Where Eagles Dare
(1968)
Overview
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.
Director
Brian G. Hutton
Writers
Alistair MacLean, Alistair MacLean, Alistair MacLean
Top Billed
Richard Burton
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Reviews
John Chard
⭐ 9/10February 1, 2016
Major, right now you got me about as confused as I ever hope to be.
Directed by Brian G. Hutton and adapted to the screen from his own novel by Alistair MacLean, Where Eagles Dare stars Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood. Music is scored by Ron Goodwin and cinematography is by Arthur Ibbetson.
A small group of allied agents are sent on a mission to rescue a Allied General from a Nazi castle stronghold. But there is more than what meets the e…
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Wuchak
⭐ 9/10June 30, 2018
_**One of the greatest action/adventure films ever made**_
RELEASED IN 1968 and directed by Brian G. Hutton, "Where Eagles Dare" is a World War II adventure about handful of commandos parachuting into the wilderness surrounding a German castle-fortress high in the Bavarian Alps. Their mission is to rescue a captive general before the Germans can interrogate him. However, not everything is as it first appears.
The film is not a conventional …
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r96sk
⭐ 7/10January 12, 2022
So close to being a great film.
There is a lot I enjoyed about <em>'Where Eagles Dare'</em>, the core of the film has some greatness to it. The action sequences are fun, the acting is terrific and the music is strong. However, it has far too many lull moments for me to consider it anything other than 'good'.
A 2hr run time would've been perfect, instead it's stretched out to 2hrs 30mins+ and it really shows. The pacing is bad, any moment of…
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crastana
⭐ 5/10July 19, 2022
The story is very interesting, Clint Eastwood looks very good on Nazi Uniform and kick 4ss so much 4ss it kind of ruins the almost perfect story about counter spies double agents, double cross mumbo jumbo
If they wanted to end WWII they should have sent Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton dressed as SS officers.
CinemaSerf
⭐ 8/10July 15, 2024
When an American general's plane is forced down over Nazi Germany, it falls to "Smith" (Richard Burton) to lead a crack team into the depths of the Wehrmacht to get him out before a dose of scopalamine elicits the truth about the plans for an allied invasion of Europe. No sooner do they land, though, when things start to go wrong. With one of their number not even surviving the parachute drop into the snowy forest, "Smith" finds himself relying m… read the rest.
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Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$7,700,000
Revenue
$21,000,000