The wild pile of Navarone
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| German title | The wild pile of Navarone |
| Original title | Force 10 from Navarone |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 118 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Guy Hamilton |
| script |
Robin Chapman Carl Foreman |
| production | Oliver A. Unger |
| music | Ron Goodwin |
| camera | Christopher Challis |
| cut | Raymond Poulton |
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The from Navarone , also known under the title Force 10 - The special unit is an American war film from 1978 and the sequel to the film The Guns of Navarone of 1961. The plot of the movie based on the book secret command Zenica from the pen of the author Alistair MacLean .
action
After the events in The Guns of Navarone , Mallory and Miller are supposed to track down and kill the spy "Nicolai". It is believed that this spy is in the ranks of Yugoslav partisans under the leadership of Captain Leskovar. In order to get to Yugoslavia , the two men are supposed to join forces with the Force 10 sabotage unit under the leadership of Mike Barnsby. Their actual task is to blow up a strategically important bridge in Bosnia. To get to Yugoslavia as unobtrusively as possible, the group stole an Avro Lancaster bomber from a British air force base in Termoli , Italy. During this action, Sgt. Weaver happens to be freed and he takes part in the mission. Shortly after reaching the Yugoslav airspace, the aircraft was attacked by German night fighters and shot down. Most of the Force 10 dies, only Barnsby, Mallory, Miller, Weaver and Doug Reynolds survived the crash. The survivors encounter a group under the command of Capt. Drazak, who pretend to be partisans and invite them to their village, but there it turns out that it is collaborators - Serbian Chetniks - who work with the Germans.
The Germans take the Allies prisoner. You are being interrogated by Major Schroeder. The prisoners pretend to be deserters . Also in the suitcase - which actually contains explosives - is the drug penicillin worth half a million pounds , which would spoil immediately if exposed to the air. Major Schroeder is not convinced, but he has the statements checked by the German secret service and initially does not open the suitcase. The next morning the prisoners learned from Major Schroeder that he had opened the suitcase, but that it only contained firewood. Mallory and Barnsby improvise and pretend to have buried the penicillin. Schroeder orders them to dig up the penicillin. They are accompanied and monitored by his concubine Maritza and three of his soldiers. Miller, Weaver and Reynolds have to stay in jail.
When Mallory and Barnsby are several kilometers from the camp, Maritza kills the three German soldiers. She is a partisan spy who exchanged the explosives for the firewood before Schroeder opened the suitcase. She shows Mallory and Barnsby the way to the partisan camp, which is under the command of their father, Major Petrovitch. On the way there, the two are followed by two Chetniks, whose faces are bandaged because they do not want to show their alleged burns by German flame throwers. However, Mallory and Barnsby can ambush them to kill them. The two later meet a Yugoslav partisan group. The leader of this group of partisans is Captain Leskovar alias Nicolai, who takes them to the partisan camp, which is near the bridge, a wide river and a large dam.
When they arrive at the camp, they meet Major Petrovitch. However, he is skeptical about Mallory's murder assignment as he assures him that the real Nicolai was liquidated a few months ago. He blames the two for killing the two bandaged Chetniks because they belonged to the partisans and were his only connection to his daughter Maritza. Petrovitch's main concern is an impending attack by the Wehrmacht : the Germans are preparing for the major attack, and only a ravine separates the three German divisions and a brigade of partisans. Only a single reinforced concrete arch bridge spans the gorge and the partisans did not manage to destroy the bridge. Barnsby reveals that the bridge is the target of the Force 10 sabotage unit . Mallory convinces Petrovitch to free the imprisoned explosives expert Miller from the Chetnik camp. For the liberation mission they receive support from Lescovar and Marko.
The four of them arrive at the Chetnik camp that night, with Mallory and Barnsby as prisoners and Lescovar and Marko disguised as the two bandaged men. Before they can successfully complete their mission, Drazak arrives with the bodies of the two bandaged men. Drazak attacks and hits Maritza because he wants to know the truth. Meanwhile, a fire fight breaks out in the cell block. Major Schroeder and Reynolds are killed; but Mallory, Barnsby, Miller, Weaver, Lescovar, Marko and the rescued Maritza can escape in a truck with the secured explosives.
The next morning they reach the partisan camp. Miller investigates the bridge and concludes that it is impossible to blow up the bridge with the explosives present. But Mallory got the idea to blow up the nearby dam. This should cause several million tons of water to collapse the bridge. In the evening, further explosives are to be dropped by the Royal Air Force at a drop zone . But Lescovar sabotages the drop by navigating a German bomber to the dropping point with the help of a radio. Maritza discovers him, but Lescovar shoots her before she can warn the others about the act of sabotage. The German bomber bombs the illuminated dropping point. Several partisan members are killed. Petrovitch, upset by the incident, orders the men to return to Italy. However, the team decides to infiltrate a German ammunition depot near Mostar in order to steal explosives - they are accompanied by Lescovar and Marko. Lescovar betrays them again and alerts a German NCO. Marko hears the plan and sacrifices himself to save the others who escaped with Lescovar in the car of a train to Sarajevo . Lescovar makes up an excuse, but Barnsby and Mallory expose him. Lescovar is shot dead by Barnsby.
Barnsby, Mallory, Miller and Weaver jump off the train and arrive in a wooded area near the dam. Miller and Weaver fire a couple of fireworks to distract the Germans while Barnsby and Mallory sneak into the dam. In the forest, Drazak is killed by Weaver in a knife fight.
Mallory and Barnsby penetrate the heart of the dam and distribute the explosives. Time goes by and the next morning several German divisions advance to the bridge. Mallory and Barnsby realize they are running out of time. You are forced to bring the detonation forward and set the detonator for 20 seconds. They slowly move away and shake hands with each other. After the charges exploded, the two are outraged that Miller's plan has failed. But the structure of the dam was damaged and it slowly collapses. Barnsby and Mallory can escape the dam.
In the end, the Force 10 can reach its destination and destroy the bridge. The dam was blown up and the water masses bring the bridge to collapse. The problem, however, is that Barnsby, Mallory, Weaver and Miller end up on the wrong side of the river, where they may run into German troops.
Reviews
"Elaborate, but rather unbelievable action film, which once again depicts war as a sporty male adventure."
background
- The role of Keith Mallory was played by Gregory Peck , SSgt. Miller originally by David Niven .
- The bridge that is brought down in the film is the Đurđevića-Tara Bridge , which is located in northern Montenegro. Partisans actually blew up part of this bridge in 1942.
- The film grossed $ 7,230,000 in US theaters .
- There are currently at least three different cut versions of the film: the original theatrical version, a restored long version that was released in Europe, and a restored long version that was sold in the United States and modified compared to the European version.
- Barbara Bach and Richard Kiel also played together a year earlier in the James Bond thriller The Spy Who Loved Me .
Web links
- The from Navarone in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The wild pile of Navarone. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Boxoffice Mojo - The Wild Bunch of Navarone
- ↑ schnittberichte.com, accessed on May 21, 2014