The Guns of Navarone

(1961)

★ 7.3 IMDb · 909 votes

Genres: Adventure, Drama, War

Year: 1961

Runtime: 160 мин

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Director: Джей Ли Томпсон

Cast: Грегори Пек, Дэвид Нивен, Энтони Куинн, Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, James Darren, Irene Papas, Gia Scala, James Robertson Justice, Ричард Харрис

Plot

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.

In 1943, the British Navy is not able to rescue 2,000 soldiers trapped in the Island of Kheros since two powerful German cannons on the top of the Navarone Island are sinking the Allied vessels. After a failed aerial attack, the Allied command decide to send a six-man team disguised as fishermen to Navarone to blow-up the guns. The squad is commanded by Maj. Roy Franklin and composed of Capt. Keith Mallory, who is an experienced mountain climber, and his former partner Col. Andrea Stavros; the explosives expert Cpl. John Anthony Miller; the engineer CPO 'Butcher' Brown; and the Greek assassin Spyros Pappadimos, who was born in Navarone. They sail during the night and after an encounter with a German patrol boat and a storm in the sea, they arrive to Navarone and Capt. Mallory needs to climb a cliff face during a heavy rainy night to proceed their mission. Will they succeed?