Yul Brynner's gunslinger and a sewer escape fill Warner Bros. Rewind's week
Michael Crichton's 1973 Westworld bar shootout passed a quarter of a million views, while a two-week-old Shawshank clip neared four million.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Westworld | The Gunslinger Robot Shootout At Bar | Warner Bros. Rewind
Among the studio and trailer channels near its size, Warner Bros. Rewind gained more views over the week than all but one, Focus Features, which has twice as many subscribers. Most of the others ran well under their usual pace. This clips channel, the studio's archive of scenes from older films, held right around its own.
The most watched of five new uploads went back half a century to Westworld, the 1973 thriller Michael Crichton wrote and directed years before Jurassic Park. In the bar scene, Richard Benjamin and James Brolin meet Yul Brynner's Gunslinger for the first time. The description calls it the first feature film to use digitized images. Commenters point to that too, especially the shots of the world through the robot's eyes, and several remember the film as a childhood favorite. One calls it a prelude to The Terminator.
The rest of the week jumped between eras. James Dean flubs his Bible verses on purpose in East of Eden, DiCaprio chases Damon through Boston in The Departed, and the trio meets the troll from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, posted just in time for October.
The real engine is still The Shawshank Redemption. Andy Dufresne's escape through the sewers, posted two weeks ago, brings in far more views each day than everything else on the channel combined. Cool Hand Luke's "Stay Down, Luke" prison fight keeps a quieter pace behind it. Rock hammers and chain gangs do well here. About a thousand new subscribers arrived over the week.
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What viewers say
One of the best US movie ever made, and I love the introduction to digital with Yul Brynner's artificial vision.
@alexabadi7458See it on YouTubeWhen I was a kid, this movie was Holy Ground.
@dfhouseSee it on YouTubeYul Brynner makes a great cold blooded killer!
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Prelude to The Terminator Films.
@hengiztcol-bass1670See it on YouTubeThis movie was always a favorite of mine as a kid in the 70s!
@JamesWoodring-mu2izSee it on YouTubeBonkers movie. I like the sequel as well.
@powerbomb4833See it on YouTubeSawdust is a nice touch
@nofilter-n5rSee it on YouTubeWestworld legendary movie
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Public comments from the video's page on YouTube
The videos drawing views on Warner Bros. Rewind right now
Me after AI becomes sentient 🤠🔫 #westworld #ai10,640 views · 2026-10-02
The Departed | Chasing The Rat | Warner Bros. Rewind4,802 views · 2026-10-06
East of Eden | Talk to Me Father! | Warner Bros. Rewind3,218 views · 2026-10-03
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Troll in Dungeon | Warner Bro…2,757 views · 2026-10-07
The Shawshank Redemption | Andy Dufresne Escapes Through Sewers | War…3,792,830 views
Cool Hand Luke | Prison Fight: Stay Down, Luke | Warner Bros. Rewind78,863 views
- Channel
- Warner Bros. Rewind
- Subscribers
- 494,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 4,939,686
- Videos published this week
- 5
- Video published
- October 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 267,292
- Views on its first day
- 38,176
The numbers
Here is how Warner Bros. Rewind's week looks in figures.
💡 Test your knowledge
The Shawshank Redemption is based on a Stephen King novella. In which collection was it first published?
King's novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption appeared in his 1982 collection Different Seasons.


