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The Guns of Navarone is a 1957 novel about World War II by British thriller writer Alistair MacLean that was made into a film in 1961. The book and the film share the same basic plot: the efforts of an Allied commando team to destroy a seemingly impregnable German fortress that threatens Allied naval ships in the Aegean Sea, and prevents 2,000 British prisoners from being rescued. Image File history File links This is a copyrighted poster. ...
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Alistair Stuart MacLean (April 28, 1922 - February 2, 1987) was a Scottish novelist, writer of successful thrillers or adventures, the best known of which is perhaps The Guns of Navarone. ...
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Combatants Allies: • Poland, • UK & Commonwealth, • France/Free France, • Soviet Union, • USA, • China, ...and others• Axis: • Germany, • Italy, • Japan, • ...and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total: 50 million Full list Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total: 12 million Full list World War II...
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Alistair Stuart MacLean (April 28, 1922 - February 2, 1987) was a Scottish novelist, writer of successful thrillers or adventures, the best known of which is perhaps The Guns of Navarone. ...
1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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Novel The book brought together elements that would characterize much of MacLean's subsequent work: tough, competent, worldly men as main characters; frequent but non-graphic violence; betrayal of the hero(es) by a trusted associate; and extensive use of the sea and other dangerous environments as settings. Its three principal characters (New Zealand mountaineer-turned-commando Keith Mallory, British demolitions expert "Dusty" Miller, and Greek resistance fighter Andrea) are among the most fully drawn in all of MacLean's work. A massive crane is used to demolish this tower block in northern England Demolition is the opposite of construction: the tearing-down of buildings and other structures. ...
Film The film version of The Guns of Navarone was part of a cycle of big-budget World War II adventures that included The Longest Day (1962) and The Great Escape (1963). The screenplay, adapted by producer Carl Foreman, made significant changes in virtually all of the major characters. A new character, Major Franklin, initially leads the expedition; Dusty Miller, a tough rough-edged Anglo-American/Polish explosives expert becomes a dapper Professor of Chemsistry, Casey Brown, a Scottish engineer and communications expert becomes a bearded knife-wielding killer and Lt. Stevens, a Greek-speaking navigation expert vanishes from the team. DVD cover The Longest Day is a 180-minute 1962 war film, based on the 1959 book The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan, about D-Day, the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944. ...
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The Great Escape written by James Clavell and W.R. Burnett, and directed by John Sturges is a famous and acclaimed 1963 World War II film, based on a true story about Allied POWs with a record for escaping from POW camps. ...
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The film also introduced female characters, romance, and a subplot that radically altered the relationship between Mallory and Andrea.
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The film was a major box office success and the top grossing film of 1961. As a result, MacLean reunited Mallory, Miller, and Andrea in Force 10 From Navarone, the only sequel of his long writing career, in 1968. It was filmed in 1978 by U.K. director Guy Hamilton, a veteran of several James Bond adventures. Despite a cast that included Robert Shaw, Edward Fox, and Harrison Ford, it was a critical and commercial failure. The term box office can refer to either: A place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to a venue The amount of business a particular production, such as a movie or theatre show, does. ...
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Movie synopsis Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Mallory, an army officer and Andrea (in the novel, he is given no surname, but in the film, he is surnamed Stavros) a Lt. Colonel in the defeated Greek army, have been fighting behind enemy lines in Crete. They are recalled to mount a suicidal mission by Commodore Jensen. Under the command of Major Franklin, they are asked to scale an "unclimbable" (and therefore unguarded) cliff on the south coast of the island of Navarone, off the coast of Turkey. Their task is to blow up two huge guns that guard the approach to the island of Kheros. The Royal Navy is sending destroyers to evacuate soldiers stranded on Kheros, and all other attempts to destroy the guns - including bombing - have failed. Time is very short, and Mallory, an expert climber, reluctantly agrees. Crete (Greek ΚÏήτη / Kriti; see Wiktionary: Crete for the name in other languages) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. ...
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Mallory, Franklin, Stavros, Corporal Miller, an explosives expert, Spyros Pappadimos and "Butcher" Brown, an engineer and communications expert, assemble at a base to discuss their plans, only to be overheard by a knife-wielding laundry boy who claims not to speak English. Major Franklin asks the base commander to have him imprisoned, and the base commander agrees. Look up engineer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Disguised as Greek fishermen on a decrepit boat, they sail through the Aegean. They are intercepted by a German boat and boarded. On Mallory's signal, they attack and kill all the Germans and blow up the patrol boat. Afterwards, Mallory confides to Miller than Stavros has sworn to kill him after the war, because he was inadvertently responsible for the deaths of Stavros' wife and children.
Their landing on the coast that night is hampered by a violent storm. The ship is wrecked and they lose most of their equipment. Franklin is badly injured while scaling the cliff. They find that the cliff is in fact guarded after all. Miller suggests that they leave Franklin to be "well cared for" by the enemy. Mallory, who assumes command of the mission, feels that Franklin would be forced to reveal their plans, so he orders two men to carry the injured man on a stretcher. ambulancers using a stretcher (profile) ambulancers using a stretcher (front) Soldiers using a simple stretcher A stretcher is a device used in medical professions to carry casualties or an incapacitated person from one place to another. ...
After Franklin tries to commit suicide, Mallory lies to him, saying that their mission has been "scrubbed" and that a major naval attack will be mounted on Navarone. Attacked by German soldiers, they split up, leaving Andrea behind with his sniper rifle, while they move on to their next rendezvous point. They contact local resistance workers, Spyros's sister Maria and her friend Anna. Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ...
The mission is continually dogged by Germans - clearly there is a major intelligence leak - but they make their way across the rugged countryside. They are captured when they try to find a doctor for Franklin. They escape by donning German uniforms, but leave Franklin behind, so he can get medical attention. Franklin is injected with the truth drug scopolamine and gives up the false "information", as Mallory had hoped. As a result, German units are redeployed away from the team's escape route. Scopolamine, also known as hyoscine, is an tropane alkaloid drug obtained from plants of the Solanaceae family (Nightshade), such as henbane or jimson weed (Datura stramonium). ...
Miller discovers that much of his equipment has been sabotaged. The only one who could have done it is Anna, an unwilling tool of the Germans. While Mallory and Miller argue about what to do with her, Maria shoots her.
Mallory and Miller find a way into the heavily fortified gun emplacements; the others cause a diversion and steal a motorboat for their getaway. Locking the main entrance behind them, Mallory and Miller set obvious explosives on the guns, and hide more below the lift to the guns, then rappel down a cliff to the water. The Germans finally cut through the thick emplacement doors, but Mallory and Miller make their escape by diving into the sea. Despite Miller's inability to swim, they make it to the stolen boat, but learn that Pappadimos and Brown have been killed. Stavros is wounded and has difficulty swimming, but Mallory manages to pull him in.
The destroyers appear on schedule. The Germans remove the explosives planted on the guns and fire. The first salvo falls short. The next barely misses the lead ship, but then, just as they are about to fire again, the lift descends and triggers the hidden explosives. The guns and fortifications are destroyed in a spectacular explosion.
Stavros chooses to return to Navarone with Maria and gives up his plan to kill Mallory. Mallory and Miller are taken on board the destroyer.
Spoilers end here.
Music Jag Panzer's "The Mission (1943)" is based off of the book and movie.
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External links - Movie review at Alistairmaclean.de (German)
- Book review at Alistairmaclean.de (German)
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