Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whale of a time, take in The Guns of Navarone. If you've heard the music, or even read Alastair MacLean's bestseller, by all means go all the way and plunk down your coins to see Carl Foreman's version. Though unbelievable, it's spectacular, and with shipwrecks, cliff-climbers, saboteurs, informers, captures, escapes, and explosions, (and Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn), how can you lose...
Things happen in the Guns of Navarone. In fact, practically everything you can think of--shipwrecks, cliff-climbs, captures, escapes, explosions. And they happen one right after the other, with no dull lags in between...
...course, hurt by some of the characteristics of its genre. One of these is overstatement. The action of the film is often unbelievable; one can't really see how a man who hadn't done any mountain climbing for five years could scale a sheer 400-foot cliff in a driving thunderstorm (after having just narrowly escaped death in a shipwreck...
GARY: THE GUNS OF NAVARONE. Here, gents, is a war film that has absolutely, yes, absolutely, every gimmick you've ever longed for in a film about G.I.s-plus-Limeys v. them Nazis: U-boat chasing, cliff scaling, partisan risings, grim Yanks, suave Britishers, fanatical Greeks, detestable Germans (one nice German), broads, spies, traitors, explosions -- well, we mean, you name it, this flick has it. It also has Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn plus scores of ex-German general staff members. Evenings...
...particular D-day occurred scarcely a week ago, and the three U.S. soldiers were nothing more than those duck-tailed microphones, Singers Paul Anka, Tommy Sands and Fabian, making a scene in Darryl Zanuck's The Longest Day, the story of the Normandy invasion. Part way up the cliff, Anka was dropped by a speck of sand in his eye and, returning to the fray, was later immobilized by a torn fingernail. "Medic!" someone shouted, and World War II stopped dead in its tracks. Near General Zanuck's yellow camp chair stood a real U.S. Ranger, on hand...