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Release Date: 1957

Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Jay Novello, Cary Grant, Theodore Bikel, John Wengraf

Categories: Movies, Action/Adventure, Action, Historical Epic, Historical fiction

The Pride and the Passion (1957) is a historical film drama starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren made by Stanley Kramer Productions. 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 cannon 1,000 km across Spain to help in the capture of Ávila from the French before he releases the cannon to the British. Most of the movie deals with the hardships of transporting the cannon across... MORE

The Pride and the Passion (1957) is a historical film drama starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren made by Stanley Kramer Productions. 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 cannon 1,000 km across Spain to help in the capture of Ávila from the French before he releases the cannon to the British. Most of the movie deals with the hardships of transporting the cannon across rivers and through mountains while evading the occupying French forces and culminates in the final battle for Ávila. A sub-plot is the struggle for the affections of Loren by the two officers. The picture was filmed in Technicolor and VistaVision, and released by United Artists. It was directed and produced by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt, and Earl Felton, very loosely based on the novel The Gun by C.S. Forester, first published in 1933. Saul Bass created the opening title sequence of the film. The film co-starred Theodore Bikel and Jay Novello. Sinatra performed LESS