The Pride and the Passion (1957)

Cast/Avec Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren

During the Peninsular War, Napoleon's armies overrun Spain. An enormous siege cannon, belonging to the Spanish army, is abandoned when it slows down the army's retreat. French cavalrymen are dispatched to find it. Britain, Spain's ally, sends Royal Navy artillery officer, Captain Anthony Trumbull (Grant) to find the huge cannon and see that it is handed over to British forces before it can be retrieved by the French. However, when Trumbull arrives at the Spanish headquarters, he finds that it has been evacuated and is now occupied by a guerrilla band led by the French-hating Miguel…

Pendant la Guerre d'indépendance espagnole, au début du XIXe siècle (1808-1813), dans leur pays envahi par l’ennemi français, l’épopée d’un groupe de résistants espagnols entreprenant d'amener un énorme canon à leurs alliés britanniques pour faire tomber les remparts de la cité d’Ávila tenue par les Français.