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Alexander Gordon "Alex" Higgins (18 March 1949 - 24 July 2010)[4] was a Northern Irish professional snooker player, who is remembered as one of the most iconic figures in the game. Nicknamed Hurricane Higgins because of his fast play
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I'll always remember meeting Alex my best friends father at the time owned a pub and we'd just come home from school and went on the computer for an hour before tea, always remember my friends father bursting into the bedroom and saying lads come downstairs I just served Alex Higgins and he's about to play on the snooker table. Crept around the door to say hello and he was the most genuine kind mannered person you could have met, we watched him play for what must have been ten minutes and then he past a cue to me with the words fancy a free lesson lads. I still have his Autograph from that day in 1983 and would never sell it on to a collector as it's something I can look at and remember I played snooker with one of the world's best.
il buy that autograph if ye want to sell it
You must have got him on a good day.
Exactly, I asked him for his autograph in 1985 when no-one was around and he said "later, later" and walked off.@@paolom.6011
That’s a memory to treasure. I’m guessing the computer was Sinclair ZX-81 ??
Everyone is well-mannered until they've had 5 too many.
The most entertaining player to watch...RIP hurricane.x
The comments below speak volumes to a great man who touched so many.
9.5/10 - watched this 3 times now since it first aired. As a massive snooker fan I can honestly say the actors did a great job.
You watched it 3 times and only gave it a 9/10 ????? Come on man it deserves the 10 🤣🤣
@@4BJLOVEMYCOCK 😁How about 9.5? 😜😜
@@Rubbafingaz1 find but you have to change the title to 9.5 🤣
@@4BJLOVEMYCOCK All done 😂😂
Actings great... The snooker green screening is horrendous
The guy who plays Hearn got him spot on 😆
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Kevin Bishop... played a boy called Sam in Grange Hill in the 90s. Then played Jim Hawkins in the Muppet's Treasure Island.
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Alex came to Australia shortly after winning the title . He played at the home of Snooker in Sydney at City Tattersalls Club and stayed here for some sometime I worked there. The snooker was dazzling and mesmerising. He presented himself well and his manner was only courteous. After he left here things seemed to just fall to pieces. We spoke on many occasions , I have fond memories of him .
He actually married a girl in Australia at one stage....It didn't last!Not many people know that.Another little known fact is that he spent a night in a hotel with Marianne Faithfull.(Not in Australia!)She later said she regretted it!But I saw Alex play 3 times live back in the 70's ....and he was mesmerising .I still remember some of the shots he played.We would go back to our snooker club and try and play like Alex but we soon realised that we were mere mortals!I started playing snooker soon after Alex won his first world title in 1972.Like so many we would tap our cues on the cushion rails after chalking.I used to point my index finger down on my cueing hand as Alex did.....I was still doing it 50 years later!
One of the beat sport films I've ever seen and probably the smallest budget absolutely incredible movie flawless acting too R I P the peoples champion
Just stumbled on this, a very well done production.
Killer soundtrack.
RIP Hurricane, you were the best. ❤
Amen!
Very well said
I stumbled across this too and was thinking the same thing nice one
Maverick is the perfect discription of Alex Higgins .... he played shots never seen before .... brought it from stuffy old mens clubs to the age of tv.
I stumbled on this by accident. I didn't even know it existed. I really pleased that i did.
Three years later and I was going to write the same thing you did. I never heard of this movie. Excellent. So glad I got to see it. I hole one day they will make a movie about Ronnie.
Wow, that was great... And f'ing depressing. Really puts into perspective that match when Alex returned and looked old, frail and emaciated. This is absolutely horrible. He was truly awesome and tragic.
I'm not nobody...I'm Oliver Fucking Reed! That line gets me every time!
Great movie and what a soundtrack!!!
Very well made. Fantastic actors. Incredibly sad.
He could of won more but he still won everything worth winning
Alex Higgins was a genius, inspiring to watch but i dont think i would have wanted to be in the same room as him.
Hurricane Higgins brought so much to the table. He made the game of snooker exciting to watch. I remember clearly watching on TV the final at the Crucible, when he pleaded over to his wife to come to him with the baby. . that is my favourite TV moment of all time.
Kevin Bishop came to my attention when he played a variety of roles in a TV series of comedy pop/rock-umentaries a few years back. I think it was called Star Stories. It was really good, he’s a brilliant character actor. Couple of days ago I watched Stephen Hendry’s Q-tips, Barry Hearn was the guest. . . . Kevin Bishop got him spot on.
Just started watching a match between Alex & Steve D, think it’s the semi final at the Crucible. Just a few minutes into it, Alex is slightly the wrong side of the blue into the middle, takes the shot. . the blue ball hits the back of the pocket and flies nearly 3ft up vertically and lands back down on the table.
In my opinion Alex Higgins is the only reason snooker survived I must admit when I first heard and watched him I used to think he was a bit of a waster but over the last year watching matches and learning about his life I have to say he’s definitely one of the most flamboyant players ever to live and when he was asked what would he do without snooker his reply was priceless “what would snooker do without me”
@@stuartphillips822 so will you with that mentality
He nor anyone else claimed he was perfect
But one thing he will always be remembered for in my opinion is that
he always tried putting on a show for the crowd even if it was a bad shot choices to liven up the match
If Alex would have had decent management he would have been more successful, but that was not his way.
Give me a flawed genius like Alex any day over a soulless automaton like Davis. I hope that twat Hearn is proud of his creation.
@@iblacka1 not only successful but also would have got a bit more stable off the table but given how Alex like to enjoy life it was always a tough tall order. As he famously said “I enjoy all the the thing that fall at 25 lights and I don’t think should be deprived of that just because I play snooker”
@@IONLYPLAYCODFTW I bet you think Bruce Lee would've beat Ali too eh lol.
Stop the glorifying bullshit, he made bad shot choices because he lacked discipline, and that's why he was never the player he could've been. He didn't do anything to 'liven up the match', he made desperate leaps of faith like a gambler losing in a casino... Higgins was a great characher but also a bit of a dickhead...
i love watching alex and jimmy team up for the mosconi cup
Great movie, so underrated, cried at the end of it
Bantagonist
Me too
Higgins asking y Davis hated him...did Higgins in real thought that? Hense the rivalry?
I agree
@@kevinprior3549 In some of the words in a BBC Alex Higgins documentary that came some times after HIS death. Don’t think Alex hated Steve at or vice versa. According to Davis,they even one time both of them took a flight together which they spent 6-7 together and had a good long chat. Though Davis did stated “I don’t know what he thought of me as a person” tho at the start of the documentary he did stated “I wasn’t necessary his favorite person” . But they do have respect for each other’s contrasting talents of even though Higgins according to Barry Hearn’s words was kinda jealous of Steve’s success in the 80s and Alex doesn’t like it when he gets completely beaten by huge margins when he lost to Steve
So so touching & ❤️ warning the scene where he holds his baby after being World Champion. Goodness at least he got joy in his life. He set up which is standard today for children and family coming out. Snooker owes him a debt.
I'm 63, my dad was a snooker player - and loved the sauce, they used to go hand in hand. When I think of the game Alex is still the first name that comes to mind, he enabled the modern game to flourish. George Best did the same for soccer in my opinion. Rest in peace Hurricane, you left one hell of legacy, one of the very, very few immortals of snooker. Bhuvan thanks for putting this on youtube, cheers from an expat Brit in Sydney.
It was Steve Davis that changed the game, 89 major wins 🏆 Davis beat Higgins 27 matches to 4
Higgins was a dosser&drunk&cocaine head&violent, ended up on the dole
@@davidgladwin4954 No debate about Steve. A dosser, drunk, so was your momma dude, your gargantuan assed, flatulent, syphilis ridden momma.......
@@davidgladwin4954 I think you're missing the point.
@@davidgladwin4954 as much as Steve may have an impact on game especially success and the way it’s play but Alex has a huge impact on the popularity
@@NathanMcCabe88 No i don't think he is, it was definately Davis that fueled the sports surge in popularity, i was there as a kid watching these guys, and i don't know any player idolised more than Steve Davis at that time. Kids like me were and are the future, no one wanted to grow being a drunk loser, we all wanted to be Steve Davis..
Amazing television, how they replicated the best break ever, the 69 Alex made.
cgi son.
100% agree. Was thinking myself that is the GREATEST break in history.
@@mattylee7620 absolutely no doubt it was, all things considered, the pressure he was under second to none, any miss of at least 6 World class pots would of been the end for him, can't be underestimated how great this break was, top players have tried to replicate some of it, specially that blue, and the crazy screw across and back to be on a red, a tough one which he knocked in, like i said before the snooker gods were looking down, this day on him.
@@mickharrison9004 indeed. As you say the pressure! A world semi. If Jimmy would have potted that red off the rest GAME OVER. Then the Hurricane comes & just clears up like he was in a practice match with amazing, ridiculous shots. Possibly only Ronnie could do that. Nobody else could. That black to the top left pocket. Sublime :-).
@@chrismartin9969 well said freind.
I was playing snooker in a snooker hall in Stockport. It was owed by a snooker player that last name started with an (M) anybody now his name? It was near the Big railway Bridge?
One night in 1981 Alex Higgins walked in had a drink and left said he was off to play in a tournament. I will never forget that moment in time.
Maybe Paul Medati, that's who he had the fight with.
It was Masters it was a snooker hall by day and a nightclub.
This was great, watched it a few times
Iv lost count how many times iv watched it but it never gets old. All of the actors/actresses play such a good part and it's so believable. 10/10
If my daddy was alive, he’ll watch this every night. He idolised him.
He may have given us some unforgettable moments we can only dream of but what an absolute nightmare for is wife and daughter. Feel so sorry for them after watching this.
You should also feel sorry for anyone who has ever met him.
I can't comment on the true story, snooker, or Alex, because I don't know much about them. But that one scene, where Alex sits alone, his life wrecked, and watches his opponents doing stupid snooker jingles on TV--WOW. The camera closes in on Treadaway's face, and Luke gives us 5 different emotions in 30 seconds, ending with one that breaks our hearts. He's a stage actor, and a brilliant one, and even in this small movie, it shows. In my mind, one of the best actors living right now.
10/10 enjoyed the whole film
Great Movie
"you can't take applause to the bank!" Hahahaha so funny the Hearn actor.
Alex and Steve. Cautionary tale of 2 great players one who imploded the other got down to the graft. Ying and Yang. Loved both. Did not appreciate Davis at first but do now
Yes I hated Davis at first now I can't get enough of him..
I'm the opposite. Loved Alex at the time and couldn't stand the soulless automaton and nothings changed for me.
Luke Treadaway and Kevin Bishop were outstanding in this.
la la laaaaaaaa omg i have a voice like an angel!
He was on a path to self-destruction. He had it all, talent, a lovely wife and child, all the trappings of success and threw it all away very sad.
Kevin Brookes what was sad that his best friend Jimmy White tried to help him but he kept pushing him away and alienating himself in the process. What was even more sad that he died alone and was penniless which was heartbreaking.
As his pal Jimmy White once said 'He was his own worst enemy' Another way of putting it, is that some people can handle success whilst others can't Alex unfortunately couldn't!
@Martin Nonsense regarding altering the pockets, players nowadays are simply better.
@@kennethhodges3187 jimmy was just as screqed up
@@hotbot4219 Yes, Jimmy was screwed up for a time, but the difference was he had the sense to straighten himself out whereas Alex just stayed on the path to self destruction!
What a hell of a guy RIP ALEX thanks
Brillant the actors were awsome ❤
Il migliore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Simbolo di un'epopea favolosa.R.I.P.
Wonderful, many cheers
Great movie if you're a fan 😆 greatest sporting moment ever was when Alex called for his bubs while receiving the trophy, i tear up every time.
"Do you need me to call your mum?" Hahahaha BRILLIANT
great music dude all the way through
Awesome upload
The music in this is brilliant!!!
Very nice film. Thanks for the upload.
Brilliant film. Thank you very much for uploading.
Thanks for posting!!!
Great Movie good acting
Love how alex loves jimmy
Mutual love
Snooker Loopy it doesn't get much better than that.
The ending where Steve says he idolised Higgins, you could see the realisation on Higgins face that he got Steve all wrong
I know. Touching scene, also when he begs Barry Hearn to help him :-( for once Barry has a sad & sympathetic face even though he can't do it.
I wonder if he actually said that? I'd like to think so.
@@mattylee7620 No one in their right mind would have signed on Higgins given his temperament.
Steve Davis, was a Alien Robot, TOP RESPECT
@@Mitjitsu Barry Hearn said in an interview that Alex Higgins would of been a nightmare to manage, when Alex was sober he was always pleasant and really nice to have a conversation with. When he started drinking Alex Higgins was a nightmare to be around, especially when he was drunk aggressive and rude to other people.
Barry Hearn, the Don King of snooker. 😂
I don't know about that King took everything from the boxers. Hearn did not.
@Ivan The Terrible king destroyed Tyson too
26:56 "Done! Two halves it is!"
Cracking line.
Hahahaha. Indeed! Great actor and Barry Hearn himself a legend.
When Steve Davis walked in at the beginning. Looked more pissed than Alex ever did
I think the actor who played Higgins nailed it. Not physically, but definitely character and attitude wise.
Jimmy white, fellow thailand lover - the best to never win at the crucible but oh hell was he entertaining.
This film is tops & the music is excellent - british music rules
Although they played caricature versions of the nugget, the hurricane plus the supporting characters, I still thought this was a good watch and they certainly got the essence of how it was
Everyone tries to be like Alex.....even Ronnie tries to be rebel (and acts childish).....but there is only 1 Alex Higgins!!!! Legend!!
Ronnie says a lot of silly things and unnecessary things too. Jimmy tried to be like Alex but perhaps more shy.
Alex couldn’t lace Ronnie’s boots. Alex in his prime wouldn’t be in top 100 now
@@Yourballix Ronnie a spoilt little prat If Alex was around today he would be as successful as Ronnie easily.
@@jahno7154 Alex wouldn’t get a frame against Ronnie. He played in a time when pockets where like buckets and u didn’t see him hit a 147. Ronnie is light years ahead of any player that ever lived. Alex was just a drunken woman beater and died a lonely cunt in a flat for days because no one liked him
What a fantastic actor
Brilliant 😁😎
Thanks for the upload !
I cryed like a baby at my hero. The guy who played Alex is brilliant infact all were. Davis's hair lolol
Davis's money 💰
My first snooker movie
Surprised at Thorburn’s reaction
He must be one of them
So sad at the end when he beggs that bastard.
Barry Hearn moved in on Alex's patch and got rid of him. He likes it up the Roly Mottram as well...
Beautiful
A true champion of the people just like George Best in soccer
Both were under tremendous pressure meeting the wrong people
Definitely, but both of them became very selfish manchildren, brilliant artists but amateur human beings. George had no time for Alex either, they didn't get on. Maybe they were a bit too similar.
Higgins was a hilarious man
Yeah, if your definition of hilarious is being a violent alcoholic.
He had a great sense of humour and was also very witty.
This was one of the best documentary’s I’ve seen in years
Good lil film!
How did they get the actors to pot the balls in succession? That one scene where Higgins ran the table and the camera was rotating was awesome.
The Legend Mr. Alex Higgins 👍👍👍 The only inspiration for anyone to take up Snooker for passion👍👍👍 Can there be anyone who can stand up to him playing wonderful snooker other than Judd Trump though Judd Trump or any player shall be the next after the Legend Mr. Alex Higgins 👍🙏👍 The father of Snooker😉 Mr. Alex Higgins 😁😁😁👍👍👍
Alex and Steve knew each other right at the beginning...wow never knew that.
My all time favorite snooker player GOAT 😍😍✌👌
Not even in the running. He made the game look hard, the likes of O'Sullivan and Trump make it look ridiculously easy. O'Sullivan has made 1009 centuries including 15 147s and 167 in the WSC alone. Robertson made 103 centuries in a single season. Ding made 18 in a single tournament. Do you know how many the Hurricane made in his entire career? Yes, that's right. 82.
Now stop talking such utter shite.
@@p.graham5655 higgins wasn't bothered about centuries, he did enough to win the frame and then larked about. he also must have played a lot of his big matches half-pissed including that 69 break which is quite an achievement. he may not have been the greatest player of all time but due to his personality he was the most fascinating to watch. compulsive viewing.
@@p.graham5655 Only about 4 tournaments a year back then. Heavier balls, slower cloths, poorer cues, no extensions and once the frame was won he would start playing exhibition shots.
@@dafergy yes, if it weren't for the heavy balls Higgins would also have 1100 centuries. Bullshit.
Within the first three minutes I have decided that this video makes perfect sense. I would bet that it is based on real events.
Snooker would have died on TV without Alex
F-In Brilliant.
My name is Sam Oates bideford and demi the dog and what a fantastic film 🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥
Never seen it before but when Higgins won I was born .same day as sadham Hussain birthday we were all asking for trouble winning on 28th April
@@kevfox3615 o well from Sam Oates bideford and demi the dog
This film is a wonder
Belle histoire joli film 👍🇨🇵
Great watch
Didn’t realise alex had such a problem with steve Davies
I think this movie should be translated into hindhi becouse india Pakistan and Bangladeshshi people will love to watch
2020... Brasil aqui
What a soundtrack
They found perfect people to play Davis and Hearn. But man that played Higgins don't look anything like him
Kevin Prior still, his performance was great
@@careermode4u190 true dat. Top class performance and it does look enough like him :D
He looks like Nick cave
His accent is shit too
Wasn’t any further off the mark than Davis or Hearn.
It's a shame Alex never cleaned himself up after his win in 82. Who knows what he could have made from sponsorship deals during the 80's.
34:52 - glass defying physics and not breaking on the first bounce.
The guys who played Barry Hearn and Jimmy White got it spot on. Dude who played Higgins didn’t get his accent right at all but did get his brashness and cueing action right.
The accent was perfect well done whoever it was
I left a comment saying exactly that about Kevin Bishop who portrayed Barry Hearn, and then the next comment I see is yours.
Kevin Bishop came to my attention when he played a variety of roles in a TV series of comedy pop/rock-umentaries a few years back. I think it was called Star Stories. It was really good, he’s a brilliant character actor. Couple of days ago I watched Stephen Hendry’s Q-tips, Barry Hearn was the guest. . . . Kevin Bishop got him spot on.
No surprise to portray Steve Davis as a rite lemon 😂
He’s actually a really decent bloke.
@@a.tanner8524 he is indeed.
Yeah, snooker has only 2 Men to thank, Higgins and the sometimes forgotten Mr. Ray Reardon. 😃
And colour tv
Had the film concentrated upon the 1970s more, then Ray Reardon would have been a major character in the plot.
Ray Reardon once bought me a pint :)
It's my only claim to fame :(
Kevin Prior made a stellar performance I thought, great piece of art this film.
He sounded like Higgins and acted like Higgins but didn't look like him.
Actor who played Higgins is Luke Tredway
22:50 nice to hear Another One Bites The Dust by Queen 👍
Where u get this video ?? Very good
That ending 😢
Can't help but agree with his actions at 1:11:25 - that song is grating !
Well all i can say is that if Joe Davis made the rules and show the game of Snooker to the World than Alex Higgins nutured it and made this game for the people. 99.9999% play this game by head but people like Alex Higgins and Ronnie play it by heart. Steve Davis Stephen Hendry and players like them play by the rules but Players like Alex Higgings Ray Reardon Ronnie O' Sullivan make and create the rules. Till there is eternity there would be only one People's Champion "The Hurricane Higgins"
Agreed. I used to live in Whitwell in Derbyshire & everyday would walk past the great Joe Davis's house with the blue plaque. Amazing. I would also include the "Whirlwind" Jimmy White in that caste too
@@mattylee7620 so would I. Joe, Alex Jimmy Ronnie r no match. They themselves are a creator in their own.
I wonder what Steve Davies made of his portrayal in this excellent film 🤣
What is that music called at beginning of movie when Steve David walks into snooker hall
I cried when he put his babies pacifier in his mouth at the match ❤❤❤❤❤
I missed that bit in the film, but as I read your comment I do actually remember Alex doing that.
THE PEOPLES CHAMPION. FULL STOP
Did this come out on dvd?