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The story is ludicrous (of course), the special effects cheesy (the oh so phoney-looking flood that destroys the bridge), a post-Star Wars Harrison Ford barely registers as a character and Carl Weathers plays Apollo Creed again, this time in Army green. Most of the other actors are pretty good, Robert Shaw and Edward Fox especially, and Barbara Bach looks luscious (and as a bonus, she gets about as naked as you can get in a PG-rated movie).

In short, this movie is clearly inferior to the original "Navarone" as well as other MacLean-inspired movies like "Where Eagles Dare" and "Ice Station Zebra." Inferior doesn't mean bad, but it's still the worst movie that I've ever seen more than 5 times.

Force 10 From Navarone...A Pleasant Surprise!!
FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE is most notable for its diverse and international cast from the late Robert Shaw (JAWS, THE STING), Harrison Ford (need we list his films), Edward Fox, Carl Weathers (ROCKY I,II,III,IV), Barbra Bach (THE SPY WHO LOVED ME), Richard Kiel (THE LONGEST YARD), and Franco Nero (DIE HARD II). A British and American Commando Force are dispatched to destroy a bridge in Nazi occupied Yugoslavia with a side mission to kill a double agent. Not exactly a sequel to the classic Gregory Peck film. Supposedly two of the characters are lifted from the the original story (based on a Allister Maclean novel) and Navarone is miles away in this movie. However, the characters are engaging, distinct, and have good rapport. The film has pretty good war time action, dialogue, tense moments and a couple of surprises. Overall very entertaining war movie for its period.

"We're Talking About the Wrong Target!"
I first saw this movie as an in-flight movie while flying from Copenhagen to Seattle in September 1979. A sequel to "The Guns of Navarone" (1961) that starred Gregory Peck who played Keith Mallory and David Niven as Dusty Miller, Mallory and Miller return to action with Robert Shaw as Mallory and Edward Fox as Miller who have been assigned to a new mission in Yugoslavia to kill a Nazi agent posing as a Yugoslav partisan. Here they tag on with Force 10 led by American Army Ranger Lt. Col. Mike Barnsby (Harrison Ford) whose mission was to blow up a bridge to prevent the Nazis from crossing into the region defended by the partisans. The sequel was planned for filming back in 1967 with Peck and Niven playing their respective roles. The novel by Alistair MacLean was released in 1968, becoming his 17th million-copy best seller, but due to creative and economic concerns, the movie version was stalled. By 1977, the plans for filming commenced. Because of their ages, Peck and Niven would not star in the sequel. The following year the movie was released with Shaw, Ford and Fox. Sadly, Shaw did not live to see the film's release when he died of a heart attack August 28, 1978 in Tourmakeady, Ireland at the age of 51. Former Oakland Raider Carl Weathers plays his role well as the fiery Sgt. Weaver who merely "invited" himself on the mission, not knowing what was going on at first. Franco Nero plays Capt. Nikolai Leskovar, the Nazi agent Mallory was assigned to kill. Alan Badel plays the partisan leader Maj. Petrovich who assigned his daughter Maritza (Barbara Bach, also known as Mrs. Ringo Starr) as a partisan agent to spy on the Nazis and their Chetnick allies at a camp where they were operating. Richard Kiel plays the Chetnick leader Capt. Drazak who dupes Force 10, leading them to the camp where they would fall into the hands of the Germans commanded by Maj. Schroeder (Michael Byrne).

Like "The Guns of Navarone" the sequel is action-packed from start to finish from the stealing of an R.A.F. Lancaster at Termoli Air Base in Italy to the destruction of a dam that washes away the targeted bridge with several million tons of water. This is a great movie for those who love action dating back to World War II.