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In 1943, the Axis powers plan an assault on the island of Kheros — where 2,000 British soldiers are marooned — to display
their military strength and convince neutral Turkey to join them. Rescue by the Royal Navy is prevented by two massive
radar-directed superguns on the (fictional) nearby island of Navarone. When aerial bombing efforts fail, Allied Intelligence
gathers a commando unit to infiltrate Navarone and destroy the guns. Led by Major Roy Franklin, the team is composed of
Captain Keith Mallory, a renowned spy; Colonel Andrea Stavrou from the defeated Greek army; Franklin's best friend Corporal
Miller, an explosives expert and former chemistry teacher; Greco-American Spyros Pappadimos, a native of Navarone; and
"Butcher" Brown, an engineer and expert knife fighter. Disguised as Greek fishermen on a decrepit fishing vessel, they sail
across the Aegean Sea, where they successfully overwhelm the crew of a German patrol boat intercepting them. Later in the
voyage, Mallory confides to Franklin that Stavrou had sworn to kill him after the war, because Mallory was inadvertently
responsible for the deaths of Stavrou's wife and children. After shipwrecking on Navarone's coast during a storm, the
experienced mountaineer Mallory leads the team in a climb up the cliff. Franklin badly injures his leg while climbing.
While taking shelter in the mountains, Mallory stops Franklin from committing suicide and lies to him that their mission
is only a diversion and a major naval attack will be mounted on the coast instead. They rendezvous with two local
resistance fighters, Spyros' sister Maria and her friend Anna, who was once captured and tortured by the Germans
before escaping.
The mission is continually dogged by German soldiers and the group is eventually captured in the town of Mandrakos by
Oberleutnant Muesel (Walter Gotell) while trying to find a doctor for Franklin (whose leg is infected with gangrene).
While being interrogated by SS Hauptsturmführer Sessler (George Mikell), Stavrou distracts the Germans and the team
overpower their captors. They escape in German uniforms, leaving Franklin behind to receive medical attention. In due
course, Franklin is injected with scopolamine and gives up Mallory's misinformation. As Mallory had hoped, most forces
leave the fortress to counter the expected coastal attack. Upon infiltrating the village of Navarone, however, Miller
discovers most of his explosives have been sabotaged and deduces that Anna is the culprit. She confesses that she did
not escape but that the Germans recruited her as an informer in exchange for her release. Mallory reluctantly prepares
to execute Anna as a precaution against detection, but Maria shoots her instead. The team splits up: Mallory and Miller
go for the guns, Stavrou and Spyros create distractions in town, assisted by local residents, and Maria and Brown steal
a boat for their escape. Spyros dies in a stand-off with a German officer, and Brown from being stabbed during the boat
theft. Meanwhile, Mallory and Miller infiltrate the gun emplacement, but set off an alarm when they seal the doors behind
them. Miller plants explosives on the guns and prepares a large booby trap below an ammunition hoist, with a trigger device
set into the hoist's track. The Germans eventually gain entry into the gun emplacement and defuse the explosives planted
directly on the guns; meanwhile, Mallory and Miller make their escape over the cliff, reaching the stolen boat. A wounded
Stavrou is also able to reach the sea and is helped aboard by Mallory, thus resolving the blood feud between them.
As the Allied destroyers trying to rescue the trapped British troops appear, the Germans begin to fire—and begin hoisting
in more ammunition. When the hoist reaches Miller's trigger, the hidden explosives set off the surrounding shells in a huge
explosion that destroys the guns and the entire fortress. Mallory's team safely reaches the British convoy, but Stavrou
shakes Mallory's hand and decides to return to Navarone with Maria, with whom he has fallen in love. Mallory and Miller,
returning home, observe the aftermath of their success from a destroyer.
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Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle,
Richard Harris, James Darren
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Director: J. Lee Thompson
Producer: Carl Foreman
Released - June 22, 1961
Length - 158 minutes
Music Composer: Dimitri Tiomkin
Movie Distributed by Columbia Pictures
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