Based on Alistair MacLean’s smash bestseller, it centers on a team of Allied operatives tasked with destroying a pair of enormous German guns housed in a fortress overlooking the Aegean Sea. Second only to West Side Story as the top moneymaking film of its year, The Guns of Navarone also ranks as one of the best of all World War II dramas. Incidentally, if Joe’s dog looks familiar, that’s because he’s the same mutt who played Toto in The Wizard of Oz.īlu-ray extras consist of audio commentary by filmmaker and film historian Peter Bogdanovich, with audio interview excerpts of Lang, and the theatrical trailer.Īnthony Quinn and Gregory Peck in The Guns of Navarone (Photo: Columbia) Norman Krasna, who came up with the idea for the film (the screenplay was written by Lang and Bartlett Cormack), earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Story. And given the January 6 terrorist attack by ignorant and ill-informed rednecks - behaving just like the right-wing rubes in this picture - Fury remains as timely as ever. Fury was Lang’s first American film, and it’s a fine companion piece to his earlier German effort M: Whereas that 1931 classic was more ambiguous in its depiction of mob justice (what viewer wasn’t pleased when the criminal underground captured Peter Lorre’s child killer?), this one clearly shows the dangers of vigilantism. And that’s just the first half of the movie. Convinced that a hardened criminal is sitting in their town’s jail - and equally convinced that the law will go easy on him - the citizens decide to storm the prison and mete out their own brand of justice. Spencer Tracy stars as Joe Wheeler, a good guy whose planned rendezvous with his fiancée (Sylvia Sidney) is interrupted when he’s hauled off to a small-town slammer by officers who think he might be part of a kidnapping outfit. Countless victims were innocent of any crime, which is the gist of this powerful drama. As noted by the district attorney (Walter Abel) in Fritz Lang’s Fury (and as reiterated on the Blu-ray box copy), in the 49 years before this film’s release, there had been 6,000 people killed by lynch mobs in the U.S. Ratings are on a four-star scale.) Spencer Tracy in Fury (Photo: Warner Archive)įURY (1936). (View From The Couch is a weekly column that reviews what’s new on Blu-ray, 4K and DVD. For us it is positive and to go back home with this positivity is good for our football, we deserve it.The heroes and heroines of The Guns of Navarone (Photo: Columbia) When asked what Coach John Keister's message was to his players at half time, Kamara had this to say: "That's for the coach to reveal but all I can say is that we copied the information really well because we went out there and believed what the coach said and every player out there today made the difference.
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