FORCE 10 FROM NAVERONE
DIRECTED BY GUY HAMILTON
NAVERONE PRODUCTIONS
COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL PICTURES (AIP)
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Plot Summary
Mallory and Miller are back. It seems that there was traitor with them at Navarone,
whom they thought was executed.
But it seems that not only was he not executed, and he was not a traitor but a German spy.
Intelligence believes he made it to Yugoslavia and is now with the Partisans.
So, Mallory and Miller being the only ones who can positively identify him are sent along
with a unit called Force 10, which is led by Colonel Barnsby, who objects to their presence.
It seems that Force 10 has a mission of their own which Mallory and Miller know nothing about.
When their plane is shot and most of the team is killed,
they mistakenly believe that some of the locals they meet are Partisans
but in reality are German Allies, so they are taken prisoner,
and have to convince the German commander that they are not spies
or else they will be killed.
Written by rcs0411
Full Cast
Robert Shaw ... Mallory
Harrison Ford ... Barnsby
Barbara Bach ... Maritza
Edward Fox ... Miller
Franco Nero ... Lescovar
Carl Weathers ... Weaver
Richard Kiel ... Drazak
Alan Badel ... Petrovitch
Michael Byrne ... Schroeder
Philip Latham ... Jensen
Angus MacInnes ... Reynolds (as Angus Macinnes)
Michael Sheard ... Sgt. Bauer
Petar Buntic ... Marko
Leslie Schofield ... Interrogation Officer 1
Anthony Langdon ... Interrogation Officer 2 (as Antony Langdon)
Richard Hampton ... Interrogation Officer 3
Paul Humpoletz ... Sgt. Bismark
Dicken Ashworth ... Nolan
Christopher Malcolm ... Rogers
Nick Ellsworth ... Salvone
Jonathan Blake ... Oberstein
Roger Owen ... Blake
Frances Mughan ... Force Ten Team
Mike Sirett ... Force Ten Team
Graeme Crowther ... Force Ten Team (as Graham Crowther)
Jim Dowdall ... Force Ten Team
Michael Osborne ... Naval Lieutenant
Edward Peel ... MP Driver
Michael Josephs ... German Storeman
Jürgen Andersen ... Engineer 1 (as Jurgen Andersen)
David Gretton ... Engineer 2
Paul Jerricho ... Lieutenant (as Paul Jerrico)
Edward Kalinski ... Young German Soldier
Robert Gillespie ... Sergeant
Wolf Kahler ... German Soldier
Hans Kahler ... Pilot
Ramiz Pasic ... Mallory's Boy
Paul Angelis ... Lieutenant (voice)
Patrick Allen ... Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Harry Fielder ... German (uncredited)
Produced
David W. Orton .... associate producer
John R. Sloan .... co-producer
Oliver A. Unger .... producer
Carl Foreman .... executive producer (uncredited)
Anthony B. Unger .... co-producer (uncredited)
Writing Credits
Alistair MacLean (novel)
Robin Chapman (screenplay)
Carl Foreman (screen story)
Original Music
Ron Goodwin
Cinematography
Christopher Challis
Trivia
Paul Jerricho is dubbed.
Richard Kiel is dubbed by Robert Rietty
Edward Fox replaced Ian Bannen.
This was the last film completed by Robert Shaw.
Director Guy Hamilton uses a clip from his earlier film Battle of Britain when the Messerschmitt attacks the Lancaster bomber.
George MacDonald Fraser worked as a script doctor, joining the project after Ian Bannen walked from the film.
Oswald Morris was asked to be the DOP but declined because he had viable doubts about the film being made.
The cameo role of Maritza was offered to Caroline Munro.
The so-called German Panzer tanks shown at the end of the movie are actually Soviet T-34s - a medium tank produced from 1940 to 1958. Although Germany did capture and use T-34's, the tanks shown are the T-34/85 model, which was introduced in 1944, a year after the events in the film.
This movie sequel to the The Guns of Navarone was made and released about eighteen years after that film.
Producer Oliver A. Unger once said of the long gap in time between the release of The Guns of Navarone and the making of this picture: "'Navarone' has had tremendously 'long legs'. It's kept doing the rounds of the cinemas all over the world, and it's also been tremendously popular on television. I think the feeling of all concerned has been - why kill the goose that kept laying such golden box office eggs?".
The character of Mallory, played by Robert Shaw in this sequel, was called Captain Jack Mallory in the original The Guns of Navarone and was played there by Gregory Peck. In this sequel, Mallory has now been promoted to the rank of Major. It was Captain Keith Mallory in the original, not Jack.
The character of Miller, played by Edward Fox in this sequel, was called Corporal Dusty Miller in the original The Guns of Navarone and was played there by David Niven. In this sequel, Miller has now been promoted to the rank of Sergeant.
Final film as a producer for Oliver A. Unger.
This film represents one of three movies, all made during the mid-late 1970s, that actress Barbara Bach and actor Richard Kiel both appeared in. The movies include L'umanoide, Force 10 from Navarone and The Spy Who Loved Me.
Common production personnel who worked on or were credited for both this movie sequel and the original The Guns of Navarone included novelist Alistair MacLean, producer-scriptwriter Carl Foreman, production designer Geoffrey Drake, editor Raymond Poulton and production supervisor / production accountant Sidney G. Barnsby. Poulton was associate editor on the first movie and editor on the sequel whilst Foreman was a producer and screenwriter on the first picture and executive producer and screen story adapter on the sequel.
This movie is set about two years after the events of The Guns of Navarone.
The production shoot for this movie went for sixteen weeks.
One of the sets at the Shepperton Studios featured a full mock-up of an original World War II Lancaster bomber plane.
There are numerous mentions of Mallory having an injured leg. In actuality Robert Shaw had injured his knee shortly before filming began and was having difficulty walking without limping so they simply wrote Mallory's leg injury into the script
Goofs
Anachronisms
Near the end of the movie, an orange electric locomotive is visible. The model, Yugoslav railways class 441, and was not manufactured until the 1960s.
At the beginning, when Mallory and Miller are being briefed, we see a map with the Post-War Flag of Yugoslavia displayed on it.
When the goods train is shunting in the yard, it consists of wagons (open) and vans (closed), clearly of British outline; one vehicle has a number panel from 1970's British Rail. After the saboteurs are carried away in this train, it is seen to emerge from a tunnel, consisting of an electric locomotive (see elsewhere: anachronism), pulling only a train of continental outline vans.
Character error
In the initial briefing, Lieutenant Colonel Barnsby (Harrison Ford) is wearing his ribbon bars upside-down.
When Mallory and Barnsby return to the Chetnik camp to free their comrades Mallory addresses Schroeder's clerk as Sergeant. The clerk is wearing corporal's chevrons. Sergeants in the German army in WWII wore their rank insignia on their shoulder tabs.
Continuity
During the film, and especially the mission to infiltrate the German supply dump, none of the commandos, including Major Mallory can understand German. This is especially clear when Leskovar insists he must accompany the team to the dump as only he speaks German and, later, when the team is discussing Leskovar's encounter with the German Sergeant in the train car. All of this ignores the fact that this film is a sequel to "The Guns of Navarone" in which Mallory is specifically chosen for the mission because he speaks "German like a German." Alistair MacLean's original stories also support this fact.
When Force 10 is taken to the "partisan" camp and the so-called "partisans" reveal themselves to be Chetniks (German allies), they turn their caps around to hide the communist red stars they were wearing as a disguise to reveal their Chetnik insignia, including the group who met Force 10 initially. However, none of those Chetniks had any insignia on the backs of their caps at the first rendezvous.
When the diversion is created at the dam, and German trucks leave to investigate, dawn is breaking, but a few seconds later when the cameras switch back to the dam, its still dark.
The exterior shot of Mallory and Barnsby entering the dam shows Barnsby pulling the door outward. The interior shot shows him pushing the door in.
When Sgt Weaver gets out of the MP truck he removes his combat jacket and is just wearing a shirt, when he boards the Lancaster he is still just wearing a shirt. He's still only wearing a shirt while on the plane. However once he's on the ground after jumping, he is wearing a roll neck woolen jumper and a Denison Smock. There isn't time for him to take the clothing from one of the dead soldiers on the plane.
When they are in the train car there is a window either side of the door on the inside but from the outside there is only 1.
Continuity with "The Guns of Navarone": Mallory and Miller are shown at the beginning of this film being picked up by the Royal Navy ships passing Navarone. In that scene, they are wearing German uniform jackets. They discarded those jackets while they were in the gun cave at the end of "The Guns of Navarone".
When the teams Lancaster is under attack by German fighters there is a brief closeup shot of the fighter's machine guns firing. Those machine guns were arraigned in a configuration (same config as the Hawker Hurricane, four side by side) that no German fighter ever had during the war. The ME109 carried several guns and cannons in various configurations during the war, but never as depicted in the movie.
As the bridge collapses, the German soldiers on it disappear in the wide shots.
A German soldier is seen shooting a Mauser rifle with the bolt handle on the left side of the rifle. All Mauser military rifles had the bolt handle on the right side which would indicate that the film had been reversed.
The first screen shot after the initial briefing is of a sign, Termoli Air Base, identifying two separate commands who occupy it. One is HQ 462 Sqdn RAF, the other HQ 17 Corp USAF. The United States Air Force did not exist until after the war, in 1947. Prior to that, it was the United States Army Air Corps, (USAAC), a division of the US Army.
Whilst stealing explosives from the railway yard the team jump into a railway carriage that is not only from the UK but form the UK Ministry of Defence. One of the carriages has the the abbreviation PSTO(N) written on it. These are British Ministry of Defence (MOD) carriages, used in MOD Armament Depots, specifically the Navy. PSTO(N) stands for Principle Supply and Transport Officer (Navy).
Plot holes
With a fairly large dam 2 miles away, why do the Germans need the bridge to get their tanks across? They could just cross on the dam.
Continuity
Just before the dam cracks and begins spewing water, the camera shows a panoramic view of the dam with a reservoir at the bottom is visibly green water. When the water initially breaks through, the camera shows a reservoir of brown muddy water, clearly not the same real dam, just a mock-up.
Revealing mistakes
When the bridge collapses, large sections float down the river showing it was just a wooden mock-up.
Filming Locations
Jersey, Channel Islands
Mediterranean Film Studios, Malta (studio)
Montenegro
Plymouth Docks, Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK (studio)
Yugoslavia
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