Stars: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Patrick Wymark, Mary Ure, Michael Hordern, Robert Beatty, Donald Houston, Peter Barkworth

Director: Brian G. Hutton

Summary: Two soldiers are parachuted into the Bavarian Alps to rescue an American General from an almost impregnable Nazi fortress, which can be reached only by cable car. Based on the successful Alistair MacLean novel.

Richard Burton stars as Major John Smith, a British agent during WWII who is in charge a group of six Allied soldiers given the task of rescuing an American general--who is reportedly in possession of the plans for D-Day--from a seemingly impregnable German fortress located high in the Bavarian Alps. Assisting Smith is the sole American in the operative, Lieutenant Morris Schaffer (Clint Eastwood), a fierce soldier skilled with an array of deadly weapons. As the men penetrate the fortress, facing an endless supply of German soldiers, it becomes apparent that some members of the small Allied team may not be who them seem to be. Full of thrilling action set pieces, the screenplay was written by Alistair MacLean, adapted from his own best selling novel.

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Scorned by reviewers when it came out, Where Eagles Darehas acquired a cult following over the years for its unashamed and highly concentrated dose of commando death-dealing to legions of Nazi machine-gun fodder. 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 theatre and his headline-making romance with Elizabeth Taylor, was eager to try his hand at the action genre. Author Alistair MacLean's novel The Guns of Navaronehad inspired the film that started the 1960s vogue for World War II military capers, so he was prevailed upon 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

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	On Location Where Eagles Dare Featurette, Theatrical Trailer
Year:	1969
Release Date:	April 1, 2005
Runtime:	148 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	D 065186
Keywords:	War, Eagles, Where, Dare
Genre:	War