The story is of Navarone, an island in the Aegean Sea near the coast of Turkey that controls a shipping passage through the many islands in the area. As a result, the Germans have installed two rather large guns on the island, which they can use to sink Allied shipping. Unfortunately on the nearby island of Kirios is a garrison of 2,000 British soldiers who are about to face the wrath of the German High Command, in the form of an all-out invasion assault of the island. The purpose is to draw the Turks into the war on the Axis side. Naturally the British are not too happy about this, so launch a last ditch effort to place a small saboteur group on Navarone with the express intent of destroying the guns prior to the Axis invasion of Kirios. They hope the destruction of the guns will permit a squadron of British destroyers the opportunity to rescue the garrison. And so we get to meet that little group of personnel, lead by Captain Keith Mallory (Gregory Peck) and Roy "Lucky" Franklin (Anthony Quayle), and including such happy souls as Butcher Brown (Stanley Baker), Spyros Pappadimos (James Darren), Miller (David Niven) and Colonel Andrea Stavros (Anthony Quinn). This little group travel to Navarone, with no great ease it might be added, where they meet up with the local underground, lead by Maria Pappadimos (Irene Papas) and her offsider Anna (Gia Scala). The group now has to avoid capture by the Germans and attempt the impossible - enter the gun emplacement at Navarone and destroy the guns before the British destroyers get there.
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