The Guns of Navarone (film)

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In 1943, the Axis powers plan an assault on the island of Keros where 2,000 British soldiers are marooned to bully neutral Turkey into joining them with a display of their military strength. Rescue by the Royal Navy is prevented by two massive radardirected superguns on the nearby island of Navarone. When aerial bombing efforts fail, Allied Intelligence gathers a team of commandos to infiltrate Navarone and destroy the guns. Led by Major Roy Franklin Anthony Quayle, the team is composed of Captain Keith Mallory Gregory Peck, a renowned spy and mountaineer Colonel Andrea Stavrou Anthony Quinn from the defeated Greek army Franklins best friend Corporal Miller David Niven, an explosives expert and former chemistry teacher GrecoAmerican Spyros Pappadimos James Darren, a native of Navarone and Butcher Brown Stanley Baker, an engineer and expert knife fighter.Disguised as Greek fishermen on a decrepit fishing vessel, they sail across the Aegean Sea, where they successfully kill the crew of a German patrol boat coming aboard to inspect them. Later in the voyage Mallory confides to Franklin that Stavrou had sworn to kill him after the war, because Mallory was inadvertently responsible for the deaths of Stavrous wife and children. The team shipwreck on Navarones coast during a storm Mallory leads the climb up the cliff, but Franklin badly injures his leg the injury later becomes infected with gangrene. While taking shelter in the mountains, Mallory stops Franklin from committing suicide and then lies to him that their mission has been cancelled and that a major naval attack will be mounted on the Navarone coast, away from the gun emplacements. They rendezvous with local resistance fighters Spyros sister Maria Irene Papas and her friend Anna Gia Scala, who was once captured and tortured by the Germans before escaping the trauma rendering her mute. ........

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