![]() However, it is The Guns Of Navarone that remains not only the best of the MacLean adaptations, but one of the greatest action/adventure spectacles ever produced. Although Foreman achieved his goal, it was MacLean who would wind up the true beneficiary his novels became the source for many high adventure screen epics, including Ice Station Zebra and Where Eagles Dare. Supported by an all-star cast and produced on a grand scale, the film was an enormous success, receiving seven 1961 Academy Award® nominations (including Best Picture) and winning for Best Special Effects. To accomplish this, he decided to bring Alistair MacLean's best-selling novel, The Guns Of Navarone, to the screen. Alistair MacLean, the son of a minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. Twelve hundred British soldiers trapped on a nearby island, with no hope of rescue from Allied ships, waiting to die. ![]() Blacklisted screenwriter Carl Foreman (High Noon,The Bridge on the River Kwai) was determined to re-establish both his name and credibility after spending most of the 50's working in anonymity. The guns of Navarone, huge and catastrophically accurate, embedded atop an impregnable iron fortress in the Mediterranean Sea. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn and David Niven are Allied saboteurs 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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