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1961
The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 epic adventure war film directed by J. Lee Thompson, written and produced by Carl Foreman, and starring Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn, along with Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, Irene Papas, Gia Scala, and James Darren. It is an adaptation of Alistair MacLean's 1957 novel. The film follows the efforts of an Allied commando unit to destroy a seemingly impregnable German…
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World War Two seems to be the only major world conflict resembling an average Hollywood movie—the dividing line between Good Guys and Bad Guys is more or less clearly defined, and the final victory of the Good Guys provides a happy ending, at least for the majority of the audience. So, it isn’t surprising that in the following decades WW2 became the inspiration for many action‑oriented pieces of popular culture—nove…More