The best aerial battle film in the history of cinema! Big stars, spectacular soundtrack!

Finally a thumbnail which is not lying. 👌🏼 RIP for everyone who already died. Thanks for uploading 👍🏼

I was up the water tower on DUXFORD Airfield watching all the filming happen seeing all the SPIT'S and HURRICANE'S and quite a few of the famous actor's filming the BATTLE OF BRITAIN FILM , in 1969 . ROB.

I was at my last year of school when they were filming the air battles over Deal and East Kent. Groups of aircraft in formation with a red and white camera plane. Great to see. Made my mind up to join the RAF.

Back in 1977, I met Susannah York and got her autograph. She was in the Eaton Centre, in Toronto, for the filming of the movie "The Silent Partner", along with Christopher Plummer and Elliot Gould. I was in the shopping mall to buy something, when I ran into her near the bank where the story was set. Of course I then had to go see the movie after it was released. I went with my girl friend, who was also very familiar with the Eaton Centre. I might still have that autograph here somewhere. I also saw the Battle of Britain movie, back when I was in high school.

@luckyguy600

3 ай бұрын

Age was not kind to her. But old we all get. Eaton center. I remember the Simpsons & Eatons stores as a kid. Such a thrill to go down to Toronto in those days. Susannah York was quite the 'hottie in my heart' as a young man. RIP

@James_Knott

3 ай бұрын

@@luckyguy600 I remember the scene in the Battle of Britain, where she was wearing a shirt & stockings and then bent over. Quite the scene for a teenage boy that I was then. 🙂

You left out Edward Fox. He went on to film Day of the Jackal, The Dualists, Gandhi and A Bridge Too Far.

@Petrolhead66

3 ай бұрын

Shocking he was left out

@jmichael4002

3 ай бұрын

And is still alive

Michael Caine is the role model for every young guy born in the 1950's

So young some of them died. it scares me to think as I am way older than a lot of them. But a great aircraft movie, with a heck of a cast of great actors. From the old days. I still watch it on DVD. They still are all young in movieland. I guess that is their reward in life. Forever young. For those still with us. Long life full of kind memories and pleasantries.

Battle of Britain then and now cast rip to ones we lost from this amazing movie battle of Britain 🇬🇧🇬🇧🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

@MrDaiseymay

3 ай бұрын

It was a excellent idea, to include in the moving credits, the list of all the free country's, whose men took part in the actual battle, there number's , and those who died.

@markrussell3414

3 ай бұрын

@@MrDaiseymay definitely amazing to do excellent movie

@markrussell3414

3 ай бұрын

@@MrDaiseymay I watched all amazing war movies hamburger hill platoon saving private ryan .windtalkers

Robert shaw a great actor

amazing to see people still remembering and loving this movie

@OnTopAStemOfThornsARose

4 ай бұрын

It's an amazing movie!!!

@johnbower7452

3 ай бұрын

Apparently (though I don't remember as I was only 4 when it came out) mum took me into our back garden and held me while we watched the planes "Dogfighting" while they made it. Interestingly a lot of the tailing fighters were actually being towed.

@OnTopAStemOfThornsARose

3 ай бұрын

@johnbower7452 I assume they were towed for safety? But that's super cool, do you remember how you felt seeing that? I never thought of how weird it musta been for people to see that again

@MrDaiseymay

3 ай бұрын

DOOOOH don't say that, I've only just got over somebody telling me the engines on the Heinkle 111 bomber's were Merlins. ACTUALLY, I was 3, in 1944, and watched as Spitfires roard over my home, from the Spitfire Factory at Castle Bromwhich , Birmingham, on their way to front-line RAF bases. @@johnbower7452

My big respect to these magnificent actors. I have this film on dvd. Michael Cane and Christopher Plummer are my favorite actor.

I saw this at the cinema with my Dad when it was first released. It's one of my favourite films of all time.

My favourite film of all time

A huge fan of Susanna York never missed her movies.

@fus149hammer5

3 ай бұрын

Definitely! That scene in the hotel. No air raid would have stopped me that night 😂

@banditnev

3 ай бұрын

Lovely scene.@@fus149hammer5

My all time favourite, saw it with my dad in 1968, and countless times since.

@colinbarron4

11 күн бұрын

Premiered on 15 September 1969.

Robert Shaw was marvellous

@davidrhodes7655

3 ай бұрын

He was depicting Sailor Malan

@michaelwhalen2442

15 күн бұрын

You're gonna need a bigger Spitfire...

Let’s not forget Bill Foxley, who was in the film with his own facial disfigurement from burns suffered as RAF aircrew in 1942.

@jonathansteadman7935

3 ай бұрын

A nasty run in with a Hurricane, or words to that effect

@jonathanlewis453

3 ай бұрын

The weight of such a remark might have resonated more, fifty years ago but it seems that the Hurricane was apt to burn. Foxley himself received his injuries in a Wellington.

@alexlanning712

Ай бұрын

And that great plastic surgeon who helped so many, who also helped Richard Hillary(?), a BoB pilot who was badly scarred and I think he wrote a book

@hawnyfox3411

Ай бұрын

​@@alexlanning712 = Sir Archibald McIndoe IIRC - Forgive me, I'm typing from memory alone here** I remember (decades ago) reading Hilary's account as he was floating in the English Channel waiting & HOPING to get 'picked up' because back then the RAF Air-Sea-Rescue (at that time) WAS non existant. He done an astounding job on Geoffrey Page (56 Sqdn) eho remarked that a little girl on the train reacted in sheer horror at the sight of Page's face which made him feel VERY self-concious as she burst into tears & ran just at the mere sight of him - But by the 50th Anniversary it was SO difficult to actually SEE his "repaired" burns & scars that you had to look VERY closely to even see it at all - Such was the greatness level of McIndoe's handiwork. That tragic problem was MOSTLY caused by the unarmoured & NOT self-sealing "46 Gallon Header Tank" found behind / ahead the bulkhead of the Hawker Hurricane Mk.I's - (tho' not exclusive..)

@hawnyfox3411

Ай бұрын

​@@jonathanlewis453 = No word of a lie that I actually (literally) bumped into that guy Bill Foxley just after one lunchtime on my way home from work - I worked 6-days a week by St.Paul's Cathedral as a Postman @ E.C.D.O - I was about to enter the steps at the train station & we literally collided - I recognised him IMMEDIATELY due to the sheer depth of my "Love" of that 1968 film (I'd seen twice at the cinema) My jaw hit the deck & it later troubled me that he MIGHT have thought I was reacting to his burns , when in fact I was just dumbstruck to literally both see him 'in person' & recognise him from the film that I loved, adored & treasured SO MUCH - & still do - The scene with Susannah York "How's Colin these days ?" Took me 45+ years before I learned that his horrific injuries WERE sustained in a Vickers Wellington (O.T.U) crash, rather than the result of the (now infamous) "46 Gallon Header Tank" that was the (seeming) Achillies Heel of the Hawker Hurricane Mk.I's during the July 1940 to October 1940 period...

They were all magnificent under the direction of Guy Hamilton still the benchmark for all movie s regarding aerial combat and for me movie s in general

@stuartgarfatth1448

3 ай бұрын

This movie, for me, is the epitome of its genre, and I consider that it would today be impossible to be made, using real aircraft, as, despite the sophistication of CGI and so-on, it is still incapable of accurately depicting the real thing.

@jeffsmith2022

3 ай бұрын

Amen...

@eshcoldp1368

3 ай бұрын

Yes, the iconic shot of Messerschmitt's strafing the French airfield is mesmerising when seen on the big screen. They must have used former military pilots for that scene. One chap is so low..it just could not get any more real....I

Great movie - when it was released it got 'no respect' from the critics and much of the British public. It's great to see that a newer (and younger) generation has discovered the film and appreciates it.

Why do you call Squadron Leader a squad leader? There is a huge difference between a squad and a squadron.

Always be one of my top favourite movies of all time. CLASSIC.

@jeffsmith2022

3 ай бұрын

Indeed...

the more of these Where Are They Now videos see I get more and more depressed, everyone I knew and grew up with is either dead or waiting to die, it's my turn soon and I don't need reminding, I'm regressing back to the early 1960s when Britain was still great and the ethnic soup it now it is didn't exist, the high street had Woolworths C&A, British Homestores, Fenwicks, M&S, Callers Pegasus, No Starbucks, No Poundstretcher, No Cash Converters, or any other of the fly by night shops that turn up and close 12 months later,

@stewartw.9151

3 ай бұрын

I know how you feel! Being of the same generation I barely know the names of today's "stars" today nor do I need to know, and lost interest in Britain many years ago when the country lost it's way and found itself on the road to anarchy, yet successive governments ignored all that!!

My favourite film 🎥 🇬🇧🇬🇧

This is my favorite movie, I remember my dad and I watching this when I was younger

Thank you.

Nicely done. Lots of good actors in this movie, but I'll take Robert Shaw as my favorite. Brilliant flying sequences especially since it was filmed before the advent of CGI. Thanks

At 13 years of age my high school had a trip to the cinema to see this film as part of our history studies. I have love it ever since.

One of my all time favourite films. It's ironic though to think that the actors playing actual fighter pilots were far too old for the role! I think the only surviving main cast actors on the british side are Sir Michael Caine Ian McShane David (Hi Di Hi) Griffin James (He just blew up) Cosmo and Edward (Thanks awfully old chap) Fox.

@grahamepigney8565

3 ай бұрын

Don't forget Susanna York

@angelastephenson1950

3 ай бұрын

Susannah died ​@@grahamepigney8565

@user-ij5wm7ev4s

3 ай бұрын

Indeed, I think Michael Caine ventured to Robert Stanford-Tuck (an RAF BoB veteran adviser for the film) that, at 36, he might be a little YOUNG for the role. Whereupon Stanford-Tuck pointed out that he was actually way too OLD and moreover that if one hadn't made sqadron leader by (I think) 24 or so, it was assumed something was wrong with that fellow ... Subsequently when the USAAF came over it wasn't long before they had 25 y.o. colonels, largely because everyone else was MIA.

@fus149hammer5

3 ай бұрын

@@grahamepigney8565 Died 2011.

@jefthing

3 ай бұрын

Maureen ‘blink and you miss her’ Lipman is still going.

This is hands down the best aerial combat film ever made. The only thing that spoils it for me (and actually makes me laugh) is Susanna York’s completely not 1940 hair style. Oh that pixie cut. 😂

"No fighter escort help yourself everyone"

Superb performance by Robert Shaw whose character is loosely portrayed by South African pilot Salior Malan.

I sat on the cliffs at Dover and watched this film being made

good movie..watched it several times

did you have to show the terrible photo of susanna York not a nice tribute

John Frederick Joseph Savident (Fred Elliot in Coronation St) 1938 Died 21 February 2024 (aged 86)RAF Officer (uncredited)

I was at primary school in sawston. We watched the spitfires and hurricanes. The camera aircraft. And the Messerschmitt/buchons over head. I tell people that I remember the Battle of Britain as a child. The look on there faces is always interesting. When I watch the film. I always imagine a little me looking up watching the action overhead.

it would have been good if Kenneth More played the part of Douglas Bader since Battle of Britain was made after Reach for the sky

@AbelMcTalisker

3 ай бұрын

By a good ten years and Moore was a bit on the old side to play Bader again by that point. The part he did play wasn`t all that bad. Also, all the pilot characters were fictionalized amalgamations of several people.

@michaelwhalen2442

15 күн бұрын

Kenneth More played second officer Lightoller in "A Night to Remember."

Laurence Oh-livvi-aye is the correct pronunciation.

@itsjustmyopinion66

3 ай бұрын

Think it was more Ohhhhh lovey hey

Great film but I'm disappointed you didn't cover any of the German cast members other than Curd Jurgens

Look out for dvd doc that features film out takes. M and s sold it!

A film using REAL aircraft not some crap made up on a computer.

@DannyBGer

3 ай бұрын

By the way: the german 109s were spanish made Buchons (based on the ME 109 G series) powered by Rolls-Royce Merlin engines and the 111s were also spanish made C2.111s

Most of the actors in a film shot 57 years ago, who were in their late 20s, 30s and 40s at the time, have died? Well, who would have predicted *THAT* outcome?

Still a great movie. It's Curt not Curd Jurgens!

One of my favorite films

The movie was filmed in 1968 not 1969. Premiered on 15th Sept 1969.

Splendid film and actors, have watched it 30 times...😀Narration by a bloody robot?...

In Dunkirk, there is a voice cameo of Michael Caine taken from this film

The movie was filmed in 1968 but not released until 1969.

i thought susanna york stole the show

"The Battle of Britain"

Robert Shaw

Did people actually expect the actors to be young and healthy some 55 odd years later????

My fathinglaw lived nr Biggin Hill and said they used to count them out and back it always upset him when they were missing some

Have thison DVD, wonderful movie,read a comment from Michael Caine that during the filming he spoke to BB ace Roberts Stanford Tuck saying at his age(30s)he woukd be too young to be a pilot then only to be told,to his own amazement that most pilots were barely in their 20s!

Best aviation film ever

Edward Fox was the best

Movie based on very real events. RIP the few whose sacrifice saved so many and had Churchill make his Never in the field of human conflict speech.

"BOB' redux w/ CGI upgrade. Fav was 'REPEAT'...

Battle of britain is my favorite movie

But, where's the German actors?

@bengtwahlstedt1021

3 ай бұрын

Curd Jurgens !

Don't just stand there get one up watched BofB 7 times in one day you should have seen the dog's face😂😂bless him he died aged 12 💔

Always viewed this with great pride,sadly the pride part no longer exist,in 2024.

"One of the greatest movies of all time"! ??? You need to get to the cinemas more often. As good as it was it hardly rates as one of the greatest.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

24 күн бұрын

in your opinion.

AI narration equals "switch off".

It's not essential to preface an announcement of death with 'sadly' or 'unfortunately'. People die, thats it.

My favourite character was Michael Caine's black dog.

@skyhawk2958

Ай бұрын

"they spoil her" lol.

Didn't Robert Shaw star in the T.V series " last of the Summer wine " ?

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

24 күн бұрын

No.

What sort of vice is that ?

Flew the 109 adolf galland flew in the film

Kurt Jurgens not Curd

@fus149hammer5

3 ай бұрын

IMDB says Curd not Curt so the video is correct.

@grahamepigney8565

3 ай бұрын

Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens

Robotic voiceover

"t best movie of all times..." we LOVE to exaggerate, repeat and exaggerate...

Why robotise the voice? Ruined it.

So what is the point of this video ? just to tell everyone the cast have all passed away ?

Get rid of this

@iangascoigne8231

3 ай бұрын

Why?

@fus149hammer5

3 ай бұрын

Could you do better?