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« A Challenge | Main | A Call For Help » November 22, 2004HeartbrokenMucking around on Netflix, looking for old movies to add to my rental queue. Breakheart Pass, a 1975 Charles Bronson western based on an Alistair MacLean novel, isn't available. It should be - it's a fine film. Hey, NetFlix... you have an unhappy customer here... Ah well, Amazon has it. MacLean, a Scottish novelist who died in 1987, wrote some 27 adventure/thriller novels. I read many of them as a kid, including Ice Station Zebra, Night Without End, When Eight Bells Toll, Where Eagles Dare, Breakheart Pass, The Golden Gate, Goodbye California, Seawitch, and Athabasca. Eventually, I graduated to Tom Clancy's novels. But I'd still enjoy seeing Breakheart Pass again. Comments
The Guns of Naverone Posted by: Ed at November 22, 2004 2:46 PMI never read the novel The Guns of Navarone, but I enjoyed the movie the 18 times I've seen it on cable! Posted by: Bill at November 22, 2004 2:58 PMI was just about to post that the Guns of Naverone was my all time favorite WWII movie based on Macleans great book. Every minute heart-pounding action and danger. Gregory Peck at his best as was David Niven. Posted by: jane m at November 22, 2004 3:00 PMI think his best book was HMS Ulysses, one of his early efforts about a British cruiser on escort duty on the Murmansk run. I thought his later books read like far-fetched screen plays. Posted by: craig hoffert at November 22, 2004 6:07 PMI always preferred Desmond Bagley. His novels were MacLean-like, but more believable. They were made into movies with lower budgets than MacLean's. "The Vivero Letter" and "Landslide" are my favorites. ("Vivero" was made into a movie titled "Forgotten City," with Robert Patrick of T2 and X-Files fame.) Posted by: Bob Hawkins at November 24, 2004 11:24 AMPost a comment
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