The Big Lift - Full Movie | Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas, Cornell Borchers, Bruni Löbel 

Your father was another hero unrecognized as such but surely was one ..

Thanks for posting this film . !l’m having a gemutiliche abend

Many good films made in the ruins of Post War Europe. Very haunting to see sights my Mom saw at 18 years old...

Stole my thought there. The more things change 🤔

Hopefully u don't feel Fox is the answer....spreading hate & fear & misinformation thru their op-eds is not news....most news outlets are good & u don't need to "think & do" what they say....u can form your own opinions from a number of sources ....

You have that right. 🗽

Why did FOX News come to mind as I read your post!!!!

@@mughug9616 you misspelled CNN !

Thank you for your service!

someone should make a movie on the supply mission dropping off ammo and food to the troops in Viet Nam remote outposts Kang Son, that was under fire for 45 days with the C130 cargo plane. i was one of the mechanics fixing the shot-up C130 when returning from the remote outpost. plane limp back with boocoo rounds in the rudder, flaps, and the engine components. i had to chisel out a hydraulic pump, a starter and an air inlet oil cooler frequently. nothing can bring down a C130 unless it does touch and go parachute jettison cargo on a short dirt strip. at least these flyboys do not have to face the firing round, just intimidation from the Red-commies. top brass should just bomb Moscow and Leningrad with the leftover WWII bombs. that was a real mistake letting the Red-commies off the Nazi grip.

not Clift's first film

Good acting !

Starve it out wow history really does repeat itself.

Great film? What about all the other nations involved?

"how GREAT we Americans can be."....You could claim that if you had done it alone, but you didn;t, The US was just a part of it,.

Americans are a very proud race alas.

​@@theoracle6639Yes the British Royal Air Force did a major airlift right alongside the Americans

Well done ! the genorosity of the Americans did wonders for the Germans who had only recently been enemies. The Yanks worked very hard to achieve this humanitarian effort. We should remember that several died on this mission .

What year?

Mom lived in Karlsruhe (home town) after the War ended. French Occupation Zone with Algerians riding those tiny donkees. During War lived in Krakow, Poland. Escaped on train of Army Nurses as Russians approached. 95 now. Has met Adolf Hitler and Albert Einstein !

hey there, your dad must be the one who flew Capitol Airlines when UA got started. I worked for UA for 16 years from 1986 to 2002 when it filed for chapter 11. The last overhauled jet I worked on was the PW4090 for the 777 twin-engine widebody

@@rtchow3000 It was my uncle, not my dad.

Yes! And tear inducingly handsome.

he is not a very convincing actor when he trys to play a romantic scene with a woman, another rock hudson,

I grew up with pictures of Berlin from the air my dad took flying over. I agree with your statement.

Michael, another excellent film from the period is "The Search", also with Montgomery Clift. It's about a little boy who was separated from his entire family and interred in a concentration camp and when it's liberated he and hundreds of other children like him were sent to Bases where they could be housed until their parents could find them or have them sent to new lives in Israel. He runs away to find his mother who he believes is still alive. Montgomery Clift is the young GI who helps him. It's an amazing story and also filmed on location so the destruction and rubble is real.

How about today 3 wars taxpayers are keeping going.?

Hollywood quickly wanted to reestablish their European market which was devastated by the World War II. They were not going offend an German audience by portraying them in a negative light.

@@ricardocantoral7672 Film also used as anti-Russian propaganda

Ace Handler .....probably because they finally realized the real enemy was the Russians...

Everybody's gotta eat.

@@ricardocantoral7672 You're correct in the sense Hollywood DID want to re-establish its European markets, but its more than that. From about 1946-52, 20th Century-Fox became the top studio in Hollywood because it was making the most daring movies. Whether it was race relations ("Gentleman's Agreement," "Pinky" or "No Way Out"), legal justice ("Call Northside 777," and "Boomerang"), mental illness ("The Snake Pit" and "Whirlpool") and films which presented Germans in a nicer light ("The Big Lift," "Decision Vefore Dawn" and "The Desert Fox."), Fox was pushing the buttons.

aaah the old unreliable rabbit ears, eh? and no remote, had to get off the chair to manually change channels only to find loads of black and white commercials of alka seltzer with the kerpulnk fizz, Chesterfield (cough-cough!) cigarettes, rear engine Chevy Corvairs, Ajax laundry soap knights chasing folks with a long lances, crying "stronger than dirt", Fred and Barney smoking Winstons in Bedrock......

@@jamesalexander3530 Thanks for all those old commercials' tunes in my head now! Along with Gillette razors and Aqua-Velva man! But we never had the rabbit ears antenna; my dad had to climb up on the roof while I stood by an open window telling him what effect each tweak he made was having on the reception. And we had to use 2 old black and white TVs, one on top of the other: one had only sound, and the other had only picture. We were poor, but my dad was very resourceful, cheerful, and never complained. He enjoyed watching war history dramas, and westerns, but almost always fell asleep during them, being so exhausted from working 14 hour days building sea walls, bridges, and piers. Maybe I grew to love the same type movies by finishing watching them for my dad while he slept. I don't remember ever seeing "The Big Lift" before, but it is an outstanding production. I was amazed with every scene to know that Douglas and Clift were the only actors, and that all the others were actual military personnel. They were all natural born actors, in that case! I liked when the pilot is going through the checklist and asks, "Fingers crossed?", and the immediate response is, "Fingers crossed." 🙂

I loved him as the unlikely hero in 14 Hours.

@@ricardocantoral7672 IMO he was definitely one of the finest actors that ever lived.

Agree. Surprisingly similar. I think Clift was braver in his film roles.

He also had that something that in my opinion made him a little better actor than Tom.

Montgomery was more handsome/beautiful imo.

definitely similarities in appearance

Montgomery Clift was Way better looking than Tom Cruise even after the car wreck that ruined his face. And... he would never of been so mindless to of become not only a scientology but the spokesman for that absurd twisted cult.

@25:35 At the Templehof award ceremony The American Captain mentions the French and British contribution to the Berlin airlift.

It's a USA movie.

@@chipieal .. Yes.. Hollywood making it look like the USA won the coldwar again all by itself.

It is because the airport Tempelhof was in the american sector and not in the british sector. The british landed with their planes in Gatow (near the river Havel) in the district of Spandau/Berlin which was part of the british sector then. That is the real explanation.

By Black soldiers who never appeared elsewhere in the film--except for a truck driver. Segregated army, even after 1947 desegregation order by Truman.

@@bigalsez Gen. Dwight D Eisenhower tried to convince Franklin Roosevelt to desegregate the military during ww2, FDR would not consider it. FDR wanted to shut down the Tuskeegee Airman program, but his wife made him continue it. Eisenhower went on to to become a 2 term Republican president and it was he who shut down the racist segregated schools that the Democrats like Orval Faubus, and Geo. Wallace vowed not to end. Ike sent the troops down and kicked open the doors for blacks as the Democrats attempted to block the doors.

Some are still there.

@@spikespa5208 Yes, three of them are still there. Too difficult to destroy so they were repurposed.