Edited to correct the spelling of “Navarone.”This message has been edited. Last edited by: TMats,
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March 01, 2018, 08:23 PM
83v45magna
I've examined this vessel thoroughly and there's something I think you ought to know.
I can't swim.
March 01, 2018, 10:14 PM
YooperSigs
You're in it now, up to your neck!
End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles
March 02, 2018, 09:17 AM
CQB60
Gia Scala and those eyes, wow. She meet her demise under some mysterious circumstances.
______________________________________________ Life is short. It’s shorter with the wrong gun…
March 02, 2018, 02:42 PM
Z06
This came out when I was in 8th grade (1961) and I saw it at least 10 times back then. I can't remember when I last saw it so I just set the DVR so it will be "Saturday Night at the Movies" tomorrow.
________________________________________________________ The trouble with trouble is; it always starts out as fun.
March 02, 2018, 04:30 PM
NK402
I saw it when I was 19. The thing I remember most was that it featured the most improbable sequence of lucky breaks. Those guys should have been dead in the first reel but everything worked like a charm for them.
March 02, 2018, 11:07 PM
eTripper
"I've been killing Germans since 1936 . . . I'm tired!"
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"We're after men - and I wish to God I was with them. The next time you make a mistake, I'm going to ride off and let you die." - Deke Thornton, - The Wild Bunch
March 02, 2018, 11:17 PM
TMats
It had been so long that I had forgotten it. Why did they make David Niven’s rank corporal?!? He spent a good portion of the movie in the face of Peck’s character and had nearly as many lines as Peck.
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March 03, 2018, 10:39 AM
Blackmore
quote:
Originally posted by TMats: It had been so long that I had forgotten it. Why did they make David Niven’s rank corporal?!? He spent a good portion of the movie in the face of Peck’s character and had nearly as many lines as Peck.
I think he was a corporal in the book.
Harshest Dream, Reality
March 04, 2018, 06:02 AM
egregore
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Why did they make David Niven’s rank corporal?!?
In the novel he was a corporal, but being an explosives expert, a vitally needed specialist. The leads' nationalities were reversed in the movie. There were some other minor differences, including two women in the movie but none in the book. Alistair MacLean novels only had a hint of romance between male and female (who were almost always named Mary or some variation) protagonists, never any sex.
"The Almighty, He put some livin' things on this earth so a man can eat." - Festus Haggen, Gunsmoke
March 04, 2018, 08:06 AM
P-220
Thanks for the memories.
My Dad and I use to watch The Guns of Navarone and The Bridge Over the River Kwai together.
Back before cable and VHS or DVD, we would wait anxiously, when we saw it in the TV Guide.
