Les Canons de Navarone

Titre original : The Guns of Navarone

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David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, James Darren, and Anthony Quayle in Les Canons de Navarone (1961)

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Dark Comedy War Epic Action Adventure Drama War

Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, un commando est chargé d'une périlleuse mission : détruire deux énormes canons allemands situés sur l'île de Khéros.Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, un commando est chargé d'une périlleuse mission : détruire deux énormes canons allemands situés sur l'île de Khéros.Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, un commando est chargé d'une périlleuse mission : détruire deux énormes canons allemands situés sur l'île de Khéros.

Réalisation
- J. Lee Thompson
Scénario
- Alistair MacLean
- Carl Foreman
Casting principal

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7,5/10

57 k

MA NOTE

Réalisation
- J. Lee Thompson
Scénario
- Alistair MacLean
- Carl Foreman
Casting principal

Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro

Récompensé par 1 Oscar
- 4 victoires et 12 nominations au total

Anecdotes
This was the only time that David Niven ever smoked cigarettes on-screen. Niven was a life-long non-smoker.

Gaffes
When the Germans are searching the gun positions for explosives, German soldiers are using mine detection equipment and 'sweeping' the tracks leading up to the guns. This is a useless activity since the detection equipment is a metal detector and would give off a signal due to the steel rails.

Citations
Mallory: Can you do anything at all?
Corporal Miller: I don't know. There's always a way to blow up explosives. The trick is not to be around when they go off. But aren't you forgetting something? The lady. As I see it we have three choices. One we can leave her here but there's no guarantee she won't be found, and in her case they won't need a truth drug. Two, we can take her with us, but that would make things worse than they are already. And three... well, that's Andrea's choice, remember?
Mallory: You really want your pound of flesh, don't you?
Corporal Miller: Yes, I do. You see, somehow I just couldn't get to sleep.
Mallory: Well, if you're so anxious to kill her, go ahead!
Corporal Miller: I'm not anxious to kill her, I'm not anxious to kill anyone. You see, I'm not a born soldier. I was trapped. You may find me facetious from time to time, but if I didn't make some rather bad jokes I'd go out of my mind. No, I prefer to leave the killing to someone like you, an officer and a gentleman, a leader of men.
Mallory: If you think I wanted this, any of this, you're out of your mind, I was trapped like you, just like anyone who put on the uniform!
Corporal Miller: Of *course* you wanted it, you're an officer, aren't you? I never let them make *me* an officer! I don't want the responsibility!
Mallory: So you've had a free ride, all this time! Someone's *got* to take responsibility if the job's going to get done! You think that's easy?
Corporal Miller: [shouts] I don't know! I'm not even sure who really is responsible any more.

Crédits fous
Opening credits prologue: The first day 02.00 Hours An Allied Airfield somewhere in the Middle East

Versions alternatives
To receive a 'U' certificate the original UK cinema version was overdubbed to remove all of Barnsby's uses of the word 'bloody' (the word was replaced with the less offensive 'ruddy'), and this same print appeared on early video releases. The film was restored in 1993 and all later widescreen releases feature the full unedited version.

Connexions
Edited into L'ouragan vient de Navarone (1978)

Bandes originales
Karagouna
(uncredited)
Traditional

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Spiking Those Two Big Guns

The Greek part of the Mediterranean Theater of World War II was strictly a British show. They fought a pitched seesaw battle with the Germans until almost the end of the war. A great deal of debate about the feasibility of the whole operation has raged with military historians. The reason that the British Army and forces from their Commonwealth countries was to keep Turkey in the position of benevolent neutrality. At least this was one of Winston Churchill's stated aims and The Guns of Navarone makes the case for it.

But specifically this film deals with a pair of menacing looking naval guns embedded in a cliff with a big rock overhang. The RAF can't get at the thing to destroy from air, so a commando team is put together under the charge of Anthony Quayle. A couple of native Greeks are along, Anthony Quinn and James Darren, an explosives man, David Niven, a tough anti-fascist resistance man whose service dates back to the Spanish Civil War, Stanley Baker, and a mountain climber, Gregory Peck.

Peck has to get the team to climb a forbidding cliff which is the only area of the beach the Nazis don't guard because they think nobody can land over there. Peck gets the job done, but Quayle becomes injured and Peck gets the responsibility for the whole mission.

The Guns of Navarone is filled with tension as the men keep getting into and out of one situation after another. The film crackles with excitement and really should be seen on the big screen, it's the only way you can appreciate the special effects which got The Guns of Navarone its Oscar.

The film marked a screen partnership of Gregory Peck and director J. Lee Thompson, they did four films together. Thompson specialized in these action adventure films. Later on Thompson partnered with Charles Bronson in some of his best films of the seventies and eighties.

To get the young into the theater, current teenage heart throb James Darren is in the cast. We even gets to hear him sing in Greek which is in fact Darren's own ancestry. Irene Papas is also in the cast as his older sister and Gia Scala is her silent friend.

Despite setback and betrayal our team continues on. The climax of The Guns of Navarone is exciting and unforgettable and should not be missed.