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


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MPAA Rating:
PG

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:



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