The Guns of Navarone

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Taglines
  • An impregnable fortress... An invincible army... and the unstoppable commando team.
  • Still! The Greatest High Adventure Ever Filmed! [re-issue]
  • The Greatest High Adventure Ever Filmed!
Storyline
1943. With the battle of Stalingrad turning the war against them, the Germans are attempting to bully neutral Turkey into joining the Axis; to this end they have trapped 2,000 British soldiers on Kiros, an island in the Aegean, with only one sea route for evacuation, a sea route commanded by two gigantic German antiship batteries deployed in a massive cliffside bunker on the island of Navarone. Immune to air attack and too much for Allied battleships to suppress, the British muster Keith Mallory, a commando officer who has been working on occupied Crete for nearly two years and who is an expert mountaineer, to ferry a team of British commandos to the only area of Navarone that is not monitored by the Germans, a 400-foot cliff. Greek resistance is to meet the team inland and guide them around German patrols to the area of the German guns. However, the commanding officer of the British team suffers grave injury in the climb and Mallory must take control of the mission, despite clashes with explosives expert John Anthony Miller, who upon the arrival of the night of the raid finds his equipment has been sabotaged, thus exposing a traitor in the team's ranks.
Actors
Capt. Keith MalloryGregory Peck
Cpl. MillerDavid Niven
Col. Andrea StavrosAnthony Quinn
Pvt. 'Butcher' BrownStanley Baker
Maj. Roy FranklinAnthony Quayle
Pvt. Spyros PappadimosJames Darren
Maria PappadimosIrene Papas
AnnaGia Scala
Commodore Jensen/Prologue NarratorJames Robertson Justice
Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAFRichard Harris
CohnBryan Forbes
Maj. BakerAllan Cuthbertson
WeaverMichael Trubshawe
Sgt. GroganPercy Herbert
SesslerGeorge Mikell

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