Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Barbara Bach, and Carl Weather star in today's film,

a late 70s, barely a sequel of 1961's The Guns of Navarro, featuring none of the original cast

and only gestural references to the original plot. With the titular force of assembled oddballs deployed behind enemy lines,

their mission to destroy a bridge is jeopardized almost immediately by an attack by

Luftwaffe fighters which which downs their plane, and then Yugoslav partisans of questionable

allegiance.

By the end, their numbers diminished and their initial strategy almost completely compromised.

A last minute plan to destroy the bridge by demolishing

an upstream dam is attempted. Although the dam at first appears to resist the explosive

charges, it finally falls, and in the end our heroes conclude their

accomplished mission and begin their long, unexplained walk home.

It's the only film we'd include in our own briefcase full of dog poop bombs today on

friendly fire force ten from Navarro Welcome to Friendly Fire, the war movie podcast that is so secret we're willing to beat

up a dozen MPs just to keep quiet.

I'm Ben Harrison.

I'm Adam Pranica.

I'm Harry Reisner, also known as John Roderick.

I watched this movie with my mom, you guys.

She's here in Los Angeles Angeles, California paying me a visit and she told me that when she was a little girl at the Sandia, I guess that's an Air Force base in New Mexico.

The Guns of Navarone was a movie that she was obsessed with.

And like they would go down to the theater at the base and pay a quarter to get into the movies on Sundays or Saturdays

or whatever and she was a big fan of the guns of Navar, but she had not seen Force 10 from Navarone.

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