The Guns of Navarone

J. Lee Thompson (director)
Alistair MacLean (novel)
Carl Foreman (screenwriter)
Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle (starring)

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1960. Vintage borderless photograph of producer Carl Foreman, director J. Lee Thompson and actor David Niven on the set of the 1961 film. Mimeo snipe and an studio stamp on the verso.

Based on Alistair Maclean's 1957 novel of the same name. Set in 1943, allied intelligence assembles a commando unit assigned to infiltrate a Nazi outpost on Navarone Island in the Agean sea that contains two radar-directed superguns holding 2,000 British Soldiers hostage. Nominated for six Academy Awards and the winner of Best Special Effects.

Shot on location in Greece, Mexico, Senegal, and California.

7.5 x 9.5 inches. Photo with a thin laminate, as issued. Near Fine.


[Book #144956]