I was an extra on this show that was filmed in summer 1995. Many of us from the American Air Force base R.A.F. Lakenheath were recruited for 2 days shooting the briefing scene at 29:00 & :the attack scene at 46:11 Thanks for posting.
I was an extra in this move. I was US Air Force stationed in the UK. I have wanted to see this movie for 25 years but never had a chance to. Thanks for posting.
@@catherinepositano8544 I didn’t see myself but I did enjoy finally getting to see the film. At one point I was walking outside while they were filming inside so I may not have seen much.
Where has this production been ?? It is fabulous! Haven’t laughed so much for ages!! Martin Clunes is just brilliant! Sam West shines as usual too! 🤣👍🏽🇦🇺
Love these old programmes that are kindly put out on RU-vid for us.This a wonderful.Thank you..shall watch again.I have done my DNA and found out my biological Father+Uncle served in the USA forces.
It's as good as it gets! I only know one nation that can make something this funny without it getting silly. Scared my cat off as he hasn't heard me laugh this loud for years. Clunes is just brilliant seeming much older/bolder than only 35. Thanks from Denmark
I never get sick of watching this! I taped it when it was originally on tv when it was first made then someone got it on dvd for me - just brilliantly written with a great cast X
@@jonjon9047 - Sorry Jon Jon - I don't have it to hand but someone has uploaded it to RU-vid and it's a great copy (which is how I have been watching it lately).
I love it when the American airman commander yells halt when he's standing up in a moving Jeep and fly's over the windshield that part made me laugh when I was a kid and still does to this day
Its so good to see this again! I live close to Castle Acre which was the filming location for the village scenes, so was there during most of the shooting. It was amazing to watch the Sally B (B:17) doing touch and goes at RAF West Raynham with her engines smoking for the arrival at Lytchmere scene. Good memories. Why the BBC haven't repeated this comedy gem is beyond me! Thank you for uploading it.
You’re an absolute legend. I taped this on vhs when it came out and haven’t been able to find a copy since my last video recorder died. I even emailed the bbc begging them to release it on dvd ffs 🤣
Il never knew this really existed the great john sullivan Only fools and rockin chips series written this marvellous Euthantic Ww2 drama spice of comedy 2 part brilliantly well done with good stars .
@@seltaeb3302movie: a story or event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images and shown in a theater or on television - Oxford Dictionary via Google
The Buried Life BY MATTHEW ARNOLD Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet, Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet! I feel a nameless sadness o'er me roll. Yes, yes, we know that we can jest, We know, we know that we can smile! But there's a something in this breast, To which thy light words bring no rest, And thy gay smiles no anodyne. Give me thy hand, and hush awhile, And turn those limpid eyes on mine, And let me read there, love! thy inmost soul. Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another what indeed they feel? I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference, or with blame reproved; I knew they lived and moved Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest Of men, and alien to themselves-and yet The same heart beats in every human breast! But we, my love!-doth a like spell benumb Our hearts, our voices?-must we too be dumb? Ah! well for us, if even we, Even for a moment, can get free Our heart, and have our lips unchain'd; For that which seals them hath been deep-ordain'd! Fate, which foresaw How frivolous a baby man would be- By what distractions he would be possess'd, How he would pour himself in every strife, And well-nigh change his own identity- That it might keep from his capricious play His genuine self, and force him to obey Even in his own despite his being's law, Bade through the deep recesses of our breast The unregarded river of our life Pursue with indiscernible flow its way; And that we should not see The buried stream, and seem to be Eddying at large in blind uncertainty, Though driving on with it eternally. But often, in the world's most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart which beats So wild, so deep in us-to know Whence our lives come and where they go. And many a man in his own breast then delves, But deep enough, alas! none ever mines. And we have been on many thousand lines, And we have shown, on each, spirit and power; But hardly have we, for one little hour, Been on our own line, have we been ourselves- Hardly had skill to utter one of all The nameless feelings that course through our breast, But they course on for ever unexpress'd. And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well-but 't is not true! And then we will no more be rack'd With inward striving, and demand Of all the thousand nothings of the hour Their stupefying power; Ah yes, and they benumb us at our call! Yet still, from time to time, vague and forlorn, From the soul's subterranean depth upborne As from an infinitely distant land, Come airs, and floating echoes, and convey A melancholy into all our day. Only-but this is rare- When a belovèd hand is laid in ours, When, jaded with the rush and glare Of the interminable hours, Our eyes can in another's eyes read clear, When our world-deafen'd ear Is by the tones of a loved voice caress'd- A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast, And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again. The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain, And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know. A man becomes aware of his life's flow, And hears its winding murmur; and he sees The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze. And there arrives a lull in the hot race Wherein he doth for ever chase That flying and elusive shadow, rest. An air of coolness plays upon his face, And an unwonted calm pervades his breast. And then he thinks he knows The hills where his life rose, And the sea where it goes. The End
14:24 some parts of the bombing of London at night actually is from the movie "Map of the Human Heart". If you look carefully it's actually the ill-fated Lancaster bomber 'Holy Boy'.
I'm only halfway through the first part.....tried not to laugh because I thought it was meant to be dramatic. It's a great mix of realism and comedy. Thank you 💙
This is what is called a dramady. Excellent program. Excellent cas. Wonderful use of poetry that makes one think. And lovely use of Dick Powell and Connie Boswell to set the scenes.
This is a very strange movie, not because of the storyline or the characters, it seems to me that it was filmed in a sort of abstract way, the sort of 1940s style but in colour, still going to watch it, it is very intriguing. Got it, this reminds me of the tv show “Ripping Yarns”, and that was very funny, this is not quite on the same level of comedy but is still funny.
How many planes have you shot down? 19 total. Were any of them German!!!???😂😂😂😂 This movie is so artificially accurate. The American and British Colonels are hilarious personalities are so different complete opposites makes this movie much more entertaining. The line while the British pilot is in the air and says " I thought the Americans were coming in 2 weeks" so much for briefing your squadron this movie is so fragmented and it's so hilarious. 😅😅😂😂😂
The cricket ball just came through t h e window, and I'm trying 2 decide if this is a 'Comedy', 'Comedy-drama' ....or simply supposed 2b a 'Drama' with a little humor thrown in......😁 OK.....I just heard the line "Have you heard of Pearl Harbor? .....It's not a girl from the Laundry, is it???" Guess that officially makes it a COMEDY. 😁 ...."Well, in a 'Funny old sort of way'... " this is getting 2b a Crack up!. 😁😄
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
Sally B us resident at Duxford. Thank you for posting. Irrelevant to this but my nan got admonished by Matron for stopping on way to work to help injured during air raid!!!
Over Here, TV Movie, 1996 Comedy drama set in wartime Britain showing what can happen when British RAF men and soldiers from the American Air Force are forced to share barracks. - from IMDB 8.4
I have a copy of the original army manual telling American GI's what to expect when they go to England. it's all about etiquette and language and that sort of thing but the funniest part in there is when they tell the men to remember that the young women they will meet in Britain have already experienced more actual war than they have. Lol. So true.
Yes, I have a copy of the handbook too. Pointing out the strict rationing we had to live with and when people were hospitable and invited service men to their homes to be aware that the sugar bowl would be half full with the whole families weekly ration. And showing off their material wealth and better pay was in bad taste that could cause bad feelings!
It hasn't aged particularly well, many historical errors and low-budget Special Effect and aircraft modelling, but rescued by the witty script: "have you heard about pearl Harbor?" "That's not the girl in the Laundry is it?" "Someone missing?" Riley, he went into town and got lost. He's the navigator sir!" 😁
Error...3 inches of hot water in bathtub. Also if have been fighting Germans would know sight and sound enemy aircraft and not felt need to duck down when with Pearl
The verbosity of the butler was surprising. From what I've read and seen elsewhere, they aren't supposed to talk much, and certainly not with humor. In this case, the goal of creating comedy caused the writer to steer away from a stereotype, I guess.
Question: Is this a comedy ? British humor is v. Strange. WW Ii was a horrible time around the world. I don't think the Brits are ready for American help, & not ready for the German blitzkrieg. War ain't a comedy series.
@@seltaeb3302 Nonsense. Take a movie like Laurence of Arabia. That was made in 1963., and it's not dated at all. Even a movie like Gone with the Wind stands up better than Over Here.
@@etiennenobel5028 Gotta disagree. This is a period piece and they did spectacularly in creating the feel of WWII; also, true wit withstands the passage of time. The difference between the films you mentioned and "Over Here" is the deliberate inclusion of humor. Sorry it wasn't to your liking. Everyone is a critic these days.
@@shepbuchanan7686 Sorry But I disagree Shep. Laurence of Arabia and Gone with the Wind is full of humour. The humour in Over Here is very obvious - and dated. :-)
