The Guns of Navarone poster
Director J. Lee Thompson
Screenplay Carl Foreman

The Guns of Navarone

Tagline: The Greatest High Adventure Ever Filmed!

Release Date: 1961-04-27

Duration: 160 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

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