Author Guns Of Navarone. The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 British-American epic adventure war film directed by J. The book and subsequent movie entitled The guns of Navarone is a fictional account of a WWII battle written by the author Alistair MacLean.
Enter the length or pattern for better results. The size of the Navarone guns was not mentioned in the movie but in the book an allied intelligence officer estimated they were probably an 8 or 9 inch system. Enter the length or pattern for better results.
Novelist Alistair MacLean author of Where Eagles Dare The Guns of Navarone and 25 other best-selling books died Monday in Munich West Germany at age 64.
Based on the book by MacLean. Alistair MacLean Author 45 out of 5 stars. Infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2000 trapped British soldiers. The Guns of Navarone came out in 1961 and to my mind is one of the greatest World War II films to ever come out of the 1960s and it seems to me that it must have been influencing Star Wars since the beginningIt tells the story of Keith Mallory played by Gregory Peck and a group of allied soldiers including David Niven Anthony Quinn Anthony Quayle.
