The Guns of Navarone are two massive German artillery pieces nestled in an impenetrable German fortress on the Mediterranean island of Navarone. A team of six Allied and Greek soldiers is put ashore to meet up with partisans to try and dynamite the guns. Captain Mallory (Gregory Peck), begins suspe...
Marshal MacKenna (Gregory Peck) comes into the possession of an old map which could lead him to the ancient gold in the canyon. Mexican outlaw, Colorado (Omar Shariff) and his men kidnap MacKenna and hold him hostage to lead them to the treasure....
To get the right donkey for the movie, the director travelled to Sirham, a village on top of the mountains, since Kashmir had only mules and no donkeys.
Pakeezah took nearly 14 years to shoot because of a change in relationship between Meena Kumari and Kamal Amrohi the director from warm to worse and then back to a compromise. Meena Kumari and Kamal Amrohi were married when Pakeezah was first conceived.
The movie is silent, with no dialogue whatsoever, yet it deals with a complex and realistic plot.The film is notable for its inventive recasting of the silent film form. Though shot in color and featuring incidental noise, the film does not have any dialogues.
