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.
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.