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Nov 5, 2021 · The original Guns of Navarone novel, by Scottish writer Alistair MacLean, was published in 1957. It's fiction, but based within the real Dodecanese Campaign – the Allies’ 1943 attempt to ...
May 7, 2007 · Review: The Guns of Navarone. The Guns of Navarone ranks among the best war movies. These days, J. Lee Thompson’s The Guns of Navarone is more than typical for a wartime adventure story. A team of roughneck military specialists is sent on a fool’s errand of certain death. You have the steel-eyed commando leader. The explosives expert.
The Guns of Navarone. Gregory Peck declined to attempt an English accent in order to play Captain Mallory. This was the only time that David Niven ever smoked cigarettes on-screen. Niven was a life-long non-smoker. During shooting, Gregory Peck and David Niven became close friends, bonding initially over Peck's ability to consume vast ...
The Guns of Navarone: Directed by J. Lee Thompson. With Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker. 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.
May 23, 2000 · Adapted by screenwriter Carl Foreman from Alistair MacLean’s best-selling novel, THE GUNS OF NAVARONE was nominated for seven Oscars®, including Best Picture, and won for Best Special Effects (1961). Set Contains: This special-edition DVD gives the modern-day viewer a taste of what movies were like in 1961.
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All Regions. Academy Award winners Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn star as a team of Allied military specialists recruited for a dangerous but imperative mission: to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied fortress and disable two long-range field guns so that 2,000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued.
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