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The Guns of Navarone (1961)

NR04/27/1961War, Adventure, Thriller, Action2h 40m

The Greatest High Adventure Ever Filmed!

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Gregory Peck

    Capt. Keith Mallory

  2. Cast 1

    David Niven

    Cpl. James Arthur Miller

  3. Cast 1

    Anthony Quinn

    Col. Andrea Stavros

  4. Cast 1

    Stanley Baker

    Pvt. 'Butcher' Brown

  5. Cast 1

    Anthony Quayle

    Maj. Roy Franklin

  6. Cast 1

    James Darren

    Pvt. Spyros Pappadimos

  7. Cast 1

    Irene Papas

    Maria Pappadimos

  8. Cast 1

    Gia Scala

    Anna

  9. Cast 1

    James Robertson Justice

    Commodore Jensen / Prologue Narrator

Biffo - Bammo - Boffo! A team of army specialists are assembled with the task of infiltrating a German held Greek island. Then they have to destroy the mighty twin guns up in the hills that blight the British operations on the Aegean waters. Adapted from the Alistair MacLean novel, it's directed by J. Lee Thompson and stars Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle, Stanley Baker and James Darren. Music is scored by Dimitri Tiomkin and cinematography by Oswald Morris. Watching it now it seems oh so very formulaic, but it was rarely the norm back than for war films to...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$6,000,000.00

Revenue $28,900,000.00

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