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The Pride and the Passion (1957)
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Rating: 4.8/10
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Action , Adventure , Drama , Romance , War
Cary Grant , Frank Sinatra , Sophia Loren , Theodore Bikel , John Wengraf , Jay Novello , José Nieto , Carlos Larrañaga , Philip Van Zandt ,
Paco El Laberinto , Julián Ugarte , Félix de Pomés , Carlos Casaravilla , Juan Olaguivel , Nana DeHerrera
Stanley Kramer
IMDB 132
1957
The story in this movie deals with the perseverance of Spaniards to take back their country from the French who have conquered Spain under Napoleon as he marched
over Europe. A huge cannon| perhaps the largest in the world at that time| is discarded by the army as they retreat from the French invaders. A "ragtag" group of
Spanish loyalists find "The Gun" and begin to restore it so they may tow it across Spain to the French stronghold in Avila and use it to open the giant walls for an
invasion. Luckily Britain has sent someone to retrieve the cannon for England so they can have it to fight the French also AND to make sure that the French don't get
the gun! A shoemaker and his voluptuous girl friend are the leaders of the peasants trying to get the gun to Avila. The Brit can't get help to get the giant gun back
to his ship without the peasants and the shoemaker won't help him unless they all go blast Avila open first. The Brit has the knowledge needed to fire the weapon and
the ...