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Summary: Clint and Richard at their action-packed best....
Review: Not only do their performances standout in this war film, but the music enhances the action scenes in a way that few film scores do, this flick is worth it for the soundtrack alone.
Richard Burton leads a team of British commandos and one American Ranger, Clint Eastwood, high into the Alps to rescue an American General just days before D-Day. As the plot twists and turns, it reveals the excellent writing and storytelling that Alistair MacLean lends to every book he's written. Richard Burton's character has more facets than a well-cut diamond and Clint Eastwood's role show how an actor can do more with less. The scenery, filmed onsite in Alpine castle, is amazing and the supporting cast was well selected for this movie. While this title never seems to appear on either Burton's or Eastwood's list of career highlights, you will find this WWII film to be an unsung gem.
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Summary: ...And ANGELS fear to tread.
Review: It was 1962, the height of the Cold War, and new and exciting stories of espianogue, thrills and suspense were in demand. Over in england the first of the James Bond movies was being released...bringing new found fame to Ian Flemming. Here, a similar story was being played out with Alistair Maclean, with the release of one of his greatest thrillers, "Where Eagles Dare" in the theaters.Eight Allied Agents sneak behind enemy lines -- seven men & one women...their mission: to retrieve a General. We all probably know this movie by heart...but for those who don't this is one of the earliest Alistar MacLean espianogue thrillers to be made into a movie. It is a fast paced story that pulls you along with the eight men and women who are on their secret mission, that may or may not balance on...how they eat. [Those of you who have seen the movie know what I'm talking about, I'm sure...] As many times as I've seen this movie, I've never seen the whole movie, because of the fit to the dimensions of the screen aspect, but now with it being shown in the original widescreen format...we can actually watch the entire movie...
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Summary: YES!!!
Review: FINALLY... the DVD version of this classic movie.
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Summary: A TNT Classic!
Review: Though the missin is British (save Clint Eastwood), this film has somehow become an American classic. Though most people of this generation have no idea what I'm talking about when I say 'Where Eagles Dare', they all seem to know a scene or two if I depict it to them. Why? This movie runs about 100 differant times on TNT, TBS, or USA at one time or another. It is the classic Sunday afternoon too cold to do anything but watch TV movie. Don't get it wrong though, with killer action scenes and great plot twists, this is Old School WW2 film at its best. It is the walking definition of the phrase 'They don't make 'em like they used to.'
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Summary: DVD please! Where is the DVD?
Review: Such a great movie. This needs to be on DVD! Good character development, as is the case in most [older] films. This movie has it's own feel, and there is a spy element here. I count this as one of Eastwood's better films. Richard Burton and all the others are great, too.
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Summary: A Fun Movie That Keeps You Guessing--But Where's the DVD?
Review: While it lacks the smooth, epic nature of "The Guns of Navarone"--another Alistair Maclean thriller made into a film--"Where Eagles Dare" delivers a lot of punch in its own right. Richard Burton leads a group of British commandos accompanied by American demolitions expert Clint Eastwood to rescue from a Nazi-held mountain castle a general with plans for D-Day. Or does he? Released in 1969, the film capitalizes on the last days of the spy craze, with plot twists and turns that leave viewers guessing until the last scene about who might be the real enemy. At times over the top, with a Ron Goodwin score that is rousing but occasionally intrusive, it might all be silly if both Burton and Eastwood weren't so determined to take it seriously. Burton, in particular, delivers a solid performance as a brainy man of action; it's a shame he didn't make more such films, as a brainy action hero is refreshing in this age of dopey muscleheads with guns. You'll even forgive some of the unconvincing rear-projection work and the appearance of a rather modern-looking helicopter because the action scenes are taut and surprisingly brutal. At some point, though, this film needs to be released in widescreen on DVD--the scan-and-pan video simply doesn't do it justice!
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Summary: Eagles...High Flying WWII Adventure.
Review: Rousing World War II adventure yarn by Allister Mclean (THE GUNS OF NAVAONE) starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood both in top form and directed by Brian G.Hutton (KELLY'S HEROES which also starred Eastwood). The war action is top notch with a twist or twists of espionage, suspense filled escapes, gunplay, great location shots and scenery (especially with the icy snow peaks and snow packed roads), and tons of German casulties. Allied force, led by Burton and Eastwood, infiltrates a castle in the Bavarian mountains to rescue a General held prisoner who holds information about the D-Day invasion. When the General is retreived, there's a scene straight out of an Agathy Christie novel where British Maj. John Smith (Richard Burton) sits all principal players down in the castle dining room to expose a traitor or traitors and the twists continue even after that. Probably the best action sequence in the movie (and there are so many of them) is the struggle of Major Smith (Burton) on top of a cable car lift with two of the traitors. Eastwood as Lt. Morris Schaffer, the cool and only American of the force, is great as usual. The rest of the cast is top notch and the film has high production values, great script, and action galor.
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Summary: Best movie ever!!!
Review: (: I saw it on VHS with my dad and my sister, and I thought that it was the best movie ever!!! It was definitly the best action/spy film ever created, even better than James Bond. My sister also fell in love with the movie, and we both can't wait for it to come out in DVD. I sure hope that it does pretty soon, because they said it was coming out on DVD last year! Definitly a 100 star rater, but the rating doesn't go up that high. :)
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Summary: "I just told him I'm Himmler's brother..."
Review: The greatest war/action movie and the greatest winter movie ever! A great ski-trip vacation movie, best watched near a mountain with a gondola, so you can re-enact the pick-axe fight on top of it. It will make you long for that good old Austrian hospitality, the snowy Hofbrau with the great beer, St Pauli Girl barmaids, and snappy dressing German officers. And then you get to kill them all!
There's a lot to love about this movie. Burton and Clint, the lovely blondes, great atmosphere, great adventure and a sublimely silly scene where Burton supposedly explains it all but confuses the hell out of everybody. And what about that Gestapo guy who looks like Harpo? You'll love Clint firing a machine gun in each hand, and of course the trip-wire boobytraps.
This is a great guy flick, and one of the original and best blow-up-everything-in-sight movies.
WHERE'S THE DVD??!!
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Summary: hot action
Review: if ever their was a great ww2 flick, where eagles dare has to be in the top 5, non stop action and suspense from beginning to end.
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