The film came out in 82, the star Brit actor Lewis Collins went through SAS selection in his private life to join 23 SAS a reserve army SF unit. But had to leave as he was to well known for any Brit SF unit. I'm a Brit infantry pensioner.

@keithstirton7049

3 жыл бұрын

He was a para but never in the SAS. he did sit and pass the SAS entrance tests in 1983 but was rejected due to his Celebrity status. he was in 10th battalion the Paras from 1979 - 1983. he was 33 when he passed out as a Para which is pretty impressive.

@jameswills6320

3 жыл бұрын

@@keithstirton7049 Several people, including myself have said exactly the same thing. He was rejected due to his fame. In another post I claimed to be 54th on the balcony, please don't take me seriously.

@stanmil5495

3 жыл бұрын

He was also on the list to play bond at some point Check out the professionals tv show from the 70s he was awesome in that

@redrb26dett

3 жыл бұрын

I love how you explain he was too famous for secret work unlike Noel coward and Cary grant who where both spies or David Niven army intelligence and lots more world famous actors or bear grylls (23 SAS) or Ben Collins (the stig)

@P.G.Wodelouse

3 жыл бұрын

@@redrb26dett Coward and Grant were used exactly because they were well known as celebrities and stretching the term spy a little, Niven was pretty legit though working in reconnaissance in France. Obviously Grills was in the SAS before he was famous.

You need to watch the scene where 2 SAS blow the wall through into skellans house and take out the terrorists holding his wife & daughter hostage. It's the best scene in the movie so ruthless and clinical.

@iangray3854

Жыл бұрын

I agree...it adds up to the tension to the final assault

@Bitparto

10 ай бұрын

Agreed..think it was cut from this youtube video. The main actor was also in The Professionals

@einniwd91

10 ай бұрын

Agreed. Remember it 40 yrs on.

@sheepdogman1

8 ай бұрын

Saw this in 1981. Absolutely brilliant

@user-fp7rc6sp5t

6 ай бұрын

Roger that!

All the extras portraying the SAS, rappelling out of the helos and raiding the building. Were genuine SAS operatives doing all the action for real, just as if it was a genuine exercise. The producers and actors, especially the film's star Lewis Collins (The Undercover SAS guy with the terrorists). Worked extremely closely with the SAS in making the film. Lewis was also already serving as a part-time Private in 10 Para. A reserve battalion of the Parachute Regiment. And was extremely physically fit. He spent many weeks at the SAS's base in Hereford. Watching them work, and socialising and drinking with them. Both observing and learning. After the film, he applied for selection into 23 SAS, the SAS Reserve. He passed the first fitness phase of selection in the Brecon Beacon mountains. But was then told. That realistically there was no point continuing with the next 2 phases. Because as a major British actor. He was too famous and easily recognised. Consequently, he'd never be allowed to go on actual SAS operations. He accepted it with good grace and fully retired from reserve military service in 1983. He was one of the actors strongly considered to replace Roger Moore as James Bond. But the producer Cubbi Broccoli didn't like his audition and rejected him. With the role ultimately being awarded to Timothy Dalton. Unfortunately, soon after this, his acting career began a continued decline. By the mid-1990s offers for roles had pretty much dried up. And he was eventually forced to retire from acting. And live out his last decade in the USA running his own business selling computer equipment. He died of cancer in November 2013 at the age of 67.

@ehodfi6037

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Andy. This is a terrific film. I've watched many times. It shows the best of Great Britain's Special Forces. Lewis Collins was a great actor, he passed too young. Would you know, what type of cancer he had?

@user-fp7rc6sp5t

6 ай бұрын

Excellent overview of Lewis Collins, his part in Who Dares Wins, later career and life. He also played a great character called Bodie in the TV series The Professionals with Martin Shaw and Gordon Jackson, prior to this movie.

@sundanceuk

5 ай бұрын

Proper badass. I’ve always rated Dalton as Bond though. I’ve always felt he played it like Fleming wrote him - cold and somewhat detached, ruthless. And then came along Daniel Craig and the rest is history 😊

@anjahoeck9428

4 ай бұрын

Wow..thanks for sharing this hard to obtain info

@BedsitBob

29 күн бұрын

They were real SAS troopers, hence why they kept their respirators on.

And those of us old enough can recognise the original "equaliser" in the background playing the policeman in uniform "Edward woodward" Remember this film very well

@mthraves

3 жыл бұрын

Edward WoodWoodWard as he was jokingly known as.

@garybishopp7183

3 жыл бұрын

@@mthraves think the 2 Ronnie's called him "fart in a bath"

@johnsharp6618

3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic actor in Callan

@len73-

2 жыл бұрын

people shitting on the guy here...immortalized in wicker man..nuff said

@nomadmarauder-dw9re

4 ай бұрын

And the original Equalizer. ​@@johnsharp6618

Came out the first week I finished basic training at Whittington Barracks, 9 of us (in awful hawaiian shirts as was tradition 😁) hopped on a train into Birmingham and watched this at the cinema. Was awesomeness. We'd had a few drinks and on the way back my mates Teddy and Snots did full length of the train, pretend weapons up, slapping each other on shoulder saying "moving!" and shouting "clear!!!" at the end of each carriage!! All the civvies laughing at them but being really tolerant coz they could tell we we're squaddies and would be off to Northern Ireland soon. Good Times......... 🤗

@perplexed9046

2 жыл бұрын

Ahh Depot Lichfield, that takes me back getting beasted in Hopwas Wood 😁.

@brendym.maguire5004

2 жыл бұрын

Bullshit.. and i hope some of yas got a hole in your heads. IF you did comeover here.

@davidcurrie4535

2 жыл бұрын

@@brendym.maguire5004 clearly never got a hole in there heads if they have commented. You fucking Melt!!

We drove past the Iranian embassy on a school trip to watch England vs Wales at Wembley post siege back in the eighties, all the windows where blown out and the outside was burnt black. I think they left it like that for quite a while as a symbol of power. Very excited coach full of lads when we saw it for real 😮 have watched this raid clip 100s of times, you defo should of included the Mews scene ❤

The great Lewis Collins was screen-tested for James Bond, 'For Your Eyes Only', but was deemed too tough to play him back then. He was born too soon, for Daniel Craig has made Bond tough now, but Lewis Collins still remains the best actor never to be James Bond. He was my hero growing up in early eighties in the UK, and watching him as Bodie in The Professionals. R.I.P. Lewis Collins.

Lewis Collins, the lead actor in the movie, wanted to do selection for the SAS for real. he had already completed the Paras P Company and initially he was going to be allowed but then they decided he would be too high profile. He was a hard case for real, not just acting.

@bullseye375

3 жыл бұрын

He actually did pre and full selection and passed until they noticed who he was and said no due to being in the movie.

@Seany-boy

3 жыл бұрын

@@bullseye375 Thats not true, the rumour is he passed the hills phase and was politely rejected. Source : Rusty Firmin youtube channel. Lewis was a tough bastard thats for sure ,The professionals series being a fave of mine, where he played an ex SAS trooper.

@michaelanderson7715

3 жыл бұрын

@@bullseye375 "He actually did pre and full selection and passed until they noticed who he was and said no due to being in the movie." - he DID NOT kzread.info/dash/bejne/d5au2KqncpjaisY.html&ab_channel=CHRISTHRALL - he passed the FIRST phase before the SAS curtailed his selection due to his status

@wilksta156

3 жыл бұрын

@@bullseye375 There was a interview with a guy who knew members of 21 SAS at the time that Lewis Collins tried selection. He didn't pass full selection, he passed Hills Phase and was due to move on but then was asked to withdraw due to fame. It was a story wrapped in mystery for years with lots of claims and counter claims about his service, but this guy even knew him and was an extra in the film, If you are interested its on the "Got the T Shirt" youtube channel

@wilksta156

3 жыл бұрын

Actually it wasn't hard to find kzread.info/dash/bejne/d5au2KqncpjaisY.html

Love the fact you respect us Brit's. Coming from Hereford I'm proud of these guys they do an amazing job. 👍🇬🇧

I love this film, you definitely need to watch it Theo, the lead actor auditioned for the James bond gig, but apparently was to aggressive, probably the best bond we never had.

@Michael.Talbot

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah its a shame, Lewis Collins was born to play 007 and was a Para. I think he even passed the 1st phase of SAS selection

RIP Lewis Colins, who would have made an excellent 007. As most people here have said, watch the film, it's a great unapologetic ride, with good guys, bad guys and bags of action riding on the tails of the Embassy siege. And a great score by Roy Budd too!

@michaelpope2886

2 жыл бұрын

I loved how cool and unflappable Skellan (Lewis Collins) was in the scenes in the ambassador's residence. Absolutely nothing fazed him, even though his life and his family's lives were in immediate danger.

@thebyronicmann8292

8 ай бұрын

Lewis was the best Bond we never had. RIP warrior

If you like old war films, you should take a look at Zulu, the best old British war film

@jameswills6320

3 жыл бұрын

Full of mistakes all the way through. & the family of Private (later Sergeant) Hook were angry at the portrayal of him. It is a spiffing yarn but not history. In 1964 there were family who knew Henry as he died in 1905.

@raibeartthehairypict4696

3 жыл бұрын

I was just about to say the same thing about Zulu. I've read about some of the inaccuracies, and where some of the VC medals ended up, due to the recipients failing on hard times. Though, I remember watching it in the pictures, (movies) and by heck, the hairs on the back of my neck were standing. For all it's inaccuracies, what a great military tale. Definitely worth a watch. 👍

@damedusa5107

2 жыл бұрын

I would say the film Waterloo was better

@nobudgetcomments2742

2 жыл бұрын

@@damedusa5107 Technically not British, it's Russian-Italian

@damedusa5107

2 жыл бұрын

@@nobudgetcomments2742 more talking about the subject matter than the owners of the rights

A lot of people thought LEWIS COLLINS would have made a great James Bond at the time, but it did not materialize more the pity

@Sidneyyoungblood75

3 жыл бұрын

Deemed too 'aggressive' at the time for where Bond was at the time. Cue 30 years later....Daniel Craig.

@trident1314

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sidneyyoungblood75 yeah it's a tough one as the gig went to Dalton who in fairness is actually very underrated as bond

Remember this film well. There's another great scene where the SAS free hostages from a house by infiltrating the terrace house next door, then blow the wall and speedily double tap shoot in the head the hostage taking terrorists. This is just before the scenes shown in your vid. Thanks for showing this great old action flick!

@BedsitBob

2 жыл бұрын

Did you notice that one of the two Regiment guys, had an empty pistol?

@adeparkerjp

Жыл бұрын

First Protocol?

@francessweeney2308

4 ай бұрын

The SAS performed the stunts in the black kit in both the mews scenes and the embassy scene. The performers struggled with the kit and moving in the mask. They wanted to keep the bloopers that you saw in( the trooper on fire, the trooper landing on his bum whilst abseiling after shooting the terrorist on the third floor. Their reasoning was that it added a touch of realism; missions can go wrong and they have to adapt to complete the main objective; in this case rescuing the hostages and taking out the hostage takers.

@nomadmarauder-dw9re

4 ай бұрын

​@@francessweeney2308At Prince's Gate an Opo was actually lit on fire. The movie 6 Days is the only one I've seen about that. Excellent. For a real reveal about special ops, check out 15 Days of War. GIGN.

Actual members of the SAS volunteered to do the final action stunts. Given the choise of stuntmen or actual SAS the director said YES to the SAS!

A lot of the guys in kit where actually serving 22 troopers at the time, the guys doing the helo stuff hanging where 100% regiment as Rusty has talked about it a while ago.

@CombatArmsChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@davebrown9707

3 жыл бұрын

Thats so cool.

@davebrown9707

3 жыл бұрын

@@CombatArmsChannel you should watch ultimate force Its on prime video. Its a fictional tv show about an sas troop it has drama but also plenty of action. Even if you cant react to it.

@ilikefishing7858

3 жыл бұрын

who dares wins was the title. 👍

@bullseye375

3 жыл бұрын

The reason for actual 22 troopers doing the helo part was health and safety, was not going to let actors act that out, so the SAS offered to act that part of the movie, and some of the other parts, also I do believe the part where they save Colins on screen family was also 22 lads too, as well as the torches on their wrists was actual thing an tactic they trained to use.

This film was inspired by the novel 'The Tiptoe Boys' by James Follett, a cracking read!👍

@James-C24

3 жыл бұрын

Never knew the title of the book but knew it existed. Just nabbed a copy off of ebay thank you!!!!!

@briancollins3071

3 жыл бұрын

Is it the same James Follett that wrote the Earth search novels, I enjoyed them

@dinglbob5438

3 жыл бұрын

@@briancollins3071 Certainly is.

@dinglbob5438

3 жыл бұрын

@@James-C24 Nice one, enjoy.

@DirkGently1972

3 жыл бұрын

Second that - remember reading that book in my teens, not to mention watching the real Iranian embassy hostage situation unfold on the TV.

Lewis Collins made famous for his part in the professionals tv series.

@ianwestmoreland3771

2 жыл бұрын

bodie

The lead Lewis Collins, he's passed now, started real life SAS selection under the Territorial Army in UK 2-1 SAS (reservist) , I guess its like your part time army in US but apparently due to his high profile was denied entry to the Regiment, he was Hollywood basically but also very fit and as hard as nails. Therefore Lewis had more that an insight to the Regiment he tried to get in. Rusty Firmin amazing, the Man with no gloves that stormed the Iranian embassy said that Lewis while making this film came for a piss up at Hereford 22 SAS and was shown around (limited what he was shown, but was still privileged enough to meet our heroes, get pissed up and see a bit of what goes on. Lewis Collins in a different life would have been a grey man and therefore a trooper I guess, he may well have passed selection from all the accounts and what I have read about and moved on to the Regiment. Love this film. Love your channel! Mark

The "Bad" guys has Skellons wife & kid hostage too, so the SAS rescued them, that's a cool scene, you gotta see the whole movie. It also had My GOAT bike in it, the Honda CB1100R.... Always wanted one, could never afford one. Fuckin' Booo!

@haroldvonschwartzenstien3581

3 жыл бұрын

The most hardcore thing about the movie is him riding that CB1100R in the snow and ice

@Oi....

3 жыл бұрын

@@haroldvonschwartzenstien3581 That's skill

@tbrasc0

3 жыл бұрын

Love that bit, I like the way thet check their weapons before blowing out the wall.

The lead actor was Lewis Collins. He also starred in the British TV drama 'The Professionals alongside Martin Shaw and Gordon Jackson. Graham W ps Age 67 and still enjoyed the clip.

@mrade5321

3 жыл бұрын

To this day, I still want a Ford Capri, because of The Professionals 👍

@ifax1245

3 жыл бұрын

Collins was in 10 Para and in 1983, he applied to join the Territorial SAS, but was rejected because of his celebrity status, despite passing the entrance tests.

@finallyhere3769

3 жыл бұрын

@@ifax1245 He also was up for James Bond but Roger Moore got it as Brocoli thought Lewis Collins was too aggressive

@peterbrown1012

3 жыл бұрын

Lewis Collins wad born in Bidston on The Wirral and lived in London, because the A41 started in London and finished at Birkenhead, Wirral, he decided to walk the entire route. From 15-23 March 1980 Collins with several volunteers from the Parachute Regiment, along with the British boxer John Conteh, took part in a forced march in military service conditions from London to Liverpool up the A41 road, the funds raised from the event being donated to a charity for disabled children. (From Wikipedia)

@garyskinner2422

3 жыл бұрын

The professionals i absolutely loved it was it on a Friday or Saturday I'm thinking Friday

That was a great movie. I remember watching it a few years after it came out we got our first VHS player. It's probably the first 80's movie where we see someone reload a weapon lol. Most movies at the time, everyone had infinite ammo.

Cracking film still have it on VHS. Made me join the Marines, Sniper, SFSG and had a great career. Thanks to this Film and many others like it. Still gives me goosebumps to this day

Lewis Collins would have made a fantastic James Bond!

I remember watching this when I was 8 or 9, I’m 47 now so it’s old 😂

@CombatArmsChannel

3 жыл бұрын

😅

@robinc6288

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't realise how old the actual seige was either until I just looked it up. It happened the year before I was born but I really thought it happened in my lifetime because I saw so much about it as a kid.

@garybishopp7183

3 жыл бұрын

Your old I joined up the year after this came out in 83

@GODFLESH1207

3 жыл бұрын

Same as you I watched this at the age of 8 and I'm also now 47

@marktaylor3727

3 жыл бұрын

@@CombatArmsChannel the people dressed like sas are sas at the time when this movie came out

The soundtrack is badass. That scene of the guys running down the corridor is iconic.

Saw this when I was a kid, maybe 10. Next day I felt like I was the 378942nd man on the balcony. It was cheesy as hell, but I liked it.

"They are trying something..." "How do you know?" "The groovy 80´s action music....."

Edward Woodward played the Police Chief, he was also the original Equaliser ....coulda kicked all their arses in one go lol !! R.I.P. Lewis Collins, he died from cancer only a few years ago in the States. Great actor, loved him in The Professionals.

@trident1314

3 жыл бұрын

I loved the equalizer, it's very nostalgic for me, occasionally my mum would let me stay up late to watch it.

This was a euphoric thing to see as a kid. I was 11 when it came out and I loved it. Saw it a while later on to. The music, the kick-ass depictions of the SAS and the whole national pride in the SAS was stored right up. Awesome. Great reactions too. Love your channel. Much respect to you, Sir.

Ah, Westland Scout. Land Rover of the skies!

The Final Option. Such a great movie. When he does the diving role from one end of the table to the other, wicked!

There's the cheesy 80s feel to the fighting but it's always so cool

Early 80s movie. They started writing it in the days after the seige and the book was taken chapter by chapter and adapted into a screen play. The film uses newer kit that came in after the seige. Initially the SAS didn't want them to make the film later on they supplied men and kit to do the final assualt. Im told its now held quite affectionately by the sas.

@randommadness1021

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you can tell the guys doing the repelling were real operators. Too good for normal actors or even mountain climbers/stunt men. Quality stuff.

I was in my teens in 82 so I went with some friends to see it in our local movie theatre in the Uk. It was mostly a packed audience of teenage boys, and when the raid happened in the movie, it was a bunch of cheering, whooping boys full of blood lust. It was an amazing and surreal experience.

Lewis Colins “great actor” (deceased) actually trained with the SAS

I loved this movie when it came out. Lewis Colins is legend, RIP.

The actual lifting of the Iranian Siege took 11 mins from start to finish.!

@randommadness1021

3 жыл бұрын

Also had around 50-60 guys unlike it shows on the film 6 days. Good film, but was slaughtered by the people who took part in it.

@trident1314

3 жыл бұрын

@@randommadness1021 as far as I am aware the only person who has an issue with it is robin horsefall...him and rusty Firman resorted to a slagging match in the media about it.

@mathematics5573

3 жыл бұрын

Apparently the SAS ended the Peter Head prison siege in about 3 minutes. used stun granades and flash flares, handcuffed all prisoners and rescued the hostage.

@randommadness1021

3 жыл бұрын

@@mathematics5573 They done it quick, but not in 3mins. There's 4 floors plus the roof. Impossible to do that in 3mins

@randommadness1021

3 жыл бұрын

@@trident1314 can't say I know too much about it, but I did see an interview with someone who was a bit passed of that it only showed 6 guys when there was around 50+

I saw this at the cinema when it first came out. But I also remember watching the actual embassy siege live on the TV. The star of this film Lewis Collins (the guy in the blue shirt you thought was a police man) actually passed the SAS selection process. A couple of the SAS guys who were in some of the videos you have watched helped train Lewis Collins at the SAS training camp. The book 6 days was written by Rusty Firmin, a great SAS soldier, he is also known as the man with no gloves at the Iranian embassy siege.

Never seen this film before. Looks mid-late 80's. Will definitely be looking for the full film now. Excellent reaction as always mate👍👍 Bloody hot here in the UK the last few days too. Hope you're enjoying your holiday mate🙂👍

One of my favorite movies growing up Im now in my 50ies, the clip you watched is by far the best part of the movie. Once we got this on VHS I think I watched it on a loop aka rewind watch rewind :)

I saw this on the big screen when it was released in 82. Fantastic! Definitely watch the whole thing.

First VHS tape I bought... watched it dozens of times.. Remember most actors would have done at least national service...

Most of the stunt team in the movie were actually SAS according to this Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Dares_Wins_(film) I seem to remember hearing that same fact when I went to see it as a teenager all those years ago.

I remember watching this when it first came out. It`s still worth a watch today, I just love those Westland Scout Helicopters.

One of my all time favourite films. This was one of the first vhs films i ever rented back in the early 80's. In fact i rented it so much the shop eventually gave it to me and I still have it to this day.

love the setup

Ahahahahaha "the look" when the lights go down 🤣🤣🤣 if you know you know lol

Awesome nostalgia to my childhood, I remember the real embassy assault then that movie came out and ticked every box, the cool guy in the white shirt was an actor with a military background called Lewis Collins he was very famous in U.K. for tv series known as the professionals and he did train with the sas in Hereford before making the movie, one of my faves for sure and that sound track just gives me tingles every time

10:07 The guy telling him to move his arse is Maurice Roëves, who played Sargent James, in a TV series about a WW2 Bomb Disposal unit, called Danger UXB.

@matthewellis3134

Ай бұрын

I remember that series

I remember the BBC cutting in live to the Iranian take down by the SAS; it was just so quick and I saw flashes from the basement as they cleared it out. A few years later, I was in a pub in W2 and Lewis Collins was alone drinking at the bar looking very lost. I just said hi as I was next to him and then went back to work as the Concierge at thr Royal Lancaster Hotel where I saw actors and actresses every day. I felt a bit sorry for him but my Brothers were ex Gurkha Rifles and EOD so I didn’t think to much about it then at the time. The guys in the film included some of former 22 Rgt which is why they were hired for the film based on the Iranian Embassy Siege. And, yes I saw this at the cinema and it was very very cool! I urge you to watch the film because some great scenes were omitted from your reaction. You will love it I’m sure! Great reactions by the way and your a honour to the USMC/US ARMY! As Monty said; the more we, (Uk/USA) MIX, the better for peace on this world! Love your reactions, keep em coming! UK/USA!!!

Very cool film, retro goodness! Roy Budds soundtrack was awesome !!!

Lewis Collins - the lead actor was in the Parachute Regiment for 3 years and passed SAS selection for 21 SAS Territorials. He was knocked back as he was recognisable.

This was an amazing film on the big screen, everyone in the audience was very invested. I went back and saw it again the next day

According to the director Ian Sharp, the crew and stuntmen had prepared the helicopters to do the assault scene for the embassy but the SAS offered to do the scene instead which he accepted - oh and the military helicopters were provided by the Ministry of Defense

The movie was an old 1982 - Who Dares Wins! The plot based on the Iranian Embassy seige. It was awesome in theatres of the time. Two points to make.... they really were kicking in english oak doors a little too easy???. Oak is oak no matter where you are lol. The other point was that in the real raid on the Iranian embassy, there was one survivor. Among the hostage takers. The hostages had protected him and said that the SAS operatives that freed them were merciless animals and couldnt just let the hostage taker with them be shot like that...it was terrifying they said. Thats the reality of the SAS. And even back then...the SAS were cleared of any wrong doing by the home office investigation. These days..they are just political fodder. :(

Absolutely loved this film back in the day

I saw this in the cinema in the early 80s. I was fortunate to watch it with a good friend of mine who was special forces during the Grenada theater. He's a Massachusetts State Trooper today.

Be sure to watch the entire movie. There is another explosive breach scene was done correctly with great efficiency done thru a brick wall. The timing of the breach had to be perfect to catch the bad guy off balance. Great scene.

I saw this film when it came out. I was only 14 and just sat through the entire thing knowing, and waiting, for something like this at the end! The late, great Lewis Collins plays the main guy.

Cool movie with some good SAS scenes. Live the 2 guys dangling from the copter and the house raid scene at Skellens home.

I saw this in the theatre when I was 17 and it was BRILLIANT! You need to watch it my friend I think you’ll like. And thanks for your great content and also as an Englishman thank you for your service. America is the last beacon of freedom. If she falls we all fall 🙏🏻

I remember watching this unfold 'live' on BBC TV ....... they interrupted the snooker match to go live to the scene !

This movie was the flashbang in the 80's!!!! Even the theme was awsome. The world was introduced to the SAS with this film.

you should react to whoops apocalypse sas scene its so good

@johnsharp6618

3 жыл бұрын

All right my boys! Rik mayal fantastic

@tub19

3 жыл бұрын

Is it the scene with the tiger or lion in the back of the truck. Lol

I saw " WHO DARES WINS" when it first came out in the 1980's at the cinema. I am a massive fan of our special forces especially the SAS. I am also a fan and supporter of our British Armed Forces. I am also a massive fan of military history including the American Civil War as one of my American Ancestors was in it. Keep up the great work mate, I enjoy your reactions. Take care mate and stay safe. 💂‍♂️💂‍♂️💂‍♂️💂‍♂️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

You did a great talk . I was a kid then and Lewis Collins was massive famous uk actor

Yeah, this is an old classic movie I remember as a kid, the reason why he hesitated when the woman was shot was that he was in a relationship with her although he had infiltrated the group. It was loosely based on the Iranian embassy as you guessed, there was a bit of a famous quote that was going around when I was in the forces and that was during the Iranian embassy siege one of the regiment was asked why he shot the terrorist 16 times, he answered by saying he shot him that him that many times because he ran out of rounds, I’m sure you get the meaning, had he had a full mag he would have emptied into him, always made me laugh. Great video again!

The scene where Skellon meets Frankie Leeth in the bar is just hilarious and awesome :)

The lead character is an SAS dude named SKELLEN. Judy Davis is one of the anti-nuke terrorists that Skellen gets close to when he infiltrates. Watch from the whole movie and it all makes sense.

@Beebob-xw9xn

Ай бұрын

He didn't finish SAS training g due to him being famous he was ex para then TA para

Lead Actor Lewis Collins prior to the Film was in a Series called the Professionals Working for. CI5 , He was called Bodie his Partner was Doyle ..it was a no brainer for him to do the SAS Film

The music is awsome....Roy budd rocks ❤️❤️❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

In the credits of the film there was a SAS officer who gave advice to the director and producers about the SAS parts of the film to make it more realistic. The helicopters are the exact helicopters that the SAS used in the 80's plus the equipment. He was under the name Captain X. 💂‍♂️💂‍♂️💂‍♂️💂‍♂️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

9:25 - NOT IRANIAN EMBASSY SIEGE - I WATCHED THIS MOVIE AT THE CINEMA. The lead character, SAS Officer Skellen was portrayed by British actor, Lewis Collins RIP. Collins was known on British TV for portraying Bodie, an operative of CI:5 a domestic anti-terrorism department of the British government, who would recruit from the military (Bodie's background) and police force (Bodie's partner, Ray Doyle's background). The show was called 'The Professionals' and also starred Gordon Jackson as 'George Cowley', their boss. Veteran British actor, Jackson was also known for The Great Escape' (1963). He's the escapee who gives the game away to the Germans by speaking English when he's supposed to be pretending to be a Frenchman. Great cop show. Brian Clemens, creator of the show, had written for another popular British TV show called, 'The Avengers', in which he'd cast the actors portraying Bodie & Doyle as criminals. He liked the two actor's on-screen chemistry and so cast them together for 'The Professionals' series. As teenagers at the time, we loved this series. Cool theme tune too.

That's Lewis Collins who lived in Gautby Road Birkenhead about a mile from where I live, he actually went for the SAS but couldn't join because he was in a programme called the Professionals as Bodie and his partner Doyle CI5. He was in the Parachute Regiment T.A. Birkenhead by the way is a Town across the River Mersey from Liverpool. Who Dares Wins is on KZread

I was six when the siege happened, don't recall when I first saw the movie. But it will be a forever classic. Because of the troubles in Northern Ireland we all knew of the SAS, but this was everyone's first glimpse into how badass they all are

The lads in the black sas kit were actually sas operator's who took the part, Lewis Collins went to Hereford to meet them prior and went through the kill house. Obviously the parts where they remove the masks,they were actor's

I liked 'The Hereford Doorbell" (the trench gun shooting the door hinges)

Short story, the dude you see who's kinda one man armying it, is the main character. He's SAS and he infiltrated a terrorist group who planned to take hostages at the US embassy. He gets inside and shit gets real by the end. The girl that got shot at the end was the MC's sorta love interest who is a terrorist. He hesitated because they were a sorta couple

@CombatArmsChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

This was a mind-blowing scene for me when I was a teenager in the mid-80s. Their methods were unlike anything I had ever seen before.

I was 11 when this came out but my big brother took me and lied about me age lol to see it at the cinema it was awesome. Lewis Collins a cool dude. 👍🤘🇬🇧

Great movie! I have this on Old School VHS. I read that SAS troops were actual SAS advisors. The actress that plays the female antagonist is well known for her work in numerous Art House and Independent films.

Lewis Collins had his house raided for having a ridiculous, highly illegal collection of fire arms, man was ready for zombie apocalypse. If I remember correctly

Loving your videos! Have you seen the new video from the SAF? "Norrlands dragonregemente K 4 återetableras" - "The North Dragoon regiment is reastablished". It's the old Swedish base for artic jägare. Since 2004 the regiment have been reduced to a small training location but now they are ramping it back up to it's former glory.

It's very cool mate. I could tell you everything about this film, it was made in 1982, and was inspired by (but not based on) The Iranian Siege - the people taking part in the raid, are actually SAS members, (doing the abseiling section) the whole film is on KZread. I was actually married in the room where the male hostages were held. So this was shot at Pinewood Film Studios, using the main building, Heatherdon Hall.

Lewis was a real action hero, loved him in the professionals, died to young, grew up as a lad with the professionals, so sad when lewis and Gordon Jackson passed away, old school tv was awsom modern special effects doesn't have same feel, the pilots in the choppers were awsome and skill amazing unsung hero's in the film

When the SAS attacked the embassy , I was watching a John Wayne film on TV, suddenly the transmission went blank, tbh I thought our TV had suddenly switched channels ,we all watched in awe as the SAS went and it was a few mins until I realised it was live from the embassy, it was incredible to watch, so smooth and quick, I think it was all over in 11 mins, incredible, as for the movie, I must admit I was dissapointed with it, I expected better and it was not as good as it should have been, still many movies of that era were like that !!!

Wild Geese, a proper retro movie. British mercenaries in Africa, doing mercenary things. Made a few years before this film. Lots of SLRs, DPM camo and tier 1 actors (and operators).

Hi Theo, this was fun. It's an 'old' film from 1982 and very loosely based on the Iranian embassy siege of 1980 (SAS Operation Nimrod), which was unfolding news while I was in school at the time. Since the SAS base at Hereford was just a few miles away from my school near Gloucester, we had a History teacher who would forget Louis Napoleon or whatever we were supposed to be doing and start talking about the 101 ways the SAS are trained to kill people instead for an hour - it was a great time to be around, you really missed out there by being born in the 1990s. The inside man in the film was an SAS operative - you called it right, played by Lewis Collins, who had penetrated the terrorist organisation holding the American ambassador and his dinner party hostage. The American characters were inserted to sell the film in the American market. Collins was already well known for playing one of the leads in The Professionals, which was Britain's answer to US Police drama Starsky And Hutch in the 1970s. In real life, Collins was a member of 10th Battalion The Parachute Regiment, a Territorial (reserve) unit and applied to join the Territorial unit of the SAS (21st Regiment SAS). He was rejected because of his celebrity status, despite passing all the selection tests, so at least he was the real deal in terms of his technical ability in this role. The film, Who Dares Wins, is not bad overall, a bit of a throwback to see the old FN rifle in the early training scenes on the Brecon Beacons in Wales, which really dates the film to pre-SA80 era, and the old Westland Scout helicopters. It would probably be Lynx now, but for Nimrod I recall the SAS travelled down to London in their fleet of white Range Rovers down the M4 and spent several days quietly preparing their attack. Much less dramatic. The real drama was all in the final attack in front of the world's media and all over in a few minutes. Best thing about Who Dares Wins - the late Lewis Collins (1946-2013) and the music score, worst thing is involving the Americans just to sell the film - nothing personal, but it was so obviously just a commercial choice. The SAS drama film I would like to see, if I can track it down, is Six Days (2017), which is supposed to be a more faithful telling of Operation Nimrod. I haven't seen it, so I can't actually recommend it, and I don't know why it is so hard to find. I'm a bit old school - I like to have these on DVD, and this film is currenltly unavailable for a reasonable price. Maybe you can download it somewhere and maybe someone else has seen it and can recommend it in the comments. Great reaction, enjoy the whole film when you track it down, and the best of British to you as always!

@CombatArmsChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info! 🤙

@davemac1197

3 жыл бұрын

@@CombatArmsChannel - no probs. One correction - James Wills is right in saying Lewis Collins applied to join 23 Regt SAS and not 21 Regt as I stated. Both are reserve units, while 22 Regt is the regular unit. According to the MOD website, 21 SAS (R) recruits from London, the South of England and Wales, while 23 SAS (R) recruits from the Midlands, North of England, and Scotland. Collins was from Bidston, on the Wirral peninsula across the River Mersey from Liverpool. He only worked in London!

Awesome film!

Great flick brings back memories. 👍🏻🇬🇧

That building is at Pinewood Studios and was used at the begining of From Russia with Love.

There were some great actors of the time in the movie, Lewis Collins, Richard Widmark (US) Judy Davis (Aus) & Edward Woodward to name a few. Set at the US Ambassadors residence in the UK, Brilliant film with lots of SAS training shots & Deadpan British soldier humour. Being Military & trained in some of the skills the SAS deploy you really need to watch this film, certainly in my top 10.

The main Character, Peter Skellen, is played by Lewis Collins, who became famous in the TV series, The Professionals.

The funky "wacka wacka" music makes this scene

A great film with a family link! My dads cousin was Assistant Director.

For a young impressionable kid who watch the Embassy siege unfold this was one of the coolest films I’d ever seen and having Lewis Collins from ‘The Professionals’ star just added to it’s coolness 👌🏼

I went to see this when I was a Kid it's an adaptation of the James Follett Book "the Tiptoe Boys" and your suspicion was right the assaulters were regular SAS troopers who made the director an offer no one could refuse. the Stunt men were stood down and the real deal brought the skills.

Lewis Collins actually went through SAS selection in 2/3 SAS and successfully passed but was declined due to a known actor. The SAS base scene in Hereford was rebuilt to near exact design Lewis Collins spent Wednesday and Saturdays being escorted through the base in order to get the nearest to exact details. Thd raid was based on the Iranian embassy seige but certain names at the time were refused for production

Nice work soldier