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The Guns of Navarone
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
1961 · Directed by J. Lee Thompson · 160 min · Adventure · Drama · War · 16 frames
Tagline
The greatest high adventure ever filmed!
Crew
- Screenplay: Carl Foreman
- Cinematography: Oswald Morris
- Edited by: Alan Osbiston
- Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
- Production design: Geoffrey Drake
- Produced by: Carl Foreman
Cast
- Gregory Peck as Capt. Keith Mallory
- David Niven as Cpl. John Anthony Miller
- Anthony Quinn as Col. Andrea Stavros
- Stanley Baker as Pvt. 'Butcher' Brown
- Anthony Quayle as Maj. Roy Franklin
- James Darren as Pvt. Spyros Pappadimos
- Irene Papas as Maria Pappadimos
- Gia Scala as Anna
- James Robertson Justice as Commodore Jensen / Prologue Narrator
- Richard Harris as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: Greek, English, German
- Studios: Highroad Productions, Columbia Pictures
- Budget: $6,000,000
- Box office: $28,900,000
- Themes: army, based on novel or book, fort, allies, world war ii
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