Guns of Navarone

UPC: 043396160934

Studio: Sony Pictures

MPAA Rating: NR   Contains:[Violence, Questionable for Children]

Summary: The guns of Navarone are huge Nazi cannons, installed on an Aegean island behind enemy lines. Anthony Quayle is the officer assigned by the British to lead a task force to put the guns out of commission. When Quayle is injured, the mission winds up in the relatively inexperienced hands of Gregory Peck. There's little love lost between Peck, explosives expert David Niven and Greek patriot Anthony Quinn, especially when it becomes known that there's a traitor in their midst. Resistance leader Irene Papas weeds out the traitor, but there's still those guns to take care of. Filmed on location in Rhodes and distinguished by Oscar-winning special effects, Guns of Navarone (based on Alistair MacLean's best-seller was a major box-office hit of 1961; less successful was the pared-down 1977 sequel, Force Ten From Navarone. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Category: War

Awards: Best Director – Directors Guild of America Best Picture - Drama – null Best Director – null Best Original Score – null Best Adapted Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Director – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Drama or Comedy Score – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Special Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Special Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Director – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Original Score – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: Commentaries with Director J. Lee Thompson & Film Historian Stephen J. Rubin

3 Documentaries: Forging the Guns of Navarone, Ironic epic of Heroism and Memories of Navarone
8 Featurettes including Epic Restoration and Great Guns

Blu-ray Exclusive: The Resistance Dossier of Navarone - Interactive Feature

Guns of Navarone

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 10/18/2011

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: DHMA null, DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 156 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French,Portuguese

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish,Portuguese

Matthew Doberman

1961's The Guns of Navarone is proof that excitement and drama have always owed more to good storytelling than to computer graphics and hurtling asteroids. A classic underdog war tale, the film boasts strong human drama and intense emotional involvement, thanks in large part to the compelling performances of Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, David Niven, and Anthony Quayle. The huge scale of the production -- hundreds of extras were used in the on-location Mediterranean shoot -- adds to the film's realistic tension. Navarone took home an Academy Award for its special effects; writer Carl Foreman would be nominated for Best Screenplay for his first official screen credit since being blacklisted. Some rental copies may contain unnecessary edits and dubbing; look for the restored version. ~ Matthew Doberman, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Christopher Rhodes  Actor 
Albert Lieven  Actor 
James Robertson Justice  Actor 
Norman Wooland  Actor 
J. Lee Thompson  Director 
Dimitri Tiomkin  Composer (Music Score) 
Carl Foreman  Producer 
Carl Foreman  Screenwriter 
Cecil F. Ford  Producer 
Gregory Peck  Actor 
David Niven  Actor 
Anthony Quinn  Actor 
Stanley Baker  Actor 
Anthony Quayle  Actor 
Richard Harris  Actor 
James Darren  Actor 
Irene Papas  Actor 
Gia Scala  Actor 
Bryan Forbes  Actor 
Allan Cuthbertson  Actor 
Michael Trubshawe  Actor 
Percy Herbert  Actor 
George Mikell  Actor 
Walter Gotell  Actor 
Tutte Lemkow  Actor 

Country: UK,USA