Re: Force 10 from Navarone- Old Enemies...

Posted by Goodsport from adsl-216-102-199-185.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net on February 18, 2000 at 20:30:24:

In Reply to: Force 10 from Navarone- Old Enemies... posted by GCR on February 18, 2000 at 17:26:01:

: As I sat down to eat my luch here today...I searched my video archives and came across the 1978 film Force 10 from Navarone starring Robert Shaw and our old friend Harrison Ford. It was the rather poor sequel to The Guns of Navarone starring Gregory Peck (1961?) and I was surprised when I saw the Nazi Major (the first german baddie in the movie) it was none other than Micheal Byrne aka Colonel Vogel from Last Crusade. At first I wasn't sure it was him...after all he was about 10 years younger, but I checked the credits...it's him. Kinda funny...he was in two movies with Harrison Ford, both times he played a Nazi (although in Force 10 he plays a much less menacing German Army Major...not a villianous SS Colonel). Just kinda interesting if you ask me...and if you get a chance, I'd say watching it would be worth while...although don't make the same mistake I did...rent...don't waste your money on this movie, I bought it and I must say it was probably only worth $5 out of the $10 I spent, an ok movie, but definately not Ford's (or anyone else's) best work.
: -GCR

I've read both books (written by Alistair Maclean) and watched both movies. The Guns of Navarone movie wasn't quite as good as the book, but at least it remained somewhat faithful to it.

On the other hand, the Force 10 From Navarone movie (which was made in 1978, a year after Star Wars was released) was nowhere near as good as the book... as a matter of fact, the movie doesn't resemble the book at all! As a matter of fact, I believe they pretty much rewrote the whole thing for the movie, making the American (Harrison Ford) forefront in the whole thing. Although the American assigned to the team in the book played an important role, he wasn't the most predominant character in the original story as he was in the movie. :(

-G

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: : As I sat down to eat my luch here today...I searched my video archives and came across the 1978 film Force 10 from Navarone starring Robert Shaw and our old friend Harrison Ford. It was the rather poor sequel to The Guns of Navarone starring Gregory Peck (1961?) and I was surprised when I saw the Nazi Major (the first german baddie in the movie) it was none other than Micheal Byrne aka Colonel Vogel from Last Crusade. At first I wasn't sure it was him...after all he was about 10 years younger, but I checked the credits...it's him. Kinda funny...he was in two movies with Harrison Ford, both times he played a Nazi (although in Force 10 he plays a much less menacing German Army Major...not a villianous SS Colonel). Just kinda interesting if you ask me...and if you get a chance, I'd say watching it would be worth while...although don't make the same mistake I did...rent...don't waste your money on this movie, I bought it and I must say it was probably only worth $5 out of the $10 I spent, an ok movie, but definately not Ford's (or anyone else's) best work.
: : -GCR

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:     I've read both books (written by Alistair Maclean) and watched both movies. The Guns of Navarone movie wasn't quite as good as the book, but at least it remained somewhat faithful to it.

:     On the other hand, the Force 10 From Navarone movie (which was made in 1978, a year after Star Wars was released) was nowhere near as good as the book... as a matter of fact, the movie doesn't resemble the book at all! As a matter of fact, I believe they pretty much rewrote the whole thing for the movie, making the American (Harrison Ford) forefront in the whole thing. Although the American assigned to the team in the book played an important role, he wasn't the most predominant character in the original story as he was in the movie. :(

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: -G

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