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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Force 10 From Navarone |
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A small group of allied soldiers (British and American) join forces to blow up a dam. The resulting flood will in turn take out a strategic bridge that German forces in Yougoslavia are useing to move tanks and infantry. The group rendevous with Yougoslavian freedom fighters.
This is the third attempt at the mission, each previous attempt having failed due to espionage.
--Cadri, Resident Scholar
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A special forces team is sent into Yugoslavia during WW II to destroy a bridge that lets Nazi forces across a wide river.
--steve, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 60%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- main char doing spying/sabotage
- finding a spy/saboteur
War Thriller
Yes
Armed Forces:
- Special Forces
Specific to
- WW II
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) very short/crewcut
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- enemy army
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Specific kind of enemies?
- tyrants
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Eastern Europe
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 4 ()
Kind of violence:
- mission to destroy something
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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