Guns of Navarone watchalong Thursday 18th 9pm GMT

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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    No, I saw the German KGB first! :D
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Thr scene with the little girl with gene flowers is so memorable.
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Gottell here is more like Gogol than Morzeny... a basically decent sort...
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    I'm at the Gestapo interrogation. Should I pause?
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Quinn is terrific when 'acting acting' as a ruse...
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,873Chief of Staff
    Gotell interrogating Quinn. Can I start again now?
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Standard blonde SS sadist shows up....
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,873Chief of Staff
    Ok, I'm starting again
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    This SS guy is true to type. The "You are a liar!" moment with the swipe of the leather glove around the face has become a movie cliche par excellence...
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    Gotell plays the honourable enemy, just like in Bond.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    edited February 2021
    David Niven's "Not very hygienic, I must say! Shocking taste in undies, too! Heil everybody!" That's SO Roger Moore's Bond!
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    The silenced Stenguns aren't silenced at all....
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Quayle's make up is really well done - he looks waxy, pale and sweaty, almost purple.
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    Is that Q as the Greek priest?
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    The movie's 'gay subtext' has often been commented on. Niven/Quayle and Peck/Quinn... until Quinn re-couples with Papas.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    "When this is over, we'll meet at Simpson's" - I went there once, Simpson's in the Strand, wonderful traditionally-British comfort food like well-done school dinners, served in a big almost refectory-style room.
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Charmed & Dangerous wrote:
    "When this is over, we'll meet at Simpson's" - I went there once, Simpson's in the Strand, wonderful traditionally-British comfort food like well-done school dinners, served in a big almost refectory-style room.

    Love it there. Had Sunday lunch there on three occasions... but it does leave a hole in the pocket!
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    Shady Tree wrote:
    The movie's 'gay subtext' has often been commented on. Niven/Quayle and Peck/Quinn... until Quinn re-couples with Papas.
    I don't think that's the case. Ben Hur on the other hand...
    Don't tell Heston! :o
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Number24 wrote:
    Is that Q as the Greek priest?

    There is a certain resemblance.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,873Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    David Niven's "Not very hygienic, I must say! Shocking taste in undies, too! Heil everybody!" That's SO Roger Moore's Bond!

    Just like Roger's scratching his nose in the back of the van in TSWLM when Anya falls asleep on his shoulder is SO Niven!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,873Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    The movie's 'gay subtext' has often been commented on. Niven/Quayle and Peck/Quinn... until Quinn re-couples with Papas.

    Yes, I agree. It's there for those who seek.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,873Chief of Staff
    Shady, is Niven's calling out of Peck for leaving Quayle with the Germans what you were meaning earlier about theatrics?
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    Number24 wrote:
    Shady Tree wrote:
    The movie's 'gay subtext' has often been commented on. Niven/Quayle and Peck/Quinn... until Quinn re-couples with Papas.
    I don't think that's the case. Ben Hur on the other hand...
    Don't tell Heston! :o

    Heck, Stephen Boyd was directed to play it as if they'd been boyhood lovers. You can tell, too. There's no subtext there at all, it's overt.
    Boyd and the director agreed on the gay subtext, but it was kept secret for Heston.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,873Chief of Staff
    Barbel wrote:
    Shady Tree wrote:
    The movie's 'gay subtext' has often been commented on. Niven/Quayle and Peck/Quinn... until Quinn re-couples with Papas.

    Yes, I agree. It's there for those who seek.

    And I'm sure this is why two characters who were male in the book become female in the film.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    80% of all German soldiers in movies carry Schmeisers :D
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    edited February 2021
    I wonder whether Niven ranting at Peck over his use and abandonment of Quayle was an influence on Tarantino's scene with Harvey Keitel arguing with Steve Buscemi over what to do with the fatally wounded Tim Roth in 'Reservoir Dogs'... the performance style and indignant, ill-tempered delivery of Niven and Keitel is very similar (as is some of the dialogue)
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Nice moody chiaroscuro lighting on Gia Scala's character in her scene with Peck, foreshadowing her unmasking.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    edited February 2021
    I don't wish to trivialise Anna and her role, but her apparently mute condition reminds me of Aqua Marina in Gerry Anderson's marionette series 'Stingray' - and the scene where Anna silently cries, turning to Peck for comfort, is like some of Marina's scenes with Troy Tempest. (Now, that really was a 'wooden' hero!)
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    Number24 wrote:
    80% of all German soldiers in movies carry Schmeisers :D

    Gay Schmeisers?

    I recent the remark. My dad carried a Schmeiser when he was a corporal. :o
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    The German truck exploding as it rolls off the cliff is very Goldfingerish...or Dr Noish too.
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