The Guns of Navarone, is a classic War movie based on the Alistair MacLean novel of the same name and directed by J. Lee Thompson.
A
British led team of six Allied and Greek soldiers is sent to the Greek island
of Navarone, occupied by German forces, to destroy the massive German gun
emplacement that commands a key sea channel, which threatens the safe
evacuation of British troops from a neighbouring island.
As
if the mission is not perilous enough, with such a large German presence on the
island, they also have a traitor in their midst.
The
menacing naval guns are embedded in a cliff with a big rock overhang, so the
RAF are unable to destroy them from air, which is why a commando team is put
together under the command of Maj. Roy Franklin (Anthony Quayle), a renowned
mountain climber, Capt. Keith Mallory (Gregory Peck) to get them up the
formidable cliffs, a couple of native Greeks, Col. Andrea Stavros (Anthony
Quinn) and Spyros Pappadimos (James Darren), explosives man, Cpl. John Anthony
Miller (David Niven), and a tough anti-fascist veteran of the Spanish Civil
War, CPO 'Butcher' Brown (Stanley Baker) and they are joined on the island by
resistance fighters Maria Pappadimos (Irene Papas) and Anna (Gia Scala).
The film is full of tension as the group keep getting into and out of one situation after another and it crackles with excitement up to the dramatic conclusion, a film not be missed.
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