films-based-on-novels

"Judith Furse - Flora"

"Austin Trevor - Ralston"

"[dying words] I thought I heard you saying it was a pity... pity I never had any children. But you're wrong. I have. Thousands of them. Thousands of them... and all boys."

"Robert Donat - Charles "Mr. Chips" Chipping"

"John Mills - Peter Colley (as a young man)"

"Milton Rosmer - Mr. Chatteris"

"Well, remember me sometimes. I shall always remember you. "Haec olim meminisse iuvabit." I need not translate it for you."

"Jill Furse as Helen Colley"

"Lyn Harding - Dr. John Hamilton Wetherby"

"Terry Kilburn - John Colley, Peter Colley I, II and III"

"Edmond Breon - Colonel Morgan"

"Paul Henreid - Max Staeffel"

"David Tree - Mr. Jackson"

"Louise Hampton - Mrs. Wickett"

"Scott Sunderland - Sir John Colley"

"It must be tremendously interesting to be a schoolmaster, to watch boys grow up and help them along; to see their characters develop and what they become when they leave school and the world gets hold of them. I don't see how you could ever get old in a world that's always young."

"Greer Garson - Katherine Ellis"

"Ralston: [to Mr. Chips] And when you write that books of yours, remember that in addition to all those boys you taught, you managed to teach something to at least one headmaster."

"Frederick Leister - Marsham"

"Greece and the islands of the Aegean Sea have given birth to many myths and legends of war and adventure. And these once-proud stones, these ruined and shattered temples bear witness to the civilization that flourished and then died here and to the demigods and heroes who inspired those legends on this sea and these islands. But though the stage is the same, ours is a legend of our own times, and its heroes are not demigods, but ordinary people. In 1943, so the story goes, 2000 British soldiers lay marooned on the tiny island of Kheros, exhausted and helpless. They had exactly one week to live for in Berlin the Axis high command had determined on a show of strength in the Aegean Sea to bully neutral Turkey into coming into the war on their side. The scene of that demonstration was to be Kheros, itself of no military value, but only a few miles off the coast of Turkey. The cream of the German war machine, rested and ready, was to spearhead the attack, and the men on Kheros were doomed unless they could be evacuated before the blitz. But the only passage to and from Kheros was guarded and blocked by two great, newly designed, radar-controlled guns on the nearby island of Navarone. Guns too powerful and accurate for any allied ship then in the Aegean to challenge. Allied intelligence learned of the projected blitz only one week before the appointed date. What took place in the next six days became the legend of Navarone."

"Bryan Forbes - Cohn"

"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! [gesturing with his pistol] 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."

"Gia Scala - Anna"

"Anthony Quayle - Maj. Roy Franklin, British Army"

"James Robertson Justice - Jensen/Opening narrator"

"Cleo Scouloudi - Bride"

"The Greatest High Adventure Ever Filmed...from COLUMBIA!"

"Richard Harris - S/L Howard Barnsby, RAAF"

"Christopher Rhodes - German Gunnery Officer"

"Michael Trubshawe - Weaver"

"Maria Pappadimos: 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."

"Percy Herbert - Grogan"

"To win a war, you have to be just as nasty as the enemy. What worries me is that we're likely to wake up one morning and find out we've become even nastier than they were."

"Tell me, schoolteacher, from a purely moral point of view - bearing in mind that we represent the side of goodness and civilization - do you think that what I did to Franklin was a civilized thing to do?"

"Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby, RAAF: First, you've got that bloody old fortress on top of that bloody cliff. Then you've got the bloody cliff overhang. You can't even see the bloody cave, let alone the bloody guns. And anyway, we haven't got a bloody bomb big enough to smash that bloody rock. And that's the bloody truth, sir."

"[after commandeering Nazi uniforms] Hmm, not very hygenic. Shocking taste in undies, too. [mockingly saluting] Heil, everybody."

"Walter Gotell - Muesel"

"Norman Wooland - Group Captain"

"Sir, I've inspected this boat, and I think you ought to know that I can't swim."

"David Niven - Cpl. John Anthony Miller, British Army"

"Gregory Peck - Cpt. Keith Mallory, British Army"

"Tutte Lemkow - Nicolai"

"Anthony Quinn - Col. Andrea Stavros, Hellenic Army"

"Stanley Baker - Casey "Butcher" Brown"

"James Darren - Pvt. Spyros Pappadimos, US Army"

"Irene Papas - Maria Pappadimos"

"An impregnable fortress... An invincible army... and the unstoppable commando team."

"[as the team prepares to leave, Miller comes stomping in] Everybody stay exactly where you are! The party's over. Somebody stepped on the cake! [opens his case] Exhibit A: a clockwork fuse. Elementary and archaic, but they work. Only this one doesn't work, you know why? The clock's okay, but the contact arm's been broken off. This clock could tick away until Christmas, and it wouldn't set off a firecracker! Exhibit B: Exhibit B is missing! All my slow-burning fuses are gone, disappeared, vanished! Exhibit C: my time pencils. Seventy-five grains of fulminate of mercury in every one of them, enough to blow off my hand. And very unstable, very delicate. [He smacks the one in his hand against the bundle of the rest, then violently crumples the whole mess together, and throws them in a corner] Which means there is a traitor in this room."

"Albert Lieven - Commandant"

"Allan Cuthbertson - Baker"