The Guns of Navarone
“The Greatest High Adventure Ever Filmed!”
A team of allied saboteurs are 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.
Genres
Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Studio
Highroad Productions
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Guns of Navarone performed
Budget
$6.0M
Worldwide Gross
$28.9M
Gross Profit
$22.9M
Return
4.8× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$4M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~35/65, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (38% of the domestic run, typical for Action) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Capt. Keith Mallory
Gregory Peck
Capt. Keith Mallory
Cpl. John Anthony Miller
David Niven
Cpl. John Anthony Miller
Col. Andrea Stavros
Anthony Quinn
Col. Andrea Stavros
Pvt. 'Butcher' Brown
Stanley Baker
Pvt. 'Butcher' Brown
Maj. Roy Franklin
Anthony Quayle
Maj. Roy Franklin
Pvt. Spyros Pappadimos
James Darren
Pvt. Spyros Pappadimos
Maria Pappadimos
Irene Papas
Maria Pappadimos
Anna
Gia Scala
Anna
Commodore Jensen / Prologue Narrator
James Robertson Justice
Commodore Jensen / Prologue Narrator
Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
Richard Harris
Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
Cohn
Bryan Forbes
Cohn
Maj. Baker
Allan Cuthbertson
Maj. Baker
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