The Guns of Navarone
The greatest high adventure ever filmed!
1961 · 2h 40m · Approved
Adventure, Drama, War
Directed by
J. Lee Thompson
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The Guns of Navarone
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.
Director and cast
- J. Lee Thompson Director
- 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
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