Movie |
Based On Novel Or Book | World War Ii
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
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A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Best Director | 1962 | J. Lee
Best Writing Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | 1962
Best Sound | 1962
Best Film Editing | 1962
Best Music Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | 1962
Best Picture | 1962
Best Director | 1962 | J. Lee
Best British Screenplay | 1962
Best Soundtrack Album or Recording of Score from Motion Picture or Television | 1962
Top Male Dramatic Performance | 1962 | Gregory
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1962 | J. Lee
Best New Release ReRelease or ReRecording of an Existing Score | 2005 | James
Budget 6,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 28,900,000 USD
This was the only time that David Niven ever smoked cigarettes on-screen. Niven was a life-long non-smoker.
Gregory Peck declined to attempt an English accent in order to play Captain Mallory.
During shooting, Gregory Peck and David Niven became close friends, bonding initially over Peck's ability to consume vast quantities of brandy, which the actors used to "stay warm" while filming in a cold studio tank, without muffing a line. Their families visited each other frequently in later years, and Peck would deliver the eulogy at Niven's funeral.
David Niven initially felt that he was badly miscast in the offbeat role of a Corporal, but he later said he considered it to be one of his best performances, despite being too old for the part.
In 1960, Stanley Baker, along with Sir Dirk Bogarde, was considered the most popular British movie star. There was some surprise that he accepted the relatively small supporting role of Private "Butcher" Brown. Baker revealed that he wanted to be in the movie because he was impressed at how anti-war the blacklisted writer Carl Foreman's screenplay was.
"Mallory: Can you do anything at all? Corporal Miller: I don't know. There's always a way to blow up explosives. The trick is not to be around when they go off. But aren't you forgetting something? The lady. As I see it we have three choices. One we can leave her here but there's no guarantee she won't be found, and in her case they won't need a truth drug. Two, we can take her with us, but that would make things worse than they are already. And three... well, that's Andrea's choice, remember? Mallory: You really want your pound of flesh, don't you? Corporal Miller: Yes, I do. You see, somehow I just couldn't get to sleep. Mallory: Well, if you're so anxious to kill her, go ahead! Corporal Miller: I'm not anxious to kill her, I'm not anxious to kill anyone. You see, I'm not a born soldier. I was trapped. You may find me facetious from time to time, but if I didn't make some rather bad jokes I'd go out of my mind. No, I prefer to leave the killing to someone like you, an officer and a gentleman, a leader of men. Mallory: If you think I wanted this, any of this, you're out of your mind, I was trapped like you, just like anyone who put on the uniform! Corporal Miller: Of *course* you wanted it, you're an officer, aren't you? I never let them make *me* an officer! I don't want the responsibility! Mallory: So you've had a free ride, all this time! Someone's *got* to take responsibility if the job's going to get done! You think that's easy? Corporal Miller: [shouts] I don't know! I'm not even sure who really is responsible any more."
"[last lines] Corporal Miller: To tell you the truth, I didn't think we could do it. Capt. Keith Mallory: To tell you the truth, neither did I."
