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- 1943. With the battle of Stalingrad turning the war against them, the Germans are attempting to bully neutral Turkey into joining the Axis; to this end they have trapped 2,000 British soldiers on Kiros, an island in the Aegean, with only one sea route for evacuation, a sea route commanded by two gigantic German antiship batteries deployed in a massive cliffside bunker on the island of Navarone. Immune to air attack and too much for Allied battleships to suppress, the British muster Keith Mallory, a commando officer who has been working on occupied Crete for nearly two years and who is an expert mountaineer, to ferry a team of British commandos to the only area of Navarone that is not monitored by the Germans, a 400-foot cliff. Greek resistance is to meet the team inland and guide them around German patrols to the area of the German guns. However, the commanding officer of the British team suffers grave injury in the climb and Mallory must take control of the mission, despite clashes with explosives expert John Anthony Miller, who upon the arrival of the night of the raid finds his equipment has been sabotaged, thus exposing a traitor in the team's ranks.
- Two powerful German guns control the seas past the Greek island of Navarone making the evacuation of endangered British troops on a neighboring island impossible. Air attack is useless so a team of six Allied and Greek soldiers is put ashore to meet up with partisans to try and dynamite the guns. The mission is perilous enough anyway but are the Germans on the island getting further help too?.
- This is a very good war film that hopes to be more, and largely succeeds. It holds, in fact, an important place in movie lore as one of the more successful action flicks, helping to establish an audience for flicks such as "The Dirty Dozen" (1967) and "Where Eagles Dare" (1968). The tensions that exist between the characters are important to the effectiveness of the narrative, and there are plenty of moral questions that are posed and partially answered. However, the best part of this film remains the performances of David Niven and Anthony Quinn, as well as a fine turn by Irini Pappas. Watch for the central theme of kindness and its limits, as well as for the award-winning special effects in the storm scene. It helps to hear from the actors in the extra commentary just how realistic and frightening that "storm" was. What's also nice to know is that the director, J. Lee Thompson, worked with Quinn again in 1978 in "The Greek Tycoon". And I do not think that the location information is correct at all - I doubt that Senegal's Ile de Goree, with an average elevation of 3 feet, provided the cliffs. Instead I would vote for the cliffs between Pefki and Lindos on the island of Rhodes, where the film was shot. I've seen them, and they're impressive.
- "The Guns of Navarone" was part of a wave of war films released during the 1960s and early 70s ("The Dirty Dozen", "Kelly's Heroes", "Where Eagles Dare", "The Guns of Navarone", "The Devil's Brigade", "The Great Escape" etc) which turned WW2 into a "boy's own" adventure. Featuring tough men on a mission against ridiculous odds, most of these films used war, not to express any moral or patriotic sentiment, but as vehicles for action, aimed primarily at the young "modern" audiences of the Vietnam era, and their aging WW2 era fathers.<br/><br/>"The Guns of Navarone" is one of the worst films in this wave. Based on a novel by Alistair MacLean, it's a routine "mission movie" in which a rag tag bunch of guys join forces to bomb a German gun emplacement. The film ignores the politics of WW2, ignores the mindset of those taking part in the film's suicide mission and reduces Germans to sock puppets.<br/><br/>Superficial and stupid, the film anticipates Steven Spielberg's "boy's own" adventures set against serious backdrops, and contains several scenes akin to "Saving Private Ryan", most notably one in which our heroes wrestle over whether or not to kill an enemy officer.<br/><br/>One can rationalise these films being made during WW2 (dehumanising the enemy is common in propaganda), but to make such a thing in 1961 (or 1998 as in Spielberg's case) is simply unconscionable. David Lean, and the moral probings of various other Brit directors during the 50s, had rendered this stuff obsolete by 1961, and yet the film was a huge success in the US, raking in piles of cash. No surprise that "The Guns of Navarone" was released just before the "Vietnam War", just as "Ryan" was released before the second Gulf War, both films priming their nations for some down and dirty warmongering (cf historian Patrick McCormick).<br/><br/>By the time the Vietnam war hit and was drawing to a close, "The Guns of Navarone's" imitators ("Kelly's Heroes", "The Dirty Dozen" etc) had found a way to rationalise their unscrupulous subject matter by embracing and exploring their roots in junk, trash and exploitation cinema (hence Tarantino's fondness for these films, and his homage, "Inglorious Basterds"). Indeed, it's an understanding of their debased roots that make fare like "Inglorious Basterds" and "The Dirty Dozen" so interesting. "Dozen", for example, is implicitly about both the perversion of cinematic justice and the impossibility of honour, and goes out of its way to show how "evil" exists, not mysteriously in the hearts of Nazis, but in complicit men, women and soldiers on both sides.<br/><br/>But even if one switches off the brain, "The Guns of Navarone" fails as a mindless action movie. Actors Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn and James Darren turn in some wooden, stiff performances, and though director J. Lee Thompson's action scenes are sudden, violent and brutal, the film is ponderously slow when the bullets aren't flying.<br/><br/>6.9/10 – This film needs some Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood and Terry Savalas.
- Chicago American, Tuesday, June 17, 1958:<br/><br/>LOUELLA O. PARSONS<br/><br/>Carl Foreman's visit to Hollywood lengthened to almost a week instead of two days as he had planned. That's because he has been negotiating with Cary Grant about playing the lead in h is next picture, "Guns of Navarone."<br/><br/>Carl brought both the book and script to Cary to read, and hopes to get the valuable Grant name on a deal before he joins his wife, who is vacationing in Italy.<br/><br/>__________________________ Chicago Sun-Times, Thursday, June 15, 1961, p. 52, c. 1:<br/><br/>KUP'S COLUMN<br/><br/>The Massive Power Failure that blacked out new York the other day almost caused producer Carl Forman and three top Manhattan movie critics, to black out, too. Foreman was screening his movie, "Guns of Navarone," for the critics. In one of the last scenes of the film, a German officer gives the command to a battery of cannon to fire at the approaching six destroyers in the Navarone channel. The officer gave the command, the cannons boomed--and, presto, everything went black!<br/><br/>_____________________________ a5c7b9f00b
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