, CAPT MARTIN HAD TO ACT AS HE DID". (My caps) What is known with certainty is that Bismarck had for the previous 24 hours been transmitting beacon signals on known u-boat radio wavelengths and the scene of the final action was 350 miles (a relative naval stone's throw) away from the Kriegsmarine's Atlantic u-boat bases on the French coast. Was Captain BCS Martin of Dorsetshire expected to gamble the lives of his own 750 man crew that it was indeed a dolphin's fin or a broaching whale? Or that if it WAS a u-boat the sub's capt would hold fire while he carried out the rescues? As an RN naval captain he would have been SORELY aware of the actions of Otto Weddigen in WW1 during his attack on the British Royal Navy Cruisers Aboukir, Cressy & Hogue. I suggest you look up the details of that incident. Also google about U-74 (KptLt Eitel-friedrich Kentrat) and U-556 (KptLt Herbert Wohlfarth) who WERE in the vicinity of the sinkings, having spotted various British warships and heard the final battle. Indeed although U-556 had to depart for France due to lack of fuel and battle damage, U-74 surfaced after the departure of the RN rescue ships and searched for survivors eventually rescuing a further 3 sailors 9 hours after the sinking. The RN was so filled with hatred for the German sailors that the day following the sinking, one of the survivors who had been picked up, a badly injured German sailor named Gerhard Lüttich, died on the operating table in Dorsetshire's sick bay. His body was then "committed to the deep" with full military honours provided by both his German comrades AND sailors from HMS Dorsetshire together with a Royal Marine bugler. The remaining crew were treated EXCELLENTLY by the crews of HMS Dorsetshire & HMS Maori, being given the same bunking arrangements as the crew (under guard of course), and provided with 3 hot meals a day for the 4 days they were on board. They were also given Grog (rum and water) which was usually issued normally to the RN sailors, the survivors were also provided with sweets, chocolate and cigarettes by the RN crews, and this was just 3 days after the sinking of HMS Hood... so much for any imagined "deep hatred" by the RN. Here is what Mullenheim-Rechberg wrote of British treatment of the Bismarck survivors. ""The fight that the Bismarck put up to the bitter end earned the admiration of British seamen, which probably accounts for the good accommodations we were given and the way we were treated onboard ship. The fact that Captain Martin was well treated as a prisoner of war in Germany in World War One may also have had something to do with this. When he made his rounds among our men he always told them, "As long as you are here with me, you'll have it just as good." And the attitude of his crew was the same. The British seamen were always pleasant and helpful. "You today, us tomorrow," they said."" How do I know this? because my father was a crewman onboard Dorsetshire at the time. He later survived Dorsetshire's own sinking and along with the rest of the "HMS Dorsetshire association" members post war, was invited to various reunions with the Bismarck survivors through the 1960s and 70s. THAT was the level of respect and comradeship that was experienced between the crews of both sides. For some further reading material on the matter, google "nineteenkeys dorsetshire" and look for a blog, written by a German researcher between 2008 until about 2012. If you read the entire blog, you will see that he starts with a viewpoint that concurs with your own, well actually FAR beyond your view, he argues it was a war crime, but then through further research and even discussions with Capt Benjamin Martin's family members, that he changes his opinion 100% and indeed ends up paying respects to Capt Martin. If you're so heartbroken about the abandonment of sailors to their fate by the enemy, then I'll warn you NOT to read about the actions of Adm Wilhelm Marschall who on the afternoon of 8th June 1940, after his ships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau had sunk the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her two gallant escorts HMS Acasta & Ardent then made not even the most rudimentary effort to provide humanitarian assistance, and instead sailed away leaving over 1500 RN sailors to die in the North sea, inspite of their being NO other vessels in the vicinity. Or is it only German sailors abandoned by the RN who you get "teared up" about?

I don’t think Ben would be a good fit for Ted Briggs one of the survivors. Ted wasn’t hunky or macho. He was a brave man and gentle soul. Who still wept for his lost shipmates after a half century l.

@@michelmendoza1769 That's true. Hollywood would find a way though. I see you've been having problems commenting on YT like I have lately!

Then crash lands next to the stricken ship jumps aboard whilst its sinking and grabs an Enigma machine and a code book swims off and brings it back to a grateful American people. (Sorry that was another US movie about US sailors doing something actually done by a Brit).

@@davidwalsh6608 That's a great addition! The plane needs to be changed to a Catalina with a Norden bombsite, of course, Perhaps call it a Lockeed Swordfish! ;-) Jeez! I think we might be onto a blockbuster!!!

​@@davidwalsh6608 Yeah, I know the movie... worse than The Rat Patrol!!! Have we no shame?!? Hell no!!! - 'Merica! Fuck Yeah! ;-) I don't know if you've seen Team America - World Police, it could almost be a documentary!

Getting its Ass Kicked all over the World? Better outing first World War?

No plastic surgery, no tattooed "tramp stamps", no lips like a baboon's arse, just natural looks, grace and poise. She had it.... those with all the false features don't.

Her hair was done timeless classy. Would be regarded so at 1900, 1941, 1960 and at 2024. Uniform helps and yes she was a beauty.

@@schattensand yes...everything is perfect, including her hair 🙂

When HMS Repulse was released for her sea trials the admiralty sent her straight back to the shipyard because there was no armour whatsoever around and over her magazines. She was one of Lord Jackie Fisher's "freaks".

Yer

Dude just watch the movie lmao

Hms Repair as Repulse was known due to the fact repeatedly in for upgrades however unlike her sister ship Renown which received better armour & anti aircraft firepower , served in every theatre of war , Repulse along with Prince of Wales met their fate in the South China Sea: My dad served on Repulse & was onboard in the pursuit of Bismark with KG5 & Victorious: Low on fuel left pursuit & went to Newfoundland

HMS Hood was laid down as a battlecruiser in 1916 but she had extensive modifications to her design after Jutland and so was a fast battleship in all but name. She had the same armour thickness as a Queen Elizabeth class battleship.

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Well said David... The portrayal of the front line soldier/sailor/airman in those early films was one of deserved reverence. Usually with the likes of John Mills, Sam Kydd, Victor Maddern et al. Its why I stopped watching "war films" from the mid 1980s onwards.

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Lovely lady.

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She came from Germany.

She was nasty in Airport (1970) and beautifully heroic in Something Of Value (1957).

@@None-zc5vg Roger that.

Who did you watch it with Mr. West?

Yes, I have always wanted to tell her how much I love her and buy her flowers and chocolates. Alas, I can't!

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"The Bridge on the River Kwai" Superb film about WW2.

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You're right. Dana Wynter's quite a dish.