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Individually, George Gilder, winner of last year's race, copped first place again this year. He was awarded the spot only after two Dudley freshmen, who finished first and second, were disqualified as members of the freshman team. Don Kursch of Dunster and Jeff Peck of Lowell finished second and third respectively...
...heard the music, or even read Alastair MacLean's bestseller, by all means go all the way and plunk down your coins to see Carl Foreman's version. Though unbelievable, it's spectacular, and with shipwrecks, cliff-climbers, saboteurs, informers, captures, escapes, and explosions, (and Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn), how can you lose...
...course, nothing necessarily wrong with this--it permits a much faster pace. But interplay between puppets is likely to be unconvincing, and indeed it is. David Niven's cynical outbursts are dull unless they are funny, and the whole business about how Anthony Quinn is going to kill Gregory Peck when the war is over just doesn't come off. It makes no difference to the story, and one wonders why anybody bothered to mention it. Certainly all the subtle irony of Quinn's saving Peck on the cliff, and Peck later rescuing Quinn on the boat, could be discarded...
...gives little dimension to the characters, it must be said that the actors impart quite a bit to the roles themselves, and the level of acting is generally quite high. Some of the minor characters are cliches (witness the sadistic, perverted-looking SS officer), but most are acceptable. Gregory Peck, as usual, is better at looking rugged than anything else, but David Niven turns out an excellent performance as a college professor with a talent for blowing things up. And Anthony Quinn, as a Cretan guerilla, is in consistently top form. His bit in the interrogation scene should win over...
...most unbelievable -- and entertaining -- war pictures in some time, THE GUNS OF NAVARONE follows closely the best-selling novel of Alistair MacLean to tell the story of a band of saboteurs sent to destroy an emplacement of enemy guns on the Greek island of Navarone. The principals include Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn...