Greece. The Aegean sea. 1943. Germany is going to conduct a blitzkrieg on the island of Keros. Two thousand British soldiers are trapped on this tiny island. Im exhausted and helpless, would die within a week. Evacuation of British troops was impossible, because the approaches to the island blocked the two German guns with radar-guided, located on the nearby island of Navarone.
The gun is so accurate and long range, that any attempt of the allies to conduct a rescue operation was doomed. Allied intelligence finds out about the impending blitz just a week before the scheduled date. Urgently was formed by a group of commandos led by captain Mallory Kiffa, which destroy the German batteries on the island. The events of the next six days became the legend of Navarone
The Guns of Navarone
| Year | 1961 |
|---|---|
| Country | USA, UK |
| Tagline | Still! The Greatest High Adventure Ever Filmed! |
| Director | J. Lee Thompson |
| Cinematography | Oswald Morris |
| Scriptwriters | Carl ForemanAlistair MacLean |
| Produced | Carl ForemanLeon BeckerCecil F. Ford |
| Music | Dimitri Tiomkin |
| Art Direction | Geoffrey Drake |
| Editing | Alan Osbiston |
| Genres | ActionDramaAdventureMilitary |
| USA Gross | $28 900 000сборы |
| Release Date | April 27, 1961 |
| MPAA | PG |
| Runtime | 150 min. |
Plot Summary
Did You Know?
The film is an adaptation of the novel by Alistair MacLean, who wrote the script.
The film was shot on one of the Greek Islands Simi near Rhodes.
The thrash metal band Channel Zero has the same name the song "Guns of Navarone".
One of the Rhodian locations used in the film was renamed the "Anthony Quinn Bay" after the actor Anthony Quinn bought property nearby.
The only time David Niven ever smoked cigarettes on screen.
Mistakenly believed that the role of guns island used guns from dismantled Russian battleship "Will" type "the Empress Maria". This ship after the revolution were taken to the French port of Bizerte, and after a lengthy stoppage, was sold for scrap. Guns with a caliber of 305 mm was sent on a cargo ship in Finland during the second world war, but was intercepted by the Germans, repaired and installed in the "Atlantic wall" as coastal artillery. In fact, the film has been used 283 mm guns of the German battleship "Gneisenau", taken from him after received in 1942 damage and used to create a coastal battery, the Rosenburg (near Hoek van Holland) in the single towers of the type LC/37.
The denouement of the plot of the film (the destruction of the casemate guns) used by George Lucas in his film "Star wars: Episode VI return of the Jedi" (1983), in the episode of the capture of the rebels control the center of the shield of the death Star 2. Coincide many details the types of armored gates, a special form of German gunners (like the stormtroopers in Star wars), getting the fleet under fire ("all back, the field is not disabled!") and the final explosion.
