The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Handling
Academy Award®-winners GREGORY PECK (1962, Best Actor, To Kill A Mockingbird), DAVID NIVEN (1958, Best Actor, Separate Tables), and ANTHONY QUINN (1952, Best Supporting Actor, Viva Zapata!; 1956 Lust For Life) star as a team of Allied miliatary specialists recruited for a dangerous but imperative mission: to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied fortress and disable two long-range field guns so that 2,000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued. Faced with an unforgiving sea voyage, hazardous terrain, and the possibility of a traitor among them, the team must overcome the impossible without losing their own lives. Adapted by screenwriter CARL FOREMAN from ALISTAIR MACLEAN'S best-selling novel, THE GUNS OF NAVARONE was nominated for seven Oscars®, including Best Picture, and won for Best Special Effects (1961).
