Image by: Ashwin Kumar/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 The cannon was kept near water for the gunners to dive in and escape the shock waves. The Pride and the Passion is a 1957 war film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren.Set in theNapoleonic 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. Photo Credit. Get The Pride and the Passion DVD and Blu-ray release date, trailer and movie stats. His Spanish (by way of Hoboken, NJ) accent is quite frankly laughable. Things get off to a good start early in the film when Loren does a very steamy dance number. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Right, but it was Pride & Passion, here`s another pic of the girl standing on the cannon, I chased her till she caught me, 53 years later we are still together. The story all centers around a giant cannon abandoned by a Spanish army retreating from a battle against the French. 03-13-2011, 03:46 PM #4. jimpy? The build up to the final battle, though, is pretty flat. At the end of filming in Spain at least one Cannon flew back to America. When he arrives in Spain, Trumbull finds the cannon secured by Spanish rebels. In the movie The Pride and the Passion from 1957, the fictional cannon may have been inspired by this gun. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. He needs some help, though, for which he recruits a guerilla army of spaniards, led by Miguel (Frank Sinatra). I know that Frank Sinatra appeared in a lot of movies, but I never think of him as a movie star. Film Title The Pride and the Passion Director Stanley Kramer Starring Cary Grant as Capt. The cannon can fire in any direction.Photo Credit. NOTE: The Pride and the Passion was recently released on DVD and BluRay by Olive Films. In that accent, though, I’ll pass. A "ragtag" group of Spanish loyalists find "The Gun" and begin to restore it so they may tow it across Spain to the French stronghold in Avila and … The story all centers around a giant cannon abandoned by a Spanish army retreating from a battle against the French. An elephant rests on the tip of the barrel, and a pair of peacocks are carved in the center. A 776 mm long elevating screw was used for raising and lowering the barrel. 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