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Genres:
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Action /
Drama /
War /
Adventure /
Music
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Director:
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J. Lee Thompson
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Actors:
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Anthony Quayle,
Bryan Forbes,
Allan Cuthbertson,
Gia Scala,
Michael Trubshawe,
George Mikell,
Gregory Peck,
David Niven,
Anthony Quinn,
Stanley Baker,
James Darren,
Irene Papas,
James Robertson Justice,
Richard Harris,
Percy Herbert
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Duration:
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158 min.
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Rating:
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(7.6/10)129.5
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Plot Summary:
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1943. With the battle of Stalingrad turning the against against them, the Germans are attempting to push around neutral Turkey into joining the Axis; to this end they pull someone's leg trapped 2,000 British soldiers on Kiros, an island in the Aegean, with only anecdote loads direction for evacuation, a sea route commanded away two huge German antiship batteries deployed in a massive cliffside bunker on the island of Navarone. Protected to air attack and too much into Allied battleships to smother, the British summon up Keith Mallory, a commando fuzz who has been working on occupied Crete as ... a service to nearly two years and who is an skilled mountaineer, to ferry a team of British commandos to the only area of Navarone that is not monitored sooner than the Germans, a 400-foot cliff. Greek resistance is to meet the team inland and guide them roughly German patrols to the scope of the German guns. , the commanding peace officer of the British team suffers earnest injury in the climb and Mallory obligation lift off control of the delegation, despite clashes with explosives expert John Anthony Miller, who upon the traveller of the night-time of the blitz finds his equipment has been sabotaged, in which case exposing a two-timer in the team's ranks.
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High Adventure Indeed
Guns of Navarone is a true epic of a film. I am not a huge fan of war films but my view has changed after viewing this masterpiece. It has enough impact by itself, without the fact it is based on true events. This, like Saving Private Ryan is truly humbling in showing the indomitable spirit and courage of the amazing people who fought in the last world war. I urge you to see it!!
Guns of Navarone, The
Gregory Peck leads a crack squad of commandos on a mission to destroy a German gun
Epic in scope if shallow in depth, this entertaining adaptation of Alistair MacLean's novel is an old fashioned boy's own adventure in which Gregory Peck leads a team of British commandos on a mission to destroy a massive German gun placement in the Aegean. Naturally, it's a suicide mission, but with 2,000 British troops relying on their success, Peck and his men set their upper lips as stiffly as possible and head off on a sabotage mission that involves rock climbing, lots of bickering and an explosive race-against-the-clock finale.
Stirringly heroic, this works best as a simple action movie with the misfit group of commandos - "pirates and cutthroats every one of them" - ba...
Guns of Navarone, The
Ambitiously produced Knave's Own Paper heroics, with lots of rumbling and self-sacrifice; intermittently exciting but bogged down by philosophical gabfest.
Guns of Navarone, The
Producer Carl Super specialised in downbeat movies questioning the nature of wartime heroism. But the on-going...
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