School For Danger (1943)
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- This film is a dramatized account of French resistance during the Second World War. -
National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 895984 / Local Identifier 263.3144 - School for Danger - National Security Council. Central Intelligence Agency. (09/18/1947 - 12/04/1981).
Thank you for posting - I am in awe of the bravery and the resourcefulness of these amazing citizens!
These Real SOE People and Wonderful Wonderful People in Every Sense
of the Word.
The scene with the RAF Lancaster marking the target at low level (52.30), was carried out by Leonard Cheshire CO of 617 Squadron (The Dambusters).
You can just make out the tail wheel of the Lancaster at the top of the screen, the target was the Gnome et Rhone aero engine works at Limoges. He flew three times over the target at perilously low levels, to allow the 500 workers inside to escape, before making a further pass to drop the flares. As a result of Cheshire's warning flypasts, everyone escaped from the factory except one man who returned for his bicycle.
RAF...Gents to a man.
@Cyber Zorro May need to look up history books to check that out, I'm sure it would have been heavily protected by Anti Aircraft guns and losses would have been heavy.
That same footage was used in Stuart Cooper's "Overlord" (1975); available on DVD in the Criterion Collection
@@scottleft3672 Here here!
Yes, the acting is a bit wooden, but some watching this may not know that the two main actors are Jacqueline Nearne and Harry Ree. They were actually SOE agents, parachuted into occupied France in 1943. So forgive them their lack of drama skills and remember, they weren't actors; they were the real thing.
Tom Bristowe
Thanks for info .
@@saras.j468 Harry Ree ("Felix") has just had his recollections published in 2020.
"A Schoolmaster's War" by Jonathon Rees. (His son.)
Great read - which led me here!
David Jones
Thank you sir .Can we get it in Amazon ?
Were they Old Boy ? Reminds me of "stooging" in Boarding School but I didn't realise this was also done by Officers in POW Camps especially 04C ! (Colditz)
Nearne and Ree earned MBEs. Nearne’s brother and sister were both also SOE agents in France. Her sister was captured by the Gestapo and tortured so extensively that she lost her mind from PTSD. Jacqueline took care of her for the rest of their lives.
Thank you for providing closed captions for English auto translation. I’ve been listening to you for some time without translation just for the enjoyment of your performances.
Enjoyable account of the dangerous missions of the resistance. One blooper in the sound effects: when the Hudson landed in the grass field near the end, the wheels chirped as if touching down on tarmac. Good for a chuckle.
What a great insight into the operations of resistance. Amateur acting makes it all more real. Great viewing.
It's been said so many times, but these are brave, gutsy and selfless people who are prepared to do anything for the freedom and liberty of not just their own country, but for their good allies also.
Great humans
Agree.
I wonder what they would think of how the generations who benefited from their bravery behaved in 2020 when faced with a cold virus.
@@EricM_001 Yes and the treachery, betrayal, treason and cowardice of our current parliament with an invasion of criminals and enemies, and aiding and abetting a nazi riddled regime, of corrupt war criminals in Ukraine. One of my great uncles by marriage was a Serbian Royalist soldier who fought in the Jugoslav army and resistance, who lost over 200 relatives, friends, and villagers to the nazis, the state and morals of our nation broke his heart, he died this year, and it disgusts me how low our nation has sunk. The people are great the politicians are lower then the dirt under our feet of our wonderful nation. The spirit of these wonderful SOE people was heroic, and it still lives in our people, it needs a real leader to rekindle the flame and make it burn bright again. My salute to SOE and all those who stood up for this nation.
Harry Ree ("Felix") has just had his recollections published in 2020.
"A Schoolmaster's War" by Jonathon Rees. (His son.)
Great read - which led me here!
Ree and Rees. Wonder why he added the s
In the book there is no s - just Ree like his father.
A little minutia here...but she mentioned that « I even started knitting in Morse ». This made me realize that then most all women were knitting. It saddens me that today most young girls don’t learn. As a child learning to sew, knit, crochet, embroider.....were such wonderful and healthy little projects to do. Just a thought.
You won't know the full significance of this - apparently she knitted socks to a French pattern as the English sock pattern was different - a possible giveaway in occupied Europe.
For the records: "School For Danger" was released 1947. The year 1943 in the YT title apparently refers to the year in which the story is set.
neat
Thank you. '43 on info?
@@RichardSewell-qk5jc see 1:20 of the video.
Many thanks for uploading that - been wanting to watch it for years!
Ludicrously brave people. They would be appalled by the state of this nation today. They deserve better. Patriotic Alternative.
Couldn’t agree more.
The state of most nations now sadly.
as a Taff couldnt agree less
31:58 Wow! Target brand Corned beef. My childhood favourite. Until a few years ago you could still buy them in supermarkets. Seeing those tins of beef was certainly very nostalgic.
Hell you can buy that corned beef tin beef at Walmart everyday
Never in the field of human conflict were upper lips stiffer! Joking aside the SOE were the most amazingly heroic people imaginable. Living with the content fear of discovery by the Gestapo these ordinary people literally saved lives and shortened the war.
We are every different today. It’s very sad. They were the greatest generation!
Lancasters very underrated
I love this film have watched it about 20 times but I still keep coming back lol
What could possibly go wrong? Absolutely everything and anything each and every day and night. It would take great courage to walk in their shoes.
So she said that the radio was an X ray machine. wonder if the gendarme knew exactly what it was and turned a blind eye?
Could you please get my wool in England they don't have that color here? What?
Yes Cathy, I'm a man but my Mum showed me how to knit when I was a child......If I was over there though my hands would be shaking too much to be able to knit!!
Really enjoyed this. Very informative.
To learn of the sheer courage, betrayal, incompetence at senior level at SOE , Baker St. London may I suggest reading Inside SOE by Cookridge and The White Rabbit concerning Yeo Thomas
I totally agree. Also superb for revealing the intricate depth of Col.Buckmaster's naiivete and incompetence in handling the betrayal and collapse of the "Prosper" circuit, is Jean Overton Fuller's book "Dericourt, the chequered spy". Such VERY brave agents and French people in the hands of incompetents back at Baker Street. Heartbreaking and so very sad.
Wow. Thank you for this film.
"Hello, hello. Take a seat...cigarette?"
"Hell yeah ta. I'm probably going to die so smoke if you got em ."
The GreenAnorak....Yes, and I loved the casual way "Felix" asked about the suicide pills!! Could I have done that job? Not a chance.....I would have blubbed all the way to France then probably fallen apart once I got there!! VERY brave people. Another good film like this is "Target for tonight" with Charles Pickard who was later killed on the Amiens raid.
Dave.
@@davesheppard8797 I love Target For Tonight. It was a real public film but using models for the train station.
@TheGreenAnorak Yes, you can easily see that they are models. It made Pickard a hero and household name. Such a shame he died on the Amiens raid.......although it's a shame anyone had to die.....War is war I suppose. My Father joined up as a wireless operator/Air gunner but due to being colour blind he became an LAC class 1, instrument maker.
I recently purchased a copy of this at the IWM and have been
trying to find out a bit about the other cast members. I saved a copy of The Times review in 1946 which
commented on the wooden speech and another site says: Harry
Rée ... Felix (as Captain Harry Rée)
Jacqueline Nearne ... Cat
Teddy Baird ... Henri Pickard (as Wing Commander E.
Baird)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
H. Ibbott ... Himself (as Flying Officer H. Ibbott)
L. Reeve ... Himself (as Sergeant L. Reeve)
The rest of the cast
is not listed alphabetically.
I would be
interested to know who the Major with KRRC on his shoulders was.
@S Macca Imperial War Museum, London - www.iwm.org.uk/
@S Macca Imperial War Museum. (In
London.)
Interesting docudrama thanks for posting.
The S-phone was a UHF walkie-talkie working on 380MHz and 337MHz from 1942. I did not know that radio tubes in 1942 could work on this high frequencies. I assume the germans only had lower frequency tubes.
Thanks, old son. Didn't know that. Gauged it to be about 130-150 Mc from the length of the antenna the operator was frying his chest hairs with.
Forget the accents, etc. Brave people, who never asked to be called heroes.
They we're very brave men/ women...
If you like a good read, Leo Marks, Between silk and cyanide. Covers the training and drops into Europe.
My Father hunt them near Lyon, must go out some Times and stand on Watch. He was in a LW Radarschool for Nachtjäger Crews.
Luftwaffen - Nachrichtenschule 4 Lyon.
Anyone know how they got the French townscapes in the middle of the war? ... (Edit) Dogkata tells me it was a 1947 film, all is explained!
What Ho ! The Good Old Days I loved it in my previous life.
Oh, yes, best job I ever had.
I know that if you decide to land in someone's backyard or field in a hot air balloon, then you are supposed to give that person a bottle of champagne (it's tradition I guess). But I didn't know you would do the same if you landed your plane in someone's field :)
A lot of this background found its way into the American film "13 Rue Madelaine."
Excellent film- shows what many people were willing to risk to keep nipping at the Nazi's heels. The destruction they caused was not a big help itself, but the Germans had to keep sending troops to areas with heavy Resistance action, and that took them away from other positions. Bravery! SALUTE!
Does somebody know where exactly the french scenes have been shot? Seems to be the Provence but i could not recognize the place.
What a wonderful insight these brave human beings were risking their lives for our country.
Would we be brave enough today, I’d like to think so.
We have proof of bravery all the time.
Please God let there be no more world wars. Have we not had enough of cruelty and needless death.
Let God be our guide and lead us into love for each other.
✝️✝️✝️🙏🙏🙏❤️
This film had a far greater feel of realism than any spy movie I've ever seen.
Did anyone else think the Lanc Pilot they helped get back looked a bit like like Peter Sellers?? Love films like this!!
Dave.
People were seriously brave and patriotic back then!! Plus beautifully spoken!
Surely most unwise of the radio operator to ask for wool of a colour not available in France. It is well known that there was an active knitting circle within the Gestapo and they would have been well versed in yarn colours, and probably patterns as well, that were exclusive to certain countries.
It was made in 1947 but the action took place in 1943.
I like the way the German soldiers are running around with Sten Guns around 55 minutes in. Still, they make great use of the S phone which is great. Its a good film and worth a watch.
They ran out of Schmeissers so they had to use captured weapons from the British.
@@shizukamori6755 Ha ha ! The British film makers ran out of captured German weapons so they had to use British ;)
@S Macca Thanks for your reply. Since I wrote that comment I have learned that Germany did indeed manufacture its own outright copy of the Sten gun in some limited volume. It was in an effort to reduce the cost of, and time required in manufacturing the MP series Schmisser SMG. This is exactly your point - "In times of need you have to do what ever you have to do with what ever you have on hand."
Its also the Germans are being played by Brits, who were likely tapped for looking like Jerries based on the opinions of those who were in the war working in casting
Thank God those whining today about wearing masks, social distancing, and about not getting their hair cut were NOT the stuff of those days. The good allies would have lost all around.
But they were the ones resisting the tyranny while the rest of you complied.
The dropped bottle of liquor at the end was a nice touch. Better than a "real" movie
Interesante filme de época en recrear las distintas técnicas de infiltración que tenían las fuerzas aliadas al territorio francés ocupado con el fin de realizar las distintas tareas necesarias para hostigar a las fuerzas germanas ahí destacadas durante la segunda guerra mundial. Acciones que requerían de un selecto grupo de hombres y mujeres, bien entrenados y equipados, los cuales, con sus vidas pendiendo de un hilo, debían realizar importantes misiones.
Saludos y bendiciones desde Venezuela.
Well worth watching and re-watching. The screenwriter and director rather clumsily borrowed the Rosebud device from Citizen Kane which was made 2 years earlier, but that is not a big detraction. I was sure that the game was up when they were in the midst of trying to free the Hudson.
Excellent - I love films like this !
They speak beautiful English. Rare todaa I fink.
Thank you for that,in the other film I saw,they used the pulled up fencing to give the undercarriage traction, brave people,thanks guys.xx
Wow, Google maps was pretty good back then!
Isn't it amazing how things change in time....I can't see the French being an ally nowadays.
Stop reading the Daily Mail & Express and join the real world. France are and have been for decades one of our best allies.
sadly a lot of the agents where caught when they landed in france ,the germans had the codes ?some died in consontrasion camp
If the film is about the French resistance, it need not be more than seven minutes long.
riding around sw france with my daughters noticed quite a few lonely memorials. when i mentioned . it was told there in memory of fr. resistance members who had b een executed on the spot b y german s.
1990pommie very sad
Indeed, just as in Ireland you find many monuments to our citizens murdered by british barstewards.
Increase the volume. Hard to hear.
Ahhhh, Chanel No. 5! That's the only perfume my Step-Mother wore. Excellent fragrance!
Informative film! Thanks for posting! 👍😎✌🇺🇸
P.s. my thumbs up is from the now old days! Has no other meaning than "Great Job". The meanings of things that some people try to change these days are quite comical, and at times are just plain RIDICULOUS! 😂
How do these lethal tablets work? "Here, I'll show you" oops!
Excuse me, according to the Certificate at the beginning, the name of this film is supposed to be Target for To-night. Whoever uploaded it made an error by entitling it School for Danger. Anybody have any idea what happened? This was made in 1941.
'nuf sed
This is school for danger.
Wot der mater, i think you double clicked Target. I just saw it and then clicked this School for danger
I recorded this a while ago on Sky and it was entitled "Now it can be told" I believe the DVD is entitled that too. "Target for tonight" has Charles Pickard in it and other RAF personnel. Another good film.
I was surprised to hear the French accent of Harry Ree - as someone who lived in France for 15 years I could spot him for a non native so it makes you wonder if the Germans could have done too?
If they had been there 15 years prior as yourself they may have picked it out.
Ree was worried about his accent and 'schoolboy French' before he went to France. (Can't remember where I read that.)
His back story told at the start of the film was that he left France as a child and moved to Quebec.
what would have been the typical exposure of a German Landser, except for from the borders, to French before 1940?
Very good thanks.
Just a feel good movie!...
2:20 Finders Keepers boys! No need to tell the Sarge or the LT about this!!!!
'Somehow the noise of the engines made me excited'......LOL, probably more the vibrations than the noise! On a serious note, incredible guts, all of them!
".... and here are your lethal tablets." "How do they work?" "Here, I'll show you....." AAaarggggh,,,,,,(CRASH)
Only to be taken as a last resort....! State the bleedin obvious.
@@ascott2264 Oh, yes, he was actually Capt.Obvious
see the book Lonely Courage by Richard Stroud The true story of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-occupied France. Enthralling and moving. 1947 is the correct date it was shown.
Laundry and skid marks were removed from under clothes.
This film is c. 1947, not 1943.
"Now It Can Be Told" (1944) imdb
Excellent. They were very brave to do what they did.
Gibraltar Farm- Tempsford, Bedfordshire (you know the same county present government has sacrificed as a hideous new housing "estate" also known for The Shuttleworth Collection- Cranfield, Thurleigh, Twinwoods, Henlow, Cardington R101/R100 , ) just thought i would mention some history!!".
49:59 that watchman is carrying a STEN Mk II ... odd for a German run factory in France. Cool movie.
I know it can't be helped, but the day for night photography back in those days fools nobody does it. Its 3 in the mornin guvnor, that's why you can see clouds in the sky.
far as I knew highly unlikely 4 engine bombers used. Lysander was plane of choice in out no fuss low flying less noise much more probability of agents arriving in designated zone,
does it matter ? any way if it does , you dont jump from low level
The four engine Short Stirling and various twin engine aircraft were regularly used to drop supplies and agents in the field.
The single engine Lysander was sometimes used to actually land on covertly marked and pre-arranged landing grounds laid out by the resistance groups..
The first aircraft used for agent para drops were Whitleys, later various aircraft were used. The Lysander was for landing drops and pick ups, as was the Hudson later on in the war. Agents did not para from Lysanders.
For anyone with the remotest interest in aircraft it is a significant issue. For those that only watch for the moving images I guess it is of no concern.
1990pommie 138 Squadron (code letters NF between August 1941 and March 1945) flew the following types: Lysander I, Lysander III, Stirling IV, Whitley V (as used for the traing drops), Liberator III, Halifav II and Halifax V. They were formed at Newmarket on 25/8/1941 by renumbering 1429 (Special Duties) Squadron; they were disbanded on 1/9/1950 at Wyton. The Halifax seen when they are driving in is a bomber version as it has the glazed nose and not the shhet metal version spirted by the SOE aircraft. The big 4-engine aircraft were used for transporting men and women, and materiel over long distances, such as to Poland and did not land. The Lysanders could carry one passenger, 2 at a squeeze, and had to land to drop them off.
They are probably flying from Tempsford in Bedfordshire (located between the London to Edinburgh railway line and the Great North Road). The base was so important to the SOE that even under direct attack the Ack-Ack gunners were forbidden to shoot back.
if this film was made in 1943 how can they talk about d-day it had never happoened then
"Now It Can Be Told" (1944) imdb
Every day of debarkation/disembarkation is referred to as "d-day" in military circles (have a look at contemporary features about the landings at Iwo Jima - they report about a certain D-Day).
Same goes for 'ground zero'...
There was always talk of the second front, ie D-day, even the Germans knew it would happen, as far back as 1942, but nobody new the time date or year, only high command. My objection to the film is the snobbish daft talk, which the army spoke. This film was made for the public to see, and how many of the public spoke in those days. But once in the forces, it was very different, and very regimental. There was never any forces, that had time to be nice, or indeed polite to anybody, only senior offices of same rank.
@@philippayne4951 You must be very young, I think. How nice for you. I am old and I can remember voices like this. They were not necessarily snobs, you know.
@@elainemagson213 Well I am 70 how is that. Yes I understand fully where you are coming from, but in those days films were like that, very snobbish accent. Listen to the Queen in the early days for example, from 1947, right through, from coronation to right how she speaks now. It is very different, but still good correct English. Today youth, speak very bad English, and what is laughable they think its cockney which it is not.I teach English in Germany and also a lecture of the subject. You have to remember these films were made to put the public at ease, and to make out the forces were our friend, but the reality was was very different when you enlisted.
Wow. Algorithm struck gold.
This can't be from 43
when they try and get the plane out of the hole all I think about is The Big Red One with Lee Marvin delivering the baby "Pussy Pussy"
AGC937 Still Taxed and looks beautiful.
7:54....I WANT THAT TRAIN.....LOL...that is SOOOOO frikn AWSOME.
great film, everyone so polite.
Harry Enfield!
The "walk" looks like Portland...
Trying to watch the commercials but occasionally they get interrupted by a film.
Firefox and ADBLOCKER
@@thomasmeadows1036 but i only want to watch commercials. Mainly for Gambling and Insurance.
Old new Intel has not change, except,the internet is much better and faster disinformation.
HARDLY ANY EMOTIONS SHOWN..
Harry Enfield's dad!
How the fuck does anyone downvote this?
So where were the German soldiers all the time the aircraft landed, and they had time to round up the entire village, plus the local farmer with his two beasts? No wonder they lost the war. :-)
This film could not have been made in 1943!
Its wasn’t, it was made in 1947…..the setting depicts 1943, this is when both [ for real] in the story were employed by SOE.
highly unlikely a Lancaster could all survive?
In fact, of the number of aircrew that had to bail out of a damaged Avro “Lancaster”, 15% survived, so these crew members were part of the extremely lucky 15%.
( www.iwm.org.uk/history/life-and-death-in-bomber-command - point number 7 )
Not 43 I think maybe 1944/45
Love
Tom
Good film. But did any noticed that the globe they used in the opening was showing the world BACKWARDS. HAHAHA. Leave it to the RAF and the SOE to be backwards.
David Fr Have to correct you, it was rotating eastwards which is correct. Just as from outer space, our planet rotates eastward not westward. However as you stand on our planet and look out, it would appear that we rotate westward, as this is our outward viewing perspective. But the reality is that we rotate eastward, and the globe was in fact rotating correctly in the opening clip.
David Fr o
Just think................some people in the US may be doing things like this if Biden wins the election.
I wonder what they would make of us now!
neat
Kind of slow and borish, but still ok for an oldie.
Have bit of respect for the actors, they are all the real deal and served as agents in France. I think they do an excellent job
@@AncientAbsWisdom I agree!! They were the ones who went over! Sooooo brave!!
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I do love the way when they went in the room, and they way their commander spoke back, when they asked will we be working together, oh I do hope so, what rubbish these type films are. You would never have been spoken to like that, he would of given a very stern answer yes or no, and all answers straight to the point. Very snobbish and stupid. Even in those days, when people were polite, nobody in the forces spoke like that, but straight to the point, and what they had to do.
How lucky you are to be so sure of what you say. LOL
Whilst you're on your rant about speech, be aware that instead fo saying "he would of given" should actually be "he would have given", you tosser.
But often SOE people didn't have a forces background. As is mentioned in the film, they needed to be supremely fit but not to look at all military in their bearing.
@@simonsp6818 ...and they often were given some say in whom they would be teamed up with for this type of irregular operation. The last thing SOE needed was tensions between individuals involved in clandestine operations.
love ww2 movies.what u can achieve working 2gether huh !!!!
We should never forget how bravely some Frenchmen fought. The Charlemagne division of the Waffen SS springs to mind.
or the 13th Demi Brigade or the Senegalese
british stiff uper lip , she was very lucky not to get caught ,exray machine ?