Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
Genre: Action / War
Duration: 118 minuten / 126 minuten (gerestaureerde versie)
Alternative titles: Force Ten from Navarone / Alistair MacLean's Force 10 from Navarone
Country:
United Kingdom / United States
Directed by: Guy Hamilton
Stars: Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford and Edward Fox
IMDb score:
6,4 (21.547)
Releasedate: 16 August 1978
Force 10 from Navarone plot
"Explosive high adventure!"
During World War II, several military experts are assembled into a group to carry out a mission together. Their mission is to occupy a dam and detonate it.
Actors and actresses
Mallory
Barnsby
Maritza
Miller
Lescovar
Weaver
Drazak
Petrovitch
Schroeder
Jensen
Reviews & comments
Roger Thornhill
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- 6221 messages
- 2558 votes
Saw it in the cinema at the time, and was bitterly disappointed. Now rewatched for fun, and with low expectations it was actually not that bad, especially for watching stars who sometimes actually went to some trouble for their check. Long live Edward Fox! But all in all, I will soon forget this one, unlike its famous predecessor (Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, David Niven, Anthony Quayle, Irene Papas, Stanley Baker, Gia Scala, and in [much] smaller roles James Robertson Justice, Richard Harris and Bryan Forbes -- licking my lips I write these names down) that I really shouldn't compare him to.
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Boneka
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- 2810 messages
- 1410 votes
Could be 40 years since I saw this movie on TV. And yes, I still remember quite a lot. The train journey, the traitor the dam, the woman who eventually dies the Partisans, Lescovar and Drazak. (Chetniks) what was the NSB here in the former Yugoslavia. So yes, the film has stuck after all this time. Beautiful roles again for Robert Shaw. Just about his last film before his fatal heart attack and Edward Fox as the classic Englishman. Always fun I must say. H. Ford doesn't really play convincingly in this movie. Saw that Edward Fox also played in Soldier of Orange and Bridge too far. Anyway, a lot of stars can be admired here.
I had left the film itself a bit long for a second viewing, because the blu-ray was not exactly sparkling. A new copy has recently arrived (very nice book and maps included and the picture is actually better. It is certainly not 4K, but apart from the beginning a lot better.
Okay Force 10 from Navarone was supposed to be the sequel to the Guns of Navarone. But he is nowhere near that level. That's not to say this is a bad movie, certainly not, but it's all a bit less. More unbelievable and much more adventurous with separate characters invented. It is of course all fiction as with The Guns of Navarone, but the credibility is simply hard to find here. Funny also that German is alternated with English. The most unusual I found was Lescovar who, when the going got tough, switched to English with the German sergeant and who answered with Jahwohl. And then you also have the coincidences that just Drazak drives into the woods and encounters blackie. Richard Kiel who doesn't know him (Moonraker among others).
But whatever you think of the film, it certainly looks good. Is just a nice adventurous war film with many famous old players who make a nice spectacle of it.
Movie 3.5
Image Blu-ray (3.5/4.0)
Sound 3.5
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Peter Pan
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- 300 messages
- 694 votes
This one by Alistair MacLean is also a good WW2 film, but unfortunately it really doesn't come close to its predecessor.
Unfortunately there was nothing left of the original cast of "The Guns", but for that time they managed to find a decent new cast for this film.
The still young Harrison Ford and Carl Warmers, Barbra Bach and Richard Kiel (who could suddenly talk, even if it was flawed), and the then excellent actors Shaw and Fox.
The story with the double assignment is well put together, lots of action and enough tension, although there is a very light comic note in it that I personally find less appropriate.
It also feels a bit rushed on some sides Drazak and Lescovar were eventually eliminated quite quickly and easily and the Dam and the Bridge, which was the main goal, didn't take much effort and that's a shame.
Definitely a very good movie in this genre.
4* is just too much and actually 3.5 is just too little.
8-
3.5*
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The Guns of Navarone
1961
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