Force 10 from Navarone

"Explosive high adventure!"

1978 1h 54m EN

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★6.2TMDB · 362

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World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.

“Explosive high adventure!”

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Cast

Robert Shaw
Mallory
Harrison Ford
Barnsby
Barbara Bach
Maritza
Edward Fox
Miller
Franco Nero
Lescovar
Carl Weathers
Weaver
Richard Kiel
Drazak
Alan Badel
Petrovitch

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Guy Hamilton
Writers: Robin Chapman, Carl Foreman
Languages: Croatian, English, German, Serbian
Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America

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ERA

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48 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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2 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 4 languages: Croatian, English, German, Serbian.

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WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: United Kingdom, United States of America.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Navarone Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Guy Hamilton, shot by Christopher Challis. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Ron Goodwin. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Raymond Poulton shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Robert Shaw and Harrison Ford and Barbara Bach carry the top of the cast.

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The take

Guy Hamilton directs. Christopher Challis behind the camera. Ron Goodwin scores. Raymond Poulton cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United Kingdom, United States of America. Dialogue in Croatian, English, German, Serbian.

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148 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Dialogue crosses 4 languages: Croatian, English, German, Serbian.
3International production across 2 countries: United Kingdom, United States of America.
4Part of the "Navarone Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Guy Hamilton, shot by Christopher Challis. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Ron Goodwin. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Raymond Poulton shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Robert Shaw and Harrison Ford and Barbara Bach carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Explosive high adventure!".
10IMDB entry: tt0077572 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 11 themes, including "guerrilla warfare", "based on novel or book", "yugoslavia", "world war ii".

The technical file

Cinematography: Christopher Challis
Original score: Ron Goodwin
Editing: Raymond Poulton
Production design: Geoffrey Drake
Makeup / hair: Peter Robb-King
Stunt coordinator: Eddie Stacy
Runtime: 114 min · 1h 54m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $5,000,000
Box office: $7,230,000
Return: 145% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Force 10 from Navarone (1978)

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Navarone Collection

Film series about an Allied command operation against the German army in World War 2, based on novels by Alistair MacLean.

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Wuchak2019-12-27
★ 6/10
Comic book “men on a mission” WW2 adventure with a great cast and lots of action Major Mallory and Sgt. Miller (Robert Shaw and Edward Fox) from “The Guns of Navarone” (1961) are commissioned to Yugoslavia to find & eliminate the German spy who tried to sabotage their mission at Navarone (Franco Nero). To get there, they have to join with an American unit on a covert mission to blow up a bridge. Harrison Ford plays the leader of the operation while Carl Weathers plays a sergeant escaping the MPs, a last minute addition. Barbara Bach and Richard Kiel show up later. "Force 10 from Navarone” (1978) is the McDonalds equivalent of the first movie. This doesn’t mean it’s necessarily bad (after all, McDonalds ain’t bad), just that it lacks the class of its predecessor and trades it in for cartoonish writing and loads of action. It’s sort of a mixture of the first film with "Where Eagles Dare" (1968) and “Hornets’ Nest” (1970), but with a wildly comic book tone à la “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981), albeit less goofy and not as proficient. The cast is great, though, and the locations are to die for. It’s just that the writing is glaringly juvenile. FYI: This was Robert Shaw's second to last movie; he died of a heart attack three months before release at the too-young age of 51. The film runs 1 hour, 58 minutes, and was mostly shot in the former Yugoslavia (e.g. Durdevica Tara Bridge on Tara River, Montenegro; and Jablanica Dam, Jablanicko Lake, Bosnia and Herzegovina). GRADE: B-
CinemaSerf2025-05-18
★ 7/10
You could always count on Ron Goodwin to come up with a lively score for a wartime movie, and he does so well here with this “Guns of Navarone” spin-off. It keeps the “Mallory” (Robert Shaw) and “Miller” (Edward Fox) roles and introduces them to American colonel “Barnsby” (Harrison Ford) as they hijack a Lancaster bomber and end up in Yugoslavia where the partisan army is fighting the encroaching Nazi war machine. The former two are up for tracking down a fifth columnist called “Nikolai” who had caused them considerable grief in Greece earlier in the war. The Colonel is to try and help the locals - led by “Petrovich” (Alan Badel) to stop the advancing army, and that means holding a vital bridge. Of course, when they arrive they have to find their potential allies, and with nobody quite sure who to trust, and the menacing “Drazak” (Richard Kiel without shiny teeth) on their trail, it’s dangerous stuff. A combination of fairly easy clues let us know who the baddie is, but as the adventure heads to it’s quite exciting denouement, there are loads of escapades for our ever diminishing squad as they set about their tasks. Ford and Shaw work well together, Fox and Franco Nero also do just about enough and the whole thing rollicks along nicely for just shy of a two hours that also introduces us to some earthily disguised WWII explosive devices. It was probably made just a decade too late to really resonate as a film about the atrocities of war, but as an action adventure film from a lesser-known theatre of the war, it’s quite an enjoyable watch that passes the time without stretching your grey cells too much.