The guns of Navarone(1961) - Theme Song

[Ravenfair2012]

I miss Gregory Peck...



[hva1967]

GREAT

[TechiMan]

NITRO GLYCERINE!!!! NITRO GLYCERINE!!!

[MrTOMOMORI]

洋画音楽好きの父親の影響で、10代からこの曲だけはよく知って­いましたが、20歳過ぎてから初めてこの映画を見ました。演技下­手と云われるグレゴリー・ぺックですが、良いですね。

当年48歳です。



[schallrd1]

This was a great war adventure film. I saw this originally on the big screen which is the best way to view.

[baobubs]

I can't believe he shot the saboteur girl -- I'd have just given her a spanking.

[zelig46]

This version and played by Mitch Miller Band and Chorus

Zelig46

[kochi3773]

はじめて聴く音楽最後まれ聞き惚れました。

[100kiYako]

なばろんのようさい → ナバロンの要塞...　from JP

[tassiecameraman]

Top film, and Al Caiola did a good version as for the version by the Skatalites they did a good job of murdering the song, it is a 1961 song seems these modern day groups have to ressurrect something from the past, no original thoughts, but having been on radio now for a long time I prefer the older music

[robertogfontes]

I prefer THe versio of Skatalites

pow pow pooowwww

[BANZITOMMY]

Man, I can't believe some people actually dislike this film. The actors were a little old for the roles but come on it is not supposed to be Saving Private Ryan, its an action fiction film. Great score too!

I love old school films.

[palonejr]

Great Movie

Still love it.

Bobby...

[Tiger20001]

Respects to the Greek Partizans and British Commandos who fought the Nazi Occupiers diring WW2.

[DocHoliday2U]

If Iced Earth redid this song as a metal version, it would actually fit the epicness of the movie.

[Juliaflo]

Well, raise my blood pressure. I heard this music throughout 1961 and never knew it had such interesting lyrics.

(Don't figure out my age, LOLOLOLOLOL).

[TatarInExile]

Those guys at 3:52 react to this theme song.

[19GirlBad]

@nostalgiaaddict88 Yep

[daufas]

Another classic movie, and look at the talent David Niven, Anthony Quinn and the rest of the cast.

[Aeroplnut]

Richard Harris's 1st speaking role in movies. That "bloody,bloody" Aussie bomber pilot.

[19GirlBad]

@texas224 Shut u tart! This was a real with real class actors. A true story. I watched The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far, Saving Private Ryan, Escape To Athena and the one with Lee Marvin in that film. I cant remember the name of the film. Apparently inglorious basterds was shit. So many more.

[nostalgiaaddict88]

@19GirlBad

I believe you are referring to The Dirty Dozen with Lee Marvin.

[mariopas1964]

goood

[19GirlBad]

@hugh0221 Thanx. Im glad i have the chance 2 watch old moves and old actors bcos it was the time they made films and can act brilliant. This film was based on a true story. Im proud 2 be a Cypriot!

[KCOliver1960]

I'm sticking with the original intrumental. These lyrics are terrible.

[Damnblastify]

@KCOliver1960 It's quite bouncy and jolly though...

[tharos]

What the...

...was the kid who was listening in on their conversation actually Ahmedinejad?

[19GirlBad]

This is another crackin film. Im only 19 years old. 2day movies r shit.

[hugh0221]

@19GirlBad

I'm 20 & I can't agrRRee more! Gentlemen's period(Victorian ~ 1980's) rules!

[texas224]

@19GirlBad Really? inglourious basterds, The Pacific, Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line are films worth watching.

[44032]

That's Mitch Milelr and the Gang, who had a popular sing-along show in the early 60's and also did a cover of the "Colonel Bogey March" that was used in the previous Carl Forman production, a rather similar film called "The Bridge on the River Kwaiu. This appears on the soundrack album of TGON, which I have, but you don't hear it in the film, (fortunately). I loved Mitch and thr Gang, by the way- I have some other records of theirs but this doesn't quite get it done.

[oldmoviemusic]

Wow....The actual instrumental for this is awesome, and the movie is great, but this Hollywood-ised version makes it sound like it's a musical, haha!!

[bigbenzon]

This is so bad it's hilarious! But the film was amazing!

[mou224]

I have heard this song before with this same lyrics but with a much more "marching" and emotive theme, that was pretty well but I can't manage to find it except in a new "Limited Edition" soundtrack. if somebody has it, I'm talking about the track called "Legend of Navarone (Exit Music).

[RobGoth100]

Beautiful music but the words sound like Gilligan's Island meets the Brady Bunch but four times longer.

[MrLucaslackey]

ilove it but what is guns of navaron i am 11 so what is it

[chapmasi]

@MrLucaslackey Download it off Bit Torrent or newsgroups and watch it. Epic WW2 film.

[ccrich100]

I read the book first and then saw the movie. As to be expected the book experience was better but the movie was fine too....

[Hassar100]

Dumb lyrics, great melody and a fun movie if you don't know much about World War II. But much can be said about the movie Inglorious Basterds. Also, to my knowledge the only movie done about the campaign in the Aegean in 1943, a little known campaign the Germans won.

[DrCruel]

Peck's "Sea Wolves" is also rather good too. More of the same, if you liked "Navarone".

[PeterFirthFan]

The Sea Wolves was even worse than this fucking crap. At least the talentless wooden Peck attempted an English accent that time.

[DrCruel]

(lol)

[TatarInExile]

This song was not in the movie, (thankfully). It was probably composed after the movie came out. So do not judge this great movie from these corny lyrics.

It was shot on the island of Crete in the Aegean Sea and remains one of the greatest adventure movies of all time.

[Lleisiau]

@TatarInExile It's a great film , but the book is better and was significantly altered for the film, eg the 2 women do not appear in the book , nor does Major Franklin.

It was actually filmed on Rhodes and also some scenes were shot on Gozo.

[FrankClanton]

A very bad movie with an ancient cast.

[filmfanman65]

you obviously have no fucking taste in films you dipshit.

[FrankClanton]

This film was just an overlong, dated, badly made piece of crap with all the actors far too old for their parts.

[DrCruel]

You must be talking about the sequel. Which, honestly, wasn't all that bad either.

Incidentally, a little known fact - this was the first screen appearance of that famous Iranian starlet, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad (1:40 - 1:44).

[FrankClanton]

This film is a dated, studio-bound, overlong piece of crap with a vastly overage cast led by the draft dodging coward Peck at his most wooden.

[DrCruel]

I liked it. Whether Peck dodged the draft has nothing to do with his performance. In any case, I liked Anthony Quinn in it. Also the sneeky bomb guy with the rats.

Maybe I have more of a taste for corny stuff. The lyrics to this song are, however, admittedly pretty horrible.

[thunder151515]

@DrCruel lol XD Mahmoud Ahmedinejad? XD

[chrisandbeck1976]

sounds alot like te deum

[kpadmirer]

Great music, lousy lyrics.

[steventhestudent]

When I die I may not go to heaven

I don't know if they let cowboys in

If they don't just let me go to Texas, Boy!

Texas is as close as I've been.

[19elvis38]

Some day you're the same stupidold one. Everybody wants to grow old, no one

wants te be one.

A young man of 70 years!!

But I hope you never make it!!

[PeterFirthFan]

Well, Elvis didn't!

[filmfanman65]

dumbfucker.

[Marabittis]

bello è..

[FatGuyWithAKatana]

gregory peck is a bad motherfucker, especially in moby dick and pork chop hill.

[PeterFirthFan]

He was a bad actor and ruined Moby Dick.

[FatGuyWithAKatana]

i guess if you have bad taste in actors and movies then yeah, i can see how he ruined it.

[PeterFirthFan]

Even Peck admitted he was awful as Ahab. It wasn't entirely his fault though, because the film was too slow anyway and he was way too young for the part. If only they had cast a better actor like Fredric March or Spencer Tracy.

[sjdoc]

When the movie was released, this Mitch Miller version of the song had some radio play. Tiomkin had great commercial success with the theme from *High Noon* making it as a popular best-seller even before the movie was released, and he kept trying to repeat that success. Obviously, it didn't work here.

[chapmasi]

EPIC FILM!

not sure about that music as lud as it is....

David Niven: "Why not just drop him off the cliff and save a bullet....?"

[abcdefghijk70833]

@chapmasi

grant: and why don't you shut up?

[PsalmHymn]

tererible music singing, was that in the movie -I don't remember it?

cheers.

[trekkie951]

why was the president of Iran hiding in the closet @ 1:40

[manch01]

haha good point

[varanid8]

LOL, he sure does look just like him!

[Axtitios]

this song sent shivers down my spine...

[Ninearm]

Does anybody know hte song played in a small barracks where a sizeable amount of soldiers sleeps, its in the last part of the movie, its a german song.

[kidricofdoom]

this song is 100 times too long haha gonna be stuck in my head ALL day.

[varanid8]

Great film, but everything about it was too long, IMO.

[ajb7876]

Sorry guys but this is the worst theme to a war movie ever.

[spacepatrolman]

Thats mitch miller also famous for saying he hated the beatles and making errol garner sign a release so the record company could violate his contract.

[RobGoth100]

Frame 3:53 sums up my reaction to the lyrics.

[TatarInExile]

@RobGoth100 A great big ROFL on 3:53 as your reaction to the song!!!!!!!

And if they showed more of that scene with Quinn rolling on the floor pretending to puke at :47, that would have been good too.

[dovermoreno]

Does anyone else remember the episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show when he was telling the police (for an alibi) that he went to the drive inn and fell asleep.

and the police officer asked what movie he was watching and Dick Van Dyke said, "The Guns of Navarone."

And the police officer yelled, "You fell asleep during the GUNS OF NAVARONE ???"

[neemz2000]

You've got to love a theme song that helpfully sets up the plot.

[ShiftyI234]

boring!!

[RobGoth100]

I always loved the music but the lyrics are bloody awful.

[Francesc02]

Really, are improvised lyrics. Originally, was a western song. When has used fron "Guns of Navarone" , it needs a new lyrics quickly. The result is these.

[RobGoth100]

I see it as a great Western film theme but those lyrics are so "Gilligan's Island" and "Brady Bunch".

[facefilms87]

lol awrsome

[hiroguam]

Was a good movie for its era.Made me feel proud of the USA. Too bad things are so different today.

[ReturnOfTheBrit]

the guns of navarone is a made up story there was no such place called navarone, plus theres only 1 american in the film.

[cochranexyz]

LOL. So very true!

[HarveyCartwright]

Dated movie with a vastly overage cast.

[maradasam]

man do u have this as mp3 sound ???

[eionreid]

you can get the mp3 sound. it is by the skatalites

[THClove]

got lirycs?

[Francesc02]

Islands of Greece are green and beautiful,

Green and beautiful,

Where the olive trees grow

In the field below,

But high on the cliffs the guns are hidden there,

Guns are hidden there,

In a cavern of stone,

Guns of Navarone

[Francesc02]

There is another isle as beautiful

Where the laurel once bloomed,

Here on this island known as Kheros

Two thousand soldiers are doomed.

Now is the problem how to rescue them

From a crushing defeat

When high on the cliffs

The Guns Of Navarone blocks His Majesty's Fleet

[Francesc02]

So in the face of odds impossible Secret saboteurs in a fisherman's skiff Headed for the cliff. Six men come to save two thousand men Two thousand men, the brave and the bold For whom the bells have tolled. Six men come to the scale the hills above Here where the gods were, Think what the odds were - six men. Come from the sea with nitro glycerine, Nitro glycerine and a ladder of rope And a thing called hope.

[Francesc02]

Six flies climb the Nazi spider web,

Carefully set the charge and the fuse,

So little time to loose.

Tick-tock, swiftly tick the hands of doom,

Ev'rything reckoned,

Time to the second -

Contact!

[maradasam]

wow thx but do u have it as mp3

i want to put it on my mobile.

??????

[Mrboomal]

perhaps if your father had died in 1942 in crete for the freedom of europe you would think different?

[Ninearm]

I wonder if anybodys knows the song played as gregory peck infiltrates the german base. I thinks its a woman singing something in german.

[SmartAsWater]

and again (=

[SmartAsWater]

listen to it again and again....and again!

[Bowalizer]

man i love this song!

[Bowalizer]

nice

[roddy76to86]

"The Skatalites" and "The Specials" vastly improved this !!

[Bob65001]

no way man

[haunter112]

Love the ska versions but this stuff is till cool!

[roddy76to86]

Yes, on reflection, my comparison of a war film theme and a Ska song, even if from the same tune, is like comparing chalk and cheese !!

[NGS712]

I remember hearing this in '100 Years at the Movies'. Coulda sworn it was for a Western movie. ;)

[NGS712]

Sorry, my mistake. Was thinking of a different piece from this movie. :S

[asrrael]

六壯士 - 主題曲

[heiheigi]

六壯士 - 主題曲

Those were the days !!!

[cduncan49]

Great to hear the music again, I had the album of the soundtrack with the song on it.

I have searched and have not been able to find it on tape or CD