Where Eagles Dare
Where Eagles Dare is a 1968 action adventure war film directed by Brian G. Hutton and starring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood and Mary Ure. Set during World War II, it follows a Special Operations Executive team charged with saving a captured American General from the fictional Schloß Adler fortress, except the mission turns out not to be as it seems. It was filmed in Panavision using the Metrocolor process, and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Alistair MacLean wrote the screenplay, his first, at the same time that he wrote the novel of the same name. Both became commercial successes.
Plot
During World War II, MI6 officers Colonel Turner and Admiral Rolland assemble a commando team to rescue an American officer. Brigadier General George Carnaby, a chief planner for the Western Front, is a prisoner at the Schloß Adler, an alpine mountaintop fortress in Bavaria, accessible only by cable car.
More details
| author | Alistair MacLean |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Austria |
| director | Brian G. Hutton |
| editor | John Jympson |
| events | Alps World War II |
| genre | action adventure |
| keywords | attempt to escape bavaria betray brigadier general british intelligence broken neck cable car colonel commando court martial double agent general german forces german soldier id intelligence branch ju 52 kill major mi6 murder schutzstaffel search secret intelligence service sicherheitsdienst standartenführer sturmbannführer their way undercover agent united states army rangers wait west western front |
| musicBy | Ron Goodwin |
| producer | Elliott Kastner |
| productionCompany | Winkast Film Productions |
| publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| recordedAt | Austria Switzerland |
| theme | spy war |