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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Admirable film.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Holy Ned, where does one start? This was just plain awful and Cary Grant must have been broke to star in this train wreck. Frank Sinatra had a terrible New Jersey Spanish accent (Jew want sumppin'?). Sophia Loren displayed her cleavage in the same outfit throughout the film. She had very little else to offer. The musical score was tedious and loud. The writing and direction was amateurish. Kramer didn't know how to proceed or how to end this debacle. Lots of extras were hired to fill out mob scenes and supposedly epic pageantry. It all fell flat and did nothing to better the lame plotting. It seemed that Kramer knew the movie was bad and he used lots and lots of diversionary long shots of thousands of extras to distract us from the tedium. Would liked to have given this POS zero stars, but the format didn't allow it.

During the Napoleonic wars, a magnificent 7 ton, forty two foot cannon was discarded by the retreating Spanish army. They had hoped to keep it out of French hands by dropping it into a deep ravine. At nearly the same time, a British naval Officer Anthony Trumbull (Cary Grant) is sent on a secret mission to recover the weapon from Miguel, the leader (Frank Sinatra) of the Spanish Guerreros. Since he cannot read, a beautiful native girl (Sophia Loren) must interpret the naval orders. Other interested parties include General Jouvet of the French Occupying forces in the walled city called Avila. Distrustful of each other, Trumball and Miguel must co-operate to accomplish both their aims. Trumbull wants to take it back to England, while Miguel wants to haul it across the country and lay siege to French Headquarters in Avila. With the French army searching for the rebels and their huge cannon, the movie centers on the awkward romantic triangle between the three main characters. However, this situation impedes the crux of the story and except for tense moments of personal conflicts, nearly loosing the cannon to natural obstacles and great loss of life, the movie eventually arrives at its destination. The cast of Grant as an Englishman is tolerable. Sinatra is a great Singer, but makes for an unconvincing Spaniard. Finally as the leading lady, Sophia is hard pressed to favor either intended. Nevertheless, the film does have some exciting segments, enough to mark it as a reluctant Classic. ****

From an old post:" 2) The Gun that's a huge fifty-foot cannon: There are two scenes that I have very vivid memories of. In the first the gun is suspended somehow a hundred feet up in the air over a wooded road, hidden from the French troops. It's night, the Frenchmen march underneath the gun and never look up. There's a line from one of the Spanish, "Why should they look up?" In the second scene, they're hauling the cannon up a mountain (!?) when the restraints break and the gun careens back down the mountain and crashes. "Those details are not from the movie, but from the comic-book version; I had that comic in addition to Forester's 'The Gun', both of which I purchased and read immediately after watching the movie when it first played in the theaters.I specifically remember that "up in the air over the road" comic-book deviation from the movie, it was the first of many details, and the one that I felt was most ridiculous, that disappointed me about the comic-book adaptation; and, I have the movie DVD now, and have watched it recently to confirm various details. In the movie, it's a gully, not a road, the only road is above. The comic-book deviated many times from the movie details.

I was a bit more than a kid when I saw "The Pride and the Passion" for the first time in theatres back in the late 50's and I remember I thought it was kind of slow and even boring at times. But then I saw it again not long ago and surprisingly -because it usually goes the other way around- I found it a watchable and sort of interesting epic spectacular in the times when Napoleon ruled in Spain.Though "The Pride and the Passion" doesn't match in my opinion other directing works of Stanley Kramer such as "The Defiant Ones" or "Judgment at Nuremberg", this film has a sort of heroic and epic that reaches a reasonable level. It has well dosed and skillfuly handled action sequences, wide open sceneries in Spain, good color photo and a very appropriate musical score that gives it a sense of greatness. However I still think it could have been a bit shorter and that would have improved the product.Cary Grant renders a very convincing performance as the British officer that knows how to shoot the huge cannon; Sophia Loren is good too and Frank Sinatra, if not brilliant whatsoever, comes out acceptably as an Spanish "guerrillero" leader and by the middle of the film you get used to him.Not a classic or even a classical late 50's or early 60's epic spectacular "The Pride and the Passion" is an acceptable historical action film worth a watch.