Where Eagles Dare [1968]

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Starring: ~ Clint Eastwood, Richard Burton Mary Ure Patrick Wymark Michael Hordern
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Studio: Warner Home Video

Region: 2

Number of Discs: 1

Format: PAL, Widescreen

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Sales Rank: 589

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Customer Reviews:

The greatest war film as boys own adventure ever made! (24 December 2008)
Burton is at his classical best, Eastwood is a superstar one man death machine, Mary Ure is alluring and Derren Nesbit makes a fantastic villain. What can I say? My father took my brothers and I to see this on a third run at the pictures in 1976/77 and it has remained one of my unbridled joys ever since. True there are more serious war films, but with dense plotting, good characterization and simply stunning action this is the best of the 'WW2 guys on a mission fims' that were so beloved in the sixties. Has there ever been a better cinematic doulble act than Smith and Schaffer? Probably not. Sheer genius!

One Of My Favourites (25 November 2008)
This is one of my favourite films of all time. Great cast, superb scenery and a devastating twist.

enjoyable but not top 10. (13 October 2008)
this is a decent war film but is certainly not a classic , firstly we have got eastwood and burton 2 great actors but the rest of the cast are nobodies and it shows.
secondly the film is set in the snow covered mountains and grey stone castle to say its got wonderful scenery is a false statement its either all white or all grey to my viewing.
the film however is fast paced with plenty of action although it seems quite dated which is strange when you see war films made 10 years earlier that are still very fresh , {bridge on the river kwia} i guess it was a star studded cast and proper scenery that made that film memorable.where eagles dare will surely entertain you for over 2 hours and should be added to your war collection but it isn't in my top 10 war movies.

Where Eagles Dare (14 September 2008)
The one thing that puzzles me in this film, and no one seems to have noticed, when Richard Burton meets Ingrid Pitt for the first time in the tavern, he whilstles the tune "Lauralie" which was written by a Jewish composer and banned in Nazi Germany. He later says that he is the brother of Himmler, if that was the case there is no way he would have chosen that tune!

Nazi gypsies machine Gun fodder (19 June 2008)
This badly contrived 1968 romp of a war movie brilliantly casts two acting giants from different sides of the Atlantic. Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton were at the top of their game at this stage of their careers, and they helped make Where Eagles Dare a hilarious, thoroughly enjoyable boys own adventure.

"Broadsword calling Danny Boy, come in...."

I will never forget that voice and those words. It reminds me of Christmas day TV. Anyhoo, the plot to Where Eagles Dare is incredibly contrived and implausible, the coincidences are staggering (as much that we're expected to believe them all as anything) and the reality deeply flawed. But who cares?? I love this movie, and 'Where Eagles Dare' school of WWII action sequences: submachine guns blazing away in corridors and hitting people eventually (instead of tearing them apart at once), ham acting (by Burton) and glaring stupidity.

And who can forget the tagline: They look like Nazis but . . . The Major is British . . . The Lieutenant is American . . . The Beautiful Frauleins are Allied Agents! One weekend Major Smith, Lieutenant Schaffer and a beautiful blonde named Mary decided to win World War II. They dare to climb a terrifying new peak in suspense... all the way up to hell!

The cinematography and background score catapults the film to new heights. The title music is haunting and remains hours after you've finished watching the film. I feel that maybe a little more deft editing would have enabled the film to be labled as a classic, hence the four stars.

Despite incoming machine gun fire from multiple positions, Eastwood's and Burton's characters seem to have no trouble in dispatching multiple opponents in a matter of seconds, whether it be with a machine gun, pistol, or one of those magic sticks of dynamite. It's all incredibly silly, but it is the sheer lack of believability that makes the film so entertaining. You never truly know exactly what is going to happen next, thanks to the fact that our heroes seem capable of clearing any obstacle laid in the way of their goal. It has always mystified me why Eastwood and Burton never decided to continue their Nazi slaughter and travel onto Berlin in a Tank and take Hitler down.

VILLAIN = Get Carter? This is a better movie. It is a well directed 1971 starring Richard Burton classic example of the English gangster genre which stretches from Brighton Rock, through Get Garter and the Long Good Friday, to Lock, Stock etc. Writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais have fashioned a kind of East-End version of White Heat with Burton in the mother-fixated Jimmy Cagney role.

Burton gives us his Ronnie Kray impersonation and clearly relishes the sly dialogue of the script. The support includes notable turns from Nigel Davenport, Donald Sinden, and a hilarious Joss Ackland as a would-be gangster, with an upset tummy - ulcer.

The action is well-handled and the settings convincingly grubby but it's the superb dialogue that repays repeated viewings.