The Guns of Navarone

ttacked by German soldiers, they split up leaving Andrea and his sniper rifle behind while they move to their next rendezvous point, an exotic ancient Greek ruin which looks great on film, by the way. After everything is cleared up, Robie returns to his vineyards and Francie races after him to tell him how much she loves him and that her mother will love his home. A. Robie captures the new cat with the jewels on the roof. He feeds him a false story of a major naval attack on Navarone. Robie and Hughson switch places. As they rest in a mountain cave, Franklin tries suicide, but is talked out of it when Mallory lies to him, saying the mission has been scrubbed. The French police plan to arrest Robie during the party.

Mallory orders two men to carry the injured man on a stretcher. Francie apologizes to Robie for thinking he was the cat and offers to help catch the real cat during a masquerade party. It's either kill him, or take him along. The only problem is that man had a "peg leg" which would have made it impossible for him to climb over the rooftops. Mallory, balks, saying that Franklin would unwillingly reveal their plans under questioning. He is attacked and in the ensuing struggle kills a man the police later claim to be the cat. Miller suggests they leave Mallory to be "well cared for" by the enemy. He stakes out a house where he believes the new cat will strike.

After killing the lone guard at the summit, they find themselves bereft of food or medicine. He goes into hiding, believing he knows now who the new thief is, and plans to catch him. They scale the cliff, led by Mallory and Andrea, but Franklin slips and severely injures his leg. Jesse Stevens's jewels are stolen and Francie believes that John has taken them. Their landing on the coast that night is hampered by a storm, and Franklin's head is injured just before their boat sinks at the rocky landing point. John Robie plays off any interest in Francie, at least at first. Explosives expert Corporal Miller sinks the German vessel by tossing a small explosive charge down a vent. She is certain that John Robie is behind the recent thefts, but at the same time she is attracted to him.

Suddenly, the tables are turned as the team springs into violent action, killing the entire boarding party with machine guns, pistols, and grenades. Francie (played by Grace Kelly) is suspicious of Robie's motives. Only Mallory, who speaks fluent Greek and perfect German, addresses the leader of the boarding party. Robie becomes acquainted with them in order to stay close to their jewels. In the first of two tense "playing dumb" scenes, the team pretend to be Greek sailors. The first names on the list are Jesse Stevens and her daughter Francie. He agrees, but in the next scene, their ship is observed and boarded by English-speaking Germans. To do this he needs a list of the most expensive jewels on the Riviera.

Mallory intervenes, threatening to tell Commodore Jensen and have him shipped stateside as a private unless he locks up the spy for a week. Robie's plan is to catch the new cat burglar in the act. When the base commander bursts into the room, Major Franklin orders a man to execute the spy, and the base commander too if he interferes. Robie enlists the aid of an insurance man, Hughson (played by John Williams) in order to prove his innocence. The ever-cautious Colonel Andrea nabs him and questions him; he seems to know no English. There is a series of jewel robberies that resemble his style and the police believe that the cat is up to his old tricks again. The team assembles at a base to discuss their plans, only to be overheard by a knife-wielding Greek laundry boy. John Robie, played by Cary Grant, is a "retired" jewel thief called "The Cat" who now spends his time tending to his vineyards in France.

Mallory balks at the impossible task, but is teamed up with old "friend" Colonel Andrea (who plans to kill him after the war because Mallory's sense of Anglo-Saxon decency got Andrea's family murdered by treacherous Nazis.). The screenplay was written by John Michael Hayes. A thousand Canadian soldiers trapped on an island will die in a week if he fails, as the guns dominate the straits leading to the island. The movie is set on the French Riviera, and was based on a novel of the same name by David Dodge which was published in 1952. Mallory finally meets the man he's been working for and is assigned an impossible job: to scale an unguarded cliff on the coast of enemy-occupied Greece, meet the underground, and go blow up two huge artillery pieces. To Catch a Thief is a movie made in 1955, and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis and John Williams.
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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. Lee Thompson after original director Alexander Mackendrick (best-known for the small, quirky comedies he directed for Ealing Studios) was fired by Carl Foreman due to "creative differences." The Greek island of Rhodes provided locations, and Quinn was so taken with the area that he bought land there in an area still called Anthony Quinn Bay.
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It also introduced female characters, romance, and a subplot that radically altered the relationship between Mallory and Andrea. The screenplay, adapted by producer Carl Foreman, made significant changes in virtually all of the major characters. 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 (1960) and The Great Escape (1963). demolitions expert "Dusty" Miller, and Greek resistance fighter Andrea Stavros) are among the most fully drawn in all of MacLean's work.

Its three principal characters (New Zealand mountaineer-turned-commando Keith Mallory, U.S. 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. 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 operations in the Aegean Sea.
The Guns of Navarone is a 1957 novel of World War II by British thriller writer Alistair MacLean that was made into a film in 1961.

Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay (Carl Foreman). Academy Award for Sound (John Cox). Grammy Award for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture (Dimitri Tiomkin). Academy Award for Original Music Score (Dimitri Tiomkin).

Academy Award for Film Editing (Alan Osbiston). Lee Thompson). DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures (J. Lee Thompson).

Academy Award for Directing (J. Academy Award for Best Picture. Academy Award Best Effects, Special Effects (Bill Warrington & Chris Greenham). Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score - Motion Picture (Dimitri Tiomkin).

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama. Richard Harris  : Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF. James Robertson Justice  : Commodore Jensen/Prologue Narrator. Gia Scala  : Anna.

Irene Papas  : Maria Pappadimos. Spyros Pappadimos. James Darren  : Pvt. Roy Franklin.

Anthony Quayle  : Maj. 'Butcher' Brown. Stanley Baker  : Pvt. Andrea Stavros.

Anthony Quinn  : Col. John Anthony Miller. David Niven  : Cpl. Keith Mallory.

Gregory Peck  : Capt.