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This rousing, explosive 1961 WWII adventure, based on Alistair MacLean's thrilling novel, turns the war thriller into a deadly caper film. Gregory Peck heads a star-studded cast charged with a near im...( read more 
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MCT:August 25, 2008Guess when they label a movie as a classic, it really IS a classic.
This is a freaking good example of another of my favorite World War II movies. -
MCT:August 22, 2008This is the action adventure movie all others are compared against. The story is set in an exotic Greek island location during World War II. A small group of commandos on a desperate mission to destroy a set of German coastal guns that stand between the British Navy and thousands of outnumbered British soldiers trapped on a Greek Island near Turkey about to be captured by the Germans. The movie is set in the spring or early summer of 1941 after the British had suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Germans in Greece and Crete. It is a true fact that the British barely were able to evacuate their defeated troops to Egypt before they were taken prisoners. The rest of the story is fiction. There is no Island of Navarone and the Germans never installed any big guns in Greece. Unlike many war movies, the Germans speak German to each other, not English. The violence is quick and brutal. There is no waste of ammunition for the sake of typical Hollywood action. The bullets don't explode, they just poke holes in people killing them. The special effects were good in 1960 but today it's obviously done with models. The story explores the morality of war and the duty of a soldier. When the mission commander breaks his leg his second in command must choose whether to sacrifice the life of his friend or the success of his mission. Later when a traitor is found in their mist they must decide whether she should live or die. I first saw this movie on TV when I was a kid. I have a Laserdisc version that was made with a faded copy of the film. I later bought the DVD which has a crisp cleaned up picture and is in wide screen format with much better sound. Best quote, "Are you sure it will work?" "No guarantee but the theory is perfectly feasible."
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MCT:July 28, 2008want to see this because it won best drama picture at the golden globes and was nominated for best picture at the oscars
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MCT:July 27, 2008The first time I saw it was when I was 10 - it was the best movie I had ever seen. It is still very good, but not the best movie ever made :)
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MCT:June 20, 2008
I have not seen this film for ages and really only remember the beginning with soldiers saying "bloody this" and "bloody that" like every over sentence, the middle section and the end. It was pretty good, but Peck doesn't quite strike a strong cord as the leader of the group.
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MCT:May 7, 2008
I've been killing Germans since 1937; there's no end to it.
Yes, that's a memorable, yet problematic, line, for me, from Stanley Baker, one of my all-time heroes from Zulu -- yet another "let's try to dominate the world" film.
I have some great friends who are German. One of them, Gordon's wife, has never and won't ever -- and I mean she swears she will never, never ever, out of national embarrassment -- watch The Sound of Music. So to quote De Niro in The Deer Hunter: Okay? (echo echo echo) Okay?
Kurt in The Sound of Music is a type. Most Nazi characters in any movie are stereoytypical as well. If you want to see a genuine representation of Germans -- Nazi WWII Germans -- as real people, you should definitely watch The Longest Day.
What am I rambling about? Shoots, flixsters, I just wanted to star-rate this one because I'm watching it again for the 99th or so time on TCM. It is a very good view. Watch it if you get the chance; that's all I wanted to say : )
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MCT:February 23, 2008
I love that movie. It is quite old now but still for me this is one of the best action-suspense movies of all time :)
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MCT:February 13, 2008
An all round awesome action adventure movie - and the first DVD I ever owned. Best bit: The British destroyer convoy sails through the Aegean, with the German radar controlled guns slowly finding their range... until finally - WOOP! WOOP! WOOP! Awesome.
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MCT:February 9, 2008
an absolutely splendid war movie. thrilling, suspenseful plot, brilliant acting, intense action, and epic scoring. Peck, Niven, and Quinn make a thoroughly badass and dryly humourous screen trio. a well-written, well-shot film and a definite must-see in the WWII genre.
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MCT:January 5, 2008
This movie deals with much more than the secret mission these men carry out. It deals also with the fact that men are used in war for one reason or another. Fans of the Metal Gear Solid series of video games will find many similarities between this film and the games.
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MCT:December 21, 2007
One of the All Time Classics!
Great actor group too! Irene Pappas first international debut & success! -
MCT:November 6, 2007
Where else do you get this many great actors all running full-throttle? My favorite here has to be Anthony Quinn. Like all his roles, he is simply dripping with that primal, naked aggression that can explode at any second.
The story is amazing also. There are so many wonderful moments of tension, suspense, and grit. For a film so large in scope, it's held together so well by its nucleus of actors. Definitely one of the best. -
MCT:August 5, 2007
First, you've got that bloody old fortress on top of that bloody cliff. Then you've got that bloody fortress INSIDE the cliff. You can't even see the bloody cave, let alone the bloody guns. And even if we could, we haven't got a bloody bomb big enough to smash that bloody rock. And that's the bloody truth, sir!!
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MCT:July 22, 2007
"Every time my fingers touch brain, I'm superfly T.N.T., I'm the Guns of the Navarone!!" Oh. Different film. This one's pretty good, too.
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MCT:June 14, 2007
Slow. Really slow. It's like the blockbusters of today that have great actors, an okay script, but pretty meh direction. The production values are pretty spectacular, however.
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MCT:June 10, 2007
A rugged manly action flick, full of square jaws and macho heroics, with Gregory Pecary (as he was always known in our house) doing his thing. They don't make them like this anymore, which is both a good and a bad thing. Watching it again on Sky recently prompted me to search the internet for The Skatalites excellent version of the theme tune.
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MCT:June 5, 2007
Is is a great story by the same author who brought you "Where Eagles Dare" It's an all star international cast. Good intrique more than action but still good.
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MCT:May 20, 2007
This military adventure is seriously bogged down with war movie cliches, being based as it is upon a novel by airport paperback hack Alistair MacLean. But the star presence of Peck, Quinn and Niven elevates it above the mundane.
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MCT:April 9, 2007
The essential WWII commando raid behind the lines film with fully written characters and no easy outs.
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MCT:April 8, 2007
Terms of classic like The Eagle Nest and The Good the bad and the ugly, guns of navarone is a classic that will never die...
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MCT:April 3, 2007
Superb cast, even if you don't like war films, don't miss this classic, the acting is just first rate from the all star cast.
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Excellent war movie... faithful adaptation of the book... very dark, somewhat depressing, but well done... intense and suspenseful throughout...
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MCT:February 17, 2007
"The Guns of Navarone" is a movie adapted from the a the book "The Guns of Navarone" written by Alistair MacLean. Other movies have been made from his books. Another good one is "Where the Eagles Dare" with Richard Burton & Clint Eastwood.
In "The Guns of Navarone" the three greats are Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn. They were all great in this movie. The direction by J Lee Thompson is great. A excellent Production of Carl Foreman. "The Guns of Navarone" is great war movie full of adventure, exicitment as well as drama and cloak and dagger. A must see classic war movie. -
MCT:February 12, 2007
AH MAN! THIS WAS MY MOVIE BACK IN THE DAY. GREGORY PECK, DAVID NIVEN, AND ANTHONY QUINN. EACH OF THEM COULD HAVE CARRIED THE MOVIE, BUT ALL 3!
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