Guns of Darkness (1962)
Country: GB
Technical: bw/1.66:1 102m
Director: Anthony Asquith
Cast: David Niven, Leslie Caron, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu, Derek Godfrey
Synopsis:
On New Year’s Day in a fictional South American republic, an expat couple’s marriage founders just as the President is ousted in a coup. Disgusted by the violence in which he is implicated, the embittered husband finds himself smuggling the fugitive head of state out of the country. In the process he saves his marriage but bloodies his hands.
Review:
An interesting piece of work, in that it raises questions about the price of political power, however well intentioned, and equally that of our detachment from other countries’ internal affairs. In the process we are dealt a somewhat loaded hand in the shape of Niven’s self-loathing alcoholic turned hero capable of cold blooded murder by corkscrew. On the plus side, the locations (uncredited) are good and the plot does at least confound expectations, at least as far as the sunset finish. Niven would seem to be reprising his Corporal Miller from Navarone, bad jokes and all, but Caron, under Krasker’s lens, was never lovelier.
Country: GB
Technical: bw/1.66:1 102m
Director: Anthony Asquith
Cast: David Niven, Leslie Caron, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu, Derek Godfrey
Synopsis:
On New Year’s Day in a fictional South American republic, an expat couple’s marriage founders just as the President is ousted in a coup. Disgusted by the violence in which he is implicated, the embittered husband finds himself smuggling the fugitive head of state out of the country. In the process he saves his marriage but bloodies his hands.
Review:
An interesting piece of work, in that it raises questions about the price of political power, however well intentioned, and equally that of our detachment from other countries’ internal affairs. In the process we are dealt a somewhat loaded hand in the shape of Niven’s self-loathing alcoholic turned hero capable of cold blooded murder by corkscrew. On the plus side, the locations (uncredited) are good and the plot does at least confound expectations, at least as far as the sunset finish. Niven would seem to be reprising his Corporal Miller from Navarone, bad jokes and all, but Caron, under Krasker’s lens, was never lovelier.
Country: GB
Technical: bw/1.66:1 102m
Director: Anthony Asquith
Cast: David Niven, Leslie Caron, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu, Derek Godfrey
Synopsis:
On New Year’s Day in a fictional South American republic, an expat couple’s marriage founders just as the President is ousted in a coup. Disgusted by the violence in which he is implicated, the embittered husband finds himself smuggling the fugitive head of state out of the country. In the process he saves his marriage but bloodies his hands.
Review:
An interesting piece of work, in that it raises questions about the price of political power, however well intentioned, and equally that of our detachment from other countries’ internal affairs. In the process we are dealt a somewhat loaded hand in the shape of Niven’s self-loathing alcoholic turned hero capable of cold blooded murder by corkscrew. On the plus side, the locations (uncredited) are good and the plot does at least confound expectations, at least as far as the sunset finish. Niven would seem to be reprising his Corporal Miller from Navarone, bad jokes and all, but Caron, under Krasker’s lens, was never lovelier.