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The Pride and the Passion is a american film of genre Drama directed by Stanley Kramer released in USA on 10 july 1957 with Cary Grant

The Pride and the Passion (1957)

The Pride and the Passion
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Released in USA 10 july 1957
Length 2h12
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    War,    Action,    Adventure,    Horror,    Historical,    Romance
Rating57% 2.8524252.8524252.8524252.8524252.852425

Not to be confused with the similarly named Pride and Prejudice.

The Pride and the Passion is a 1957 war film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren. Set in the Napoleonic era, it is the story of a British officer (Grant) who has orders to retrieve a huge cannon from Spain and take it to the British forces by ship, but first the leader of the Spanish guerrillas (Sinatra) wants to transport the it 1,000 km across Spain to help in the capture of Ávila from the French before he releases it to the British. Most of the movie deals with the hardships of transporting the weapon across rivers and through mountains, while evading the occupying French forces and culminates in the final battle for Ávila; a subplot is the struggle for the affections of Loren by the two officers.

The screen story and screenplay by Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt was loosely based on the 1933 novel The Gun by C.S. Forester. Earl Felton did an uncredited re-write; George Antheil composed the score while Saul Bass designed the opening title sequence. The film co-starred Theodore Bikel and Jay Novello, was filmed in Technicolor and VistaVision, and released by United Artists.

Synopsis

During the Peninsular War, Napoleon's armies overrun Spain. An enormous cannon, belonging to a Spanish army, is abandoned when it slows down the army's retreat. French cavalrymen are dispatched to retrieve it.

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