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Force 10 from Navarone (1978)

Director: Guy Hamilton

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From Time Out Film Guide

Survivors of The Guns of Navarone mission return to deal with the spy who betrayed them. Under Hamilton's moribund direction, this becomes a Bond-in-uniform saga, with a can-they-spike-the-Kraut-guns-in-time plot. All the potentially exciting set pieces (traitor in our midst, whose side are the Gucci-clad partisans on?) are thrown away with a disregard for the basic mechanics of suspense, and the climax is literally cardboard thin. Edward Fox is consistently watchable, but on the whole a damned poor show from the chaps down at EMI HQ. CPea.

Author: CPea

Time Out Film Guide


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Cast & crew

Director: Guy Hamilton

Producer: Oliver A Unger

Cast: Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Barbara Bach, Edward Fox, Franco Nero, Carl Weathers, Richard Kiel, Alan Badel full cast

Genre(s): War

Duration: 118 mins




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