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Clint Eastwood Collection: Where Eagles Dare
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790746357
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790746352
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundEnglish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: D65186D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 02, 2003
Running Time: 155 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 12, 1969
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Editorial Review:
Scorned by reviewers when it came out, this concentrated dose of commando death-dealing to legions of Nazi machine-gun fodder has acquired a cult over the years. In 1968 Clint Eastwood was just getting used to the notion that he might be a world-class movie star; Richard Burton, whose image had been shaped equally by classical theater training and his headline-making romance with Elizabeth Taylor, was eager to try on the action ethos Eastwood was already nudging toward caricature. Alistair MacLean's novel The Guns of Navarone had inspired the film that started the '60s vogue for World War II military capers, so he was prevailed on to write the screenplay (his first). The central location, an impregnable Alpine stronghold locked in ice and snow, is surpassing cool, but the plot and action are ultra-mechanical, and the switcheroo gamesmanship of just who is the undercover double (triple?) agent on the mission becomes aggressively silly. --Richard T. Jameson
Commandos, posing as German soldiers, parachute into a city to rescue a supposed allied general from a Nazi hideaway fortress that can only be reached by cable car.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - High Octane Adventure
Based on the Alistair Mclean novel (author of the GUNS OF NAVARONE), this terrific mix and action and intrigue showcases Richard Burton as an undercover operative sent with a team to rescue from a Nazi fortress and American general before he can spill the plans for D-Day. Clint Eastwood plays an American Ranger on the team and Mary Ure as Burton's love interest. When making this movie Eastwood figuring that Burton would (acting-wise) steal the show, reportedly told director Brian Hutton, "Just ... Read More
Rating:  - THE BEST MAN FOR THE JOB
IF YOU WISH TO SEE THE MAGNIFICENT ACTING ABILITIES OF RICHARD BURTON EVEN WHEN FACED WITH A MEDIOCRE ROLE THIS MOVIE IS FOR YOU.
Rating: - One of the best Eastwood flicks
"Where Eagles Dare" is the granddaddy of all action adventure flicks. If you thought Clint Eastwood killed a lot of bad guys in his westerns, you haven't seen anything yet. The action is pretty much non-stop.
This is one of the rare cases where you don't have to read the book first because the screenplay was written by adventure novelist Alistair MacLean who then wrote the book.
I have watched this movie many, many times and I have always found it enjoyable. Some years ... Read More
Rating: - Were Eagles Dare
I find this to be another good movie for Clint Eastwood. He does the War Storys very well. All the Support Actors are top drawer. It was well written and flimed. The action and suspense keeps You'r attention. Thank You, Jerry
Rating: - Well made and exciting but rubbish
The novels of Alistair MacLean are invariably exciting yarns which the reader can't put down and this film is a good cinematic equivalent. MacLean wrote the screenplay and he piles one incredible sequence on another.
The adventure entails the capture by British agents of a bogus hostage from Germans located in an impenetrable castle/fortress in Austria. Richard Burton plays the enigmatic leader and Clint Eastwood a professional assassin. The characters are completely one dimensional, ... Read More
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