The action scenes are impressive even by today's standards but they are only a secondary pleasure. The main pleasure is watching the divergent and forceful personalities cooperate, conflict, confound and finally triumph. Suspense is maintained throughout.
Product description
THE GUNS OF NAVARONE - A classic film
1943. With the battle of Stalingrad turning the war against them, the Germans are attempting to bully neutral Turkey into joining the Axis; to this end they have trapped 2,000 British soldiers on Keros, a Greek island in the Aegean, with only one sea route for evacuation, a sea route commanded by two gigantic German antiship batteries deployed in a massive cliffside bunker on the island of Navarone.
Immune to air attack and too much for Allied battleships to suppress, the British muster Keith Mallory, a commando officer who has been working on occupied Crete for nearly two years and who is an expert mountaineer, to ferry a team of British commandos to the only area of Navarone that is not monitored by the Germans, a 400-foot cliff.
Greek resistance is to meet the team inland and guide them around German patrols to the area of the German guns. However, the commanding officer of the British team suffers grave injury in the climb and Mallory must take control of the mission, despite clashes with explosives expert John Anthony Miller, who upon the arrival of the night of the raid finds his equipment has been sabotaged, thus exposing a traitor in the team's ranks.
Awards won:
• Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama • Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score - Motion Picture (Dimitri Tiomkin) • Academy Award Best Effects, Special Effects (Bill Warrington & Chris Greenham)
Nominated for:
• Academy Award for Best Picture • Academy Award for Directing (J. Lee Thompson) • DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures (J. Lee Thompson) • Academy Award for Film Editing (Alan Osbiston) • Academy Award for Original Music Score (Dimitri Tiomkin) • Grammy Award for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture (Dimitri Tiomkin) • Academy Award for Sound (John Cox) • Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay (Carl Foreman)
This movie comes from our personal collection and only one piece is available
DVD Rating
Like New: a DVD in perfect condition. The box or jewel case is clean and vivid, with no signs of wear.
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Additional information
Starring
Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, James Darren, Irene Papas, Gia Scala, James Robertson Justice, Richard Harris, Bryan Forbes, Allan Cuthbertson, Michael Trubshawe, Percy Herbert, George Mikell
Format
Colour, PAL, Widescreen
Main soundtrack
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 • English DTS • Italian Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles
OFF, English, Italian, Italian Subtitled Commentary (J. Lee Thompson), Italian Subtitled Commentary (Stephen J. Rubin), Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish
Special features
• Director J. Lee Thompson Commentary • Film Historian Stephen J. Rubin Commentary
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