A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Gregory Peck
as Capt. Keith Mallory
David Niven
as Cpl. James Arthur Miller
Anthony Quinn
as Col. Andrea Stavros
Stanley Baker
as Pvt. 'Butcher' Brown
Anthony Quayle
as Maj. Roy Franklin
James Darren
as Pvt. Spyros Pappadimos
Irene Papas
as Maria Pappadimos
Gia Scala
as Anna
James Robertson Justice
as Commodore Jensen / Prologue Narrator
Richard Harris
as Squadron Leader Howard Barnsby RAAF
Bryan Forbes
as Cohn
Allan Cuthbertson
as Maj. Baker