History Film / ForceTenFromNavarone

''Force Ten from Navarone'' is a book by Creator/AlistairMacLean, published in 1968, and [[AdaptationDisplacement a 1978 film adaptation]], starring Robert Shaw, Creator/HarrisonFord and Edward Fox. The events depicted take place during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII but are [[HistoricalFiction entirely fictional]]. A small contingent of American soldiers, plus two of the British soldiers from ''Literature/TheGunsOfNavarone'', are sent to Yugoslavia to carry out two separate missions. The Brits aim to eliminate a known traitor masquerading as a Yugoslav Partisan, while the Americans were sent to destroy a bridge.

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''Force Ten from Navarone'' is a book by Creator/AlistairMacLean, published in 1968, and [[AdaptationDisplacement a 1978 film adaptation]], starring Robert Shaw, HarrisonFord and Edward Fox. The events depicted take place during WorldWarII but are [[HistoricalFiction entirely fictional]]. A small contingent of American soldiers, plus two of the British soldiers from ''Literature/TheGunsOfNavarone'', are sent to Yugoslavia to carry out two separate missions. The Brits aim to eliminate a known traitor masquerading as a Yugoslav Partisan, while the Americans were sent to destroy a bridge.

!!''Force Ten from Navarone'' provides examples of:

* UnfriendlyFire: [[spoiler:Schroeder accidentally gets shot by one of his own men while held prisoner.]]

* LargeHam: Colonel Petrovich.

--> '''Major Petrovich:''' You have outstayed your usefulness.

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Martiza and Schroeder, whose counterparts Maria and Captain Neufeld survives in the novel]].

* LesCollaborateurs: The Chetniks in the movie. Echoes RealLife as they tended to willingly work with German and Italian occupation forces in Yugoslavia.

''Force Ten From Navarone'' is [=MacLean=]'s only sequal work, written as a follow-on to the film adaptation of ''Literature/TheGunsOfNavarone'' rather than to the original novel.

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Maritza]] for the Partisans, in the Chetnik camp. Also, the movie's premise is that the two British soldiers are to execute "Nicolai", the mole in the Partisans. [[spoiler:It turns out he's really an undercover German officer named von Ingorslebon, posing as the trusty Captain Lescovar.]]

* [[AwesomeBackpack Awesome Suitcase]]: Staff Sergeant John Miller's suitcase chock-full of explosives. He seems to have a nearly infinite supply of them in his bag of tricks to confound and confuse the Germans while Barnsby and Mallory [[spoiler:set the charges to blow the dam upstream of the bridge.]]

* BigDamPlot: In both the book and film, the mission is a cover to destroy an important dam.

* WouldntHitAGirl: And when they finally do, she complains it wasn't hard enough. [[spoiler:Maritza is TheMole and she needs a convincing bruise to cover up letting Mallory and Barnsby escape.]]

* AdaptationNameChange: Many, most of which don't really seem to do much except cause confusion: Maria is now Maritza, General Vukalovic is demoted to being Colonel Petrovich, Captain Droshy is Captain Drazak, and Captain Neufeld gets a promotion to Major Schroeder.

* CanonForeigner: Colonel von Ingorslebon/[[spoiler:Lescovar]]. There's no German Intelligence agent posing as [[spoiler:a Partisan fighter]] in the book.

* AdaptationNameChange:

** General Zimmerman, despite being the BigBad of the book.

* IdiotBall: The characters have it during the scene where they rescue Weaver, Miller and Reynolds from the SS. [[spoiler:They don't properly frisk the Nazis, allowing the Gestapo agent to pull a gun from inside his coat, and in addition to ignoring Bauer because they think he's a HarmlessVillain, they inadvertently lay temptation in his path by leaving a gun within his reach.]] The fallout from this blunder leads to [[spoiler:Reynolds' death]] and the gang having to violently shoot their out, instead of simply walking out with Schroeder as their prisoner as they apparently originally planned.

* IdiotBall: The characters have it during the scene where they rescue Weaver, Miller and Reynolds from the SS. [[spoiler:They don't properly frisk the Nazis, allowing the Gestapo agent to pull a gun from inside his coat, and in addition to more or less ignoring Bauer because they think he's a HarmlessVillain, they inadvertently lay temptation in his path by leaving a gun within his reach.]]

* LargeHam: Alan Badel as Colonel Petrovich.
* TheLoad: Lt. Col. Barnsby regards the British officers as this initially, but comes to accept their assistance when he lacks the men and equipment to carry out his mission.

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Sergeant Bauer, if only by dint of being too terrified to think straight. He's such an unthreatening nebbish that when the heroes tie up Schroeder and the others, they seem to intentionally overlook Bauer. [[spoiler:Cue him grabbing a gun and killing Reynolds.]]

* TraitorReveal: [[spoiler:when "Lescovar" kills Maritza during the air raid.]]

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Maritza]] for the Partisans, in the Chetnik camp. Also, the movie's premise is that the two British soldiers are to execute "Nicolai", the mole in the Partisans.

''Force Ten from Navarone'' is a book by Alistair [=MacLean=], published in 1968, and [[AdaptationDisplacement a 1978 film adaptation]], starring Robert Shaw, HarrisonFord and Edward Fox. The events depicted take place during WorldWarII but are [[HistoricalFiction entirely fictional]]. A small contingent of American soldiers, plus two of the British soldiers from ''Literature/TheGunsOfNavarone'', are sent to Yugoslavia to carry out two separate missions. The Brits aim to eliminate a known traitor masquerading as a Yugoslav Partisan, while the Americans were sent to destroy a bridge.