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The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Director J. Lee Thompson created one of the most thrilling commando/sabotage war films about a team of courageous British soldiers who plan to
destroy two large German guns that are encased in a mountainside overlooking an Aegean port. Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn star. Screenwriter Carl Foreman adapted this Alistair MacLean novel that was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
The Great Escape (1963)
This terrific prisoner of war escape film by John Sturges is exciting from the get-go. A dozen or so Allied officers use all of their ingenuity to tunnel out of a German POW camp and wreak havoc on the German countryside. Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson and James Coburn star in a film that features awesome motorcycle stunts by a cocky McQueen as he evades Nazi troops trying to return him to camp. A marvelous Elmer Bernstein score perfectly complements this war adventure that was loosely based on a true story.
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Director Robert Aldrich’s classic collection of misfit army tough guy thieves and criminals who are collected by a US Major (Lee Marvin) to raid and demolish a Nazi chateau filled with German officers in a pre-D-Day excursion. Terrific macho training scenes and the final attack on the Nazi villa features many blazing heroics, including the now famous fatal run by Jim Brown as he tosses grenades into rooftop vents. John Cassavetes, Robert Ryan, Charles Bronson, Ernest Borgnine, George Kennedy and Telly Savalas star.
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