World Famous Comics: Clint Eastwood Collection: Where Eagles Dare
Clint Eastwood Collection: Where Eagles Dare
Starring: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Patrick Wymark, Michael Hordern Directed By: Brian G. Hutton Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Warner Home Video Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 02, 2003 Running Time: 155 minutes Theatrical Release Date: March 12, 1969
Description: Commandos, posing as German soldiers, parachute into a city to rescue a supposed allied general from a Nazi hideaway fortress that can only be reached by cable car.
Amazon.com: Scorned by reviewers when it came out, this concentrated dose of commando death-dealing to legions of Nazi machine-gun fodder has acquired a cult over the years. In 1968 Clint Eastwood was just getting used to the notion that he might be a world-class movie star; Richard Burton, whose image had been shaped equally by classical theater training and his headline-making romance with Elizabeth Taylor, was eager to try on the action ethos Eastwood was already nudging toward caricature. Alistair MacLean's novel The Guns of Navarone had inspired the film that started the '60s vogue for World War II military capers, so he was prevailed on to write the screenplay (his first). The central location, an impregnable Alpine stronghold locked in ice and snow, is surpassing cool, but the plot and action are ultra-mechanical, and the switcheroo gamesmanship of just who is the undercover double (triple?) agent on the mission becomes aggressively silly. --Richard T. Jameson
Where Eagles Dare A great and often forgotten about WW II movie from the 60's that stars Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood. The plot involves a team of Allied special ops forces attempting to infiltrate a German fortress deep in the Alps to rescue a captured American general. Where Eagles Dare is full of plot twists, tense moments and some of the best action scenes of any war movie, including an epic hand-to-hand battle on a gondola hundreds of feet above a frozen Alpine river. The movie provided much of the inspiration for the acclaimed PC game Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
High Octane Adventure Based on the Alistair Mclean novel (author of the GUNS OF NAVARONE), this terrific mix and action and intrigue showcases Richard Burton as an undercover operative sent with a team to rescue from a Nazi fortress and American general before he can spill the plans for D-Day. Clint Eastwood plays an American Ranger on the team and Mary Ure as Burton's love interest. When making this movie Eastwood figuring that Burton would (acting-wise) steal the show, reportedly told director Brian Hutton, "Just give ME a gun and let me do my thing."
THE BEST MAN FOR THE JOB IF YOU WISH TO SEE THE MAGNIFICENT ACTING ABILITIES OF RICHARD BURTON EVEN WHEN FACED WITH A MEDIOCRE ROLE THIS MOVIE IS FOR YOU.
One of the best Eastwood flicks "Where Eagles Dare" is the granddaddy of all action adventure flicks. If you thought Clint Eastwood killed a lot of bad guys in his westerns, you haven't seen anything yet. The action is pretty much non-stop.
This is one of the rare cases where you don't have to read the book first because the screenplay was written by adventure novelist Alistair MacLean who then wrote the book.
I have watched this movie many, many times and I have always found it enjoyable. Some years ago, I actually made a pilgrimage to Werfen, Austria and toured Schloss Hohenwerfen where the movie was filmed.
Were Eagles Dare I find this to be another good movie for Clint Eastwood. He does the War Storys very well. All the Support Actors are top drawer. It was well written and flimed. The action and suspense keeps You'r attention. Thank You, Jerry
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