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Quick Info

Rating

7.3/10

Release1961

Runtime2h 40m

StatusReleased

Budget$6,000,000

Revenue$28,900,000

Production

Highroad Productions

Columbia Pictures

Movie

The Guns of Navarone

1961

2h 40m

7.3

War

Adventure

Thriller

Action

Synopsis

A team of allied saboteurs are 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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