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The Guns of Navarone -- Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn attempt to infiltrate an impregnable Nazi fortress and destroy two enormous long-range field guns in this 1961 Oscar(r)-winner for Best Special Effects.

Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn and David Niven are Allied saboteurs 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. Blacklisted screenwriter Carl Foreman (High Noon, The Bridge On the River Kwai) was determined to re-establish both his name and credibility after spending most of the '50s working in anonymity. To accomplish this, he decided to bring Alistair MacLean's best-selling novel, The Guns of Navarone, to the screen. Supported by an all-star cast and produced on a grand scale, the film was an enormous success, receiving seven 1961 Academy Award® nominations (including Best Picture) and winning for Best Special Effects. Although Foreman achieved his goal, it was MacLean who would wind up the true beneficiary; his novels became the source for many high adventure screen epics, including Ice Station Zebra and Where Eagles Dare. However, it is The Guns of Navarone that remains not only the best of the MacLean adaptations, but one of the greatest action/adventure spectacles ever produced.

Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn attempt to infiltrate an impregnable Nazi fortress and destroy two enormous long-range field guns in this 1961 Oscar(r)-winner for Best Special Effects.

Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn attempt to infiltrate an impregnable Nazi fortress and destroy two enormous long-range field guns in this 1961 Oscar(R)-winner for Best Special Effects.

Oscar-nominee Robert Mitchum ('Cape Fear,' 'Farewell, My Lovely') stars as a WWII correspondent who plans a daring escape from Greece with secret information for the Allies.

Presented by TCM. A crooked newspaper reporter, covering the Balkans during World War II, sells to the British the names of Greek resistance fighters for a fee, but becomes embroiled further then he hoped when the Nazis come after him.

An on-the-run outlaw is mistaken by a town judge for the new marshall - all goes well until real badmen show up to rob the town bank. Will the fake lawman live up to his role? With Walter Matthau.

Filmed on location in pre-revolutionary Havana, this spicy thriller focuses on casino croupier Ned Sherwood (Errol Flynn), who gets in trouble with the law -- and with the criminals, too -- after a mystery woman passes him some counterfeit Cuban pesos. Already beaten and harassed by gangsters trying to retrieve the bad money, Sherwood is in danger of being dispatched altogether if he can't get to the bottom of the racket and clear his name.