The Pride and the Passion is a 1957 American Napoleonic-era war film in Technicolor and VistaVision from United Artists, produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, and Sophia Loren.

First, however, the leader of the Spanish guerrillas wants to transport the weapon 1,000 km (620 mi) across Spain to help in the recapture of the city of Ávila from the occupying French before he releases it to the British.

Most of the film deals with the hardships of transporting the large cannon to Ávila across rivers and over mountains, while also evading the occupying French forces that have been ordered to find it.

Earl Felton contributed an uncredited screenplay re-write, George Antheil composed the music score, and Saul Bass designed the opening title sequence.

Britain, Spain's ally, sends a Royal Navy ordnance officer, Captain Anthony Trumbull, to find the huge cannon and see that it is handed over to British forces before it can be retrieved by the French.

Trumbull explains to the assembled guerilla force that half their number will be killed by various types of French artillery shot and grouped rifle fire during their assault wave.

Trumbull repeatedly fires the huge siege cannon, its large solid shot slowly demolishing one section of Ávila's high walls.

The color of Captain Turnbull's naval uniform appears more intended to show off Technicolor than to depict any historical British Navy Blue, which is much darker.

The panoramic, long-range views of the marching and terribly burdened army, the painful fight to keep the gun mobile through ravine and over waterway – these are major pluses."

"[8] Isabel Quigly reviewed the film for The Spectator on October 18, 1957: “With Stanley Kramer producing and directing, two such interesting actors as Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren, a first-rate story (from C. S. Forester's The Gun), and some magnificent Spanish scenery, The Pride and the Passion might have been, and should have been, something very much better than it is.

The script wins the year's prize for fatuity, Mr. Grant plays an English naval officer with the alarmed rigidity of an inexperienced sword- swallower, and the music bellows almost without pause from start to finish….Parts of this mostly dogged and long-winded film are impressive, mostly those where the landscape is allowed to take over…”[9] On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 30% of ten critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 4.8/10.