The greatest high adventure ever filmed!
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.
AdventureDramaWararmybased on novel or bookfortalliesworld war ii
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Character
Classical in form, earnest, resolved and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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Cast
- Gregory PeckCapt. Keith Mallory
- David NivenCpl. John Anthony Miller
- Anthony QuinnCol. Andrea Stavros
- Stanley BakerPvt. 'Butcher' Brown
- Anthony QuayleMaj. Roy Franklin
- James DarrenPvt. Spyros Pappadimos
- Irene PapasMaria Pappadimos
- Gia ScalaAnna
- James Robertson JusticeCommodore Jensen / Prologue Narrator
- Richard HarrisSquadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
Crew
- J. Lee ThompsonDirector
- Carl ForemanScreenplay
- Alistair MacLeanNovel
- Oswald MorrisDirector of Photography
- Dimitri TiomkinOriginal Music Composer
- Alan OsbistonEditor
- Carl ForemanProducer
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