Sony Pictures UK will release on 4K Blu-ray J. Lee Thompson's
The Guns of Navarone (1961), starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, and Anthony Quayle. The release will be available for purchase on October 18th.
Studio description: 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!; 1956, 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 and Technical Specs:
- PREVIOUSLY RESTORED IN 4K FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- HDR10 PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
- NEW DOLBY ATMOS TRACK + 5.1 audio + original theatrical 4-track stereo
- Playback available with and without Original Roadshow Intermission Card
- NEW Main Title Progression Reel
- Theatrical Trailer
- Audio Commentary by Director J. Lee Thompson
- Audio Commentary by Film Historian Stephen J. Rubin
- The Resistance Dossier of Navarone: Interactive Feature
- Forging The Guns of Navarone: Notes from the Set
- An Ironic Epic of Heroism
- Memories of Navarone
- Epic Restoration
- A Heroic Score
- Great Guns
- No Visitors
- Honeymoon on Rhodes
- Two Girls on the Town
- Narration-Free Prologue
- Message from Carl Foreman