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.
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Classical in form, resolved, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
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- John Chardon TMDB · Apr 20159/10
Biffo - Bammo - Boffo! A team of army specialists are assembled with the task of infiltrating a German held Greek island. Then they have to destroy the mighty twin guns up in the hills that blight the British operations on the Aegean waters. Adapted from the Alistair MacLean novel, it's directed by J. Lee Thompson and stars Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle, Stanley Baker and James Darren. Music is scored by Dimitri Tiomkin and cinematography by Oswald Morris. Watching it now it seems oh so very formulaic, but it was rarely the norm back than for war films to always follow this brand of high end adventure staples. The makers take a bunch of men from the various social spectrum and thrust them together for an impossible mission. We have the stiff backed guys with moral reasoning at their core, the rough and tumble men, all face fuzz and machismo seeping from every pore, and a young baby faced youngster blossoming into a man by the day. They will be put through the mangler at regular intervals, faced with scenarios to test their metal, all while the group view each other with suspicions of motives and reasonings. Here the character sub-plots, their hang-ups and
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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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