I came to the U.S. as an orphan. In '67 I enlisted in the Marines. I spent almost 3 years in combat before being injured and sent home. I'm 74+ I still watch this movie pretty regular. I still almost snap to attention when they play this song. Even gets a tear every now and then. We all stood together, we all worked together and we all shared in what makes the country great.
Thanks for serving with the Marines and for the United States of America. My brother was also a Marine. My other brother and me both served in the Army. All of us were also wounded in Vietnam. God Bless America
@@garnetgriffin7083 I served a total of two years, six months and twenty-five days. It was the end of June when I was seriously injured, patched up and sent stateside. You all are my brothers. We will always be brothers. All of us who wore the uniform.
@John M2 I got my draft notice when I was 20. There was a miserable sack of "S" Republican in office, and we were in a war we should never have gotten into. over 58,000 young men died for no good reason. Don't give me that political crap. We are in the toilet and both sides of the isle are to blame. You don't make a mess like this in just one administration or 2 or 3 or more. I went because my country called on me and I did my job. Carol and I have been married 57 years. We've had a great life. We made it so, no thanks to the turds in D.C.
James Cagney is absolutely amazing in this film. It’s so joyful! I wasn’t really a James Cagney fan before but I am now I’ve seen this film! I never even realised previously that he was a song and dance man! I thought he just made gangster films!!
The girl singing in this scene is Frances Langford who, unfortunately, has been all but forgotten today but who, during World War II, spent a great deal of her time travelling and entertaining Allied troops. She was beautiful, sweet and very talented and I still enjoy, thanks to You Tube, hearing her sing.
This movie was released in the same week as the battle of midway. Patriotism was running high in America, and when Cagney shouts "Everybody sing!!" People in the theaters did!
Sad to say, I agree, when I see these movies it reminds me of how our Country was, and when I grew up on the 50"s and I'm 78 now, but we are losing thus Country. If we don't start talking and doing.
team effort only. that's the only way Americans work. Washington was offered the job of KING. He said NO. Pointed out, kings die and their children are not often worthy. We have NO KINGS. It's not perfect, but there is a reason why s many flags are red white and blue, they respected the first Democracy. We are a team, an imperfect team, but being a team means we all have to stand up and do our part. My husband is a veteran your. age. Let's say what Trump has said about our veterans and military, my husband HID his asthma for all his career so he could continue in the military like his father who served in both WWII and Korea. Respect our military, have some relatives that served, they are a big part of the team.
As I said to someone in these comments, thank you to George M. Cohan. For these patriotic songs. He was laid to rest in a mausoleum in a cemetery down the block from my apartment here in the Bronx. Every July 4th (his birthday) they place flowers at his crypt . And thank YOU, Mr. James Cagney for your Oscar winning performance!
I grew up in and around Woodlawn Cemetery. My Father used to take us there to feed the ducks, and take tours of famous graves ( Herman Melville is one)...Great Memories
It often gets overlooked, but the woman singing with Cagney in this scene is Frances Langford, who did a lot of touring with Bob Hope during WWII. To hear Hope tell it in his book, "Don't Shoot, It's Only Me," she was a lot braver than he was.
This film is a work of art, a genuine flag-waver made with heart & soul. The songs 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' and 'Over There' give me goose-bumps, and the moment James Cagney looks straight into the camera and shouts 'everybody sing!' can bring tears to my eyes. They really knew how to do this stuff back then, sadly now it's all forgotten.
It is a beautiful film. I watched it over Lockdown. At first I thought it would be boring - I had never heard of George Cohan before- but it is one of the best films ever made. ‘ Give my regards to Broadway’ is a wonderful song too. I love it when the ship sails away and when the firework is let off it is transformed into a spotlight on James Cagney! It’s a marvellous film and the sound recording is of such fantastic quality.
For the patriotic scenes, I think the fact that most people involved were patriotic and believed in our Country and her promise added to the high quality of the acting and cinematography.
This song is significant and meaningful to me because I was in the Army and served in Iraq twice, along with many brave men and women who just did their duty. It is a great song. Music and lyrics have such power, even on film from 73 years ago. The Lion Shares
Did their duty?? LOL Moron. So you went marching off to die based on the word of journalists and politicians?? LMFAO. I'm a 100%$ disabled Veteran and know for a fact that we were all suckers. What country are we fighting over there stupid?? Maybe, in WW2, we should have only fought the SS. We defeated Germany and Japan in less than 4 years. Tell us all how long we have been fighting over there?? Stupid sucker!
Michael Whisman Hate to break it to you but “marching off to die based on the words of politicians” is how every soldier goes off to fight. Just because you may think we’re over their today because of “oil” or what have you just proves your ignorance. Men have been going to war for centuries at the call of politicians, even the Romans went off to war because of the Caesar and Senate (all politicians!). Be careful who you call a dumbass because you clearly aren’t any smarter than who you are belittling.
Wow, super clarity of this clip. I have seen this movie 70 times and never tire of it. One of my favorite parts. I also love the last seen where a soldier asks an aged GM Cohan " What's the matter old timer, don't you remember this song" and Cohan replies," Indeed I do", and starts singing with his eyes filling with tears always gets me. Love the movie, Cagney's own favorite that he won the Oscar for best actor. Thanks for posting this trumpetboy 1955.
This is one of the few stand alone songs written by Cohan. It was not part of a play like "Yankee Doodle Dandy", "Give My Regards To Broadway" or "Mary". It was immensely popular when it came out and covered by everyone, including opera singer Enrico Caruso!
From 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' (1942). The singer is Frances Langford who was a big deal in her day! From IMDb: Frances Langford (1913-2005) won fame on radio (primarily as Bob Hope's vocalist, later sparring comically with Don Ameche as "The Bickersons"), via recordings and in the movies. In spite of the fact that she played mostly in minor musicals (plus appearing occasionally in "A" productions, including Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), This Is the Army (1943) and The Glenn Miller Story (1954)), she introduced major songs like "I'm in the Mood for Love" in Every Night at Eight (1935), "You are My Lucky Star" and "Broadway Rhythm" in Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935), Cole Porter's "Easy to Love" in Born to Dance (1936) and "Hooray for Hollywood" in Hollywood Hotel (1937).
My dad saw Bob Hope on an early USO tour to Australia in 1942(?)--he was in an RAAF hospital recovering from malaria--Both Frances Langford and Jerry Colonna were with him--over the years I lost the photos he took
The song they are singing ‘Over There’ was a popular patriotic song from the First World War era. Even the great operatic star Enrico Caruso made a recorded version of it in his heavily accented English. And what can be said about James Cagney that hasn’t already been said. He was one of the very best in a now bygone era. He won an Oscar for his performance of George M. Cohan in this picture ‘Yankee Doodle Dandy’. He was fabulous.
I have always said that this should be the song for the Army! It’s so motivational and inspiring!! Thank you for writing this song George M. Cohan!!❤❤❤❤
The greatest talent that has ever existed in all of Cinema is James Cagney. No one could ever sing dance perform and be dramatic better than he could. At the end of his life he was not far from where I live now in Dutchess County and I'm privileged have seen everything he's ever done in his acting and singing career. I don't think we'll ever see anyone as incredible as he was.
This 74 year old Marine understands what this great patriotic tune🎶🎶🎵 stands for. America can send its boys into combat to defeat turany. God Bless any of those who honored the call to defend freedom. Semper Fi Class of '69 - '71, and I'd do it all over again👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Ah, back in the time when Americans were proud to be American. National pride and a safe knowledge that our nation was on the rise. I think we need something like this today.
During WW2, people gladly watched movies as this. Americans then were very patriotic. After Pearl Harbor was bombed, a mob of young men rushed the offices in every state to enlist. Professional singers and dancers gladly spent hours entertaining our GIs through the USO. Americans rarely griped about rationing and shortages. Children collected stuff to recycle for the war effort. Those people are not called the greatest generation for nothing. I doubt there will ever be such a generation ever again. A perfect movie of the American homefront is Remember When, from 1974, with Jack Warden and Tim Matheson. It's on DVD, and sometimes on TCM.
I don’t know about greatest. They were the ones there at the time and they stepped up more or less. But I don’t think they did anything the rest of us would not have done
@@clarencebland4861 3 of my uncles served in world war II - not one of them considered himself greater than my grandfather who served in the Army in world war I. And not one of them ever claimed that they were greater than the guys that served in Korea or Vietnam. This whole "greatest generation" concept is a media creation.
Tom Brokaw wrote a fine book with that title and now somehow it’s gospel. Someone said look at today’s generation…I have. Outstanding young men, and women, are standing up strong to protect our country. Now, if those who think otherwise consider themselves as weak and incapable then I feel for them. But I sleep well at night knowing that the defense of our nation is in good hands. Not only that but I also know that there are always those who think that the people of their youth are/were better than the current ones. I saw a clip of ty cobb lamenting the state of baseball at that time. The time that he was talking about was the time of Willie, Mickey, and the Duke! Bob Feller! Warren Spahn! Hank Aaron! And the like.
One of my favorite songs by James Cagney over there. He portrayed George M Cohan. And was given a gold medal in 1940 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He entertained our troops during the war.
My dad who passed in 2017 at age 92 saw Frances Langford live along with Jack Carson when he was on the heavy cruiser USS Louisville CA 28 from 1943-46 in WW2. The Louisville was in Pearl Harbor getting repaired in June 1945 after being hit by the 3 rd kamikaze. Thanks for posting.
Tony Trotta one of my dearest friends was a Pearl Harbor survivor..Great Americans! He stayed in the Navy for a full career retired a Commander and went on to live a wonderful life! I’m sorry you lost your dad..they were the Greatest Generation! And, man, did they have some great music to enjoy. My friend loved to dance (apparently they did a lot of that too;-))
I came from China and I am still listening to this song for over 10 years now. I have it on my Apple Music. Thank you for all the people served for this great country. ❤
when I was a kid, Million Dollar Movie on channel 9 in New York played the same movie numerous times for a whole week. I think I watched this movie 20 times in one week lol
You are right . I remember watching it with my parents and I fell in love with the music and the movie. It took me years until they had it on vcr and I got it. I now after many years have the show on DVD and CDs. Every so often, I watch the movie and have the music playing in my car. Another good show and music was "Stars and Stripes Forever" which is about John Philip Sousa and protrayed by Clifton Webb and that music makes you feel like marching. Both songwriters were amazing and loved the USA . We are sorely in need of patriotic songwriters like them, now more than ever. Thanks for helping me take a walk down memory lane . Bye.
This is the best old- time movie that gives me the "America F-Yeah" feeling. G.M. Cohan is a true American success story and I'm glad an immigrant (Michael Curtiz) directed this film along with so many other favorites in his own time. God bless the USA and it's inherent goal of a more perfect union!
What I find fascinating about George is that as all the things going on the world happened during his time, he could have chosen to live an ordinary life to do what he wanted, but instead dedicated his life to raising our spirits during some pretty tough and dismal days. He more or less proved that it's one thing to fight and die for your country, but that to LIVE for it can just as powerful a sacrifice. Bonus points from me for being Irish too! God bless you, George, and God bless James Cagney for immortalizing you in cinema.
The movies and the actors back then were classier than the ones today. Today this might be considered a propaganda movie. No, it was an inspiration for victory.
@@4rnnr_as it's portraying war as a glorious and good and necessary thing. It might be well intentioned, but it's still propaganda. It's trying to encourage people to enlist in the army and fight in world war II (which is a political cause), while deliberately downplaying the horrors of war. It's still a good movie, but it's still a form of propaganda.
Among the frenzy of millions of Parisians, the US Army band played this song as several US divisions marched through the main streets of Paris on July 4, 1917. General Pershing pressed the French flag to his lips. The hopes of millions of allies skyrocketed and the Germans knew they were in deep shit..
Si los USA no hubieran entrado en la guerra europea, tal vez Alemania gana la guerra y el mundo europeo no hubiera sentido los estragos que sentieran años despues por el maldito tratado de Versalles que le impusieron a Alemania, este tratado trajo la SGM...y no se hubieran perdido tantas generaciones de juventudes de los paises aliados como del eje en SGM...tienes que leer la historia europea, sus conflictos para que respecte a una nacion que solo pidio a un pais que castigara a los que mataron al Archiduque de Baviera, no lo hicieron y eso trajo la PGM....historia mejor comience a leer y no digas estupideces.
Yankee Doodle Dandy was released in 1942, shortly after the United States entered World War II. The outcome of the war was still in doubt then, and this movie definitely raised morale at this critical junction,
Orson Welles was adamant in his belief that James Cagney was the greatest actor to ever appear in front of a camera. Well, there has been a few more actors come along since Welles made that statement in 1974. Fifty years later I think Welles belief about Cagney is still true. My maternal grandmother was born in 1894 and three of her brothers went “over there”. This George M. Cohan song is one that grandma would sing to me when I was a boy (early 1960s). All those years later, I can close my eyes and hear her voice - “Over there, over there”. By the way, all three of her brothers came back.
This a great portrayal of our American tradition of setting differences aside at the waters edge and Uniting as One Country Under God to face a common enemy. God Bless America,May She forever stand Free and Just , Blessings to one all
Freedom has a very expensive price tag. Stand and thank all who have answered America's call to duty. People like my Dad,Alex an only son who asnwered the call of duty during WW2 and served in the US Army. Remember Amercians can make America whatever she is or will be. Stand tall and proud.
This is one of my favorite moments of this film. I was just thinking about something. Looking this movie up on Wikipedia, this movie debuted on June 6, 1942. It was on that day that the United States Navy and her allies on the ocean won a considerable victory at Midway against the Japanese, which of course was at a great human cost. Since the war for the United States only started about 6 months before that with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the effort to fight back, according to history, was sluggish for the Allies. This movie, since it debuted on the same date as a major victory, must have been one hell of a moral booster when it was shown in theatres. I cannot help but wonder what the audiences of the time thought, and there had to be at least some soldiers, marines, or perhaps naval seamen in that crowd. When I see the frame of Cagney, looking to the audience of the troops of World War I, and screaming "Everybody Sing!" I can only imagine how the audience viewing the film would have reacted, singing along with those in the film. (Not very many films of the WW2 era broke the 4th wall, but I think this one did it brillantly).
It was booed in the UK! And I would say that, you should look up when the Japanese bombed Peral Harbour, of you dont know, dont fucking comment you ignorant twat. Until Hitler delcared war on the USA, Great Britain stood alone, remember that you arse
Do YOU know when Pearl Harbor was bombed?!? December, 1941! 6 months before the release of this movie and the Battle of Midway. And FYI there were quite a few men who went to England and flew for the RAF, soooo, your argument of "Britain/England stood alone" doesn't hold a lot of water.
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II which occurred between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
@@JimWalsh-rl5dj First off, the name calling is unnecessary. Second, reread the damn post. He said this debuted in June of 1942, about 6 months after Pearl Harbor. In other words, his timing is correct. And like it or not, Great Britain and the United States were inextricably linked during World War II, having already been allies for many years beforehand.
OVER THERE BY JAMES CAGNEY: WONDERFUL SONG. ONE OF THE GREATEST PATRIOTIC SONGS EVER WRITTEN!! THE LYRICS KEEP RINGING IN MIND!! THIS IS WHEN USA WAS A STRONG NATION!! I PRAY USA WILL BE A STRONG COUNTRY AGAIN. JAMES CAGNEY, A WONDERFUL, GREAT ACTOR!! HANDSOME!! TQ KINDLY FOR LOVELY PERFORMANCE!! 🎇 😊.
What a commitment by the yanks. We won't come back until it's over over there. It's questionable whether Britain could have held out without the Yanks. Thanks fellas from the UK. I know it's no light thing.
Well sir, several years later we did it again, only MUCH bigger. No choice. I think that the end of WW I signaled the beginning of the end to the old foolish and outdated resentments in America towards Britain. It was time to reconcile.
We couldn’t have. We did our bit by holding back (quickly boosted by our Commonwealth brethren) the scourge tide of Fascism until the Yanks came in with their numbers, wealth and industrial might.
The movie is watchable on many formats and DVD. Why, it's always been there to watch. It is a bit dated, but holds up as a really enjoyable film to watch.
Great show. James Cagney was so talented. The war United our country like no other time. We were all Americans fighting for one thing for all. Freedom.
Usually I don't advertise these emotions, but the sacrifices that all allied nations made & USA coming into it... USA only had to revenge against Japan, but they fully supported the fight against the Nazis too... To USA & all Allies & my Uncle who was front line France... THANK YOU!! ❤
This is a great outtake of a movie called "OVER THERE" I think. Brings back memories of the music of the 1940's. Great patriotic music. Thank you for posting.
The Russian PEOPLE gave a great sacrifice, and I am eternally thankful to them. But quite frankly America AND uranium-235 would have won the war by themselves.
A different World. Sure times were difficult but there was a sense amongst all people of the free World - led by a strong President of the USA - that we would join together and do whatever necessary to preserve liberty. Alas, now an increasingly distant memory.
This is what we once had....this is what we somehow lost on the way...lost in the strident yelling of those who believe in nothing, those who would have everything and give nothing, those who no longer believe in our country and no longer believe in themselves..
"The Great War" was a real mixed bag. We needed to help fight against Germany. But President Wilson and the others bungled the peace and we paid for that with WW2.
President Wilson didn’t bungle the peace. The US Congress wouldn’t join the League of Nations partially designed by Wilson and it became ineffectual in keeping the peace without US support and membership.
And sorry, but you are all wrong in you opinion....better started to read history of europeans countries,reason of WWI started what was the Versalles Treaty...in 1917, Wilson do not wanto that his country be in european war, but Lusitania ship was hit by german boat and kill 12 gringos on board, then US get to european war....you do not paid WW2 that is another history you must started to read in history books of war.
ART MCPHARLIN Nope, Trump actually made things worse, because he thinks we should be racist, not care about the environment or global warming, and support Hitler wannabes like Kim Jong Un and Putin, instead of encouraging unity and forward thinking.
Um that would be no. The orange turd is a racist, a misogynist, an Islamophobe, a xenophobe, a homophobe, and is paranoid. He is also a narcissistic sociopath. He is an insult to my intelligence and an embarrassment to the more than half of the country who did not vote for him. With his impending implosion we can all be thankful for this nightmare to soon be over. Trump 2020, the farewell tour.
Patriotism at its finest 🇺🇸..my family has served in the military going back to the Revolutionary War...we always honor those who have served our country
Johnnie, get your gun Get your gun, get your gun Take it on the run On the run, on the run Hear them calling, you and me Every son of liberty Hurry right away No delay, go today Make your daddy glad To have had such a lad Tell your sweetheart not to pine To be proud her boy's in line Over there, over there Send the word, send the word over there That the Yanks are coming The Yanks are coming The drums rum tumming everywhere So prepare, say a prayer Send the word, send the word to beware We'll be over, we're coming over And we won't come back till it's over, over there
Frederick Wise Excuse me, Frederick, you seem unaware Iraq's collapse led straight to ISIS and a massive refugee and terrorism problem in Europe. Rumsfeld & co. went in without a long term strategy, without a clue about the Shia-Sunni divide. UN resolutions only matter if they suit US foreign policy... Bush used 9/11 as an excuse to finish business in Iraq, but the real sponsor of terrorism was and still is Saudi Arabia. From the 9/11 hijackers to radical Wahabi mosques in Europe.
