Guns of Navarone [Blu-ray] [1961] [US Import]

All time Great War film. Great plot and cast. One of my favorites. Good price and great service

A Beautiful restoration for a truly great film.

very good and worth the money.

If you like war action movies, you will like this one. the book is also good too.

Old classic film with great actors. This needs no description as everybody must have heard about it. On television many times a year.

If you like war movies you really should have ‘The Guns if Navarone’ in your collection. This release is essentially the same as the previously released 4K HD release with superb picture and sound quality with many extras but now housed in a very nice looking Steelbook. Possibly not an essential purchase unless you like collecting Steelbooks but it will look great on your shelf. If you just want the film then just buy the ‘standard’ 4K HD release and save yourself some money.

Loved this movie, to me, in terms of watchability, excitement, action, intrigue, skullduggery, dirty tricks, gun battles and sheer entertainment, it is right up there with 'Where Eagles Dare', 'Kelly's Heroes', 'Battle of Britain' and '633 Squadron' and features a veritable host of A list actors such as Anthony Quinn (who plays the Greek Colonel Andreas Stavros), Anthony Quayle, David Niven, Gregory Peck, James Robertson Justice, Stanley Baker (who plays an assassin who loses his nerve) and Gia Scala (who gives an excellent performance as the sneaky turncoat spy in the company). The team have to destroy the radar guided guns embedded in the cliffs of Navarone (think it was actually filmed at Lindos, on Rhodes) so that six royal navy warships can evacuate the British forces besieged on the island of Keros. The special ops team seem to be bedevilled by bad luck, first getting caught in a firefight with a Kriegsmarine patrol boat en route to Navarone, then running aground in a storm and being forced to climb rain soaked cliffs in the dark where Anthony Quail's character falls and breaks his leg, then getting chased all over the island by Wermacht, SS, Fieslers and Stukas (Colonel Stavros shouts 'Keratathes' at the Stukas as they duck into a tunnel to avoid the bombing and straffing) before staging a diversion which allows Captain Mallory (Gregory Peck) and Miller(David Niven) to infiltrate the fortress and sabotage the guns. There is a memorable scene where one of the company (Spyros) gets a bit carried away during the diversionary action and and becomes embroiled in a sten gun duel with a Nazi officer and they both die in the battle. Colonel Andrea later soberly tells Spyro's sister that 'Spyros forgot why we came here'.

This is a review of the USA Version,quality wise which will be the same transfer in the UK.In short, The Guns of Navarone looks marvelous, particularly considering the film's disastrous state prior to its restoration (as covered in the excellent Epic Restoration supplement; see below). Sony's 1080p, 2.35:1-framed image is very strongly detailed in most every scene, from the breathtakingly rough and realistic textures as seen on Greek ruins at film's start all the way through to the slightest nuances on dirty clothes and faces. Intermittent softness and extreme edge halos are present on scattered effects shots, but such eyesores simply can't -- and shouldn't -- distract from the high quality presentation and restoration that is the bulk of the picture. Colors do fall a little flat and lack in terms of subtle shading and range -- notably in the darker scenes -- but brighter outdoor shots yield a spectacular and brilliant palette. Blacks can be a little murky, and day-for-night scenes are easy to spot, though neither prove all that bothersome in context. The sharpness, clarity, and color of the Greek-inspired lettering on the title card is a marvel to behold, and general clarity remains an asset throughout. A good-looking grain structure is retained, enhancing finer details and providing a handsome cinematic texture, rounding out another wonderful vintage release from Sony.The Guns of Navarone blasts onto Blu-ray with a steady DTS-HD MA 5.1 lossless soundtrack. Anyone expecting Saving Private Ryan should consider the source. This isn't the world's most dynamic audio track, but it's a quality affair that's brought to life with more vivid clarity and range than any home video presentation of the film before it. The opening music is triumphantly spacious and richly clear; musical surround support here and elsewhere is minimal, but effective. The back channels do pick up a few of the film's more potent and prominent directional and fully-engaged elements as planes and massive shells whiz around the listening area. General ambience, however, remains the duty of the front channels, across which gusty winds, incoming flares, outgoing rounds, and machine gun fire live. Many major effects -- a crashing plane following the title cards, for instance -- lack a dynamic low end or absolute clarity. Nevertheless, dialogue is superbly clear and ever-accurate, flowing always from the center channel. This isn't the finest wartime movie soundtrack, but kudos to Sony for releasing The Guns of Navarone in its best presentation yet.