Movie
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1961-04-27
- Runtime
- 160 min
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Drama, War
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Highroad Productions, Columbia Pictures
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- 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
- Bryan Forbes as Cohn
- Allan Cuthbertson as Maj. Baker
Crew
- J. Lee Thompson - Director
- Carl Foreman - Screenplay
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