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The stilted made up dialogue the atrocious accents the exploitation all of it is offensive to me. I tried and cannot watch it. It just literally hurts to watch it. There are one or two times when it looks like it could be sensitive and realistic but it's got huge amounts of fakeness that I just can't stand. Cannot recommend this to anyone. Why do I have to have a minimum character well okay I'll pad this out. What else do I hate the way they changed the actors and at no point do any of them look like the Royals and at no point do any of them seem like the real people in other words bad acting. But the worst is the bad dialogue which we know is all made up.

I was mesmerized in the first three and a half minutes I had heart pounding and tears at the one hour and 15 minute mark. In my method of rating movies I gave it the highest rating if it surprised me told the story well could not be improved and made me cry and had a perfect ending I don't even know the ending yet but I had to stop and write a review. For me this movie remains flawless more than 50 years after it was made. Everyone talks about the car chase. There's no other car chase like this. It is beyond a car chase. I recommend this to anyone who loves good movies who hasn't seen it yet. This makes me want to watch more great movies like this.

To anyone under 70 writing a review here. Be aware that all movies made in this time frame mid-60s were like this. So were all TV dramas. There's nothing special here and plenty that's irritating. I can't believe how many of these reviewers think that something is stunning because it's in black and white. Everything was in black and white at one time. It doesn't make it great and neither do long silences - that's just a style of acting. Anyway aside from this I just want to say only one other person seems to have noticed Steve McQueen was lip syncing very badly to a crummy version of this famous song. It was constantly on the radio at the time and yet even now over 50 years later it irritates me that it's all throughout this movie little parts of it in every scene. And yet they don't bother playing the full hit song at all like what's up with that? I mean I just watched it on YouTube it seems to be complete except the song is missing and maybe they couldn't get the rights to the song although they got the rights to the movie?. But worse than that is the almost constant over acting. It's very much like a soap opera I mean that's fine if that's what you like. If that's what you're in the mood for that's fine. But it's only useful if you want to examine the movie Style of the mid-60s or see the various actors in it that you like. I do have all respect for this motion picture. It's just that it's only of its time and doesn't hold up. Of course it's watchable if you're in the mood. I just find it average and don't understand all the extreme accolades here.