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In Force 10 from Navarone, though, too many changes were made without good reason. Unlike some earlier films where Alistair MacLean wrote the screenplay — Where Eagles Dare, for instance — this one strays from not only the book's details but also its spirit. The barest bones of the plot are still recognizable. Having just disposed of those nasty Guns of Navarone, a crack Allied intelligence team is sent to Yugoslavia (along with some American soldiers) to help the Partisans destroy a crucial bridge. That's about where the resemblance ends. Not all of the plot changes are bad. One of the worst is a weird, unexplained battle just before their plane took off from England. A better addition is the necessity for the team to infiltrate a German supply area and make off with explosives, which does add conflict and dramatic tension. (Also, it's always nice to see German soldiers actually speaking German when their words aren't absolutely crucial to the story.) Some of the most jarring differences are in the character lineup. Andrea, a key character in the book for multiple reasons, is absent from the movie. Explosives expert Dusty Miller has changed from a laconic American to a pipe-puffing Brit. The one remaining female character (since Andrea's wife isn't included), unlike her subtle book persona, turns parts of the movie into awkward melodrama. A U.S. sergeant, in the person of Carl Weathers (taking a time-out from playing Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky movies), is introduced oddly and often acts senselessly. An important Yugoslavian officer, depicted in the book as cunning, is buffoonishly portrayed by the giant Richard Kiel (perhaps best known as the villainous Jaws in some James Bond films). Otherwise, the cast is quite respectable. Robert Shaw isn't bad as Keith Mallory; at least he sounds like a subject of the British Empire, unlike Gregory Peck in the earlier Navarone movie. Harrison Ford comes across well enough as Mallory's American counterpart, though he has to deliver some unrealistic dialogue and actions. Edward Fox, besides being the wrong nationality, doesn't seem as tough-minded as one would like Dusty Miller to be; however, he does at least as well in that regard as the original Dusty, David Niven. Franco Nero is strong as an officer of the Partisan forces whose loyalty is in doubt. Among the most annoying aspects of this and some other films based on MacLean books is the way the characters toss off clever dialogue at moments of high tension. When characters speak that way in his books, I imagine them doing so with clenched teeth and some sense of urgency, not as if they were enjoying a Sunday in the park. In a real war, someone who focused on being ironic and wry rather than on planning immediate survival would be asking for trouble. Robin Chapman, who wrote the screenplay, was mainly a television writer; this was only his second, and last, movie script. That may explain why the film contains the over-broad acting and jazzed-up plot of a typical TV drama. Someone who had never read the book Force 10 from Navarone might find this film a diverting if lightweight war story. It seems like less to me because it had the potential to be so much more. Force 10 from Navarone by Alistair MacLean. Despite the smashing success of The Guns of Navarone — both in print and on the big screen — it took Alistair MacLean eleven years to publish a sequel. Force 10 from Navarone is linked to the preceding work through three main characters, though the action is unrelated to that earlier mission. As in the later (inferior) work Partisans, Force 10 centers on the World War II struggle in Yugoslavia, between the Partisans (backed by the Allied powers) and their countrymen who sided with the Germans. These alliances let MacLean employ some of his favorite types of characters: clever German officers, fierce warriors of the high Tatras, and naive young Allied operatives learning how war and secret missions really work. Heavy on action (albeit sometimes light on sensible behavior by all concerned), Force 10 deserves to be read by anyone who enjoyed The Guns of Navarone or other MacLean stories from that era. Plot keypoints. Fresh from destroying the fabled guns of Navarone, Keith Mallory, Dusty Miller, and the ever-lethal Andrea are sent on another improbable assignment: saving 7,000 Yugoslav Partisans who face annihilation by massed German tanks. Off to the Balkans they fly, accompanied by a trio of young commandos. As they attempt to contact the Partisan forces and stop the German onslaught, this elite squad encounter treachery and violence . as well as help from locals working both openly and clandestinely to stem the Axis tide. Can that aid help them overcome fantastic odds and accomplish their unlikely goal before time runs out? Strengths. Mysteries, frequent conflicts, and high-caliber MacLean prose drive the reader steadily along. Seeing the continued development, or at least actions, of familiar characters is an unusual pleasure for MacLean readers. Showing the perspectives of people away from the main events — the British supervisor, the German commander — adds new flavors to the tale. A female fills a major role well without getting mushy with the main protagonist. Weaknesses. While he doesn't do a bad job of mining familiar character types (see the first paragraph above), MacLean's faithful readers can anticipate what will happen to some of those characters, based on the plots of other books; this reduces the story's tension. Some fans probably dote on MacLean's hyper-detailed descriptions of structures and environments where actions take place. Just when events are humming along, though, he deflates the excitement a bit by going on at length about the features of this guardhouse or that dam. As in The Guns of Navarone, I found Andrea's unstoppable heroics — the way he was always a "fox among hens" — just too much to believe. Summation. Overcoming the occasionally uneven pace and stereotypical supporting characters, Mallory, Miller, and Andrea do keep the opposition busy and the reader entertained. Force 10 from Navarone. Octavo (196 x 128mm), pp. 254, [2 (blank l.)]. One full-page plan in the text. Original mid-brown boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, dustwrapper with design by Norman Weaver, price-clipped, ‘Collectors Editions Club Choice’ sticker on upper panel. (Dustwrapper slightly faded on spine, minimally creased at edges, traces of adhesive tape on verso of dustwrapper.) A very good, internally clean copy in the dustwrapper. Dealer Notes. First edition. In Maclean’s Force 10 to Navarone the ‘heroes of [. ] The Guns of Navarone are not allowed to rest long on their laurels. In this enthralling successor to best-selling adventure story and record-breaking film, Keith Mallory, Andrea and Dusty Miller are parachuting into war- torn Yugoslavia almost before the last echoes of the famous guns have died away. Their mission among the dramatic mountains of Bosnia is ostensibly to rescue a division of trapped Partisans. In fact, it is to convince the Germans that a major Allied assault on Yugoslavia is impending and thus draw off troops from the Italian Front. Helped and sometimes hindered by three Commando sergeants and by a blind Yugoslav folk- singer and his sister, the three heroes need all their courage, daring and specialized techniques to accomplish their dual objective – which they do by a means even more unexpected and cataclysmic than that employed in silencing Navarone’s guns’ (dustwrapper blurb).

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