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The guns of Navarone / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; a Highroad presentation ; written for the screen and produced by Carl Foreman ; directed by J. Lee Thompson.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 16323 | Columbia Pictures16323 | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment16323LIT | Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Series: Columbia classicsProducer: [Culver City, Calif.] : Columbia Pictures, [1961]Publisher: [Culver City, Calif.] : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2007]Copyright date: ©1961Copyright date: ©2007Edition: Collector's edDescription: 2 videodiscs (approximately 157 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1424829887
  • 9781424829880
Other title:
  • Carl Foreman's production of The guns of Navarone
Uniform titles:
  • Guns of Navarone (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Disc 1. Feature film -- Disc 2. Special features.
Production credits:
  • Photography, Oswald Morris ; film editor, Alan Osbiston ; production designer, Geoffrey Drake ; music composed and conducted by Dmitri Tiomkin ; lyrics by Paul Francis Webster and Alfred Perry ; sung by Elga Anderson.
  • Academy Awards, USA, 1962: Oscar - Best Special Effects.
Cast: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, James Darren, Irene Papas, Gia Scala, James Robertson Justice, Richard Harris ; prologue narrated by James Robertson Justice.Summary: A British-American epic adventure war film inspired by the Battle of Leros during the Dodecanese Campaign of World War II in which a commando team of Allied military specialists are recruited for a dangerous but imperative mission to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied fortress and disable two long-range field guns so that 2,000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued. Faced with an unforgiving sea voyage, hazardous terrain, and the possibility of a traitor in their midst, the team must overcome the impossible without losing their own lives.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD ACTION Guns of Available 33111009102480
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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

Title from disc label.

DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital surround, remastered in high definition.

English (Dolby 5.1, Dolby surround), French, Portuguese (Dolby 5.1), Spanish dialogue, English, French, Portuguese or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, James Darren, Irene Papas, Gia Scala, James Robertson Justice, Richard Harris ; prologue narrated by James Robertson Justice.

Photography, Oswald Morris ; film editor, Alan Osbiston ; production designer, Geoffrey Drake ; music composed and conducted by Dmitri Tiomkin ; lyrics by Paul Francis Webster and Alfred Perry ; sung by Elga Anderson.

Based on the novel by Alistair MacLean.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1961.

Not rated.

A British-American epic adventure war film inspired by the Battle of Leros during the Dodecanese Campaign of World War II in which a commando team of Allied military specialists are recruited for a dangerous but imperative mission to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied fortress and disable two long-range field guns so that 2,000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued. Faced with an unforgiving sea voyage, hazardous terrain, and the possibility of a traitor in their midst, the team must overcome the impossible without losing their own lives.

Special features: New audio commentary from film historian Stephen J. Rubin; new "Forging the Guns of Navarone" documentary; new "Ironic epic of heroism" documentary; new "A heroic score" featurette; new "Epic restoration" featurette; new narration-free prologue; new Roadshow intermission; audio commentary from director J. Lee Thompson; "Memories of Navarone" retrospective documentary; "A message from Carl Foreman;" "Great guns" original featurette; "No visitors" original featurette; "Honeymoon on Rhodes" featurette; "Two girls on the town" original featurette; talent files; production notes.

Academy Awards, USA, 1962: Oscar - Best Special Effects.

Disc 1. Feature film -- Disc 2. Special features.

For private home use only.

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