James Darren

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.

Charlton Heston nearly ruins his family with his domineering dictates in this steamy drama set in Hawaii. Heston is a wealthy pineapple plantation owner and a bigoted bully who, despite the fact that he himself has a Chinese mistress, flatly refuses to allow his young sister to marry a good-looking, full-blooded Hawaiian.

Sandra Dee became a model for countless teenagers in the late 1950's when she played Gidget, a sad-faced youngster who doesn't quite measure up to the chesty, bikinied girls on the beach. Her mom's reassurances come true when two surfers start paying Gidget some attention.

Summer's in, surf's up, and the party's in full swing for rich kid Gardner "Ding" Pruitt III (James Darren), who's got his eye on bikini-clad Sandy (Pamela Tiffin) -- until Ding's granddad, "Nifty" Cronin (Robert Middleton), schemes to close the local hangout. With Sandy's guardians and college officials siding up with Cronin, the partiers resort to a little blackmail to turn the tide in their favor.

Charlton Heston is the ruthless head of an agricultural dynasty in this torrid tale of passion and prejudice set in steamy Hawaii.

Charlton Heston is a wealthy pineapple plantation owner and a bigoted bully who, despite the fact that he himself has a Chinese mistress, flatly refuses to allow his young sister to marry a good-looking, full-blooded Hawaiian.

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.

Sandra Dee became a model for countless teenagers in the late 1950's when she played Gidget, a sad-faced youngster who doesn't quite measure up to the chesty, bikinied girls on the beach. Her mom's reassurances come true when two surfers start paying Gidget some attention.

Sandra Dee became a model for countless teenagers in the late 1950's when she played Gidget, a sad-faced youngster who doesn't quite measure up to the chesty, bikinied girls on the beach. Her mom's reassurances come true when two surfers start paying Gidget some attention.

Sandra Dee became a model for countless teenagers in the late 1950's when she played Gidget, a sad-faced youngster who doesn't quite measure up to the chesty, bikinied girls on the beach. Her mom's reassurances come true when two surfers start paying Gidget some attention.