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The Guns of Navarone (film)
The Guns of Navarone
is a 1961 British-American
epic
adventure
war film
directed by
J. Lee Thompson
. The screenplay by producer
Carl Foreman
was based on
Alistair MacLean
's 1957 novel
The Guns of Navarone
, which was inspired by the
Battle of Leros
during the
Dodecanese Campaign
of
World War II
. The film stars
Gregory Peck
,
David Niven
and
Anthony Quinn
, along with
Stanley Baker
and
Anthony Quayle
. The book and the film share the same basic plot: 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 2,000 isolated British troops from being rescued.
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