Guns of Navarone

Stupidity: Major Franklin is struggling up the side of the cliff while the rest of the group are on top of the cliff checking their equipment, then he slips and slides down the cliff side, breaking his leg. After seeing this, the group members reach for a long length of rope that was used to bring up the other members and the supplies. The commandos could have used the rope to help Major Franklin climb up and prevent him from falling and injuring himself.

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Stupidity: The rock climbing scene shows Gregory Peck hammering in metal spikes to the rock face, but then using them only as a foot or hand hold and making no attempt to attach his climbing rope. The point about having a rope is surely that if you lose your grip, you won't fall very far.

Stupidity: When Mallory decides to answer the phone on the cliff top he's warned there will be a code word or phrase. It seems to me that a better choice would be to not answer. Even though there would still be a patrol sent, isn't it more likely that a sentry had accidentally fallen off the cliff than unknown commandos climbing such a challenging face in such horrible weather?

Stupidity: Since the resistance fighters were already on the island, they could have just lowered a rope from the top of the cliff and "top roped" everyone up. No special climbing skills would then have been required.

Factual error: Miller rigs his booby trap by attaching the wires from the bomb to a pole down which a metal runner slides, so that when the runner touches the wires it completes the circuit and detonates the bomb. The trouble is, the pole is made of steel, and steel is very conductive indeed. Miller attaches the exposed end of the wire to the pole without any insulation or gap. The circuit will actually be completed when Miller attaches the battery, and he and his booby trap will be blown sky high.

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Trivia: At the very end of the film when Gregory Peck and David Niven are standing on the deck of the warship watching the explosions, you can see a very distinctive injury on Niven's upper lip. During the filming of the sequence where the commandos climb the cliffs he was slammed into the rock face by the water dumped on them to simulate the waves breaking over them. The resulting infection put him in hospital. He complains about the indifference of the film's producers in his book "The Moon's A Balloon."

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