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Category: Stanley Baker

The Guns of Navarone (1961)

24 August 2023 Tico Romao Action Profiles, Combat, Stanley Baker, United Kingdom, 1961, J. Lee Thompson, David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn Leave a comment

The arrival of the mission team to Navarone Island is marked by two notable sequences that underscore how nature itself can supply precarious environments to situate action.

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