It's a James Bond reunion of sorts as director of more than a few Bond movies Guy Hamilton directs Robert Shaw (in his last movie) a young Harrison Ford and a few Bond stars in a thoroughly enjoyable army picture, that is good old fashioned family viewing. I watched this with my 9 year old son, and we're both fully entertained.
Plot In A Paragraph: Mallory (Shaw) and Miller (Edward Fox) are sent to Yugoslavia to find and kill Nicolai a traitor who informed the Germans about Miller and Mallory during a previous mission in Navarone. To get to Yugoslavia, the two men pair with "Force 10", an American unit, led by Lieutenant Colonel Barnsby (Ford), which has its own mission there.
With a few exceptions all the cast are fine. Carl Weathers (Apollo Creed from "Rocky") is solid. Myy favourite Bond girl Barbara Bach is as good as I've seen her (admittedly I've only seen her in a couple of movies. One being my the James Bond movie "The Spy Who Loved Me") and i am surprised she never had a bigger career. Richard Keil (Jaws from James Bond) does his usual bad guy routine and Michael Byrne is his reliable self as is Edward Fox.
It is not without its problems, some of the fight scenes are awfully staged, and their is obvious use of miniatures. Shaw's accent was very distracting to start with (I'm not sure if he dropped it, or I forgot about it) and Ford's acting was dire in his first scene, but thankfully it improved.
Plot In A Paragraph: Mallory (Shaw) and Miller (Edward Fox) are sent to Yugoslavia to find and kill Nicolai a traitor who informed the Germans about Miller and Mallory during a previous mission in Navarone. To get to Yugoslavia, the two men pair with "Force 10", an American unit, led by Lieutenant Colonel Barnsby (Ford), which has its own mission there.
With a few exceptions all the cast are fine. Carl Weathers (Apollo Creed from "Rocky") is solid. Myy favourite Bond girl Barbara Bach is as good as I've seen her (admittedly I've only seen her in a couple of movies. One being my the James Bond movie "The Spy Who Loved Me") and i am surprised she never had a bigger career. Richard Keil (Jaws from James Bond) does his usual bad guy routine and Michael Byrne is his reliable self as is Edward Fox.
It is not without its problems, some of the fight scenes are awfully staged, and their is obvious use of miniatures. Shaw's accent was very distracting to start with (I'm not sure if he dropped it, or I forgot about it) and Ford's acting was dire in his first scene, but thankfully it improved.