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 the Napoleonic 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, but first the leader of the Spanish guerrillas (Sinatra) wants to transport the it 1,000 km across Spain to help in the capture of Ávila from the French before he releases it to the British. Most of the movie deals with the hardships of transporting the weapon across rivers and through mountains, while evading the occupying French forces and culminates in the final battle for Ávila; a subplot is the struggle for the affections of Loren by the two officers.