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Good concept, poorly executed.

Excellent but underrated film

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

This movie is definitely not PG. Check the parents guide section: contains nudity & profanity.

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.

It's a James Bond reunion of sorts as director of more than a few Bond movies Guy Hamilton directs Robert Shaw (in his last movie) a young Harrison Ford and a few Bond stars in a thoroughly enjoyable army picture, that is good old fashioned family viewing. I watched this with my 9 year old son, and we're both fully entertained. Plot In A Paragraph: Mallory (Shaw) and Miller (Edward Fox) are sent to Yugoslavia to find and kill Nicolai a traitor who informed the Germans about Miller and Mallory during a previous mission in Navarone. To get to Yugoslavia, the two men pair with "Force 10", an American unit, led by Lieutenant Colonel Barnsby (Ford), which has its own mission there.With a few exceptions all the cast are fine. Carl Weathers (Apollo Creed from "Rocky") is solid. Myy favourite Bond girl Barbara Bach is as good as I've seen her (admittedly I've only seen her in a couple of movies. One being my the James Bond movie "The Spy Who Loved Me") and i am surprised she never had a bigger career. Richard Keil (Jaws from James Bond) does his usual bad guy routine and Michael Byrne is his reliable self as is Edward Fox.It is not without its problems, some of the fight scenes are awfully staged, and their is obvious use of miniatures. Shaw's accent was very distracting to start with (I'm not sure if he dropped it, or I forgot about it) and Ford's acting was dire in his first scene, but thankfully it improved.

Signor Franco Nero as the brave German spy is the real hero of "Force 10 from Navarone".He must have known his days were numbered as soon as Mr Robert Shaw set his piercing blue eyes on him and seen recognition in them.But he carries on his bloody agenda,only too aware that he might be killed at any minute. Mr Alan Badel as the partisan chief has the juiciest lines and is the best actor by a country mile,leaving young master Ford gasping in his wake.I'm sure his performance must have had Mr Shaw and Mr Fox smiling ruefully as they read their lines which could easily have come from a "Battler Britton" comic. I'm not quite sure why Mr Fox - every inch the Public School officer - should have been referred to as "Sgt Miller" every now and again. Not even the dimmest German- and there are plenty of them in this movie - would have mistaken him for an N.C.O. Mr Carl Weathers does his "blaxploitation" thing looking like George Benson.He'd have been more believable if he'd burst into "Nature Boy". His appearance in the movie is both patronising and an embarrassment to the hundreds of thousands of black G.I.s who were not allowed to fight alongside their white fellow - countrymen by a government that was more than happy to use them as cannon - fodder.As long as they were segregated. Borrowing from more war movies than you could shake a stick at,"Force Ten from Navarone"limps along,tired,old - fashioned,clichéd,with a largely insouciant cast obviously anxious to get back to the caterer's van for a cup of coffee and a bacon sandwich. Leaving aside the ludicrous scenes when the R.A.F's B.B.F. Lancaster is flown by Mr Ford like a veteran with 25 missions over Berlin,the whole movie is very silly.Mr Shaw is clearly poorly and anyway far too old to be an active commando.The Germans so stupid that they would plainly have lost the war in 1941 and saved America the trouble of training up Mr Ford. It was not a great success at the Box Office - a rare exception the the rule that nobody ever lost money underestimating public taste.