I would love this one as a large poster and a T-shirt ;-)) This would drive one of my neighbors "postal" as she detests anything dealing with WWII.
Posts from The Ringo Kid in thread „The Guns of Navarone (1961)“
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For Carl---
Anthony Quinn, another all time most favorite of mine. like Duke, I teared up when I heard he passed away. He was also a household name and still is in my house.
Thank you Bill for this and more great images. Also as well as giving me many that I can share here ;-)).
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I'm going against the tide of popularity on this one. Eagles is an excellent movie and I saw it three times upon its initial release, however, I have to defend "The Guns of Navarone" as a better war movie.
Both are authored by the same person, yet there's really no suspense in Eagles about the survival of the heroes. Granted, both films are similar in that a group of infiltrators/experts go behind enemy lines on hopeless tasks, but somehow you just know that Burton and Eastwood will triumph.
Navarone also leads you to believe that the mission will be a success, but you don't know who is going to survive. The characters all seem vulnerable.
Eagles has over the top action - jumping from frozen cable cars, Clint firing two machine guns at once, fat old Burton climbing up a rope. Navarone has Quinn sniping at Alpine Corps and scrambling, Baker bungling a knife stabbing and Darren losing focus resulting in his death. Much more realistic.
The prelude to Navarone is also more probable. Kheros and newly designed radar controlled guns blocking a sea rescue are much more believable than the Cartwright Jones/invasion plans premise.
Thanks for indulging my screed.We deal in lead, friend.
I agree here and love em both. Guns has the edge on this one for being more believable and at least their uniforms were made to look more accurate than the ones in W.E.D. As a collector-that detail means a lot to me-though I always did and will love the movie ;-))
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As a WWII German Mil Collector, I had noticed Quinns little "isms" of his uniform-or rather out of uniform appearances. I'd always wondered why they had him wear a red shirt-but thanks to this-and as Paul Harvey used to say: "And that's the rest of the story".
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Nice scenes in that utube clip. thanks for posting it. Is there anything on utube that shows the "interrorgaton" scenes with Walter Gotell & Georg Mikell? Gotel is the Wehrmacht Captain and Mikell is the SS Haupsturmfuhrer mistakenly called a Hauptmann as the name Hauptmann was not used as a Waffen SS rank title.
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Guns of Navarone is tops all around. I never tire watching it. I never read any of McClaines (SP?) books except for Where Eagles Dare. I thought he was a good enough author.
