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Columbia Pictures
Navarone Collection
The greatest high adventure ever filmed!
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.
John Chard
Apr 8, 2015 · via TMDB
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 always follow this brand of high end adventure staples. The makers take a bunch of men from the various social spectrum and thrust them together for an impossible mission. We have the stiff backed guys with moral reasoning at their core, the rough and tumble men, all face fuzz and machismo seeping from every pore, and a young baby faced youngster blossoming into a man by the day. They will be put through the mangler at regular intervals, faced with scenarios to test their metal, all while the group view each other with suspicions of motives and reasonings. Here the character sub-plots, their hang-ups and frets, do not bog down the fun or the excitement, they enhance the narrative. We also get two ladies entering the group (Irene Papas/Gia Scala), and they too add some meat into an already beefy stew. Action is a plenty, suspense equally so. While of course there's twists and turns to input some mystery and pot boiling character dynamics. Elsewhere, Tiomkin provides a robust Golden Globe Winning score, and Bill Warrington & Chris Greenham's special effects won the Academy Award in that department - they look at times a bit weak now, but who cares right? The array of screen work, matte paintings and miniatures blend superbly with the outdoor location photography, which points us to a time when film makers worked their socks off to create the magic up there on the screen. Oh and the scripted dialogue is just wonderful and beating an intelligent heart. One of the quintessential boy's own - men on a mission movies, The Guns of Navarone, still a treat over 55 years since it was first shown in theatres, and crucially, it's still influencing other film makers as well. 9/10
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Gregory Peck
Capt. Keith Mallory
David Niven
Cpl. John Anthony Miller
Anthony Quinn
Col. Andrea Stavros
Stanley Baker
Pvt. 'Butcher' Brown
Anthony Quayle
Maj. Roy Franklin
James Darren
Pvt. Spyros Pappadimos
Irene Papas
Maria Pappadimos
Gia Scala
Anna
James Robertson Justice
Commodore Jensen / Prologue Narrator
Richard Harris
Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
Bryan Forbes
Cohn
Allan Cuthbertson
Maj. Baker
Michael Trubshawe
Weaver
Percy Herbert
Sgt. Grogan
George Mikell
SS Hauptman Sessler
Walter Gotell
Muesel
Tutte Lemkow
Nicolai
Albert Lieven
Commandant
Norman Wooland
Group Captain
Kleo Skouloudi
Bride
Christopher Rhodes
German Gunnery Officer
Carl Duering
German Radar Operator (uncredited)
Gerard Heinz
German surgeon (uncredited)
Rosemary Nicols
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Robert Rietti
Mallory - German Voice (voice) (uncredited)
Michael Sarne
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Bob Simmons
German Soldier on Navarone (uncredited)
Terry Yorke
German Soldier (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bob Simmons
Stunt Coordinator
Bob Simmons
Stunt Double
Bob Anderson
Stunts
Bob Simmons
Stunts
Eddie Powell
Stunts
Nosher Powell
Stunts
Peter Brayham
Stunts
Terry Yorke
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J. Lee Thompson
Director
Carl Foreman
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Dimitri Tiomkin
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Benny Carter
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John Williams
Music Arranger
Dimitri Tiomkin
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