Both movies made based on novels by the same author, Alistair MacLean! When it comes to Where Eagles Dare i think he even worked on the script himself, parallel to writing the book?
Those two are at the top of my list of infiltration movies. Besides, if you have Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, and David Niven starring in one and Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood leading another, how could you possibly go wrong?
There is another movie called Force 10 From Navarone that has pretty much the same group of people on their next mission that starts right after this one. Killing in the heat of battle takes a different mindset than cold blooded murder. When you said how will they escape after destroying the guns you forget that with a mission like that the success of the mission does not depend on their survival. If you can find it the movie “Fear Is The Key” is a good knuckle biter from Alistair MacLean. If you want a more complete story read the book. Don’t forget, a lot of the military props they probably went to the military surplus store and got it for a little bit of nothing and if blowing it up was in the plot they did. No big deal. If you haven’t watched it yet a couple really good WWII movies are “The Longest Day”, “The Battle of the Bulge” and of course “Patton”.
Yeah, WWII was when a lot of "special forces" came into existence. For instance, the SAS (Special Air Service) was formed in the North African desert in 1941 by a group of British officers. The CIA was developed from the OSS, which was came about shortly after. The British Intelligence Service had been around longer, having been formed shortly before WWI broke out. David Niven (Cpl. Miller) was actually a member of British special forces and is thought to have been a model for James Bond, since he was good friends with Ian Flemming. Flemming actually wanted Niven to play Bond but the producers thought he was too old in 1962. Ironically he eventually played the character in 1967's "Casino Royale" which was a spoof of Bond films.
Few people realize Ian Flemming was an intelligence officer himself, never an in the field guy, but definitely took part in the brainstorming behind the scenes of many operations.
Enjoy when you guys do the older, no-CGI movies. David Niven, the demo man, was a great British actor and another heavy for this cast. The vehicle at 20:00 with the two circles swinging back and forth was a radio direction finder. You would have several at different locations and they would zero in on an azimuth when the guys transmitted. By using a map with the known points where the RDF’s were and drawing lines on each ones’ detected azimuth, where they intersected was close to the location of the radio. Passive to receive-only so no emissions (and no cancer) :-) The British Commandos were instrumental in training the Army Rangers in England during WWII, and the Navy had Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT) for beach recons and to blow up obstacles prior to an assault. The UDT, or frogmen, were the birth of the SEALS. EDIT - it was mentioned below about the movie “The Devil’s Brigade” (1968) that was a joint Canada - U.S. Commando force that trained in Montana. They fought in Italy and France and disbanded at the war’s end. Another really good WWII movie, somewhat factual, is “Darby’s Rangers” (1958) about COL William O. Darby, 1st Ranger Bn commander and for who the camp in Phase 1 of Ranger training at Fort Benning is named.
This movie is an adaptation of novel of same title "The Guns of Navarrone" written by Alastair MacLean , leading war/spy/action thriller writer of 1950-80 era. MacLean himself as well as actors like David Niven who plays Corporal Miller were Wold War II veterans. The intersting thing about production is the design of Nazi fortress and gun emplacements sets were constructed with consultation from an actual World War II german general Fritz Bayerlain. Although the event told here is fictional , there actual several commando hit and run style special forces raids conduted by British special forces like depicted in this movie especially in Mediterranean Theater of war.
This film is fictional, based on a Alistair MacLean novel, but it is very similar to real special boat service missions carried out in the Mediterranean and elsewhere during WW2. The authentic feel comes from the author's service in the Royal Navy during the war.
The snarky plot description Gregory Peck sent to the producer Carl Foreman: “David Niven really loves Anthony Quayle and Gregory Peck loves Anthony Quinn. Tony Quayle breaks a leg and is sent off to hospital. Tony Quinn falls in love with Irene Papas, and Niven and Peck catch each other on the rebound and live happily ever after.”
Great reaction! Gregory Peck always adds a depth of character to everything he is in. Anthony Quinn is one of the all time bad ass actors. David Niven could play anything from drama,comedy , romance to adventure and was a commando in ww2. These older adventure films didn’t go in for the repeated scenes where the baddie has one more trick up their sleeves. It just wasn’t in the repertoire. A really fine Ww2 epic from the classic period. ****A film I think you’d enjoy from this era, 1964, that stars Peck and Quinn is “Behold a Pale Horse”. It’s a cat and mouse pursuit during the Spanish Civil War, Peck and Quinn on opposite sides. It won’t have appeal for your channel, but a fine movie to see yourself.
Great actors in this movie, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle, David Niven. I agree great movie, I saw it first in my native Denmark when I was about 18 or 19 years old.
This was a completely fictional story, based on the history of the Greek island's resistance. There are 2 movies that are based on actual events. # The Longest Day (about D-DAY), made 1962, and #A bridge Too Far 1977, trying to save a line of bridges from being destroyed by the Germans.
Two more great WW2 movies which, unlike 'Guns', are based on real events are "Heroes of Telemark" and "The Dambusters" (the latter played a part in inspiring Star Wars)
The best thing about this video is watching Mikey's body language as he gets increasingly invested, despite probably not expecting much from it. And yes, this was a huge and expensive and difficult. The cast is aces: two recent Oscar-winners (David Niven and Anthony Quinn, twice), with Gregory Peck just about to receive his for TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. And then there's the under-appreciated Sir Anthony Quayle as Franklin (the major), who, only a year later would costar with Anthony Quinn in a little film called LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. Quayle and Niven both served in the European theatre during the war. Amazingly, one main cast member-- actor-singer James Darren (Pappadimos), is 87 and still with us:
"... Well son, you're in it now -- up to your neck!" Great line. Some other great early war movies -- To Hell and Back, In Harm's Way, Battle of the Bulge, Pork Chop Hill, Zulu, Zulu Dawn, The Guns at Batasi.
Hi Guys, great to see you reacting & enjoying this classic war film, one of those that were often shown during U.K. holidays on Tv in the `60`s - `80`s. :)
One way to classify militaries is at what point in the chain of command is decision making trained for. The US pushes hard into low level enlisted training so opportunities can be exploited as fast as possible. This is expensive as it funnels training money into the enlisted ranks where people are not committed to the service as a career and have to be replaced and retrained frequently. The option the brits currently use is to train high ranking enlisted and all officers to make decisions. Most countries only start training mid ranking officers in decision making. A few like China only train high ranking officers to give orders. All of these require information to flow up and orders to flow back down, which is much less expensive but dramatically slows reaction times the further information has to flow.
This is one of my favorite WWII movies. If I'm remembering correctly, it was originally intended to be shot as an anti-war film but for whatever reason morphed into this epic adventure. The late 50s to early 70s produced some fantastic war movies. As @brianbooker8724 already mentioned, Where Eagles Dare (1968) is highly recommended. Other behind-enemy-lines movies I'd suggest is Kelly's Heroes (1970) (my ex's personal favorite) and The Dirty Dozen (1967). One other classic from that era is M*A*S*H (1970) which inspired the long running TV series. All four of these have all-star casts and are some of my father and I's favorite films.
After you watched The day the earth stood still, I recommended a late 60s movie called The Forbin Project. It rarely happens that a 70 year old movie is moe on point now then it was when it was made!
this movie was fictional but it was based on a real event. During World War II, David Niven commanded units in the Commandos, Sir Anthony Quayle spent part of World War II in Albania organizing guerrilla forces.
In case you guys didn't know, Richard Harris, playing the RAF Australian pilot. Actually has the worse Australian accent in motion pictures. It's worse than Patrick Wayne's in Donovans Reef.
Men and women would go out once or twice a month, paying a baby sitter, they loved longer movies. They didn't have Playstations, or computers, so the longer movies were a desired choice in many cases.
Yes, it's fictional. Fun fact: The Greek Navy supplied that patrol boat, which was mocked up to look like a German one. The movie effects people, however, packed it with too many explosives, and actually blew the bottom out of the boat and sank it. After that, the Greek military stopped cooperating with the producers!
Frankly, I am a boomer and I never really warmed up to this movie. Where Eagles Dare is much, much better movie, here, Guns of Navarone feel very disjointed because of the time skips in the story. The first part until they get to the island is amazing, after that, it is a very episodic movie with no much flow. in Where Eagles Dare, you see everything, every detail from the insertion until extraction, you can follow the main leads every step of the way but here, it is almost like they are cutting around exciting scenes to leave us with hints something amazing is going to happen but they never follow through. Even the final showdown feels very small and quaint, unlike the epic bus chase from Where Eagles Dare. The Longest Day told a very episodic story but did it very, very well. And characters, my God, they are not great. Spyro is one-note at best, Brown's arc is very clumsy, Anthony Quayle gives the best performance he can and it shows in his dialogue scenes (best performance in the movie, by far), David Niven is being David Niven, a bit wasted but the only one with something of an character arc, Gregory Peck is just there, without much of his usual gravitas, Anthony Quinn is not even trying. Maria seems like a non-actress, so her bad performance I can forgive, Anna is a bad character, so it kinda doesn't matter, how good her actress is. Germans are bit players and nobody really stands out. It would sound blasphemous but I enjoy Force 10 from Navarone a lot more, despite how silly that movie is. Guns of Navarone is an epic war story told very small, Where Eagles Dare is a small story called epically. Music is also a big part of that, Where Eagles Dare blasts that legendary theme constantly like if we are watching Star Wars. Here, main theme is fine but it sounds more like Mary Poppins song then epic war movie. Maybe they are trying to hint we are watching bunch of misfits, more then proper military? In any case, it brings the whole movie down. Play Dirty from 1969 is doing very similar thing to Guns of Navarone, and I highly recommend it.
For what it's worth, I have always thought that the German's looked particularly authentic in this movie. And, yes, I agree with your length comments. The sea storm and the cliff climbing scene could both have been cut in half, and still made the same point.
I agree with the last comment by brianbrooks. "Where Eagles Dare" is by the same author (Alistair MacLean) and is a very similar story, with a very similar look - but with ten times the body count!
The Greek woman was played by Irene Papas, also a major star of the time. She appeared in over 70 films over a 50 year career. Anthony Quayle, “Lucky”, was a great actor. I can’t recall what other roles I’ve seen him in, but I do recall always loving his performances.😁
This movie was based on a novel by Allistair MacLean. Who also wrote 'Where Eagles Dare'. You guys are awesome for watching this. I don't believe any other youtuber has.
The German vehicle with the "egg beater" device wasn't a radar but a radio-detection and finding system to home in on an transmissions the team might make.
Since Pulp Fiction, it takes extra effort to remember that this title isn’t The Guns of THE Navarone. I thought of this film when watching Dune and “they crippled the ship” because Gregory Peck wasn’t there to say, “Ja. Alles in ordnung.”
David Niven not only a famous movie star but a genuine special forces war hero and charming dude, his autobiography is excellent.
Another great movie of this genre you should also check out is Where Eagles Dare (1969) starring Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton.
Both movies made based on novels by the same author, Alistair MacLean! When it comes to Where Eagles Dare i think he even worked on the script himself, parallel to writing the book?
Those two are at the top of my list of infiltration movies. Besides, if you have Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, and David Niven starring in one and Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood leading another, how could you possibly go wrong?
There is another movie called Force 10 From Navarone that has pretty much the same group of people on their next mission that starts right after this one. Killing in the heat of battle takes a different mindset than cold blooded murder. When you said how will they escape after destroying the guns you forget that with a mission like that the success of the mission does not depend on their survival. If you can find it the movie “Fear Is The Key” is a good knuckle biter from Alistair MacLean. If you want a more complete story read the book. Don’t forget, a lot of the military props they probably went to the military surplus store and got it for a little bit of nothing and if blowing it up was in the plot they did. No big deal. If you haven’t watched it yet a couple really good WWII movies are “The Longest Day”, “The Battle of the Bulge” and of course “Patton”.
Where Eagles Dare is head and shoulders better then Guns of Navarone. Play Dirty from 1969 did better Guns of Navarone then Guns of Navarone!
Yeah, WWII was when a lot of "special forces" came into existence. For instance, the SAS (Special Air Service) was formed in the North African desert in 1941 by a group of British officers. The CIA was developed from the OSS, which was came about shortly after. The British Intelligence Service had been around longer, having been formed shortly before WWI broke out.
David Niven (Cpl. Miller) was actually a member of British special forces and is thought to have been a model for James Bond, since he was good friends with Ian Flemming. Flemming actually wanted Niven to play Bond but the producers thought he was too old in 1962. Ironically he eventually played the character in 1967's "Casino Royale" which was a spoof of Bond films.
Movie: Devils Brigade
Few people realize Ian Flemming was an intelligence officer himself, never an in the field guy, but definitely took part in the brainstorming behind the scenes of many operations.
Did you guys recognize Richard Harris, who played Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films?
Harris was a fine actor “…and that’s the bloody truth”!
@@Alan_CFA I went to the theater to watch A Man Called Horse (970) three times when it was first released. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Enjoy when you guys do the older, no-CGI movies. David Niven, the demo man, was a great British actor and another heavy for this cast. The vehicle at 20:00 with the two circles swinging back and forth was a radio direction finder. You would have several at different locations and they would zero in on an azimuth when the guys transmitted. By using a map with the known points where the RDF’s were and drawing lines on each ones’ detected azimuth, where they intersected was close to the location of the radio. Passive to receive-only so no emissions (and no cancer) :-) The British Commandos were instrumental in training the Army Rangers in England during WWII, and the Navy had Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT) for beach recons and to blow up obstacles prior to an assault. The UDT, or frogmen, were the birth of the SEALS. EDIT - it was mentioned below about the movie “The Devil’s Brigade” (1968) that was a joint Canada - U.S. Commando force that trained in Montana. They fought in Italy and France and disbanded at the war’s end. Another really good WWII movie, somewhat factual, is “Darby’s Rangers” (1958) about COL William O. Darby, 1st Ranger Bn commander and for who the camp in Phase 1 of Ranger training at Fort Benning is named.
This movie is an adaptation of novel of same title "The Guns of Navarrone" written by Alastair MacLean , leading war/spy/action thriller writer of 1950-80 era. MacLean himself as well as actors like David Niven who plays Corporal Miller were Wold War II veterans. The intersting thing about production is the design of Nazi fortress and gun emplacements sets were constructed with consultation from an actual World War II german general Fritz Bayerlain.
Although the event told here is fictional , there actual several commando hit and run style special forces raids conduted by British special forces like depicted in this movie especially in Mediterranean Theater of war.
This film is fictional, based on a Alistair MacLean novel, but it is very similar to real special boat service missions carried out in the Mediterranean and elsewhere during WW2. The authentic feel comes from the author's service in the Royal Navy during the war.
Gregory Peck, one of my favorite actors. He has such a calming yet demanding demeanor. Love him in this movie and especially "To kill a Mocking Bird".
He is one of my all time favorite
Roman Holiday is my favourite. He swings from slapstick comedy to drama effortlessly.
3:03, OG Dumbledore! Richard Harris, that is.
Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quayle were all World War II vets and I think Anthony Quayle really did serve in a commando unit.
The snarky plot description Gregory Peck sent to the producer Carl Foreman: “David Niven really loves Anthony Quayle and Gregory Peck loves Anthony Quinn. Tony Quayle breaks a leg and is sent off to hospital. Tony Quinn falls in love with Irene Papas, and Niven and Peck catch each other on the rebound and live happily ever after.”
Great reaction! Gregory Peck always adds a depth of character to everything he is in. Anthony Quinn is one of the all time bad ass actors. David Niven could play anything from drama,comedy , romance to adventure and was a commando in ww2. These older adventure films didn’t go in for the repeated scenes where the baddie has one more trick up their sleeves. It just wasn’t in the repertoire. A really fine Ww2 epic from the classic period.
****A film I think you’d enjoy from this era, 1964, that stars Peck and Quinn is “Behold a Pale Horse”. It’s a cat and mouse pursuit during the Spanish Civil War, Peck and Quinn on opposite sides. It won’t have appeal for your channel, but a fine movie to see yourself.
Great actors in this movie, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle, David Niven. I agree great movie, I saw it first in my native Denmark when I was about 18 or 19 years old.
This was a completely fictional story, based on the history of the Greek island's resistance. There are 2 movies that are based on actual events. # The Longest Day (about D-DAY), made 1962, and #A bridge Too Far 1977, trying to save a line of bridges from being destroyed by the Germans.
David Nivens ' explosive expert " was a Leutenant Colonel in the British Commandos in WWII.
Two more great WW2 movies which, unlike 'Guns', are based on real events are "Heroes of Telemark" and "The Dambusters" (the latter played a part in inspiring Star Wars)
The best thing about this video is watching Mikey's body language as he gets increasingly invested, despite probably not expecting much from it. And yes, this was a huge and expensive and difficult.
The cast is aces: two recent Oscar-winners (David Niven and Anthony Quinn, twice), with Gregory Peck just about to receive his for TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. And then there's the under-appreciated Sir Anthony Quayle as Franklin (the major), who, only a year later would costar with Anthony Quinn in a little film called LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. Quayle and Niven both served in the European theatre during the war. Amazingly, one main cast member-- actor-singer James Darren (Pappadimos), is 87 and still with us:
I love Anthony Quayle!
"... Well son, you're in it now -- up to your neck!" Great line. Some other great early war movies -- To Hell and Back, In Harm's Way, Battle of the Bulge, Pork Chop Hill, Zulu, Zulu Dawn, The Guns at Batasi.
You should check out The Wild Geese or The Dogs of War.
Great one guys! This is one of my favorite movies.
Its a masterpiece
you should check out Reach for the Sky the Douglass Bader bio pic. one of the legends of the RAF in WW2
Hi Guys, great to see you reacting & enjoying this classic war film, one of those that were often shown during U.K. holidays on Tv in the `60`s - `80`s. :)
One way to classify militaries is at what point in the chain of command is decision making trained for. The US pushes hard into low level enlisted training so opportunities can be exploited as fast as possible. This is expensive as it funnels training money into the enlisted ranks where people are not committed to the service as a career and have to be replaced and retrained frequently.
The option the brits currently use is to train high ranking enlisted and all officers to make decisions. Most countries only start training mid ranking officers in decision making. A few like China only train high ranking officers to give orders. All of these require information to flow up and orders to flow back down, which is much less expensive but dramatically slows reaction times the further information has to flow.
If you liked this movie you might want to check out THE GREAT ESCAPE.😊
Another great ww2 commando type movie is "Where Eagles Dare" well worth a watch.
Now you guys need to watch For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), which is about the Spanish Civil War, and stars Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman.
This is one of my favorite WWII movies. If I'm remembering correctly, it was originally intended to be shot as an anti-war film but for whatever reason morphed into this epic adventure.
The late 50s to early 70s produced some fantastic war movies. As @brianbooker8724 already mentioned, Where Eagles Dare (1968) is highly recommended. Other behind-enemy-lines movies I'd suggest is Kelly's Heroes (1970) (my ex's personal favorite) and The Dirty Dozen (1967). One other classic from that era is M*A*S*H (1970) which inspired the long running TV series. All four of these have all-star casts and are some of my father and I's favorite films.
The scene where they climb the mountain from the boat was about eight minutes with no dialogue.
if you want a good show that shows the origins of today's special forces check out the British series Rouge Heroes
"See how easy it was back then" 🤣
I got to see this on the big screen at the Film Forum in NYC.
SOE were Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare" ... which matches this old movie, but will be featured in a new movie this year ;-)
After you watched The day the earth stood still, I recommended a late 60s movie called The Forbin Project. It rarely happens that a 70 year old movie is moe on point now then it was when it was made!
the forbin project is a great movie, practically a terminator prequel
You want check out Mackenna Gold or Ten little Indians
for good films of the time.
this movie was fictional but it was based on a real event. During World War II, David Niven commanded units in the Commandos, Sir Anthony Quayle spent part of World War II in Albania organizing guerrilla forces.
In case you guys didn't know, Richard Harris, playing the RAF Australian pilot. Actually has the worse Australian accent in motion pictures.
It's worse than Patrick Wayne's in Donovans Reef.
I don't know if you bring it up, but years later there was a sequel with Harrison Ford and Carl Weathers. Force 10 from Navarone
Also starring Robert Shaw, Edward Fox, Barbara Bach and Franco Nero. Great cast though the movie has serious weak spots as well
LOVE THIS MOVIE! I'm actually running a WWII themed ttrpg and I've looked to this movie for guidance
Such a good movie
Men and women would go out once or twice a month, paying a baby sitter, they loved longer movies. They didn't have Playstations, or computers, so the longer movies were a desired choice in many cases.
Yes, it's fictional. Fun fact: The Greek Navy supplied that patrol boat, which was mocked up to look like a German one. The movie effects people, however, packed it with too many explosives, and actually blew the bottom out of the boat and sank it. After that, the Greek military stopped cooperating with the producers!
Three movies from the same era for your consideration, "The Dam Busters", "633 Squadron" and "Battle of Britain"
Frankly, I am a boomer and I never really warmed up to this movie. Where Eagles Dare is much, much better movie, here, Guns of Navarone feel very disjointed because of the time skips in the story. The first part until they get to the island is amazing, after that, it is a very episodic movie with no much flow. in Where Eagles Dare, you see everything, every detail from the insertion until extraction, you can follow the main leads every step of the way but here, it is almost like they are cutting around exciting scenes to leave us with hints something amazing is going to happen but they never follow through. Even the final showdown feels very small and quaint, unlike the epic bus chase from Where Eagles Dare. The Longest Day told a very episodic story but did it very, very well.
And characters, my God, they are not great. Spyro is one-note at best, Brown's arc is very clumsy, Anthony Quayle gives the best performance he can and it shows in his dialogue scenes (best performance in the movie, by far), David Niven is being David Niven, a bit wasted but the only one with something of an character arc, Gregory Peck is just there, without much of his usual gravitas, Anthony Quinn is not even trying. Maria seems like a non-actress, so her bad performance I can forgive, Anna is a bad character, so it kinda doesn't matter, how good her actress is. Germans are bit players and nobody really stands out.
It would sound blasphemous but I enjoy Force 10 from Navarone a lot more, despite how silly that movie is. Guns of Navarone is an epic war story told very small, Where Eagles Dare is a small story called epically. Music is also a big part of that, Where Eagles Dare blasts that legendary theme constantly like if we are watching Star Wars. Here, main theme is fine but it sounds more like Mary Poppins song then epic war movie. Maybe they are trying to hint we are watching bunch of misfits, more then proper military? In any case, it brings the whole movie down. Play Dirty from 1969 is doing very similar thing to Guns of Navarone, and I highly recommend it.
For what it's worth, I have always thought that the German's looked particularly authentic in this movie. And, yes, I agree with your length comments. The sea storm and the cliff climbing scene could both have been cut in half, and still made the same point.
I agree with the last comment by brianbrooks. "Where Eagles Dare" is by the same author (Alistair MacLean) and is a very similar story, with a very similar look - but with ten times the body count!
The Greek woman was played by Irene Papas, also a major star of the time. She appeared in over 70 films over a 50 year career.
Anthony Quayle, “Lucky”, was a great actor. I can’t recall what other roles I’ve seen him in, but I do recall always loving his performances.😁
Gregory Peck's last movie is "The Boys from Brazil", where he played a pretty vicious villain.
This movie was based on a novel by Allistair MacLean. Who also wrote 'Where Eagles Dare'. You guys are awesome for watching this. I don't believe any other youtuber has.
John is back!! I suggested this with 12 OCLOCK HIGH react reaction..
"You're In It Now... Up To Your NECK !!"
Great classic movie. Almost at 11k!!
Almost
The king and Queen of Greece are extras in this movie
Really! Wow
Back when they had to act. Thanks for this. If you want to see Gregory Peck in an entirely different role, watch Boys from Brazil. Fantastic movie
The German vehicle with the "egg beater" device wasn't a radar but a radio-detection and finding system to home in on an transmissions the team might make.
Gregory Peck's grandson is Mr Spock on the horrid Strange New Worlds tv show.
may i suggest watching "where eagles dare" and "the Great escape" both are classic movies
I have been to the Greek Islands in 1983. Yes, the food was great ;-)
Supposedly my Uncles destroyer was hit by these guns.
Sweet! One of the great “impossible mission” movies!
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Thank you for your generosity 😊
I love this. Movie!
Since Pulp Fiction, it takes extra effort to remember that this title isn’t The Guns of THE Navarone. I thought of this film when watching Dune and “they crippled the ship” because Gregory Peck wasn’t there to say, “Ja. Alles in ordnung.”
A better WWII small force movie is Where eagles dare.