1961 · action · war · thriller
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Directed by J. Lee Thompson2h 40m1961
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.
Our read: The Guns of Navarone (1961) (1961) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded action · war · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, extreme action / war, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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