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[22] Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic wrote- "The Guns of Navarone is a lively adventure picture full of vivid action, obviously contrived but effective suspense." [23] As of August 2020, the film held a 92% rating on the review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes based on 24 reviews, with an average score of 7.93 out of 10. [24]
The Guns of Navarone is a 1957 novel about the Second World War by Scottish writer Alistair MacLean that was made into the film The Guns of Navarone in 1961. The story concerns the efforts of an Allied commando team to destroy a seemingly impregnable German fortress that threatens Allied naval ships in the Aegean Sea and prevents over 1,200 isolated British Army soldiers from being rescued.
Force 10 from Navarone is a 1978 action war film loosely based on Alistair MacLean's 1968 novel of the same name.It is a sequel to the 1961 film The Guns of Navarone.The parts of Mallory and Miller are played by Robert Shaw (who died before the film was released), and Edward Fox, succeeding in the roles originally portrayed by Gregory Peck and David Niven.
Navarone Island is a fictional island portrayed in a novel by Alistair MacLean entitled The Guns of Navarone. The novel was made into a movie, but the film changed some of the geography of the island. [1] Although Navarone does not exist, its history is based on the real history of the Aegean Islands of Greece.
In 1957, MacLean said, "I'm not a literary person. If someone offered me £100,000 tax free, I'd never write another word." [17] The film version of The Guns of Navarone (1961) was hugely successful. [18] MacLean was unhappy at the tax paid on earnings for his first two novels, so he moved to Lake Lucerne in Switzerland, where he would pay less ...
He also appeared in The Gene Krupa Story (1959), All the Young Men (1960), The Guns of Navarone (1961), and Diamond Head (1962). As a teen pop singer, he sang hit singles including "Goodbye Cruel World" in 1961. He later became more active in television, starring as Dr. Anthony Newman in the science fiction series The Time Tunnel (1966–1967).
Papas made her American film debut in 1956, opposite James Cagney in “Tribute to a Bad Man,” and she appeared twice on Broadway, later in her career.
The Guns of Navarone or Navarone may refer to: The Guns of Navarone, 1957 World War II-set novel by Alistair MacLean Navarone Island, fictional Greek isle in MacLean's novel; The Guns of Navarone, 1961 film based on MacLean's novel; The Guns of Navarone, film's theme song, covered by Jamaican ska group The Skatalites in 1965 and later covered ...