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[Culver City, Calif.] : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2007]
©1961
©2007
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2 videodiscs (approximately 157 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in
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Disc 1. Feature film -- Disc 2. Special features
A British-American epic adventure war film inspired by the Battle of Leros during the Dodecanese Campaign of World War II in which a commando team of Allied military specialists are recruited for a dangerous but imperative mission to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied fortress and disable two long-range field guns so that 2,000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued. Faced with an unforgiving sea voyage, hazardous terrain, and the possibility of a traitor in their midst, the team must overcome the impossible without losing their own lives
Based on the novel by Alistair MacLean
Originally released as a motion picture in 1961
Special features: New audio commentary from film historian Stephen J. Rubin; new "Forging the Guns of Navarone" documentary; new "Ironic epic of heroism" documentary; new "A heroic score" featurette; new "Epic restoration" featurette; new narration-free prologue; new Roadshow intermission; audio commentary from director J. Lee Thompson; "Memories of Navarone" retrospective documentary; "A message from Carl Foreman;" "Great guns" original featurette; "No visitors" original featurette; "Honeymoon on Rhodes" featurette; "Two girls on the town" original featurette; talent files; production notes
Photography, Oswald Morris ; film editor, Alan Osbiston ; production designer, Geoffrey Drake ; music composed and conducted by Dmitri Tiomkin ; lyrics by Paul Francis Webster and Alfred Perry ; sung by Elga Anderson
Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, James Darren, Irene Papas, Gia Scala, James Robertson Justice, Richard Harris ; prologue narrated by James Robertson Justice
Not rated
DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital surround, remastered in high definition
English (Dolby 5.1, Dolby surround), French, Portuguese (Dolby 5.1), Spanish dialogue, English, French, Portuguese or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned
Academy Awards, USA, 1962: Oscar - Best Special Effects