Academy Award Winners Gregory Peck (1962 Best Actor To Kill A Mockingbird) David Niven (1958 Best Actor Separate Tables) & 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 & disable two long-range field guns so that 2 000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued. Faced with an unforgiving sea voyage hazardous terrain & 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 Mac Lean's best-selling novel The Guns Of Navarone was nominated for seven Oscars including Best Picture & won for Best Special Effects (1961).