The Weapons of Navarone

Academy Award®-winners Gregory Peck (1962, Finest Actor, To Kill A Mockingbird), David Niven (1958, Finest Actor, Separate Tables), and Anthony Quinn (1952, Finest Supporting Actor, Viva Zapata!; 1956, Lust For Life) star as a group of Allied navy specialists recruited for a harmful however crucial mission: to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied fortress and disable two long-range discipline weapons in order that 2,000 trapped British troopers could also be rescued. Confronted with an unforgiving sea voyage, hazardous terrain, and the opportunity of a traitor amongst them, the group should overcome the inconceivable with out shedding their very own lives. Tailored by screenwriter Carl Foreman from Alistair MacLean’s best-selling novel, THE GUNS OF NAVARONE was nominated for seven Oscars®, together with Finest Image, and received for Finest Particular Results (1961).