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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.
MacLean also wrote a novel for Where Eagles Dare, after the screenplay, which was published in 1967 before the film came out. The book was a bestseller, and the 1968 film version was a huge hit. [33] "MacLean is a natural storyteller", said Kastner. "He is a master of adventure. All his books are conceived in cinematic terms.
Where Eagles Dare When Eight Bells Toll is a first-person narrative novel written by Scottish author Alistair MacLean and published in 1966 . It marked MacLean's return after a three-year gap, following the publication of Ice Station Zebra (1963), during which time he had run several restaurants.
Among the 14 movies were Maclean's Where Eagles Dare, which was a big hit in 1968, leading to high expectations for When Eight Bells Toll. [ 5 ] Kastner saw When Eight Bells Toll as a combination of The Guns of Navarone , Gunga Din and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre .
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.
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).
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As the originating work, the novel should be at the plain title Where Eagles Dare and the film article moved to Where Eagles Dare (film).-- Shelf Skewed Talk 05:36, 28 December 2007 (UTC) [ reply ] The thing here is that if the screenplay and novel were written simultaneously, it's hard to pull the two apart; there isn't any "originating work ...