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The Guns of Navarone (film) Quotes

The Guns of Navarone (film) is a TV show that debuted in 1970 . The Guns of Navarone completed its run in 1970.

It features Carl Foreman as producer, Dimitri Tiomkin in charge of musical score, and Oswald Morris; B.S.C. as head of cinematography.

The Guns of Navarone (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of The Guns of Navarone (film) is 158 minutes long. The Guns of Navarone (film) is distributed by Columbia Pictures Corporation.

The cast includes: Gregory Peck as Mallory, Anthony Quayle as Major Franklin, James Darren as Pvt. Spyros Pappadimos, Walter Gotell as Muesel, James Darren as Maria Pappadimos, George Mikell as Sessler, and Bryan Forbes as Cohn.

The Guns of Navarone (film) Quotes

Anthony Quayle as Major Franklin

  • (Maj. Baker) "What's going on here, what are you doing to that man?"
  • (Anthony Quayle) "You know him?"
  • (Maj. Baker) "Of course, that's Nikolai, our laundry boy. Is he the reason I'm being disturbed? Look, Franklin, I've had a hard day."
  • (Anthony Quayle) "Does his job involve listening at keyholes?"
  • (Maj. Baker) "It's just a case of idle curiosity, he doesn't speak a word of english."
  • (Anthony Quayle) "Then why was he listening, why does he carry a knife, and why did he try to stab this man?"
  • (Maj. Baker) "I presume he was trying to defend himself, when you've been in this part of the world as long as I you'll know carrying a knife doesn't mark one as a criminal."
  • (Anthony Quayle) "No, I'm stupid sometimes. Even when I was a kid, I always took it for granted people wanted to play the games I like, and I'd be furious when they didn't."
  • (Capt. Keith Mallory) "Well, now they have to, so why worry?"
  • (Anthony Quayle) "Pappadimos, have you got your silencer?"
  • (James Darren) "Yes."
  • (Anthony Quayle) "Then use it. Shoot the laundry boy."
  • (Maj. Baker) "Are you crazy?"
  • (Anthony Quayle) "And if the Major gets in your way, shoot him too. That's an order."

Bryan Forbes as Cohn

  • (Bryan Forbes) "Do you think they've got any chance at all, sir?"
  • (Commodore Jensen) "Frankly, no. Not a chance in the world. I should be very surprised if they get even halfway to Navarone. Just a waste of six good men. However, I suppose that doesn't matter, considering how many have been wasted already. I'm glad it's not my decision; I'm only the middleman -- Still, they may get there, and they may pull it off. Anything can happen in a war. Slap in the middle of absolute insanity people pull out the most extraordinary resources: ingenuity, courage, self-sacrifice. Pity we can't meet the problems of peace in the same way, isn't it? It would be so much cheaper for everybody."
  • (Bryan Forbes) "I never thought of it in just that way, sir. You're a philosopher, sir."
  • (Commodore Jensen) "No. I'm just the man who has to send people out on jobs like this one."

Gregory Peck as Mallory

  • (Gregory Peck) "The only way to win a war is to be as nasty as the enemy."
  • (Gregory Peck) "Are you sure it will work?"
  • (Corporal Miller) "There's no guarantee, but the theory's perfectly feasible."
  • (Corporal Miller) "I've inspected this vessel, and I think you ought to know that, ah, I can't swim."
  • (Gregory Peck) "I'll keep it in mind."
  • (Gregory Peck) "You think you've been getting away with it all this time, standing by. Well, son -- your bystanding days are over. You're in it now, up to your neck. They told me that you're a genius with explosives. Start proving it."
  • (Gregory Peck) "You got me in the mood to use this thing, and by God, if you don't think of something, I'll use it on you. I mean it."
  • (Gregory Peck) "Can you do anything at all?"
  • (Corporal Miller) "I don't know. There's always a way to blow up explosives. The trick is not to be around when they go off. But aren't you forgetting something? The lady. As I see it we have three choices. One we can leave her here but there's no guarantee she won't be found, and in her case they won't need a truth drug. Two, we can take her with us, but that would make things worse than they are already. And three -- well, that's Andrea's choice, remember?"
  • (Gregory Peck) "You really want your pound of flesh, don't you?"
  • (Corporal Miller) "Yes, I do. You see, somehow I just couldn't get to sleep."
  • (Gregory Peck) "Well, if you're so anxious to kill her, go ahead."
  • (Corporal Miller) "I'm not anxious to kill her, I'm not anxious to kill anyone. You see, I'm not a born soldier. I was trapped. You may find me facetious from time to time, but if I didn't make some rather bad jokes I'd go out of my mind. No, I prefer to leave the killing to someone like you, an officer and a gentleman, a leader of men."
  • (Gregory Peck) "If you think I wanted this, any of this, you're out of your mind, I was trapped like you, just like anyone who put on the uniform."
  • (Corporal Miller) "Of course you wanted it, you're an officer, aren't you? I never let them make me an officer. I don't want the responsibility."
  • (Gregory Peck) "So you've had a free ride, all this time. Someone's got to take responsibility if the job's going to get done. You think that's easy?"
  • (Corporal Miller) "I don't know. I'm not even sure who really is responsible any more."
  • (Gregory Peck) "He's going to kill me when the war's over."
  • (Anthony Quayle) "You're not serious."
  • (Gregory Peck) "Yes, I am. So is he."
  • (Gregory Peck) "About a year ago, I gave a German patrol a safe passage to get some of their wounded into hospital. I guess I still had some romantic notions about fighting a civilized war. Anyway, they wanted Andrea pretty badly, even back then. As soon as they got behind our lines, they shot their casualties, went over to his house, and blew it up. He was out on a job at the time, but his wife and three children were in the house. They were all killed. I helped him to bury them. And then he turned to me and said that as far as he was concerned, it wasn't the Germans who were responsible, but me. Me and my stupid Anglo-Saxon decency. Then he told me what he was going to do, and when."
  • (Anthony Quayle) "You think he still means to do it?"
  • (Gregory Peck) "He's from Crete. Those people don't make idle threats."

James Darren as Maria Pappadimos

  • (James Darren) "She is my friend, Anna. She is one of us. It's bad that this happened to her. Before the Germans came, she was a school teacher in Mandrakos. Last year, she was caught. They tortured her to make her betray us. They whipped her until the white of her bones showed. Some nights we could hear her screaming. Then they took her to the fortress and they kept her there for six months. When they let her go, she could not speak. She has never spoken since, not even in her dreams. Even I have never been allowed to see the scars on her back. But she's a good fighter; as good as any of you. She is like a ghost. She goes anywhere. She got us these guns and she kills without mercy. You are very lucky brother."
  • (James Darren) "Sir?"
  • (Gregory Peck) "Yes."
  • (James Darren) "No, not you, sir. Mr. Stavrou."
  • (Col. Andrea Stavros) "Hmm?"
  • (James Darren) "Tell me about yourself."
  • (Col. Andrea Stavros) "What do you want to know?"
  • (James Darren) "Are you married?"
  • (Col. Andrea Stavros) "I have been married. My wife and children were killed."
  • (James Darren) "Have you killed many people?"
  • (Col. Andrea Stavros) "Only Germans. Oh, some Italians too."
  • (James Darren) "Captain Mallory?"
  • (Gregory Peck) "Yes."
  • (James Darren) "You are a lucky man."
  • (Gregory Peck) "Yes, I know."
  • (James Darren) "Mr. Stavrou?"
  • (Col. Andrea Stavros) "Yes?"
  • (James Darren) "I like you."
  • (Col. Andrea Stavros) "I like you too."
  • (Capt. Keith Mallory) "You have any brothers or sisters?"
  • (James Darren) "I have a brother, Spiro, in America."
  • (Capt. Keith Mallory) "Oh, He's not that far away."
  • (Capt. Keith Mallory) "He's that handsome devil right over there."
  • (James Darren) "Spiros."
  • (James Darren) "What did you do that for?"
  • (James Darren) "To remind you to write letters occasionally."
  • (James Darren) "There happens to be a war on."
  • (James Darren) "I mean before the war. I promised myself I'd would do this the first time I ever saw you again."
  • (James Darren) "Well, I'm sorry, brother."
  • (James Darren) "They're burning Mandrakos in punishment."

George Mikell as Sessler

  • (George Mikell) "Where are the explosives? I want an answer now, otherwise I shall personally rearrange this officer's splints."

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