The Guns of Navarone (1961) - The Greatest High Adventure Ever Filmed!

The Guns of Navarone

The Greatest High Adventure Ever Filmed!
( Action / Adventure / Thriller / War )

MPAA Rating:

US Runtime: 160 min

Country of Origin: United Kingdom / United States of America

Premiere Date:
Apr 27, 1961 [USA]

Director:	J. Lee Thompson [Director]

Writer:	Carl Foreman [Screenplay]

Producers:	Leon Becker [Associate Producer] Cecil F. Ford [Associate Producer] Carl Foreman [Producer]

Cinematography:	Oswald Morris [Director of Photography]

Edited by:	Alan Osbiston [Editor]

Music Composed by	Dimitri Tiomkin [Original Music Composer]

Production Design:	Geoffrey Drake [Production Design]

Costume Design:	Olga Lehmann [Costume Design]

Production Companys:	Columbia Pictures (US) Columbia Pictures Corporation Highroad Highroad Productions (US) Open Road

Plot Summary:

A team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

Cast:

Gregory Peck Capt. Keith Mallory David Niven Cpl. James Arthur 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 Nicholas Papakonstantinou Patrol Boat Captain Christopher Rhodes German Gunnery Officer William Hoehne Jr. German Officer on Navarone

Uncredited Cast:

Andrew Andreas Wedding Guest (uncredited) Victor Beaumont German Officer in Gun Cave (uncredited) Jack Cooper German Soldier on Patrol Boat (uncredited) Maxwell Craig German Soldier at Wedding (uncredited) Carl Duering German Radar Operator (uncredited) Peter Evans German Soldier (uncredited) Chick Fowles German Soldier (uncredited) Wolf Frees Radio Operator (uncredited) Alan Gibbs German Officer (uncredited) Peter Grant British Commando (uncredited) Gerard Heinz German surgeon (uncredited)		Frank Henson Radio operator (uncredited) Arthur Howell German Officer (uncredited) Walter Kightly German Soldier (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) John Tatham General's Aide (uncredited) Bob Wright German Soldier (uncredited) Terry Yorke German Soldier (uncredited) Stephen Zammit Wedding Guest (uncredited)

Sound Crew:

John Cox Sound Recordist Chris Greenham Sound Editor		George Stephenson Sound Recordist

Special Visual Effects Crew:

Wally Veevers Special Effects		Bill Warrington Special Effects

Directing Crew:

Peter Yates Assistant Director

Camera and Electrical Department:

Denys N. Coop Camera Operator Mike Rutter Clapper Loader		Michael Walter Key Grip John Wilcox Additional Photography

Costume and Wardrobe Department:

Monty Berman Wardrobe Supervisor

Other Crew:

Elga Andersen Other Fritz Bayerlein Other P. J. Hands Other P. F. Kertemilidis Other N. Lazaridis Other		W. D. Mangham Other Golda Offenheim Other John Theologitis Other D. S. T. Turnbull Other

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