Rod Taylor - The best Australian actor of all time! There will never be another Aussie actor like him. He was the very best from Australia! He was the very best from Sydney, Australia and I am so proud he represented my home city and country so well on the world stage!
@TheCollo67
3 жыл бұрын
Similiar to 'Blood Diamond' and 'Tears of the Sun' but this Rod Taylor movie is by far the very best of all time. Everything about this movie is just so superb - score, acting, story and action sequences so brilliant and realistic. And Rod Taylor in the 'Bruce Willis' role.
@KillerKane0
Жыл бұрын
RIP Jim Brown
@caesarvalentin7155
5 жыл бұрын
I saw that movie in Puerto Rico in 1972 and I still remember Like I saw it yesterday, the best soldier of fortune movie ever. Second Place the Wild Geese
@ericpelote998
3 жыл бұрын
This and the dogs of war , must seeing !!
@thomaslusk7621
Жыл бұрын
I first saw it when I was a kid in 1968 , One of my favorites got it on vhs.
@Joaquin-nh6sv
Жыл бұрын
Loved Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimeaux. Also in The Time Machine. Loved Chuka and The Birds. Taylor was fantastic action actor
@TheCollo67
3 жыл бұрын
It would be fantastic if they could remaster this movie using current digital technology sound and screen and then re-release it as it is arguably one of the very best action war pictures ever made if not the very best ever!
@ericpelote998
5 жыл бұрын
Underrated movie !!!!
@petecernan2568
Жыл бұрын
Loved this film when I first saw it as a child early seventies very violent, great music not sure which version I saw
@rogerfsimon
8 жыл бұрын
Great credits sequence with great music--thanks for posting!
@cocofeis8942
Жыл бұрын
👏👏👏😀👍👍 excelente tema musical de Gran film 👍
@Alsurf89
4 жыл бұрын
Soundtracks also in Inglorious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino in 2009
@JeffLarge-ij9dp
Ай бұрын
First Chainsaw Fight on film. Correct me if I'm wrong!?!
@FRANKTHRING1
9 жыл бұрын
Haven`t see this movie since its first release; as I recall they changed the Wilbur Smith novel`s ending to make it more bleak, but otherwise it was a very good movie. The score was one of the best things about it.
@harryc1971
Жыл бұрын
What was the original book ending?
@mprpo946
4 жыл бұрын
This music is so heavy ...
@stevebailey5591
5 жыл бұрын
Apparently Rod Taylor and Jim Brown really, really disliked each other to the extent of almost coming to blows (according to the now out of print autobiography by Kenneth More, who played the alcoholic doctor in the movie). Thanks for posting this, I've always liked the movie but I've also long considered it one of the best title sequences (use of scenes from the film) and musical scores (so reminiscent of a train's rhythm - which is central to the film's plot).
@steveparadis2978
4 жыл бұрын
On the bluray commentary they mention that, and put it down to what manly men do when they're bored--they get into a fight. mcbastardsmausoleum.blogspot.com/2019/01/dark-of-sun-1968-wac-blu-ray-review.html
@stevebailey5591
4 жыл бұрын
@@steveparadis2978 I've only just seen this reply Steve, that's interesting. Could you let me know who said that on the commentary? Was it Rod or Jim? As a side note, apparently (according to IMDB) More also cited making this film as the most negative experience of his whole acting career.
@steveparadis2978
4 жыл бұрын
@@stevebailey5591 The commentary on the BluRay is by Trailers From Hell's Larry Karaszewski and Josh Olson with Brian Saur and Elric D. Kane. Don't know who said it; they all start talking at once. Basically it's a surmise about what a couple of alpha males would do when they're bored.
@stevebailey5591
4 жыл бұрын
@@steveparadis2978 Thanks, Steve. I'll check that out. I don't really see Taylor or Brown as 'alpha males' in the true sense of that term. Taylor had an amiable and warmly masculine image in his sixties movies but I read a biography of him by Steven Vagg that painted an extremely unflattering personal portrait - he seems to have been somewhat boorish during the five years or so that he was famous. I always thought Jim Brown had great screen presence and seemed highly intelligent - however, I read an autobiography he wrote in the late eighties (Out of Bounds) and he basically has the mentality of sex offender - the personal life he was living during the years this film struck me as cold-hearted and frankly depraved. However, I guess the 'alpha male' title is often mis-applied to mean those kind of guys who just have to be noticed and who enjoy dishing out casual bullying - they both seemed to qualify. None the less it's still a really good movie - it's show business not 'genuinely nice guy' business after all.
@roddyteague6246
4 жыл бұрын
@@stevebailey5591 They were very fortunate to get Jack Cardiff-a real master craftsman. Interesting to note that it was largely filmed in Jamaica-surprising due to the content of the film & the criticism it received on release. Cardiff actually stated that they had to tone down some scenes of Simba atrocities so as to get it past the censor. As for little Kenny More I woner if he was trying to distance himself from it?! It was a total departure for him to play an alcoholic Doctor as opposed to the breezy, stiff upper lip Englishman. He would not be the first actor to try & justify a performance after the event. Remember also that More had traded in his wife for a far younger model in the mid 1960s (Angela Douglas) losing him a lot of his previous popularity. My folks went to work in Zambia in the early 70s & there were a number of former Belgian settlers on The Copperbelt. While they were lucky to escape with their lives, they witnessed mankind at it's very worst. This film is probably the nearest thing we will ever get to an accurate portrayal of first the rushed so called independence in 1960 & the chaos surrounding that to the attempted break by Katanga to form a separate republic propped up by mercenaries from Rhodesia, South Africa. the UK & elsewhere..
@robertwright1865
10 ай бұрын
Filmed in Jamaica
@garethtomkins5797
4 жыл бұрын
Great movie.
@darren2514fv
2 жыл бұрын
Jack Cardiff was also Director Of Photography on Rambo First Blood Part II and Jack Cardiff also worked with First Blood director Ted Kotcheff in British TV on dramas for ABC
@speedracer1945
7 жыл бұрын
Great film that only TCM ever shows from time to time . Rumored to be cut down cause of some violent scenes which is hard to believe when you have shows like the Walking Dead on prime time . You can buy the film but its still censored .
@thehoodedman2917
6 жыл бұрын
I agree a great film, but you might find this helps. Years ago when video shops rented out tapes i remember my boss got fined for having a old version of a film on the shelf. If i remember it was about £1000. The film had been through the sensors again and a new version should have been on the shelf. The film was Reach for the Sky with Kenneth Moore. So films do go through the sensors more than once. Deleted scenes can be re added. I've seen 3 versions of Soldier Blue for example. Cheers
@logofilm8644
6 жыл бұрын
Nice video. Can you upload the end title of the film.
@ab8588
2 жыл бұрын
General Mosses is played by the same actor who yells Equinsu Ocha to Ace Ventura.
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