[ April 25, 2024 ]
Tonight's Saturday Night Cinema feature, the Academy Award winning film The Guns of Navarone, is dedicated to the fallen warriors who gave their lives so that we might live free. Thank you is hardly enough. Running around town today, it was wonderful to see the city teeming with soldiers and sailors in New York for Fleet Week.
Hollywood loves to make anti-war films, so this robust drama is a treat. It's one of the best World War II action-adventures. The all-star cast is headed by always superb and elegant Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, and David Niven. This Oscar-winner (in special effects) is stirringly directed by the vastly underestimated J. Lee Thompson.
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WITH "The Guns of Navarone," Carl Foreman is beginning to blast himself a niche in the hall of fame of adventure-film producers that is surmounted by the bust of Cecil B. DeMille. This big, robust action drama, which boomed into the Criterion last night and will begin a simultaneous engagement at the Murray Hill today, is one of those muscle-loaded pictures in the thundering tradition of DeMille, which means more emphasis is placed on melodrama than on character or credibility.
Written by Mr. Foreman, from a novel by Alistair MacLean, and produced by him on the island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea and in a British studio, it tells a straightaway story of a tough team of Allied saboteurs who secretly land on a Nazi-held Greek island in a difficult time of World War II and accomplish a desperate mission of blowing up two critical sea-commanding guns.
We tell you the mission is accomplished, even though this is the point of the suspense, because the fact that it will be is foregone by the time the film is halfway through. Missions designed from standard blueprints, as this one plainly is, always succeed. The only question for the knowing moviegoer is how the individual fellows will behave, and this, it is very soon made evident, depends almost wholly on chance.
The Cast
THE GUNS OF NAVARONE, screen play, by Carl Foreman, from the novel by Alistair MacLean; directed by J. Lee Thompson: produced by Mr. Foreman and presented by Columbia Pictures. At the Criterion Theatre. Broadway and Forty-third Street and the Murray Hill Theatre. Third Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street. Running time: 155 minutes.
Mallory . . . . . Gregory Peck
Miller . . . . . David Niven
Andrea . . . . . Anthony Quinn
Brown . . . . . Stanley Baker
Franklin . . . . . Anthony Quayle
Maria . . . . . Irene Papas
Anna . . . . . Gia Scala
Pappadimos . . . . . James Darren
Jensen . . . . . James Robertson Justice
Barnsby . . . . . Richard Harris
Cohn . . . . . Bryan Forbes
Baker . . . . . Allan Cuthbertson
Weaver . . . . . Michael Trubshawe
Nicholai . . . . . Tutte Lemkow
Commandant . . . . . Albert Lieven
Group Captain . . . . . Norman Wooland
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12 Comments
11 years ago
Check this out. This is terrible. Syria is out of control.
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Readers will find this picture shocking… but it illustrates the depth of revulsion at Assad’s massacre of the innocents.
1) Thugs loyal to Syrian president’s regime slaughter up to 50 children.
2) At least 92 dead and over 100 others wounded.
3) Soldiers ‘used tanks, mortars and heavy machine guns’ on town of Houla.
4)Amid claims victims were stabbed, William Hague heads demands for emergency UN summit.
Look at the photographs. This is Islam. This is sickening.
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150276/Homs-massacre-Syrian-forces-kill-90-worst-attacks-ceasefire-began.html#ixzz1w1fI74mM
11 years ago
How the Wild West REALLY looked: Gorgeous sepia-tinted pictures show the landscape as it was charted for the very first time.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2149899/The-American-West-youve-seen-Amazing-19th-century-pictures-landscape-chartered-time.html#ixzz1w1s3qUZd
11 years ago
Your smile is so big! Your smile is so bright! It fits upon your face just right!
Your smile is just the prettiest sight, I have ever, ever seen!
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“. . . I wish you wouldn’t keep appearing, and vanishing so suddenly; you make one quite kiddy.”
“All right,” said the Cat.
And this time it vanished quite slowly. Beginning with the end of the tale, and ending with the grin, which remained for some time after the rest of it had gone.
“Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,” thought Alice. “But a grin without a cat! It’s the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!”
11 years ago
How does David Niven climb down a 200 ft rope after rubbing grease all over the explosive wiring.
sorry 🙂
11 years ago
Pamela gave us a demonstration of WHEN our Movie /Entertainment Industry/Hollywood KNEW who the GOOD GUYS WERE.
11 years ago
I saw this great film several times when it first came out and as a schoolboy really
enjoyed it.
The interesting thing i found out later was that Anthonty Quayle was a British
commando in real life and went on raids against the German held Greek islands as potrayed here, David Niven also served as an army officer 39 – 45 as well.
Rhodes is wonderful as is Crete , both full of the history of Christian resistance to the ruthless expansion of Turkish and muslim rule through the centuries, holiday there, and help the Greek people, today as before, Europes eastern bastian against the Turk.
11 years ago
Not a 1951 NY Times review, but 1961.
I knew it couldn’t be 1951, I was too young then to see this great movie.
The good old days, when every American loved America, and there was, as Dennis Prager says, “clarity.”
We knew who the good guys were, and who the bad guys were.
11 years ago
o/t
Virginia woman fighting to stop Monster Mosque & Islamic Indoctrination Center
Just days after ground was broken on a new mosque in Richmond, Sylvia Hoehns-Wright, who lives near the Islamic Center of Richmond, claims the small building currently there does not have enough parking for worshipers as it is. Imagine what will happen to the neighborhood when a 31,000 square-foot mosque is built on the same property./i>
http://barenakedislam.com/2012/05/27/virginia-woman-fighting-to-stop-monster-mosque-islamic-indoctrination-center/
Omg! 31,000 square feet! That’s a lot of sandal-cladded feet!
11 years ago
Oh crikey, think I left an italic tag open, soz…. 🙁
11 years ago
Filmmakers hope to highlight sacrifice of ‘Gold Star’ military mothers – TheDC
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‘Your political views can [be] whatever they are, but at the end of the day, you can’t just let someone’s sacrifice be forgotten’
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/#ixzz1w69OddHr
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Memorial Day Challenge: Ryan’s Story – YouTube
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11 years ago
Good movie. MacLean’s action novels worked well on the screen.
11 years ago
Thanks for the movie, Pamela. I really enjoyed it.
