If I could change anything about this movie
I would have developed James Darren's role as Pappadimos, the quiet killer. I think it would have helped his career.
shareI gave 8 for the film, for 3 reasons:
1- Some characters vanish from the movie and come back almost an hour later (and one died ... They could have show this.
2- The way the guy stab the fat one in the boat around 2:10, and the fat guy stab him after, thatb was silly.
3- Not 2 min after that (around 2:10 too), the guy with a machinegun is bullet proof against a german squadron, and kills everyone but the official. And then both kills each other, that was silly².
Wasn't this 3 things I would give 10/10 for the movie.
Regarding reason #
1. I have no idea of what you are talking about characters vanishing and dying off screne
2. meh
3. I will agree with you. It was a weird presentation
could you, if ever see this tread again, explain the "2. meh" ???
shareagreed about 2 & 3, all characters stay in the movie though
(icheckmovies: IMDb vote history-compatible movielist host)
"Meh" is Yiddish, basically meaning, "Yeah, so what, no big deal."
shareI would change it by toning down Gregory Peck's overacting when he explodes at David Niven after their confrontation, before they set out to blow up the guns. Don't get me wrong, I like the movie very much and generally like Peck, but he was not good in that scene.
sharePeck himself always said he had trouble "letting go", of really allowing his emotions to explode on the screen, and you can see this in many of his films. I don't think he overacted in that scene so much as he looked forced and a bit artificial. I agree, he was not too good in the scene, but I think for different reasons.
shareI would change it by toning down Gregory Peck's overacting when he explodes at David Niven after their confrontation, before they set out to blow up the guns. Don't get me wrong, I like the movie very much and generally like Peck, but he was not good in that scene.
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Peck himself always said he had trouble "letting go", of really allowing his emotions to explode on the screen, and you can see this in many of his films. I don't think he overacted in that scene so much as he looked forced and a bit artificial. I agree, he was not too good in the scene, but I think for different reasons.
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roger1 offers:
A memory from a long, long time ago:
Though The Guns of Navarone was made in 1961, it took 8 long years for it to reach television in any form: in September of 1969.
The 60s wasn't a time of cable TV(there were only the three networks -- ABC, CBS, NBC) or of VHS or DVD.
There WERE local channels, or "network affiliates" that COULD show fairly old movies from the 30s, 40s and 50s "on local broadcast" (movies like Casablanca and monster movies like Them!) but they couldn't get The Guns of Navarone in the 60s.
So The Guns of Navarone made its "American network premiere" to start the 1969-1970 TV season of CBS, and the movie was shown in TWO PARTS, over two nights -- Part 1 on The CBS Thursday Night Movie and Part 2 the next night on the CBS Friday Night Movie.
Since The Guns of Navarone was set to debut in September, CBS spent the entire summer promoting it "coming this fall!" along with other programming.
And here is the deal:
ANY time they showed a commercial for the CBS Thursday and Friday night movies, EVERY time they mentioned that "The Guns of Navarone" would be the kick-off film of the season...they would show the same short clip of Gregroy Peck(with David Niven unseen):
Peck(angrily): "You're in it NOW -- up to YOUR NECK!!"
CONT
That's part of his big speech towards Niven -- which I think is actually kind of effective(given that is driven by the required killing of a young woman, Peck IS raging) -- and this is ALL that CBS ever showed of Gregory Peck or ANYONE speaking in The Guns of Navarone, in commercials all summer long:
In June 1969: "You're in it NOW..up to YOUR NECK!!"
In July 1969: "You're in it NOW..up to YOUR NECK!!"
In August 1969: "You're in it NOW..up to YOUR NECK!!"
Boy were we ready for THAT movie, and THAT line, when they finally showed The Guns of Navarone in September.
But you had to wait to hear the line until The CBS Friday Night Movie...Part Two.