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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.
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.
He scored over 70 films in a career lasting over fifty years. His most famous works included Where Eagles Dare, Battle of Britain, 633 Squadron, Margaret Rutherford's Miss Marple films, and Frenzy. Born in Plymouth, Devon, England, [1] Goodwin learned to play the piano and trumpet from the age of five which allowed him to join the school band.
Eileen Mary Ure (18 February 1933 – 3 April 1975) was a British actress. She was the second Scottish-born actress (after Deborah Kerr) to be nominated for an Academy Award, for her role in the 1960 film Sons and Lovers.
"Where Eagles Dare" has been covered by Fozzy on their second album, Happenstance, in 2002. [32] Fozzy have also covered "The Prisoner" (from The Number of the Beast) on their debut, Fozzy. [33] The song was also covered by Faroese viking metal band Týr on their 2013 album Valkyrja, [34] and Deliverance on their 2013 album Hear What I Say!. [35]
The most successful was the first of these, the 1968 film Where Eagles Dare, which was also a bestselling novel. MacLean also published two novels under the pseudonym Ian Stuart. His books are estimated to have sold over 150 million copies, making him one of the best-selling fiction authors of all time. [1]
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"Where Eagles Dare" was first recorded by the Misfits in January–February 1979 at C.I. Studios in New York. [4] It was recorded again in June 1979 at the Song Shop, with Danny Zelonky producing. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The Song Shop recording of "Where Eagles Dare" was released alongside the song "Rat Fink" as the B-side of the band's single " Night of ...