Hopefully someone here remembers this movie.
It is set in the middle ages, maybe somewhere in Europe. One group of people have developed a huge cannon on wheels for the use taking it to the enemies fortress and destroying it. It was a very large cannon, much bigger than anything else of the day. A sort of super weapon if you will. The enemy of course doesn’t want this to happen and ambushes the army and peasants pulling the cannon up a mountain pass…or something like that.
I remember seeing the movie on a black and white TV sometime in the early '60’s, suggesting the movie was probably made in the 50’s or even 40’s.
Does anyone know the name of this movie? Thanks in advance for any help.
What I came in to say. Based on the CS (Hornblower) Forester novel The Gun. The only thing against it is that it is set in the Napoleonic Wars, not the middle ages.
This is definitely what I was thinking. I remember a scene when, after hauling the huge gun ***up ***a mountain, one of the more learned commanders tries in vain to point out that it will essentially be ‘heavier’ rolling back *down *the mountain, and will require just as many if not more men to keep control of it. He is not listened to and the gun rolls away from them and is damaged!
You fine people nailed it! Yes, it definitely was The Pride and the Passion movie after reading the plot. It is one of my earliest memories, watching this movie with my mother on an old TV. I was too young to recognize any of the stars (Sinatra, Grant and Loren!) but remember being fascinated by the huge cannon.
I searched for hours on Goggle and Wikipedia but just didn’t have enough details to find it.
What a great site and great people.
Let me get this straight – this is a movie about two men vying for the affections of beautiful Sophia Loren while struggling to even move with their giant cannon?
