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

Writer:	Carl Foreman [Screenplay]

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

Cinematography:	Oswald Morris

Edited by:	Alan Osbiston

Music Composed by	Dimitri Tiomkin

Production Design:	Geoffrey Drake

Costume Design:	Olga Lehmann

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: (First 20, for the rest click 'Show All Cast & Crew' below.)

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

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Miscellaneous Companies:

Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films maps		Sinfonia of London music performed by

Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)

Associated British Elstree Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK [studio]

Iverson Ranch, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA

Rhodes, Greece

Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK [studio]

Tech Info:

Budget:: $6,000,000
Revenue:: $28,900,000
Color Info:: Color (Eastmancolor)

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