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Category: Action
All Genres: Action, Drama, War, Adventure
Release Year: 1961
Country: USA, UK
Runtime: 158
Rating: 5.5 (0)
Languages: English, Greek, German
Director: J. Lee ThompsonAlexander Mackendrick
Sound: Dolby, 4-Track Stereo, 70 mm 6-Track, Mono
Taglines:An impregnable fortress... An invincible army... and the unstoppable commando team. Still! The Greatest High Adventure Ever Filmed! [re-issue] The Greatest High Adventure Ever Filmed!
Writing by: Alistair MacLean - (novel) (as Alistair Maclean)
Carl Foreman - (written by)
Produced by: Leon Becker - associate producer
Cecil F. Ford - associate producer
Carl Foreman - producer
Cast: 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
Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.
Plot: Two powerful German guns control the seas past the Greek island of Navarone making the evacuation of endangered British troops on a neighboring island impossible. Air attack is useless so a team of six Allied and Greek soldiers is put ashore to meet up with partisans to try and dynamite the guns. The mission is perilous enough anyway but are the Germans on the island getting further help too?.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
During the end credits we see Robert Downey Jr. perform the song "In My Dreams"
Goofs: We know about 29 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: When Mallory and Miller are sitting in the truck below the guns, they use a small flashlight to illuminate the map. As they move the flashlight across the map, the circle of light stops but the flashlight continues to move for a moment after the circle of light stops moving; Mallory quickly moves it back. This shows the flashlight is not the light source on the map.
Trivia: There are 17 entries in the trivia list - like these:
All Genres: Action, Drama, War, Adventure
Release Year: 1961
Country: USA, UK
Runtime: 158
Rating: 5.5 (0)
Languages: English, Greek, German
Director: J. Lee ThompsonAlexander Mackendrick
Sound: Dolby, 4-Track Stereo, 70 mm 6-Track, Mono
Taglines:
Writing by: Alistair MacLean - (novel) (as Alistair Maclean)
Carl Foreman - (written by)
Produced by: Leon Becker - associate producer
Cecil F. Ford - associate producer
Carl Foreman - producer
Cast: 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
Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.
Plot: Two powerful German guns control the seas past the Greek island of Navarone making the evacuation of endangered British troops on a neighboring island impossible. Air attack is useless so a team of six Allied and Greek soldiers is put ashore to meet up with partisans to try and dynamite the guns. The mission is perilous enough anyway but are the Germans on the island getting further help too?.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
During the end credits we see Robert Downey Jr. perform the song "In My Dreams"
Goofs: We know about 29 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: When Mallory and Miller are sitting in the truck below the guns, they use a small flashlight to illuminate the map. As they move the flashlight across the map, the circle of light stops but the flashlight continues to move for a moment after the circle of light stops moving; Mallory quickly moves it back. This shows the flashlight is not the light source on the map.
Trivia: There are 17 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- Anthony Quayle spent part of WWII in Albania organizing guerilla forces.
- William Holden asked for $750,000 plus 10% of the gross to play Mallory. He was turned down and Gregory Peck was cast.
- One of the Rhodian locations used in the film has been renamed "Anthony Quinn Bay" after the actor was reported to have bought property nearby.
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