The Guns of Navarone
The Greatest High Adventure Ever Filmed!
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
- Director
- J. Lee Thompson
- Signature
- Drama · Craft · Action
- Worldwide
- $29M
Who's in it
Cast
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27 billed performers
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Movie DNA
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Story overview
What It's About
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A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
The Guns of Navarone returned 4.8× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $6M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $29M
- Release date
- Apr 27, 1961
- Runtime
- 2h 40m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- German, Greek
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
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