The guns of Navarone
1961
DVD
A team of Allied military specialists are recruited for a dangerous but imperative mission: to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied fortress in Greece and disable two long-range field guns so that 2,000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued. Faced with an unforgiving sea voyage, hazardous terrain, and the possibility of a traitor among them, the team must overcome the impossible without losing their own lives.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781424829880
- 1424829887
- 0767821785
Description:
- 2 videodiscs (157 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches.
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby Digital 5.1
- wide screen
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
Target Audience Note: Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.
Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1961.
- Number of discs may vary.
- Title from container.
- Based on the novel by Alistair MacLean.
- Special features: New audio commentary from film historian Stephen J. Rubin; new "Forging the Guns of Navarone" documentary; new "Ironic epic of heroism" documentary; new "A heroic score" featurette; new "Epic restoration" featurette; new narration-free prologue; new Roadshow intermission; audio commentary from director J. Lee Thompson; "Memories of Navarone" retrospective documentary; "A message from Carl Foreman;" "Great guns" original featurette; "No visitors" original featurette; "Honeymoon on Rhodes" featurette; "Two girls on the town" original featurette; talent files; production notes.
- Photographer, Oswald Morris ; original music, Dimitri Tiomkin ; film editor, Alan Osbiston.
- Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, Irene Papas, Gia Scala, James Darren.
- DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- For private home use only.
- English, French, Portuguese, Spanish dialogue, English, French, Portuguese or Spanish subtitles.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- Academy Awards, USA, 1962: Oscar - Best Special Effects
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- 72129
- 72129
- 16323
Control Number: 531019
UPC:
- 043396721296
- 043396163232
Series:
Subjects:
- Batteries (Ordnance) -- Greece -- Fiction.
- Fortification -- Greece -- Fiction.
- Government missions -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
- Greece -- Fiction.
- Infiltration (Military science) -- Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Greece -- Fiction.
Genre:
- Action and adventure films.
- Feature films.
- Fiction.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- War films.
Other Authors:
- Baker, Stanley, Sir, 1928-1976, actor.
- Columbia Pictures, production company.
- Darren, James, actor.
- Foreman, Carl, screenwriter, film producer.
- Highroad (Firm), production company.
- MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987. Guns of Navarone.
- Niven, David, 1910-1983, actor.
- Papas, Irene, actor.
- Peck, Gregory, 1916-2003, actor.
- Quayle, Anthony, 1913-1989, actor.
- Quinn, Anthony, 1915-2001, actor.
- Scala, Gia, actor.
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm), film distributor.
- Thompson, J. Lee (John Lee), 1914-2002, film director.