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The Guns of Navarone (film)

The Guns of Navarone
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Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Produced by Carl Foreman
Screenplay by Carl Foreman
Based on The Guns of Navarone
(1957 novel)
by Alistair MacLean
Starring Gregory Peck
David Niven
Anthony Quinn
Narrated by James Robertson Justice
Music by Dimitri Tiomkin
Cinematography Oswald Morris
Edited by Alan Osbiston
Production
company
Highroad Productions
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
27 April 1961 (Royal World Premiere, London)
  • 22 June 1961 (1961-06-22)
Running time
158 minutes
Country United Kingdom
United States
Language English
Budget $6 million
Box office $28.9 million

Coordinates: 37°52′53″N 25°39′7″E / 37.88139°N 25.65194°E / 37.88139; 25.65194

The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 British-American epic adventure war film directed by J. Lee Thompson. The screenplay by producer Carl Foreman was based on Alistair MacLean's 1957 novel The Guns of Navarone, which was inspired by the Battle of Leros during the Dodecanese Campaign of World War II. The film stars Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn, along with Stanley Baker, Irene Papas, Gia Scala, James Darren and Anthony Quayle. The book and the film share the same basic plot: the efforts of an Allied commando team to destroy a seemingly impregnable German fortress that threatens Allied naval ships in the Aegean Sea, and prevents 2,000 isolated British troops from being rescued.


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