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  2. The Guns of Navarone (film) - Wikipedia

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    The climax of the 1988 movie Commando is inspired by The Guns of Navarone. In the 2004 video game Call of Duty: United Offensive, a single player mission entitled "Sicily" is based in part on the scenery and events of the film, as well as the SAS attack on the Lamba Doria coastal gun battery during the Allied invasion of Sicily. [32]

  3. Force 10 from Navarone (film) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. The Guns of Navarone (novel) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Navarone Island - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Force 10 from Navarone - Wikipedia

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    Force 10 from Navarone may refer to: Force 10 from Navarone (novel) , a 1968 novel by Alistair MacLean Force 10 from Navarone (film) , a 1978 British film loosely based on the novel

  7. Gregory Peck - Wikipedia

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    Peck's first release of 1961 was The Guns of Navarone. [284] A J. Lee Thompson-directed World War II drama, it depicts Peck's six-man commando team, which includes David Niven and Anthony Quinn undertaking a mission to destroy two seemingly impregnable German-controlled artillery guns on Navarone Island. [62]

  8. The Guns of Navarone - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. J. Lee Thompson - Wikipedia

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    The Guns of Navarone, a World War II epic filmed on location in Rhodes, Greece, was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Thompson for Best Director. In 1961 he said "primarily I am in the business to entertain. This does not mean that I never want to try artistic movies again. But I do not think you can sell art on the big movie circuits.