The Guns of Navarone

1961

Action / Adventure / Drama / War

55
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 86% · 25 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 86% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 59209 59.2K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

J. Lee Thompson Photo
J. Lee Thompson

Top cast

Carl Duering Photo
Carl Duering as German Radar Operator
James Robertson Justice Photo
James Robertson Justice as Jensen / Prologue Narrator
Walter Gotell Photo
Walter Gotell as Muesel
Richard Harris Photo
Richard Harris as Squadron Leader Barnsby
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay 2160p.BluRay
1.35 GB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
2 hr 38 min
Seeds 11
2.58 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 38 min
Seeds 45
7.7 GB
3840*2160
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 38 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Alyoshevna 9 / 10

Most effective use of silence.

I won't repeat what others have said. My short take: It's one of the best action films and one of the best ensemble films ever made.What I noticed on first viewing was how quiet it is. Many scenes take place without dialog or score, merely background noises like wind, feet crunching gravel, and the like. Some of the tensest scenes are made more so by our hearing only what the characters would hear. For example, early on in the film, the lead characters undergo a storm at sea and approach a dangerous narrows, and until the scene's climax, all we hear are howling wind, driving rain, and slamming waves. A musical score tells viewers how they are supposed to feel and often telegraphs shifts in plot or mood. As used in this film, the absence of music heightens the drama and makes the action more immediate. What score there is is thus more effective, earning its composer an Academy Award.
Reviewed by Tweetienator 6 / 10

Nostalgic Commando Action

The Guns of Navarone is a solid to good action war movie from 1961. The story of the movie is based on the The Guns of Navarone, a book written by Alistair MacLean (first published in 1957). The book and the movie is full fictional - the story of the book (and the movie) is loosely inspired by the Battle of Leros that took place in WWII. The story: an Allied commando is send out to destroy two big and heavily fortified German guns who rule over a strait that a allied fleet must pass, the clock is ticking and the commando only has a small time-window to accomplish the task.What we get is some nice action movie with some thrilling moments and a great production, and last but not least, we get some titans like Gregory Peck, David Niven, Richard Harris and Anthony Quinn.If you like those 60s war movies like Where Eagles Dare or The Bridge at Remagen or later ones like The Eagle Has Landed and A Bridge Too Far, this one is just waiting for you. The only thing I gotta complain is that the German soldiers hit nothing to nill and die like the minions in all those Bond movies.
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