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Where Eagles Dare is a 1968 action adventure war thriller spy 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.
Brian Geoffrey Hutton (May 2, 1935 [1] – August 19, 2014) was an American actor and film director whose notable credits include the World War II action films Where Eagles Dare (1968) and Kelly's Heroes (1970).
Tell Me Lies (1968) as Guest; Witchfinder General (1968) as Cromwell; Where Eagles Dare (1968) as Colonel Wyatt Turner; Doppelgänger (1969) (alternative title: Journey to the Far Side of the Sun) as Jason Webb; Battle of Britain (1969) as Air Vice Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory; Cromwell (1970) as The Earl of Strafford; The Blood on Satan's ...
In 1968, she co-starred in the low-budget science fiction film The Omegans, and in the same year, played British spy Heidi Schmidt in Where Eagles Dare opposite Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood. Pitt appeared as Queen Galleia of Atlantis in The Time Monster , which was the fifth serial of the ninth season of Doctor Who , broadcast in six ...
After 1968's Where Eagles Dare it would be three years before Ure's next and last film appearance, in 1971's A Reflection of Fear, co-starring her husband. However, she did appear in A Bit of Family Feeling (1971) for television. She returned to Broadway in Old Times (1971).
Nesbitt has also appeared in film roles such as a predatory blackmailer of gay men in Victim (1961), a murderous pimp in The Informers (1963), a slimy assassin in Nobody Runs Forever, and the suspicious Gestapo officer in Where Eagles Dare (1968). Nesbitt was keen to be as authentic as possible with his character in Where Eagles Dare.
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In the 1968 film Where Eagles Dare the castle featured as the fictional Schloß Adler that is raided by a S.O.E. paratroop team during World War II. [6] [7]In the Amazon Video original series The Man in the High Castle (2015) the castle was used as the Führer's headquarters.