adventure-films

"Percy Herbert - Grogan"

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

"Michael Trubshawe - Weaver"

"George Mikell - Sessler"

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

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

"Gia Scala - Anna"

"Norman Wooland - Group Captain"

"[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."

"Cleo Scouloudi - Bride"

"Bryan Forbes - Cohn"

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

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

"James Robertson Justice - Jensen/Opening narrator"

"Stanley Baker - Casey "Butcher" Brown"

"Irene Papas - Maria Pappadimos"

"Albert Lieven - Commandant"

"Walter Gotell - Muesel"

"Tutte Lemkow - Nicolai"

"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."

"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."

"Christopher Rhodes - German Gunnery Officer"

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

"Allan Cuthbertson - Baker"

"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?"

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"Dylan Walsh as Peter Elliott"

"Ernie Hudson as Captain Monroe Kelly"

"It's the lost city of Zinj, which I have looked for all my life."

"Laura Linney as Karen Ross"

"Have your laughing, and I will have mine!"

"Tim Curry as Herkermer Homolka"

"Lola Noh & Misty Rosas as the in-suit performers of Amy"

"Do you remember what I told you? That if I ever found out you sent me here for some diamond... and NOT for Charlie... that I would make you sorry?"

"Kathleen Connors as Sally"

"Shayna Fox as the voice of Amy"

"Kevin Grevioux as Roadblock Officer"

"Peter Jason as Mr. Janus"

"[before signing out and destroying the satellite] This is for you, Charlie."

"Are you serving that ape a martini?"

"Fidel Bateke as Mizumu"

"Darnell Suttles as Hospital Interrogator"

"Thom Barry as Samahani"

"In my life I have heard many a bizarre story. Many a bizarre story containing bizarre truth."