The Eagle Has Landed

Plot

When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.

About The Eagle Has Landed

The Eagle Has Landed is a 1976 British war thriller film directed by John Sturges. Based on the 1975 novel by Jack Higgins, the film is about a fictional German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill in the middle of the Second World War. It stars Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, and Robert Duvall, and features Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Quayle, Jean Marsh, Treat Williams and Larry Hagman. The film was produced by ITC Entertainment and distributed in the UK by Cinema International Corporation. It was Sturges' last film before his death in 1992. The Eagle Has Landed was both a critical and commercial success.

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