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Where Eagles Dare
1969
Two soldiers are parachuted into the Bavarian Alps to rescue an American General from an almost impregnable Nazi fortress, which can be reached only by cable car. Based on the successful Alistair MacLean novel. Read more
| Starring | Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Patrick Wymark, Mary Ure |
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| Director | Brian G. Hutton |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
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Where Eagles Dare
Two soldiers are parachuted into the Bavarian Alps to rescue an American General from an almost impregnable Nazi fortress, which can be reached only by cable car. Based on the successful Alistair MacLean novel.
| Starring | Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Patrick Wymark, Mary Ure, Michael Hordern, Robert Beatty, Donald Houston, Peter Barkworth |
|---|---|
| Director | Brian G. Hutton |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 01 Dec 2003 Production year: 1969 |
| Format | DVD |
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Clint Eastwood called this wartime adventure “Where Doubles Dare”, in view of the army of stuntmen who performed the acrobatics in the Austrian Alps. His co-star, Richard Burton, was paid a million dollars plus a big percentage of what turned out to be a hugely profitable picture. It's the usual espionage hokum, with Burton and Eastwood infiltrating a Nazi stronghold to discover a hornets' nest of spies. There are so many double- and triple-crosses that the plot is at times incomprehensible. But this is a picture about big bangs, James Bond-style fights on cable cars and body counts. It's hilarious and exciting, often at the same time. Interestingly, this was written as an original script for Burton by Alistair MacLean, who then expanded the idea into a bestselling novel.
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Archetypal schoolboy adventure, rather unattractively photographed but containing a sufficient variety of excitements.
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10 out of 11 people found this review helpful
A classic.
A young Clint Eastwood & the superb Richard Burton star in this 'epic' of a war thriller. It's absolute class for it's day and remains probably the best of the Alistair MacLean stories to make it to screen. It never gets boring for the full two and a half hours. Remastered 5.1 sound make it interesting for those who've seen it before (like me). You'll never ride the cable cars at the Pleasure Beach again (are they still there?) - and then there's that stirring theme music. A 'must'.
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
classic war
Broadsword calling Danny boy....Broadsword calling Danny boy....
A first rate war movie with both Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood giving excellent performances. The opening scene where the plane is flying over the Alps sets the scene for this non-stop action movie. Based on the novel by Alistair McLean which I would recommend reading plus his other war stories Guns of Naverone and HMS Ulysees. -
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Where Eagles Dare
Two soldiers are parachuted into the Bavarian Alps to rescue an American General from an almost impregnable Nazi fortress, which can be reached only by cable car. Based on the successful Alistair MacLean novel....
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