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The Greatest High Adventure Ever Filmed! - The Guns of Navarone
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Title: The Guns of Navarone

Release Date: 27 Apr 1961

Runtime: 2h 40m

Genre: War, Adventure, Thriller, Action

Director: Highroad Productions, Columbia Pictures

Production Companies: Highroad Productions, Columbia Pictures

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

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Average Vote: 7.3 (786 votes)

Cast

  • Capt. Keith Mallory: Gregory Peck
  • Cpl. James Arthur Miller: David Niven
  • Col. Andrea Stavros: Anthony Quinn
  • Pvt. 'Butcher' Brown: Stanley Baker
  • Maj. Roy Franklin: Anthony Quayle
  • Pvt. Spyros Pappadimos: James Darren
  • Maria Pappadimos: Irene Papas
  • Anna: Gia Scala
  • Commodore Jensen / Prologue Narrator: James Robertson Justice
  • Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF: Richard Harris
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