Product ReviewsThe Guns of Navarone (DVD, 2000, Subtitled in Multiple Languages)

Biggest Guns

The Guns of Navarone is unusual. It is a fictional story of World War 2 that is often more realistic than the truth. The characters are people we all know and love from other films. They act well and the locations are beautiful and also characteristic of the Mediterranean war. Most everyone in the world has seen this movie at one time or another in their lives and it is the type of movie, and score that is unforgettable. You can be sitting in the living room one day and say to yourself, it's been a long time since I've seen the Guns of Navarone! If that happens, it would be a good idea to have a copy of the movie on hand to pull down from the shelf to watch.Read full review...

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Prolific Adventure

I remember my oldest brother taking me to see this on the Big Screen years ago. Amazing how many scenes I remembered. It was one of the best films of its time and is the Best of of All Time Classics. These men had genius and courage most of wish we could muster just once. These men were willing to die and some did die for a Noble cause. The leaders were able to see the "End Game". The actors during its filming played chess between scenes and were super competitive. The great thing was is how endeared they were in the sense that this film was no picnic to film and the courage bell rang clear with every single individual actor. Today's actors sometimes "Get it" and they have this as an Actors "refresher course".Read full review...

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Happiness

I just love this movie have since the first time I saw it on TCM so I thought I would just order a DVD for myself then I will always have it love all the characters except those nasty German officers I know it's a movie but a great one thank you Judy murphyRead full review...

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Excellent DVD!!! Fantastic, suspenseful, great performances by all the cast!!!

Excelllent Gregory Peck DVD! Realistic, entertaining, based on true story. Can't go wrong with this one!!!

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Classic Wartime movie

New movies are no where as good at this one. Hollywood cannot make a clean interesting movie any more and the language is so bad in many I refuse to watch current movies.

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Quinn, Peck,Niven all together for a great WWII movie

Spell bounding WWII movie, Full of great stars.Quinn, Peck,Niven all together for a great WWII movie, though seldom shown on tv.

An Intense Movie

My first and one of the best movies I have seen. It is full of intense of war events. Highly recommend this historical movie.

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One of our All-Time Favorites

This is the ultimate in Adventure and Suspense. In 1943, the Axis powers plan an assault on the island of Keros — where 2,000 British soldiers are marooned — to bully neutral Turkey into joining them with a display of their military strength. Rescue by the Royal Navy is prevented by two massive radar-directed superguns on the nearby island of Navarone. When aerial bombing efforts fail, Allied Intelligence gathers a team of commandos to infiltrate Navarone and destroy the guns. Led by Major Roy Franklin (Anthony Quayle), the team is composed of Captain Keith Mallory (Gregory Peck), a renowned spy and mountaineer; Colonel Andrea Stavrou (Anthony Quinn) from the defeated Greek army; Franklin's best friend Corporal Miller (David Niven), an explosives expert and former chemistry teacher; Greco-American Spyros Pappadimos (James Darren), a native of Navarone; and "Butcher" Brown (Stanley Baker), an engineer and expert knife fighter.

Disguised as Greek fishermen on a decrepit fishing vessel, they sail across the Aegean Sea, where they successfully kill the crew of a German patrol boat coming aboard to inspect 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. The team shipwreck on Navarone's coast during a storm; Mallory leads the climb up the cliff, but Franklin badly injures his leg; the injury later becomes infected with gangrene. While taking shelter in the mountains, Mallory stops Franklin from committing suicide and then lies to him: that their mission has been cancelled and that a major naval attack will be mounted on the Navarone coast, away from the gun emplacements. They rendezvous with local resistance fighters: Spyros' sister Maria (Irene Papas) and her friend Anna (Gia Scala), who was once captured and tortured by the Germans before escaping; the trauma rendering her mute.

The mission is continually dogged by German soldiers, and the group is eventually captured in the town of Mandrakos while trying to find a doctor for Franklin. Stavrou pretends to grovel as they're being interrogated, which distracts the Germans enough for the group to overpower their captors. They escape in German uniforms, but leave Franklin behind to receive medical attention. In due course, Franklin is injected with scopolamine and gives up Mallory's misinformation, as Mallory had hoped: the fort is emptied in preparation for the supposed attack. Upon infiltrating Navarone, however, Miller discovers most of his explosives have been sabotaged and deduces that Anna is the culprit; she is forced to confess that she is not mute after all, and that the Germans recruited her as an informer in exchange for her release. Mallory reluctantly prepares to execute Anna as punishment, 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 brave local residents; Maria and Brown steal a boat for their escape. Spyros dies in a stand-off with a German officer, and Brown from knife wounds inflicted during the boat theft. Meanwhile, Mallory and Miller infiltrate the gun emplacement, but set off an alarm when they seal the doors behind them. Mallory and Miller proceed further towards the battery, where Miller then plants explosives on the guns and hides more below an ammunition hoist — with a trigger device set into the hoist's wheels. The Germans eventually gain entry into the gun cave, but Mallory and Miller make their escape by diving into the sea, reaching the stolen boat. A wounded Stavrou is helped aboard by Mallory, thus voiding the blood feud between them.

The Allied destroyers appear on schedule, but the Germans find the explosives planted on the guns and begin to fire on the passing Allied flotilla. The hoist eventually descends low enough to trigger the hidden explosives, which sets off the surrounding shells into destroying the guns and the fort. Mallory's team safely reaches the British convoy, but Stavrou 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.

The above was copied from Wikipedia to save time. It says exactly what I would have written.

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The Guns of Navarone

This is one of the best war movies of all times. With an all-star cast including Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn and many more. The Germans have mounted four massive 16" naval guns inside a cave atop a mountain fortress on the island of Navarone. These guns afford the Germans strategic control of a major channel to the Aegean Sea. These 65' long guns can accurately sink ships thirty miles away. Aerial bombardment is ineffective due to such a large overhang, so the only way to destroy these guns is with a commando strike. A large number of Allied forces are stranded on a Greek island and a force of ships are enroute to rescue them, but those guns must be neutralized first. Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn are chosen for this mission. Peck because he was a champion climber before the war, and there is a cliff side that has to be climbed. Quinn knows the island. Quinn's family was murdered by the Germans when Peck's group gave them safe passage to collect their wounded. He has sworn to kill Peck when the war is over. Niven is an explosives expert, and several Brits are also along. Once they reach Navarone, they meet their Greek resistance group. In a climbing accident the British Commanding officer is severely injured and has to be carried. From the beginning, there is a traitor in the resistance group. The Germans keep showing up no matter where they go, and they are eventually captured. Through some clever acting, they are able to escape from their captors, but leave the British officer with them for care. With the Germans chasing them all over the island they eventually make their way to the old section of town where the guns are. Dressed in German uniforms they make it into the fortress. They wire the guns with explosives and are successful in destroying the fortress. The ships are able to rescue the stranded troops. This was an excellent movie, with great cinematography and special effects. This movie was nominated for seven Academy Awards.Read full review...

Wonderful

Great movie, great story, love the great actors