Force 10 from Navarone (1978)

I really like this film. It is fun to watch. It has an assortment of actors: ford, fox, shaw, Kiel, etc. . I really like Barbara Bach. She is still very attractive and her acting is fun to watch. It appears everybody is having fun in the film. The only question I have is why did Mallory switch from being an American, (peck) to being British, (shaw) ? It is a great film for a big bowl of popcorn! I only wish they would have made it a little sooner. I can understand why they didn't. Ford was unknown at the time of American graffiti. I wish they show an unedited version on TV. Luckily I have a VHS copy in my library. I was wondering if this is on DVD. I watch this movie usually on Saturday or Sunday to make it feel like going to the movies.

This movie sequel to the Guns of Navarone was made and released about eighteen years after that film . Successful warlike picture well acted and finely directed by Guy Hamilton . Thrilling and rousing film is set about two years after the events of Guns of Navarone , in which a valiant and skilled trio , Harrison Ford-Robert Shaw-Edward Fox , is dispatched to a dangerous mission during World War II in Yugoslavia . This powerful , dramatic story from the Alistair McLean novel starts when the commanding staff assigns a mission to several oddly assorted military experts as Mallory , now been promoted to the rank of Major (played by Robert Shaw in this sequel and was his last film completed , he was called Captain Jack Mallory ; in the original was played there by Gregory Peck) and Miller, who has now been promoted to the rank of Sergeant (played by Edward Fox who replaced Ian Bannen ,here was called Corporal Dusty Miller , in the original performed by David Niven) . They are teamed to discover a traitor and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy . The outfit must destroy a huge dam and a bridge that threaten the Allied . To do so , they must sneak throughout the Nazis' noses disguised as German soldiers.It is one of the most thrilling and moving films set on the years of the Second World War . This interesting wartime picture contains high-powered action-packed , shootouts , explosions , floods , mass slaughter and lots of fun . Fairly decent acting by the star-studded , a traditional all-cast , this Box office hit is a funny , exciting WWII actioner . Common production personnel who worked on or were credited for both this movie sequel and the original The Guns of Navarone included novelist Alistair MacLean , producer-scriptwriter Carl Foreman, production designer Geoffrey Drake, editor Raymond Poulton and production supervisor / production accountant Sidney G. Barnsby . Highlighted by a stirring and thrilling climax with overwhelming action scenes proceeded by a good technician and artistic team. The picture is well set in Yugoslavia and results to be a great super-production with all-star-cast , impressive scenes , shimmer photography and a vibrant sound , the time has increased its value ; despite its releasing was panned by critics . The acting of the interesting characters is believable and convincing , furthermore and enjoyable support cast as Carl Weathers , Franco Nero , Alan Badel , Michael Byrne and it's one of three movies, all made during the mid-late 1970s, that actress Barbara Bach and actor Richard Kiel both appeared , it includes The humanoid , Spy who loved me and Force 10 . Director Guy Hamilton uses a clip from his earlier film Battle of England when the Messerschmitt attacks the Lancaster bomber and the so-called German Panzer tanks shown at the end of the movie are actually Soviet T-34s - a medium tank produced from 1940 to 1958 . The screenplay has eloquent dialogue , humor , double-crosses , continuous tension and surprising twists that keep the viewer's attention . Sweeping wartime movie epic from the director of 'James Bond's Goldfinger' presents the historic events of hokey manner but it does so fascinatingly . All in all,it's a successful piece of warlike fluff. Although overlong ,has good battle footage , solid acting , breathtaking scenes which help offset a sometimes far-fetched plot, but suffers on television , as the small screen damages its really spectacular images. The soundtrack by French composer Maurice Jarre , Jean Michel Jarre's father , is full of vibrant sound , brings a solemn score, cutting edge, played by an orchestra of wind . Colorful cinematography in glimmer color by Christopher Challis , being filmed on location in Jersey, Channel Islands , Mediterranean Film Studios, Malta , (studio), Montenegro , Plymouth Docks, Plymouth, Devon, England,Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK . Guy Hamilton' filmmaking is absorbent and entertaining , a good job , and the production shoot for this movie went for sixteen weeks . Rating : good but inferior to original , wholesome seeing . This picture should please most action-war-adventure buffs.Interesting screenplay by Robin Chapman based on a novel by Alistair MacLean . He wrote many best-selling action novels that were turned into often successful movies. When asked to comment on why his stories were so popular he remarked that he always wrote stories that were visual. Since they were easy to imagine when the books were read, they were easy to film . This flick is one of several movies based on an Alistair MacLean novels set in rugged battles during WWII , the first was ¨ Guns of Navarone¨ , after that , it would be ¨ When eagles dare¨ by Brian H Hutton . And subsequently post World War and Cold War as ¨Bear Island¨ by Don Sharp and ¨River of death¨ by Steve Carver ; in addition , two adaptations directed by John Sturges : ¨Ice Station Zebra¨ , ¨The Satan Bug¨.

'Force 10 From Navarone'; except that it has nothing to do with Navarone and contains none of the original stars.A youthful Harrison Ford leads a reasonable cast featuring an embittered Negro and a couple of British characters, inevitably represented as eccentric - this time to the point of being camp. The latter is such a tiresome Hollywood pose that it might serve to explain why they always seem intent on demonstrating how America actually won the war. The British just saw it as a jolly game.This movie so blatantly trades upon the original 1960's classic that 'rip-off' is almost an understatement. But it's not the only one. We had the pukerific 'Mosquito Squadron' composed largely of out-takes from '633 Squadron' and 'The Dambusters', not to mention 'Return From The River Kwai', which had nothing to do with the River Kwai', but which - like this crap - simply traded on the name.If this movie had been simply called 'Force 10', it would have drawn the kind of indifferent response it deserved; but by grafting on 'From Navarone', it probably got twice as many bums on seats at its release.Disengaged from its pretensions; there is the substance of a decent wartime thriller here. The cast, plot, and dramatic interludes are all formulaic, but that doesn't necessarily mean dull. There's some interesting location stuff - especially within the bowels of the dam - which look well thought-out and convincing. It's just that the directorial pacing is so pedestrian, things seem to be happening at almost half-speed. That, plus the mediocre script and uninvolving characters, reduce it to a very ordinary set-piece movie. I'd like to say 'thriller', but it was just too slow. I've seen sharper documentaries. A good 30mins could have been shaved off without detriment.Worth a first watch if you haven't seen it, but not recommended; and certainly not collectible. Five to six stars is about right.

Seems like an action/adventure but ends up espionage and is overall a World War II film, and not a real sequel as two characters from THE GUNS OF NAVARONE, played by different actors, Robert Shaw and Edward Fox, join a group of Americans, led by Harrison Ford (basking from the prior year's STAR WARS fame), all sent from England into Yugoslavia: Ford's mission to blow up a bridge, Shaw's to kill a German agent.One must suspend disbelief to truly enjoy the plodding yet lightly involving odyssey as both missions intertwine, and you never really know which peripheral character's on the right side, adding intrigue and a fair amount of suspense.While it's much too easy for our heroes to traipse around Nazi-ridden Yugo without being killed, there's enough snags (like being captured twice by easily-tricked Germans) that you'll either forget or embrace that, for better or worse, this is complete fantasy.