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Release Date:
22 June 1961 (USA)
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Tagline:
Still! The Greatest High Adventure Ever Filmed! [re-issue] more
Plot:
A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel. full summary | full synopsis
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Commando
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Greek Resistance
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Traitor
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Mountaineer
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Awards:
Won Oscar.
Another 4 wins
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10 nominations
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(4 articles)
Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 10/13/2009
(From Fangoria. 10 October 2009, 11:19 PM, PDT)
“Nazis. I hate these guys.”: 15 WWII Movies Worth Watching Before You See Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.
(From FilmJunk. 26 May 2009, 4:10 PM, PDT)
(From Fangoria. 10 October 2009, 11:19 PM, PDT)
“Nazis. I hate these guys.”: 15 WWII Movies Worth Watching Before You See Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.
(From FilmJunk. 26 May 2009, 4:10 PM, PDT)
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Spiking Those Two Big Guns
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Gregory Peck | ... | Capt. Keith Mallory |
 | David Niven | ... | Cpl. 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 | ... | Sessler |
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Runtime:
158 min | Sweden:156 min
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
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4-Track Stereo (35 mm magnetic prints) |
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) (Westrex Recording System) |
Mono (35 mm optical prints) |
Dolby (Restored version)
Certification:
Iceland:12 |
Portugal:M/12 |
West Germany:16 (nf) |
USA:Approved |
USA:Not Rated (DVD release) |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-16 |
Ireland:G |
Norway:15 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:U (original rating) (cut) |
UK:PG (video rating) (1986) (uncut)
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Because the stars were all too old for their characters, the movie was nicknamed "Elderly Gang Goes Off to War" by the British press.
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Continuity: When the Mallory team arrives by boat at the British Army post at 1600 hours on the first day, Mallory clearly has his briefcase handcuffed to his right armed as it had been at the Middle East airfield office. A few minutes later, while walking around on the dock, waiting for Major Baker to arrive, the briefcase is clearly no longer on his right arm, but then reappears again on his right arm just a few seconds later.
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Prologue Narrator: Greece and the islands of the Aegean Sea have given birth to many myths and legends of war and adventure. And these once-proud stones, these ruined and shattered temples bear witness to the civilization that flourished and then died here and to the demigods and heroes who inspired those legends on this sea and these islands...
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Prologue Narrator: Greece and the islands of the Aegean Sea have given birth to many myths and legends of war and adventure. And these once-proud stones, these ruined and shattered temples bear witness to the civilization that flourished and then died here and to the demigods and heroes who inspired those legends on this sea and these islands...
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Movie Connections:
Featured in The 100 Greatest War Films (2005) (TV)
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Soundtrack:
Yalo Yalo
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The Greek part of the Mediterranean Theater of World War II was strictly a British show. They fought a pitched seesaw battle with the Germans until almost the end of the war. A great deal of debate about the feasibility of the whole operation has raged with military historians. The reason that the British Army and forces from their Commonwealth countries was to keep Turkey in the position of benevolent neutrality. At least this was one of Winston Churchill's stated aims and The Guns of Navarone makes the case for it.
But specifically this film deals with a pair of menacing looking naval guns embedded in a cliff with a big rock overhang. The RAF can't get at the thing to destroy from air, so a commando team is put together under the charge of Anthony Quayle. A couple of native Greeks are along, Anthony Quinn and James Darren, an explosives man, David Niven, a tough anti-fascist resistance man whose service dates back to the Spanish Civil War, Stanley Baker, and a mountain climber, Gregory Peck.
Peck has to get the team to climb a forbidding cliff which is the only area of the beach the Nazis don't guard because they think nobody can land over there. Peck gets the job done, but Quayle becomes injured and Peck gets the responsibility for the whole mission.
The Guns of Navarone is filled with tension as the men keep getting into and out of one situation after another. The film crackles with excitement and really should be seen on the big screen, it's the only way you can appreciate the special effects which got The Guns of Navarone its Oscar.
The film marked a screen partnership of Gregory Peck and director J. Lee Thompson, they did four films together. Thompson specialized in these action adventure films. Later on Thompson partnered with Charles Bronson in some of his best films of the seventies and eighties.
To get the young into the theater, current teenage heart throb James Darren is in the cast. We even gets to hear him sing in Greek which is in fact Darren's own ancestry. Irene Papas is also in the cast as his older sister and Gia Scala is her silent friend.
Despite setback and betrayal our team continues on. The climax of The Guns of Navarone is exciting and unforgettable and should not be missed.