Where Eagles Dare

Plot

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.

About Where Eagles Dare

Where Eagles Dare is a 1968 epic action adventure war film directed by Brian G. Hutton and starring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood and Mary Ure. It follows a World War II British Special Operations Executive team charged with saving a captured American general from a fortress known as Schloß Adler (Castle of the Eagles), as their mission takes several unexpected turns. It was filmed in Panavision using the Metrocolor process, and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Alistair MacLean wrote the screenplay, his first, while he was writing the novel of the same name. Both became commercial successes. The film involved some of the top filmmakers of the day and was shot in Austria. Hollywood stuntman Yakima Canutt was the second unit director and shot most of the action scenes. British stuntman Alf Joint doubled for Burton in many sequences, including a fight on top of the cable car. award-winning conductor and composer Ron Goodwin wrote the film score, and future Oscar nominee Arthur Ibbetson worked on the cinematography. Where Eagles Dare received mostly positive reviews, with praise for its action sequences, score, and the performances of Burton and Eastwood, and the film has since been considered a classic.

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