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The Guns of Navarone
Why this pick
A tense wartime special-operations mission, driven by clashing officers, daunting coastal defenses, and steadily escalating sabotage logistics.
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MOVIE1968 1h 29m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Canadian Commando Major Jamie Wilson (Lloyd Bridges), plans an audacious Combined Operations raid on the Axis held French port of Le Clare; if destroyed, the Germans would be stripped of the only dry dock capable of servicing their large battleships. Wilson's plan, code named ''Operation Mad Dog'', is to ram a destroyer packed with tons of explosives into the outer gate of the dock, while his commandos cause havoc to the dock facilities and garrison, and then detonate the explosive laden destroyer. Opposed to Wilson is Royal Navy Captain Owen Franklin (Andrew Keir), whose own son was killed on Wilson's disastrous last Dieppe Raid-type raid on the French coast at Le Plagé.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Glyn Owen
Forrester
Howard Pays
Lt. Graham
Lloyd Bridges
Maj. James Wilson
Sue Lloyd
Sue Wilson
Mark Eden
Lt. Cmdr. Donald Kimberly
Walter Gotell
Van Horst