Movie Description:
Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn and David Niven are Allied saboteurs assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroythe two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescueof 2,000 trappedBritish soldiers. Blacklisted screenwriters Carl Foremanwas determined to re-establish both his name and credibility after spending most of the `50s working in anonymity. To accomplish this, he decided to bringAlistair MacLean`s best-sellingnovel, The Guns of Navarone, to the screen. Supported by anall-star cast and produced on a grand scale, the film wasan enormous success, receiving seven 1961 Academy Award nominations and winning for Best Special Effects. Although Foreman achieved his goal, itwas MacLean who would wind up the true beneficiary; his novelsbecame the source for manyhigh adventure screen epics, including Ice Station Zebra andWhere Eagles Dare. However, itis The Guns of Navarone that remains not only the best of theMacLean adaptations, but oneof the greatest action/adventurespectacles ever produced.
