Guns of Navarone

Gregory Peck - Capt. Keith Mallory
David Niven - Cpl. John Anthony 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

Much imitated but never equalled, this quintessential World War Two action yarn follows a group of Allied soldiers - an all-star ensemble cast including Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn - as they sabotage vital German weaponry. Filmed on location in Rhodes by veteran director J. Lee Thompson, and noteworthy for Bill Warrington’s Oscar-winning special effects, Carl Foreman adapted his Oscar nominated screenplay from Alistair MacLean's best-selling novel. This old fashioned character-driven adventure has s storyline with enough twists and turns to keep you spellbound right up to the tense, down-to-the-wire ending. There was a less than successful 1977 sequel, Force Ten From Navarone.

A group of rag-tag commandos, made up of Allied and Greek soldiers, each with a specialist talent, is assembled by British intelligence in an attempt to achieve the impossible - destroying the seemingly impregnable German artillery cannons concealed deep within solid rock on the Greek island of Navarone. Because they control a strategic channel in the Aegean Sea, it's imperative that the guns are destroyed. The six-man commando team consists of mountaineer Captain Mallory (Gregory Peck), humanitarian explosive’s expert Corporal Miller (David Niven), Greek resistance fighter Andrea Stravos (Anthony Quinn), British Major Franklin (Anthony Quayle), young marksman Private Pappadimos (James Darren) and ruthless killer CPO Brown (Stanley Baker). The ruthless Mallory - who is prepared to sacrifice his colleagues in order to reach Navarone and accomplish the sabotage mission, leads the disparate group of men.

Meeting them along the way are resistance leader Maria (Irene Papas), who is Pappadimos' older sister, and Anna (Gia Scala), a beautiful Greek girl who was reportedly tortured by the Germans. There's little love lost between Mallory and Stavros in their ongoing conflict over leadership, especially when it becomes known that there's a traitor in their midst. Maria weeds out the traitor, but there are still those guns to take care of. Along the way they are captured by the Germans, but manage to escape, and disguised in stolen Nazi uniforms the group finally arrive at the town of Navarone to embark on the climatic race against time to place the explosive charges.