The Guns of Navarone

[steveno]

The Guns of Navarone is on today at 4:15 on TCM and a pretty good movie.

The Guns of Navarone (film - Wikipedia)

 

[Scorpion520AZ]

Originally saw it on the huge screen in an old fashioned, single-screen theater. Always a good watch. Great Flick.

 

[Targets Guy]

Good flick. Very good book.

 

[Ray]

And lest we forget, with a great music score by Dimitri Tiomkin.
Regards, Ray

 

[fordson]

Great movie. I thought the movie better then the book.

 

[Texas Star]

I have the DVD and watched again a couple of weeks ago.

I did see it in the theater and read the book. The gun selection is better in the film. Look for the Mauser .32.

 

[Chuck24]

Great movie, even if the Germans are driving a Dodge

 

[rwsmith]

You mean you SLEPT.....

You mean you SLEPT through the Guns of Navarone!?

This is a reference to a gag line in an old TV show. If you don't remember it don't worry about it.

I especially remember the end where that ammo lift goes up and down, and up and down, and.........

 

[rwsmith]

A few movies...

Great movie. I thought the movie better then the book.

"The book was better than the movie," is what you hear the most, but there have been a few exceptions. I thought Gone With The Wind was an epic movie from an unremarkable book.

 

[JackM]

It didn't attain quite the cult status of Where Eagles Dare, but it's a great movie nonetheless. Force Ten From Navarone, not so much. As for Alistair MacLean's stories, one reviewer remarked that if the Allies had a cadre of MacLean characters available in 1939, WW II would have ended in six weeks, not six years.

 

[max]

I remember reading the book over 50 years ago and really enjoyed it. Some of the British terminology threw me off. Couldn't figure out why they were carrying torches.