Surely we know enough about the reality of WW2 and the partisans to dismiss this as a poor version of reality?
Shaw always gave good value and Ford pushes back effectively. I'm still puzzled WHY the demolition expert, supposedly from the lower ranks is clearly a public school educated toff (Niven in the first edition).
My father was in the Royal Engineers in WW2 and part of his job was to train soldiers how to use explosives effectively, his "pupils" were all working class men used to working with their hands.
The other big screw-up was the filming in "the cave". Certainly in the version recently shown on TV the entire sound track was echoey and hard to understand. I suspect this was filmed towards the end of production and by the time the terrible sound recording was found the cast had dispersed and it would have cost extra to get them back to loop the dialogue, another indication that the bean counters were in control.
Review of Force 10 from Navarone
