Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 160 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
The story
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.
- army
- based on novel or book
- fort
- allies
- world war ii
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Gregory Peck
Capt. Keith Mallory
David Niven
Cpl. John Anthony Miller
Anthony Quinn
Col. Andrea Stavros
Stanley Baker
Pvt. 'Butcher' Brown
- Anthony Quayle — Maj. Roy Franklin
- James Darren — Pvt. Spyros Pappadimos
- Irene Papas — Maria Pappadimos
- Gia Scala — Anna
- James Robertson Justice — Commodore Jensen / Prologue Narrator
- Richard Harris — Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
- Bryan Forbes — Cohn
- Allan Cuthbertson — Maj. Baker
- Michael Trubshawe — Weaver
- Percy Herbert — Sgt. Grogan
- George Mikell — SS Hauptman Sessler
- Directed
- J. Lee Thompson
- Written
- Carl Foreman
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 879 ratings
- Studio
- Highroad Productions, Columbia Pictures
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1961 · You’re hereThe Guns of Navarone
Where it starts.
Force 10 from Navarone
1978
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
