Film · 1961 · Films · 1960s
The Guns of Navarone
Scored from 180 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
During World War II, an Allied team led by a master mountaineer is sent on a near-suicidal mission to scale a sheer cliff on the German-held Greek island of Navarone and destroy two massive radar-guided guns that command a vital sea channel. As they race against the clock to rescue 2,000 trapped British soldiers, the commandos must contend with treacherous terrain, enemy patrols, and a traitor in their midst.
The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 action, adventure and drama film.
1,928 other films from the 1960s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 180 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 184 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where The Guns of Navarone lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1960s (1,929 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 180.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
