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Sunday, 27 June 2021
ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – THE GUNS OF NAVARONE (1961)
The Guns of Navarone, is a classic War movie based on the Alistair MacLean novel of the same name and directed by J. Lee Thompson.
A
British led team of six Allied and Greek soldiers is sent to the Greek island
of Navarone, occupied by German forces, to destroy the massive German gun
emplacement that commands a key sea channel, which threatens the safe
evacuation of British troops from a neighbouring island.
As
if the mission is not perilous enough, with such a large German presence on the
island, they also have a traitor in their midst.
The
menacing naval guns are embedded in a cliff with a big rock overhang, so the
RAF are unable to destroy them from air, which is why a commando team is put
together under the command of Maj. Roy Franklin (Anthony Quayle), a renowned
mountain climber, Capt. Keith Mallory (Gregory Peck) to get them up the
formidable cliffs, a couple of native Greeks, Col. Andrea Stavros (Anthony
Quinn) and Spyros Pappadimos (James Darren), explosives man, Cpl. John Anthony
Miller (David Niven), and a tough anti-fascist veteran of the Spanish Civil
War, CPO 'Butcher' Brown (Stanley Baker) and they are joined on the island by
resistance fighters Maria Pappadimos (Irene Papas) and Anna (Gia Scala).
The film is full of tension as the group keep getting into and out of one situation after another and it crackles with excitement up to the dramatic conclusion, a film not be missed.
SNOWMEN
Men are like the Snowstorms
That
hit in winter
Hard
and fast
You
never know when they're coming
How
many inches you'll get
SENIOR DAREDEVIL
I have reached the age
That
when I’m out driving
And
I go through a tunnel
I
find it very exciting
THE WISDOM OF MY TEENS # 1
When I was a teenager
When
I got everything in my domain
Just
the way I liked it
Mum
made me tidy it up again.
DROPPED
A man went to Doctor Grace’s
“Doctor,
I can't pronounce my F's, T's and H's.”
The
Doctor thought for a moment
RAPPED
A man was sent to see a Psychiatrist
For
an appointment he could not miss
When
the Doctor saw the poor chap
He
was dressed only in plastic shrink wrap
The
Doctor said, with no ifs or buts
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