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The Guns of Navarone

1961·160 min

The Guns of Navarone

Directed by J. Lee Thompson

WarAdventureThrillerAction

A team of allied saboteurs are 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.

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Capt. Keith Mallory

Cpl. John Anthony Miller

Col. Andrea Stavros

Pvt. 'Butcher' Brown

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Dimitri Tiomkin

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The Guns of Navarone (1961) is about a team of allied saboteurs are 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.

Who directed The Guns of Navarone?

J. Lee Thompson directed The Guns of Navarone (1961).

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