Also stars David Niven and Anthony Quinn. The movie chronicles the squad's attempt to sneak into Greece and blow the guns. A British major (Anthony Quayle) assembles a commando team and convinces a reluctant captain ( Gregory Peck) to join. Due to the embedded position of the guns in the cliffs, destroying them by air strikes proves impossible. A contingent of British soldiers are stranded on an island in the Aegean Sea and rescue by ship is impossible due to the large battery of anti naval guns located at the cliffs of Navarone. The events depicted take place during World War II but are entirely fictional.
MacLean was married twice and is survived by three sons.The Guns of Navarone is a novel by Alistair MacLean published in 1957, and more famously a classic 1961 film adaptation written by Carl Foreman and directed by J. This, he said, was because his hometown paper in Glasgow assigned the review of “HMS Ulysses,” his first book, to a navy commander who panned it in a review headlined, “This Is a Book That Should Be Burned.” MacLean claimed never to read reviews or articles about himself. MacLean once said he wrote rapidly-35 days for a novel-because he wasn’t a born writer and didn’t like writing. The book deals with the end of the world after the crash of a plane carrying nuclear weapons in the ocean near a geological fault and an inactive volcano. His most recent novel, “Santorini,” is scheduled for publication later this month. There is enough real violence in the world without my adding to it.” He was one of the most filmed writers of his time, but he insisted this was merely because of his “visual imagination” rather than his design.Īsked about his success in one of his last interviews in 1985, he replied: “All I do is write simple stories. He wrote the screenplays for four of his own novels-”Where Eagles Dare,” “Caravan to Vaccares,” “Puppet on a Chain” and “Breakheart Pass.”
MacLean continued to produce a string of best-selling novels and was much sought-after by film producers and directors. The book broke another record, selling more than 400,000 copies in its first six months. Published in 1955, the book sold an unprecedented 250,000 hardback copies in six months, launching his career as an internationally acclaimed novelist.Ī year later, he wrote “The Guns of Navarone,” which was made into a blockbuster film starring Gregory Peck and David Niven. That novel, “HMS Ulysses,” a thinly fictionalized account of his own ordeal as a young sailor, was set aboard a British naval convoy ship during World War II.
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