The Guns of Navarone
1961, PG, 158 min.
Directed by J. Lee Thompson, Starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, James Darren, Irene Papas, Richard Harris, Bryan Forbes.

Big, noisy WWII movie (that won an Oscar for special effects) presents an action-packed story about Allied commandos plotting to destory a cache of German guns stashed on the island of Navarone.

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