If you removed all the scenes of men and mules with ropes dragging a cannon across the Spanish countryside, the 2 hour+ movie would be about 15 minutes long. Sinatra shows zero charisma of the type necessary in a leader of men. He spends the movie supposedly sulking because he's losing his girl. Loren, as usual, manages to be funny-looking and stunning at the same time. Grant didn't show much emotion, and even he hated the movie. The producers could apparently only find about 15 people willing to dress in French uniforms, because the French army is portrayed as weak and stupid. How they couldn't find a couple hundred Spaniards dragging a cannon the size of a house across an entire country is a bit hard to understand. The fight scenes, rare as they were for a war film, were pathetic. There was no gore and very little blood. Loren's death scene consisted of her running across a field that was being bombarded and suddenly falling down and dying with no wound, no explosion, no reason. The movie wasn't terrible for about an hour, but then it just wouldn't go away.