The Eagle Has Landed
1977
Based on Jack Higgin's bestseller. A group of German Paratroopers are dropped over England. Their mission is to kidnap Winston Churchill. Read more
| Starring | Larry Hagman, Donald Sutherland, Jenny Agutter, Michael Caine |
|---|---|
| Director | John Sturges |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama |
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The Eagle Has Landed
Based on Jack Higgin's bestseller. A group of German Paratroopers are dropped over England. Their mission is to kidnap Winston Churchill.
| Starring | Larry Hagman, Donald Sutherland, Jenny Agutter, Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence |
|---|---|
| Director | John Sturges |
| Studio | ITV DVD |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 58 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 25 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Released | DVD: 14 Apr 2003 Blu-ray: 12 Nov 2007 Production year: 1977 |
| Format | DVD |
The Eagle Has Landed (1977)
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Jean Cocteau's film of his play, L'Aigle à Deux Têtes, with Jean Marais — the hero of Cocteau's Orphée and star of the stage version — as a 19th-century anarchist who falls in love with the king's widow when he plans to assassinate her. The fact that he's also a dead ringer for the deceased king complicates matters, as do the plans of the queen's enemies. Less of an achievement than Cocteau's better-known movies — such as Blood of a Poet (1930) — this has an exuberant romanticism that's hard to resist, and it looks simply ravishing.
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Elaborately plotted but uninvolving spy melodrama, lethargically directed, muddily coloured and too concerned to create some good Germans.
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The Eagle Has Landed Bonus Features
This disc is actually a 16:9 theatrical special edition version of the movie, there are no bonus features on the disc.
I was expecting the first disc to be the extended version but it was in fact a 4:3 theatrical version.
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A Classic
What more can one say. A classic story which transferred to the screen well. Maybe Donald Sutherlands's 'Irish' accent was learned from Dick Van Dyke but that can be forgiven. The special effects look a little dated when compared to what is done today but the film still stands out as one of the all time greats for me.
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