The Guns of Navarone (1961) Movie Overview

The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 film based on the 1957 novel of the same name about World War II by Scottish thriller writer Alistair MacLean. It stars Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn, along with Anthony Quayle and Stanley Baker. The book and the film share the same basic plot: the efforts of an Allied commando team to destroy a seemingly impregnable German fortress that threatens Allied naval ships in the Aegean Sea, and prevents 2,000 isolated British troops from being rescued. The film opens with an aerial view of the Greek Islands, and a narrator (James Robertson Justice), setting the scene. The year is 1943, and 2000 British soldiers are holed up on the island of Keros in the Aegean near Turkey. Rescue by the Royal Navy is impossible because of massive guns on the nearby island of Navarone. Time is short, because the Germans are expected to launch an assault on the British forces, to draw Turkey into the war on the Axis’ side. Efforts to blast the guns by air have proven fruitless, so a team has been hastily assembled to sail to Navarone and blow up the guns. Led by Major Roy Franklin (Anthony Quayle), they are Capt. Keith Mallory (Gregory Peck); Andrea Stavros (Ant… Source

• The Guns of Navarone Movie Details
• Director: J. Lee Thompson

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• Tagline: Still! The Greatest High Adventure Ever Filmed! [re-issue]
• Country: UK , USA
• Run Time: 158 min | Sweden:156 min
• Genre: Action , Drama , War , Adventure

• Cast Overview
• Gregory Peck as Capt. Keith Mallory
• David Niven as Cpl. 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

The Guns of Navarone Movie Review from New York Times

The guns of Navarone are huge Nazi cannons, installed on an Aegean island behind enemy lines. Anthony Quayle is the officer assigned by the British to lead a task force to put the guns out of commission. When Quayle is injured, the mission winds up in the relatively inexperienced hands of Gregory Peck. There’s little love lost between Peck, explosi… Source

The Guns of Navarone Movie Details from Imdb

Two powerful German guns control the seas past the Greek island of Navarone making the evacuation of endangered British troops on a neighboring island impossible. Air attack is useless so a team of six Allied and Greek soldiers is put ashore to meet up with partisans to try and dynamite the guns. The mission is perilous enough anyway but are the Ge… Source

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