The 39 Steps - Big Ben scene

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  • čas přidán 17. 03. 2007
  • The best scene from the film The Thirty Nine Steps (1978, Don Sharp)with Robert Powell.
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  • Krátké a kreslené filmy

Komentáře • 269

  • @Melvinshermen
    @Melvinshermen Před 5 lety +7

    This is the best part of the film

  • @indrianisafitri98
    @indrianisafitri98 Před 9 měsíci +3

    I seriously wonder how they create scenes like these, it's so crazy lol

  • @TaraPlayz
    @TaraPlayz Před 2 lety +4

    Ahh the memories

  • @begonasudyelortegui9074
    @begonasudyelortegui9074 Před 2 lety +3

    Gran escenario 👏🙌👌, el big ben...
    Para una escena, sencillamente Magistral, y Maravillosa....., Felicidades, y Felicitaciones, gran Actuación 🎭caracterización Magistra....!!l, un abrazo grande para usted....señor Robert Powell.....
    Espero, lea mi comentario.....
    Desde Santiago de Chile.

  • @Mavis308
    @Mavis308 Před 2 lety +3

    Love this film, played the VHS to death when I was growing up. Ordered the DVD.

  • @nuutasineria5770
    @nuutasineria5770 Před 6 lety +5

    Those clock gears made those hands and that guy move fast

  • @checkleylaneproductions551

    This was made in 1978! Wow! epic dramatic music

  • @Guitfiddlejase
    @Guitfiddlejase Před 10 lety +18

    My God I loved this version! So many people have spoken against this take...but I really loved it.
    Thank you so much for posting this.

    • @theman2017inc
      @theman2017inc Před 4 lety

      Guitfiddlejase this version is the most faithful adaptation of Buchan’s story than the two previous versions including Hitchcock’s much lauded film

    • @dn9589
      @dn9589 Před 2 lety +1

      It is better than Hitchcock's original in terms of thrilling factor.

  • @band0l1n
    @band0l1n Před 15 lety +5

    Masterpiece

  • @KawhackitaRag
    @KawhackitaRag Před 11 lety +6

    The part where the man hanging on the hand moves out and stops the mechanism, causing the small wheels on top (and the utterly weak and ridiculous-looking) pawl to start sputtering and chattering (with utterly ludicrous sound effects which will leave most clock nerds rolling in the aisles with laughter) is another nice touch.
    The gear-studded shafts jiggling (hand-jiggled off-camera?) at 5:42 look like mid-20th-century automobile parts. Any auto buffs recognize them???

  • @jsXanatos
    @jsXanatos Před 16 lety +5

    great scene. i love the original hitchcock 1935 "39 steps" too.

  • @Agga1904
    @Agga1904 Před 14 lety +5

    great scene

  • @davemurney4448
    @davemurney4448 Před 9 lety +15

    THIS IS STILL A GREAT SUSPENSFUL FILM. GREAT ACTING BY ROBERT POWELL, DAVID WARNER AND CO.

  • @Cass2112
    @Cass2112 Před 14 lety +3

    although it strays from the original John Buchan book,this is one of the best versions, and Robert Powell is superb in the Richard Hannay role, wish they would make a film of Buchans other books,Greenmantle and Mr Standfast.

  • @74dWasTaken
    @74dWasTaken Před 5 lety +12

    Mistake I just noticed.
    The big ben has one more floor before it reaches the 1st roof(on the outside). But in the inside, the clock face is connected to the 1st roof completely. This is not what the big ben looks like.
    That's a mistake I noticed

    • @hcz439
      @hcz439 Před 4 lety +1

      They shouldn't break the real big ben, or it chimes to break their ears.

  • @Renatodonadio
    @Renatodonadio Před 16 lety +3

    That's probably the reason because the visits in the tower must be authorized by a Member of the Parliament or the embassy in foreign countries, to avoid unattended manomission of the mechanism.

  • @theswatguyxd8978
    @theswatguyxd8978 Před 2 lety +2

    That man broke the Glasgow of the building clock of big ben

  • @julianjaramillo3208
    @julianjaramillo3208 Před rokem +1

    BIG BEN THE ACTER IS SUPER SUPER COOOL
    😃😀

  • @simonwoods8809
    @simonwoods8809 Před 7 lety +15

    Would have been much more logical to smash the glass near the long hand and push down on it don't you think??? The steps inside the tower led neatly to that point...

  • @croydel
    @croydel Před 15 lety +1

    whatever you folk say about any errors in the film it dosent matter'this version of 39 steps is the best version of this classis story' by miles.

  • @Bowserjr_koopa
    @Bowserjr_koopa Před 2 lety +2

    That is how Big Ben was under construction

  • @Guitfiddlejase
    @Guitfiddlejase Před 15 lety +2

    Must agree with Croydel...This film is tremendous!!!!

  • @VeraLucia-nv3jg
    @VeraLucia-nv3jg Před 5 lety +14

    5:01 best dead ever

  • @seankairiedimalanta6134
    @seankairiedimalanta6134 Před 7 lety +4

    thank you

  • @EXPLORER-DAD
    @EXPLORER-DAD Před 3 lety +4

    7:01 this guy has almost fall from the big hand!!!😱🕗

  • @aaasee4363
    @aaasee4363 Před rokem

    YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY HE LIVED

  • @NickPayne
    @NickPayne Před 11 lety +4

    Great scene... but Harold Lloyd made dangling from a clock look cool and exciting long before this was ever made... in Safety Last. :)

  • @Sclumsy
    @Sclumsy Před rokem

    Ever since I first saw this clip in like 3rd grade, I’ve always looked at the clock differently when it’s 3 minutes before 11 45. I honestly want to make a film that involves an action scene involving climbing a clock face. It’s so cool.

  • @bskklios4310
    @bskklios4310 Před 5 lety +9

    5:29 lol

  • @luksam5713
    @luksam5713 Před 3 lety +2

    Big Ben: hey why did u do this to me

  • @Cool2BCeltic
    @Cool2BCeltic Před 16 lety +3

    Having seen Dan Cruickshank's documentary on the Palace of Westminster, there is a fair bit of dramatic licence here.

    • @theman2017inc
      @theman2017inc Před 3 lety

      well that’s why films like these (and great plays) do their damndest for you to suspend your disbelief at least for 2 hours 😊

  • @VeraLucia-nv3jg
    @VeraLucia-nv3jg Před 5 lety +8

    0:17 Auch HEY YOU HUMAN

  • @Zombie-xp3jc
    @Zombie-xp3jc Před 3 lety +2

    That boy he break a glass lol haha

  • @TimolaTesla
    @TimolaTesla Před 3 měsíci

    If he wanted to stop the clock from moving hands, then he would just need to stop the pendullum 😂

  • @athanalconcel9083
    @athanalconcel9083 Před 4 dny

    5:13 Police: "Got Him!"
    5:16 "Okay Bye!"

  • @KawhackitaRag
    @KawhackitaRag Před 15 lety +3

    Since I'm in a ha-ha phase right now, I might as well add that in the REAL "big ben" clock, the bells are in a completely separate area an entire floor above the clock level and NOT hanging directly over the movement as here; finally, I should add that an average-size man might be able to stop the clock; it wouldn't wreck the escapement or pendulum at all because of the remontoire.

  • @KawhackitaRag
    @KawhackitaRag Před 15 lety +3

    yhahahahahahaha as a clock fanatic I can tell you up-front that in general, clock gears do NOT turn two directions, back and forth. The closest you'd ever get to that is on clocks with recoil escapements, the escape wheel reverses SLIGHTLY when the pallet engages, because of the sloped face. However, this motion is tiny compared to the forward motion when a pallet unhooks. Also, some clocks with remontoires have certain wheels in the remontoire train which reverse, but only periodically.

  • @Lufttygger306
    @Lufttygger306 Před 11 lety +3

    NOSTALGIA

    • @stormtracker8597
      @stormtracker8597 Před 5 lety

      Get down of big ben

    • @Lufttygger306
      @Lufttygger306 Před rokem

      @@stormtracker8597 We had this on tape when I was a kid, and I watched it soooo many times
      One of my biggest nostalgic memories, along with the James Bond movies

  • @markusmetzger875
    @markusmetzger875 Před rokem +4

    i remember watching as a kid and thinking it was real.

  • @mindysmith7126
    @mindysmith7126 Před 4 lety +3

    13 year ago

  • @slink5986
    @slink5986 Před 5 lety +3

    6:52 DONT BE BLOODY STUPID!!

  • @Cool2BCeltic
    @Cool2BCeltic Před 16 lety +2

    For its time, quite realistic looking, although there is a bit of artistic licence with the London skyline and the view from Big Ben. These extras in Edwardian dress do very well. Just imagine how incredible this scene would look nowadays done with CGI and maybe Jude Law playing Hannay.

    • @gcgames_
      @gcgames_ Před rokem

      OG you were in youtube from 2006

  • @aditimallick982
    @aditimallick982 Před 3 lety +1

    They can't stop the pendulum because it was very tough.

  • @Palamedes2009
    @Palamedes2009 Před rokem +1

    Good

  • @gingerladyaubern
    @gingerladyaubern Před 5 lety +3

    I love this film and this scene. Excellent reproduction of the clock faces and clock tower external building. Pity there is no footage anywhere of the film set of the 'clock tower' to show how they filmed this section.

  • @colintproductions6482
    @colintproductions6482 Před 2 lety +1

    Others people dreams: I had a dream my crush went out with me! My dreams: 2:20 3:14 5:15 6:44

  • @marialuisaottaviano7496
    @marialuisaottaviano7496 Před rokem +1

    nadie mas que powell para esta pelicula

  • @thornside942
    @thornside942 Před 4 lety +5

    6:23 hand change

  • @KawhackitaRag
    @KawhackitaRag Před 11 lety +2

    I have to say, this is the closest anyone's gotten to recreating the actual Houses of Parliament clock mechanism in a fictional movie, although of course several key things (crucial to the plot, OF COURSE) are rather off. Firstly, what kind of escapement requires about 6 small wheels between the pendulum and anchor? The movie does not show either the pendulum or anchor, but the escapement function is implied, because these wheels are shown (2:43, 2:56) dutifully moving BACK AND FORTH in rhythm!

  • @Anna-bx5ec
    @Anna-bx5ec Před 2 lety +1

    GG FOR BIG BEN

  • @OliverMelonzMPG
    @OliverMelonzMPG Před rokem +1

    5:30 A man dude that he hit in the bell

  • @laci9788
    @laci9788 Před 4 lety +1

    I just love the scenes where men and women are hanging of the clock, in all films.

  • @fenxian1
    @fenxian1 Před 16 lety +2

    Don't be bloody stupid!

  • @darrowby1972
    @darrowby1972 Před 16 lety +2

    Planetary gears are whats jumping up and down at 5:41

  • @KawhackitaRag
    @KawhackitaRag Před 15 lety +3

    If you all want to see some REAL tower clock movements, I suggest googling "mark frank tower clock"; this will bring up the website of a guy in the Chicago area who collects these.

  • @javachip9612
    @javachip9612 Před 3 lety +2

    I seriously wonder how they create scenes like these, it’s so crazy lol

  • @Anna-bx5ec
    @Anna-bx5ec Před 2 lety +1

    LONDON YOUR CLOCK WAS RUNNING LATE SO I FIXED IT

  • @descartes62
    @descartes62  Před 16 lety +4

    It's just a film you know? It wasn't filmed in the real place, they recreated the Big Ben's machine room and I think that in the early 1900 there was no break proof glass...

    • @samleviathanfilms5176
      @samleviathanfilms5176 Před 3 lety +1

      The clock mechanism is not green it’s black and there should be walls behind the clock faces with the candles lighting the clock face and the guy who fell would have died in the mechanism room and the bells layout is wrong and there should be a roof on top of the clock mechanism room

    • @NeonAndrei
      @NeonAndrei Před 3 lety +2

      @@samleviathanfilms5176 yep the film is literally broken

    • @3merTVPlays
      @3merTVPlays Před 6 měsíci

      @@samleviathanfilms5176 i was gonna say that

  • @Patrick.166
    @Patrick.166 Před 4 měsíci

    Bro is about to fall

  • @RandomFishVR
    @RandomFishVR Před 3 lety

    Omg

  • @darrowby1972
    @darrowby1972 Před 16 lety +1

    The planetary gears would jump out of mesh with about 25kgs of weight at the end of the minute hand. Saying that, its just a film

  • @descartes62
    @descartes62  Před 16 lety +3

    1978

  • @Super44Saints
    @Super44Saints Před 14 lety +1

    Can you upload the whole movie. i seen it when i was younger and can't find it anywhere

  • @aaasee4363
    @aaasee4363 Před rokem +1

    DUDE U GONAN MESS UP THE BIG BEN

  • @nuutasineria5770
    @nuutasineria5770 Před 6 lety +1

    JUST TURN THE FREAKING CLOCK OFF

  • @Anna-bx5ec
    @Anna-bx5ec Před 2 lety

    i.. I don’t know about seeing dead people today

  • @Renatodonadio
    @Renatodonadio Před 16 lety +1

    That man risking life hanged to the minute hand trying to stop the mechanism didn't knew that you can stop Big Ben like you do with Granny Clock...only blocking with a finger the regulator arm (pendulum) :-D

  • @KawhackitaRag
    @KawhackitaRag Před 15 lety +2

    Since the power goes from the weight and main wheels THROUGH the hands TO the remontoire, the small wheels (seen jumping around here) would NOT be affected by a person hanging on the hands. In fact, they would be motionless after one re-set cycle since the power from the main train would no longer be available to re-set the remontoire. Since the clock was slowed by heavy snow on the hands in the '60's I would assume a person hanging on the hand would completely stop it.

  • @e205536
    @e205536 Před 3 lety +1

    That is not what it looks like
    The clock mechanism is below the bells the bells are in a higher story
    The clock mechanism is not supposed to be close to the bells

  • @coltinanderson7423
    @coltinanderson7423 Před 5 lety +4

    6:43

  • @KawhackitaRag
    @KawhackitaRag Před 15 lety +1

    Another couple of obvious errors are the small gears which are made to jump around in their bearings dramatically during the climactic bomb de-activation scene; they don't look like clock gears, but rather salvaged from some old auto transmission or factory machine; there are WAY too many gears clustered together on each arbor to be realistic. Plus, with that much play in the bearings, it's a wonder this fake clock didn't self destruct of it's own accord!

  • @steviesuperstar
    @steviesuperstar Před 14 lety +6

    great film wish some one would up load it all, also powel is great in this. funny thing, why didnt they just turn the clock off

    • @slambotv1334
      @slambotv1334 Před 4 lety

      steviesuperstar because the agents were in the clockwork room

    • @blue_hedgehog_gaming_clock9580
      @blue_hedgehog_gaming_clock9580 Před 2 lety

      @@slambotv1334 wait I have never watched this before but why did they need to stop the clock hands

    • @slambotv1334
      @slambotv1334 Před rokem

      @@blue_hedgehog_gaming_clock9580 there was a bomb rigged to go off when the minute hand reached a certain point. I’m pretty sure the full movie is somewhere on CZcams

  • @thornside942
    @thornside942 Před 4 lety +11

    6:44 he fall down end the time turn 11:28

  • @aaasee4363
    @aaasee4363 Před rokem

    HURRY BOI HURRY HE SILPING

  • @EXPLORER-DAD
    @EXPLORER-DAD Před 3 lety +1

    5:14 the other guy crash to the circle of big ben

  • @futurepilot6749
    @futurepilot6749 Před 3 lety

    13 years ago

  • @Anna-bx5ec
    @Anna-bx5ec Před 2 lety

    BRO DA QWEN SAWH IYT HE GETTIN KILLED

  • @vuanhkado
    @vuanhkado Před rokem +1

    hahaha he is falling in o'clock

  • @MarcelMaslon
    @MarcelMaslon Před rokem

    Saved in 1978

  • @KawhackitaRag
    @KawhackitaRag Před 15 lety +1

    (actually, it looks to me like some person off-camera is manually shaking these salvaged gears... nice "special effects" lol). About the only thing I can say nice about this is that they at least made the dials, clock room, and PART of the movement look similar to reality... but then again, look at the large gear to the left in 2:43, in a REAL clock the main wheels (and most gears except the escape wheel and one closest to it) move so slowly that they appear motionless!

  • @pachma405
    @pachma405 Před 8 lety +3

    I would have smashed the window further up, where the hand was.

    • @slambotv1334
      @slambotv1334 Před 4 lety +1

      He couldn’t get up there and if you suggest using the door to the right, then the Prussians would literally just shoot him

  • @leohaverty9023
    @leohaverty9023 Před 7 lety +3

    he is trying to stop the hand

  • @harlearacena5083
    @harlearacena5083 Před 2 lety +1

    O my tnt

  • @BakerFamily123
    @BakerFamily123 Před rokem

    Big Ben does not run on an electric motor
    That clock is powered by gravity

  • @pauldockree9915
    @pauldockree9915 Před 2 lety

    Now let us talk about Eric Porter and Stratford on Avon. Moriarty Lovers. Oakey's?

  • @mariamery7025
    @mariamery7025 Před 2 lety +1

    Robert powel igual exito

  • @scenty_yeee
    @scenty_yeee Před 5 lety +2

    Big Ben destroyed them

  • @reinamanago
    @reinamanago Před 2 lety

    so big ben is good

  • @sabsfabs4605
    @sabsfabs4605 Před 5 lety +1

    Try not to fall

  • @matteodizon1
    @matteodizon1 Před 5 lety

    I Have To Go To London,UK So That I Can See Big Ben

  • @stormtracker8597
    @stormtracker8597 Před 5 lety +1

    Look wee spider

  • @packo5101
    @packo5101 Před 2 lety +2

    6:43😰

  • @Efifeb
    @Efifeb Před 4 měsíci

    😮

  • @gregory1232
    @gregory1232 Před 6 lety

    Are you demolishing big ben

  • @loganpaul5977
    @loganpaul5977 Před 4 lety +1

    At 5:30 guy got shot and hit a bell going boon

  • @elninjanegro
    @elninjanegro Před 4 lety

    nooooooooooo it just broke it

  • @nongnoiwatee
    @nongnoiwatee Před 7 lety +6

    4:44

  • @gcgames_
    @gcgames_ Před rokem

    2007

  • @MoisesAndrade2009
    @MoisesAndrade2009 Před 2 lety

    what movie or series is this?oh let me see what it is