Thanks for the comment, it IS a very underrated film!

I just finished re-reading an old book I have about the Battleaxe Division- 78th Infantry Division. It was raised as an assault division for the Tunisian campaign. Fine performance by county regiments. It had a heavy component of Irish regiments later on. It suffered heavily in the Tunisian and Italian campaigns but performed very well.

@@rashidahmad7830 that damn hitler brought out the best in most of the men of this earth,called upon,they answered the call from all over the world,makes me proud to be a man,my god i hope we will not have to do this again,my dad said we wouldn't have to fight another world war,said ww2 was bloody enough for any country to learn from,germany was nuts

Mustered out at the age of 19, I can only imagine the crap this man went through before most guys graduate from high school . Kudos to your Father and men like him . True Hero's .

Do you know why he was allowed out of the army? Sick? Or disability? From what I've read, the 8th Army went through the desert, invasion of Sicily, invasion of Italy, and were brought home specially for the Normandy invasion as Monty wanted battle-hardened veterans there! They then fought through to Berlin. This was their big gripe: they'd seen their share of battle, when some units sat in England in defence. (The irony is they performed badly in Normandy.) But I wasn't aware that they let able-bodied men return to civvy street with a war still to be won? The casualties from the battles in Normandy depleted British manpower and there was no fresh reserves anywhere. It did concern the war leaders. I'm not disparaging of the 8th Army, far from it, I'm repeating from Max Hastings book on D-Day. I would be "less than enthusiastic" about facing machine guns in NW Europe if I'd fought thru the desert and the Mediterranean area, etc.

@@TeddyBear-ii4yc no no, he did the whole tour,went in at 18 and they used him all over the place,i have in my possession his mustering out papers he was in 12 engagements,all i have is fragments of his history,as he would not talk about his time there unless it was funny and his exploits on leaves in towns that weren't even on maps,dad felt like the other men i'd talked to,in the 60's and 70's,he joined and they gave him any assignment he wanted,damn war,he was a stern man,and a damn good father,i miss him,god bless all of you who had a dad half as good as mine,the war changed men forever,i saw it,many times he did said he should have died with his friends,god says different

Thanks, Gene!

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you 😊

You're welcome... I couldn't see how, the transfer suffered, I suspect even though a poor video/DVD quality, but I'd anyone has any ideas, as I've already stated, to rectify it, if be grateful. Thanks for watching!!!!

@@psmiddx2096 It's not only a good movie I watch, but also a part of my good old school days and youth. A Big Thank You !

@@Charlesputnam-bn9zy You're welcome, Charles!

They never do in movies :D ...Different story in real life. All I can say is keep it on semi as much as one can. A 20 rd. mag is gone by the time someone gets to the end of counting to 2-mississippi...lol

You're welcome, Michael, glad you enjoyed it!

You're welcome, pal. I apologise, I can't get to the bottom why, on transfer, it was out of sync.

@@psmiddx2096 The sync problem is usually caused by a video file going through format changes. Looks like it was converted from VHS to a video file, and then probably converted again on upload.

@@Justin_Kipper it was on CD ,,, anyway, smoke a kipper, I'll be be back for breakfast as the Brits say: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fculjL122c24eIU.html (VHS , the CD, then you youtube, things move on, that's progress)

You're welcome, Jean-Claude, glad you enjoyed it!!!

A British soldier in World War II, he was captured by the Japanese army and interned in a POW camp for 4 years. He once spent six months in the cooler for stealing a tin of corned beef. It was his idea that the marching POWs whistle "The Colonel Bogey March" in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). Because he had first-hand experience of Japanese POW camps, he was paid an extra £5.00 per week by David Lean to act as a consultant on The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).

Thank you, guys. If you Check out Percy Herbert in "Too late the Hero", he goes more-or-less in the same way. Left behind with ciggies and some ammo etc., and ... spoiler, lol.

@@psmiddx2096 And Sea of Sand!

@@keithharvey7230 Behind a Vickers heavy mg, with a wireless churning out Lili Marlene.

@@Charlesputnam-bn9zy One of the greatest scenes in British films about the war, and a very under-rated movie.

Thank you ;o)

Maybe my favorite film ever. Phenomenal

You know it's based on a book by a French author

On not over.

Was Percy Herbert at Singapore? and thus a prisoner of the Japanese? He's like that other archetypal British squaddie, Victor Maddern. :-)

@@TeddyBear-ii4yc yes. He was in the 18th Infantry Division. They arrived just in time to go into the bag, as POWs. He suffered 3.5 years as a POW of the Japanese. His experience allowed him to advise the film director of the Bridge on the River Kwai.

Eh friend, you realise that if there was something in Venezuela that the Britsh Government wanted, it would be these men on your street corners manning road blocks. ;-) P. S. And dancing & drinking with your women! :-)

You're welcome, thanks and glad you enjoyed it!!

Yes, indeed, David, another well-scripted action desert war film. Only in recent years has that, at least here in the UK re-surfaced a lot, and, on KZfaq, thankfully! Very underrated, like The Steel Bayonet.

Prospect? ...... Perspective, maybe.

Thanks, Charles, uploaded a copy, but for some reason, a bit out of sync. Respect, pal!

And so glad to watch it again ! Just a little personal story : That was in 1960. I tricked my parents by hiding my weekly school report (abysmal) so that I could go see this movie on Sunday. & then, when came the time to produce it the following week ... Man, did I pay ! But it was worth it ! As to the quality, for such a rare gem, I have seen worse of more recent productions ! Thank you !

Really interesting, mwbright. Another underrated British character actor.

@@psmiddx2096 I thought he was a Brit at first too, but he was an American, born and raised.

@@mwbright The Robert Brown in this movie was a Brit. The American Robert Brown was the one in Primus and Here Come the Brides.

@@eze417 I never heard him speak in anything but a British accent. That and the way he looked made him appear to be from that part of the world. So either he was raised in the UK, or it was a complete affectation. He never broke character. Anyway, I was more friends with his wife Bunny Sellers. He also had a daughter from a previous marriage who I went to school with. I remember everything about her but her name.

@@mwbright According to IMDb he was born in Dorset. There was also an American actor named Robert Brown, but he is not the one in this movie.

The movie is based on a real story. The fighting at the farm was in the last days of the Tunisian campaign. Interesting detail reported by obersturmbannfuehrer Paul Carell in his 1953 book ''Afrika Korps'' : the farm was reputed haunted.

It's the name of the film, after all, for someone to find it. Keep up!

Thanks for that, Peter!

…..but where did they find the mosquitoes ? 😈

The tanks had been captured earlier from the British.

@@gerry343 Cromwells saw action the 1st time in 1944 Normandy. In Tunisia there were Churchills sent for evaluation, after their misuse at Dieppe where fist size pebbles jammed their tracks. In this movie, the Cromwells just played normal German tanks.

What the hell do you expect, Mark 3s?

Lol, yes indeed, I often get tripped up on The Valentine, Comet and Crusader etc!

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Yes, wish I could have done something about that, sorry if it stifled your entertainment, David.

Ha, ha... indeed, very much, usually the way.

Sorry about that, as referenced in my intro for it, couldn't understand how to rectify it.

Brilliant analysis by 45 calling Putin's attack on innocent civilians a "genius" move wasn't it?? So happy that oompa loompa is Gone! That's why we came out by the millions to make sure that crooked narcissist was a one term president!

Trump is a liar without shame or embarrassment.

@@johnmartinrogers2352 He suffers from MALIGNANT narcissistic personality disorder...it's sad

@@jamesbuttery3862 This is Biden's Wag the Dog war, sorry you don't like the truth. The cough was a lie the vax was a lie, masks a lie and now you believe them for this. Zalinsky is a pawn, and letting his country be a pawn. Why do think governments care about their citizens.

@@brettlehman1114 You forgot to add the election to your list. If you believe one of these myths you have to buy into them all.

Each unto their own, pal. I'm sure plenty of the movies YOU watch, are crappier.

Never seen so many Germans get killed in any war movie . They would not have attacked in that way . They were experts at combined arms and would not had much trouble with that outpost .

Yes, sorry, Mike. This is taken from a DVD copy. I'm unsure why, on copying, it was out of sync. A poor quality copy, I imagine that doesn't withstand transfer. Sorry it didn't entertain you, on that basis.