A team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2... Read allA team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.A team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
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- 4 wins & 12 nominations total
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- TriviaThis film was the only time that David Niven, a life-long non-smoker, ever smoked cigarettes on-screen.
- GoofsWhen the Germans are searching the gun positions for explosives, German soldiers are using mine detection equipment and sweeping the tracks leading up to the guns. This is a useless activity since the detection equipment is a metal detector and would give off a signal due to the steel rails.
- Quotes
- Mallory: [On Andrea] He's going to kill me when the war's over.
- Major Franklin: You're not serious.
- Mallory: Yes, I am. So is he.
- [pause]
- Mallory: About a year ago, I gave a German patrol a safe passage to get some of their wounded into hospital. I guess I still had some romantic notions about fighting a civilized war. Anyway, they wanted Andrea pretty badly, even back then. As soon as they got behind our lines, they shot their casualties, went over to his house, and blew it up. He was out on a job at the time, but his wife and three children were in the house. They were all killed. I helped him to bury them. And then he turned to me and said that as far as he was concerned, it wasn't the Germans who were responsible, but me. Me and my stupid Anglo-Saxon decency. Then he told me what he was going to do, and when.
- Major Franklin: You think he still means to do it?
- Mallory: He's from Crete. Those people don't make idle threats.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits prologue: The first day 02.00 Hours An Allied Airfield somewhere in the Middle East
- Alternate versionsTo receive a 'U' certificate the original UK cinema version was overdubbed to remove all of Barnsby's uses of the word 'bloody' (the word was replaced with the less offensive 'ruddy'), and this same print appeared on early video releases. The film was restored in 1993 and all later widescreen releases feature the full unedited version.
- ConnectionsEdited into Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
- SoundtracksKaragouna
(uncredited)
Traditional
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- Also known as
- Los cañones de Navarone
- Filming locations
- Acropolis of Lindos, Rhodes, Greece(meeting point of party with Maria and Anna)
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Box office
- Budget
- $6,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $21,507
- Runtime
- 2h 38m(158 min)
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1














































