Academy award winners gregory peck 1962, best actor, to kill a mockingbird, david niven 1958, best actor, separate tables and anthony quinn 1952, best supporting actor, viva zapata! 1957, lust for life star as a team of allied military specialists recruited for a dangerous but imperative mission to infiltrate a nazi occupied fortress and disable two long range field guns so that 2,000 trapped british soldiers may be rescued. Faced with an unforgiving sea voyage, hazardous terrain, and the possibility of a traitor among them, the team must overcome the impossible without losing their own lives.adapted by screenwriter carl foreman from alistair maclean's best selling novel, the guns of navarone was nominated for seven oscars, including best picture, and won for best special effects 1961., academy award winners gregory peck 1962, best actor, to kill a mockingbird, david niven 1958, best actor, separate tables and anthony quinn 1952, best supporting actor, viva zapata! 1957, lust for life star as a team of allied military specialists recruited for a dangerous but imperative mission to infiltrate a nazi occupied fortress and disable two long range field guns so that 2,000 trapped british soldiers may be rescued. Faced with an unforgiving sea voyage, hazardous terrain, and the possibility of a traitor among them, the team must overcome the impossible without losing their own lives.adapted by screenwriter carl foreman from alistair maclean's best selling novel, the guns of navarone was nominated for seven oscars, including best picture, and won for best special effects 1961.special features a message from carl foreman . Dimitri tiomkin's score featurette. Great guns featurette. Honeymoon on rhodes featurette. Ironic epic of heroism documentary. Memories of navarone retrospective documentary. No visitors featurette. Restoration of the guns of navarone featurette. Two girls on the town featurette....and more!commentary with director j. Lee thompson.commentary with film historian stephen j. Rubin.forging the guns of navarone notes from the set.production notes.talent files.