Guns of Navarone

Starring: Gregory Peck; David Niven & Anthony Quinn Director: J. Lee Thompson

DVD Features:

Audio:

• Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
• Dolby Surround - English
• Dolby Digital Mono - Spanish
• Dolby Digital Mono - French

Additional Release Material:

• Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
                2. Bonus Trailer - OLD GRINGO
• Audio Commentary - 1. J. Lee Thompson - Director
• Documentary - 1. MEMORIES OF NAVARONE
• Production Interview - 1. Carl Foreman - Writer
• Bonus Feature/Short - 1. GREAT GUNS
                                   2. NO VISITORS
                                   3. HONEYMOON ON THE RHODES
                                   4. TWO GIRLS ON THE TOWN

Interactive Features:

• Scene Selections
• Interactive Menus

Text/Photo Galleries:

• Production Notes
• Filmographies - 1. Cast & Crew

Major Awards:

Academy Awards - Best Picture (1961)

Academy Awards - Best Sound Effects (1961)

Academy Awards - Best Special Effects (1961)

Description by OLDIES.com:

Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn and David Niven are Allied saboteurs 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.

Blacklisted screenwriter Carl Foreman (High Noon, The Bridge On the River Kwai) was determined to re-establish both his name and credibility after spending most of the '50s working in anonymity. To accomplish this, he decided to bring Alistair MacLean's best-selling novel, The Guns of Navarone, to the screen. Supported by an all-star cast and produced on a grand scale, the film was an enormous success, receiving seven 1961 Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture) and winning for Best Special Effects. Although Foreman achieved his goal, it was MacLean who would end up the true beneficiary; his novels became the source for many high adventure screen epics, including Ice Station Zebra and Where Eagles Dare. However, it is The Guns of Navarone that remains not only the best of the MacLean adaptations, but one of the greatest action/adventure spectacles ever produced.

Product Description:

One of the great war movies of all time, with an all start cast, and a gripping plot--based on the Alistair MacLean novel. A commando team is sent to a Greek Island to destroy the giant guns of World War II Germany which are controlling a strategic channel in the Aegean Sea. This was a groundbreaker in the Special Effects department, too. Academy Award Nominations: 7, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best (Adapted) Screenplay. Academy Awards: Best Special Effects.

Plot Synopsis:

A specialized commando team is organized in 1943, during WWII, to sabotage and put out of commission the Axis firepower on the mountainous Greek island of Navarone in the Aegean Sea.

Plot Keywords:

Action | Essential Cinema | Recommended | Spies | Thriller | World War II

Production Notes:

• Produced at Shepperton Studios, and Associated British Studios, Elstree, UK; color by Eastmancolor; shot in CinemaScope.
• Cleo Scouloudi played the Bride and Nicholas Papakonstantinou played the Patrol Boat Captain.
• In 1993, this version was replaced by a newly-restored version.
  The restored version (VHS #72123) replaces the older videocassette version, which is no longer available from Columbia TriStar Home Video.
• Available to buy in the UK (widescreen version).

Cast and Crew: