| Force 10 From Navarone | |
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| Directed by | Guy Hamilton |
| Screenplay by | Robin Chapman Uncredited: George MacDonald Fraser[1] |
| Story by | Carl Foreman |
| Based on | Force 10 from Navarone 1968 novel by Alistair MacLean |
| Produced by | Oliver A. Unger |
| Starring | Robert Shaw Harrison Ford Barbara Bach Edward Fox Franco Nero Carl Weathers Richard Kiel Alan Badel |
| Cinematography | Christopher Challis |
| Edited by | Raymond Poulton |
| Music by | Ron Goodwin |
Production company | Navarone Productions |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 118 minutes (release) 126 minutes (restored) |
| Country | United Kingdom[2] |
| Language | English |
| Budget | US$10.5 million[3] |
| Box office | $3.2 million[4] |
Force 10 from Navarone is a 1978 British war film loosely based on Alistair MacLean's 1968 novel of the same name. It is a sequel to the 1961 film The Guns of Navarone. The parts of Mallory and Miller are played by Robert Shaw (who died before the film was released), and Edward Fox, succeeding in the roles originally portrayed by Gregory Peck and David Niven. It was directed by Guy Hamilton and also stars Harrison Ford, Carl Weathers, Barbara Bach, Franco Nero (in a "plastic surgery" role previously played by Tutte Lemkow), and Richard Kiel.
The film gets its title from the Alistair MacLean book of the same name, but bears so little resemblance to the novel that MacLean loosely adapted part of the screenplay into his 1982 book Partisans.
- ^ Fraser, George MacDonald (2003). The Light's on at Signpost. HarperCollins. pp. 130–141. ISBN 978-0007136476.
- ^ BFI: Force 10 from Navarone Retrieved 31 December 2012
- ^ Donahue, Suzanne Mary (1987). American film distribution : the changing marketplace. UMI Research Press. p. 300. ISBN 978-0-8357-1776-2. Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada