The Making Of The Guns Of Navarone (The Magnificent 60s)

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Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. I didn't realise there was so much to know about the making of The Guns Of Navarone but this book set me right. Hannan spells out the difficulties in getting the film off the ground and how easily it could have turned into a flop. Along the way, he re-evaluates the career of Gregory Peck who, it turns out, was not quite the golden boy we've been led to believe.

There's analysis of the directorial aspects of the film, insight into the commercial pressures the film faced and fascinating new facts to be discovered. Hannan is clearly a film fan and combines a fan's delight in the production process with a keen understanding of the business of film. It's astonishing that the classic war film The Guns Of Navarone never rated its own book before now.

Brian Hannan has set that right - and how - with a fascinating story of the film's genesis, the mountain of obstacles the production had to overcome, riveting analysis of both direction and script, and just as interesting casts a critical eye on the war film of the period. Unusually, in this type of book, the author has a firm grasp of the business essentials of movie making and the story of the film's release is fascinating.

The combination of insight and gossip is a winner.

I read this in one sitting. In due course, Franklin is injected with scopolamine and gives up Mallory's misinformation. As Mallory had hoped, most forces leave the fortress to counter the expected coastal attack.

Upon infiltrating the village of Navarone, however, Miller discovers most of his explosives have been sabotaged and deduces that Anna is the culprit. She confesses that she did not escape but that the Germans recruited her as an informer in exchange for her release. Mallory reluctantly prepares to execute Anna as a precaution against detection, but Maria shoots her instead. The team splits up: Mallory and Miller go for the guns, Stavrou and Spyros create distractions in town, assisted by local residents, and Maria and Brown steal a boat for their escape.

Spyros dies in a stand-off with a German officer, and Brown from being stabbed during the boat theft. Meanwhile, Mallory and Miller infiltrate the gun emplacement, but set off an alarm when they seal the doors behind them. Miller plants explosives on the guns and prepares a large booby trap below an ammunition hoist , with a trigger device set into the hoist's track. The Germans eventually gain entry into the gun emplacement and defuse the explosives planted directly on the guns; meanwhile, Mallory and Miller make their escape over the cliff, reaching the stolen boat.

A wounded Stavrou is also able to reach the sea and is helped aboard by Mallory, thus resolving the blood feud between them. As the Allied destroyers trying to rescue the trapped British troops appear, the Germans begin to fire—and begin hoisting in more ammunition. When the hoist reaches Miller's trigger, the hidden explosives set off the surrounding shells in a huge explosion that destroys the guns and the entire fortress. Mallory's team safely reaches the British convoy, but Stavrou shakes Mallory's hand and decides to return to Navarone with Maria, with whom he has fallen in love.

Mallory and Miller, returning home, observe the aftermath of their success from a destroyer. Peter Grant , who had a brief three films career as an uncredited extra before becoming music manager of such popular English bands as the Yardbirds , Led Zeppelin and Bad Company , played an uncredited British commando. The film was directed by J. Thompson was brought in after original director Alexander Mackendrick was fired by Carl Foreman a week before shooting started due to "creative differences".

The Greek island of Rhodes provided locations and Quinn was so taken with the area that he bought land there in an area still called Anthony Quinn Bay. As described by director Thompson in the DVD commentary track, David Niven became severely ill after shooting in the pool of water underneath the cave elevator and almost died, remaining in hospital for some weeks as other portions of the cave sequence were completed by the crew.

However, since key scenes with Niven remained incomplete at that time, and it was doubtful whether he would be able to return to finish the film, the entire production was in jeopardy.

Reshooting key scenes throughout the film with some other actor—and even abandoning the whole project to collect the insurance were contemplated. However, Niven was able to complete his scenes some weeks later. A complication arose when it was found that Gregory Peck , whose character was supposed to be fluent in German, could not speak the language convincingly. Voice actor Robert Rietty dubbed all of Peck's German dialogue for the film.

The film's maps were created by Halas and Batchelor , a British team best known for their animated films.

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Although the island of Navarone is fictional, a map depicted in the film purporting to show the island of Navarone shows it as the real island of Antikythera. Several members of the Greek royal family visited the set the day the Mandrakos cafe scene was filmed and appear in the background as extras. The film's score was composed by Dimitri Tiomkin and featured arrangements of several traditional songs.

Tiomkin's theme song featured on the soundtrack album with lyrics recounting the plot of the film. His theme became a popular instrumental with several cover versions including a version by The Skatalites. Reviews were mostly positive. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called the film "one of those muscle-loaded pictures in the thundering tradition of DeMille , which means more emphasis is placed on melodrama than on character or credibility.

With a bunch of weighty stars, terrific special effects, several socko situations plus good camerawork and other technical okays, Foreman and director J.

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Lee Thompson have sired a winner. Coe of The Washington Post called the film "a magnificently detailed cliff-hanger of spectacular settings and deeds of impossible derring-do What makes this one of the good ones is superlative photography of the storied Grecian isles, a crackerjack cast and a yarn about WWII in which unlikely incident succeeds unlikely incident with rare largesse.

Scott of the Los Angeles Times called it "the best adventure movie to hit the screen this year," adding, "Some viewers will deplore a lack of character motivation—the origins of the six heroes are passed by rather quickly at the beginning—and women may yearn for more romantic passages in the film—but most of us, I am sure, will be satisfied with the epic suspense and sweep of this highly pictorial adventure.