The Guns of Navarone (film)

The Guns of Navarone
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJ. Lee Thompson
Screenplay byCarl Foreman
Based onThe Guns of Navarone
by Alistair MacLean
Produced byCarl Foreman
Starring
CinematographyOswald Morris
Edited byAlan Osbiston
Music byDimitri Tiomkin
Production
company
Highroad Productions
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release dates
  • 27 April 1961 (1961-04-27) (London)
  • 28 April 1961 (1961-04-28) (United Kingdom)
  • 22 June 1961 (1961-06-22) (United States)
Running time
158 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$6 million[1]
Box office$28.9 million[2]

The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 action adventure war film directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, based on Alistair MacLean's 1957 novel of the same name. Foreman also produced the film. The film stars Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn, along with Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, Irene Papas, Gia Scala, Richard Harris and James Darren. The book and the film share a plot: the efforts of an Allied commando unit to destroy a seemingly impregnable German fortress that threatens Allied naval ships in the Aegean Sea.

  1. ^ "Wall St. Researchers' Cheery Tone". Variety. 7 November 1962. p. 7.
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