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Early Access: The Great Escape [YouTube Edit]
Added 2025-01-29 20:13:26 +0000 UTCEarly access to the [rough] YouTube edit of The Great Escape
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I’m one of your loyal followers who is here not so much for the TV and all in for the classics… As such I see a little less of you lately. Today… stuck in bed with a very mild case of covid… I was overjoyed to find this one… I loved it so much as a kid, I succeeded in digging a tunnel to my neighbor’s house using some of the same security measures. Seeing you relive my childhood enthusiasm over this story unfolding was a joy to behold… Speaking of Donald Pleasence: A very special actor… always great. His guest-starring appearance in the Columbo episode, Any Old Port in a Storm is a classic (Columbo is a tv show I’d be completely into watching with you… as I was with Trek TOS). I haven’t seen Fantastic Voyage since I was a kid but I bet it’s still a lot of fun… and he stars in one of my favorite films of all time, the strangely overlooked: Cul-Du-Sac directed by Roman Polanski before he made Rosemary’s Baby… Steve McQueen-wise: definitely Thomas Crown Affair (1968) which features a spectacular score by Michel Legrand… & it’s only a matter of time before you watch Bullitt… the film that set the standard for car chases ever since… perhaps equaled by The French Connection… I can’t remember if you’ve seen it but it would be timely now with the loss of the great Gene Hackman. James Coburn was a childhood idol of mine. I actually got to direct him in a television commercial… but all I really did was stand there in awe. He was the kindest, most gentlemanly gentleman. I’m not sure why his career was mostly comic rolls… even when playing a super spy… but he was so good at it. His greatest IMO is the unfairly obscure The President’s Analyst. I’m telling you, Jen, it’s a comic masterpiece!
Jeff Preiss
2025-03-01 16:40:14 +0000 UTC😄
Geoff S.
2025-01-31 00:07:10 +0000 UTCThere is a good documentary on YT about the escape. A group of archaeologists went back to the site of the camp and discovered traces of the tunnels.
Stephen Malloy
2025-01-30 23:44:48 +0000 UTCYou've seen the extent of my gun knowledge now!
Jen M
2025-01-30 19:35:20 +0000 UTCYou got Donald Pleasance's Bond villain name right. Blofeld. You've also seen him as Dr. Loomis in Halloween.
Zapp Rowsdower
2025-01-30 19:05:44 +0000 UTCJen, how did you know that was a Luger? Pretty impressed. Do you know a lot about guns?
Geoff S.
2025-01-30 10:15:13 +0000 UTCJen, I'm about to watch the reaction. Three years prior to 'Escape', director John Sturges, Composer Elmer Bernstein and a cast that included Steve McQueen all collaborated on 'The Magnificent Seven'. It's serendipitous that you recently watched Westworld. Without any spoilerage, there is direct connection between "Mag7" and Westworld. 'Yul' notice it immediately.
To Wa
2025-01-30 00:40:22 +0000 UTCI never put milk in my tea until I saw this movie and now I always do...
Dave K
2025-01-29 21:45:58 +0000 UTCThe King of cool in 'Bullitt' 1968⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Celeste McAllister
2025-01-29 21:39:58 +0000 UTCThis movie is mostly true. The filmmakers added American POWs to the camp to appeal to US audiences. That camp was actually just British pilots. Some of the guards were sympathetic towards the prisoners. The commandant survived the war and testified against other German officers who committed atrocities. At his own trial many of the former British POWs testified on his behalf. Later he donated materials from his estate to build a monument dedicated to the 50 men killed.
Henchman Twenty1
2025-01-29 21:11:56 +0000 UTCIncredible movie based on a true story. They don’t put that many great movie stars in one film anymore.
Starpartyguy
2025-01-29 20:16:12 +0000 UTC
