Here on Friendly Fire we occasionally do things in the wrong order. We joined a

podcast network before releasing a single episode. I introduce myself second

instead of last and we're reviewing guns of Navarone after

it's so unrelated they could be legally married sequel, Force Ten from Navarone. All along we were just taking orders.

There's a look that washes over the face of Captain Mallory when he's given the titular mission of this film that one could easily dismiss as

Gregory Peck face. You see it all the time. It's that part of what makes Gregory Peck

movie so much fun. Here he flashes it when he knows that this is the mission that might finally kill him, but he has no choice but to take it.

It's the classic, climb a cliff in a rainstorm to destroy the largest German guns ever made or 2,000 men die next Wednesday kind of mission,

because it is that mission. Exactly.

Q Gregory Peckface. But the thing about Gregory Peckfface Exactly. and resolve. Captain Mallory is a hero in this movie precisely because when he realizes how

overmatched he is by the mission, he goes through with it anyway. In nearly every

setpiece his character confront another chance to die and not suddenly.

The guns of Navarone is unusual because it's filled with the kind of tension that makes the

viewer repeatedly sit with the idea a while and really consider death as it approaches in

its many forms be it the massive squall or the gunboat or the cave I've been making

Gregory Peckface a lot lately and I've been seeing it a lot in other people's faces too.

I suppose it's because we're all thinking a lot about death and that's easy due to these unprecedented circumstances.

Captain Mallory saw the big picture and was willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for the greater good.

It's what war Movie Heroes do.

Sacrifice has been on my mind a lot this week, which is how I'll gracefully pivot into what I really

want to talk about, and that's Captain Brett Crozier, former Captain of the Navy Aircraft Carrier,

U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, removed from his command after a letter he had sent to a

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