• The Guns of Navarone is a 1957 novel about the Second World War by Scottish writer Alistair MacLean that was made into the film The Guns of Navarone in...
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  • The Guns of Navarone or Navarone may refer to: The Guns of Navarone (novel), 1957 World War II-set novel by Alistair MacLean Navarone Island, fictional...
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    The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 action adventure war film directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, based on Alistair MacLean's 1957...
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  • Navarone Island is a fictional island portrayed in a novel by Alistair MacLean entitled The Guns of Navarone. The novel was made into a movie, but the...
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  • from Navarone is a 1978 British war film loosely based on Alistair MacLean's 1968 novel of the same name. It is a sequel to the 1961 film The Guns of Navarone...
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  • Navarone is a World War II novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean. It serves as a sequel to MacLean's 1957 The Guns of Navarone, but follows the events...
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  • Kingdom of Loathing Mystery Island: an island in the video game Neopets Navarone: fictional Greek island housing a German heavy gun battery in The Guns of Navarone...
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  • a series of mystery novels by Carol O'Connell Captain Keith Mallory, World War II mountaineer-turned-commando in The Guns of Navarone (novel) by Alistair...
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  • Alistair MacLean (category Alumni of the University of Glasgow)
    adventure stories. Many of his novels have been adapted to film, most notably The Guns of Navarone (1957) and Ice Station Zebra (1963). In the late 1960s, encouraged...
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  • J. Lee Thompson (category Royal Air Force personnel of World War II)
    (1958), Tiger Bay (1959), North West Frontier (also 1959), and The Guns of Navarone (1961) - the latter earning him an Academy Award nomination for Best Director...
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  • equivalent of Gone with the Wind. The producer himself called it a combination between The African Queen and The Guns of Navarone. However it was an expensive...
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  • McLaglen, was the result of a long-held ambition of producer Euan Lloyd to make an all-star adventure film in the vein of The Guns of Navarone or Where Eagles...
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    Anthony Quinn (category Members of the Foursquare Church)
    include La Strada (1954), The Guns of Navarone (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Guns for San Sebastian (1968), The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968), Across...
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  • Sam Llewellyn (category People from the Isles of Scilly)
    "The Guns of Navarone" and "Force 10 from Navarone" Storm Force from Navarone, HarperCollins, 1996 Thunderbolt from Navarone, HarperCollins, 1998 The four...
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    MacLean's 1955 novel HMS Ulysses) Sirdar (S-class destroyer in Alistair MacLean's novels The Guns of Navarone and Force 10 From Navarone) Ulysses (from...
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    Irene Papas (category Commanders of the Order of Alfonso X, the Wise)
    award-winning films as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Zorba the Greek (1964) and Z (1969). She was a powerful protagonist in films including The Trojan Women (1971)...
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    Anthony Quayle (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    Wolsey in the film Anne of the Thousand Days (1969). He also played important roles in such major studio productions as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Lawrence...
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    Gregory Peck (category Burials at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels)
    German-controlled artillery guns on Navarone Island. The team of specialists (Peck is the mountain climbing expert) needs to destroy the guns so that British ships...
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    Carl Foreman (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    wrote and produced The Guns of Navarone (1961), based on a best-selling novel by Alistair McLean. (While fictional, it was inspired by the Allied Dodecanese...
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    Richard Harris (category Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art)
    performances in This Sporting Life (1963), and The Field (1990). Other notable roles include in The Guns of Navarone (1961), Red Desert (1964), A Man Called...
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    80 Days (1956), My Man Godfrey (1957), The Guns of Navarone (1961), Murder by Death (1976), and Death on the Nile (1978). He also earned acclaim and...
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  • Richard Widmark. The movie was filmed in Zurich and Vienna. It was the first of MacLean's works to appear as a movie, as The Guns of Navarone was not released...
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    television roles. He played the lead role in Hell Drivers and supporting role in The Guns of Navarone. He was producer and lead actor in the 1964 film Zulu, in...
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  • just completed The Key (1958) and was beginning pre-production on The Guns of Navarone (1961). Conceived as a low-budget project, The Mouse That Roared...
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  • HMS Ulysses was the debut novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean. Originally published in 1955, it was also released by Fontana Books in 1960. MacLean's...
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    Hayley Mills (category New Star of the Year (Actress) Golden Globe winners)
    July 1961). "J. LEE THOMPSON DISCUSSES CAREER: 'GUNS OF NAVARONE' DIRECTOR TOOK DEVIOUS PATH TO FILMS". The New York Times. p. 18. Mosley, Leonard (1990)...
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  • Ice Station Zebra (category Films based on British novels)
    success of 1961's blockbuster adaptation of a 1957 McLean novel into The Guns of Navarone, Hollywood's #2 grossing picture that year. He expected the film...
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  • Nickleby, The Guns of Navarone, Seven Samurai (The Magnificent Seven), James Bond, Jaws, Star Wars, Naruto, Harry Potter. Definition: The poor protagonist...
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  • Dimitri Tiomkin (category People from the Russian Empire of Jewish descent)
    nominated for the list: The Alamo (1960) Dial M for Murder (1954) Duel in the Sun (1946) Friendly Persuasion (1956) The Guns of Navarone (1961) Lost Horizon...
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  • Bells Toll and The Guns of Navarone. More and more, structure, characterization and originality seem to have yielded to a haphazard mixture of contrived melodrama...
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