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The Eagle Has Landed on DVD (1977)

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Average rating: (72%)
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3.5
 
Starring: Larry Hagman | Donald Sutherland | Jenny Agutter | Michael Caine | Robert Duvall | Donald Pleasence
Director: John Sturges
Studio: ITV DVD
Run time: 118 mins
Certificate: 15
Genres: Action/Adventure | Drama
Languages: English
Hearing-impaired: English
Released: 14/04/2003
Also Available on: Also Available on: BLU-RAY

Brief synopsis of 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.

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Rating of 3 stars out of 5 Radio Times

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.

Rating of 1 stars out of 4 Halliwell's Film Guide

Elaborately plotted but uninvolving spy melodrama, lethargically directed, muddily coloured and too concerned to create some good Germans.

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Rated - 4 starsThe Eagle Has Landed Bonus Features

A customer from Sheffield , 17/05/2005

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.

The point?? I have no idea!

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Rated - 5 starsVery Silly, but...

Graeme Stewart from Gloucestershire, UK , 07/02/2006

...all the same a hopelessly entertaining romp of implausible plot, cheesy acting (Larry Hagman winning the plaudits for biggest caricature) and unlikely outcome.

Personally I love it. If you love The Great Escape, A Bridge too Far, and crucially, Escape to Victory, this is a must view

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Rated - 3 starsVintage Caine

ancientmariner from Callington , 15/01/2004

Once again Michael Caine shows his talents as an actor by playing a convincing role as a maverick German para colonel on an unusual mission. An all action film set mostly in the Norfolk countryside with love interest provided by a pretty young Jenny Agutter the action continues apace and holds the viewer's attention throughout. Excellent support from Robert Duvall, Donald Sutherland, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Quale and John Standing.

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Rated - 3 starsWell worth a viewing

Kenny from NE England , 29/04/2004

I have just found out you cannot change your movie rating! I should have rated this 4 stars!

This was an unusual mix of cast with true brit Michael Caine playing a German! A good storyline soon helps you forget the English/German character miss-match but watch for Larry Hagmans part as an American! - Well before his Dallas days.

There are enough interesting parts to keep you interested to the end and even though the outcome is fairly predictable there is still room for a twist.

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