1961. Directed by J LEE THOMPSON, story by ALISTAIR MacLEAN. TAGLINES : "Still! The Greatest High Adventure Ever Filmed!" "An impregnable fortress... An invincible army... and the unstoppable commando team" "The Greatest High Adventure Ever Filmed!"- A team of Allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers. In 1943, the British Navy is not able to rescue 2,000 soldiers trapped in the Island of Kheros since two powerful German cannons on the top of the Navarone Island are sinking the Allied vessels. After a failed aerial attack, the Allied command decide to send a six-man team disguised as fishermen to Navarone to blow-up the guns. The squad is commanded by Maj. Roy Franklin and composed by Capt. Keith Mallory, who is an experienced mountain climber, and his former partner Col. Andrea Stavros; the explosive expert Cpl. John Anthony Miller; the engineer CPO 'Butcher' Brown; and the Greek assassin Spyros Pappadimos, who was born in Navarone. They sail during the night and after an encounter with a German patrol boat and a storm in the sea, they arrive to Navarone and Capt. Mallory needs to climb a cliff face during a heavy rainy night to proceed their mission. Will they succeed? SEVEN Academy Award Nominations including BEST PICTURE, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay. Best Musical Score. WON OSCAR for Best Special f/X. CAST includes David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle, Irene Pappas, James Darren, Richard Harris, Gia Scala, Stanley Baker, James Robertson Justice, Bryan Forbes, Walter Gotell, Allan Cuthbertson, Percy Herbert.