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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.
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.
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).
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.
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 ...
Kastner wanted a Celtic actor to play the hero Calvert, having had a big success with Richard Burton in Where Eagles Dare. "I saw the agent Calvert as a very exciting characterisation," said Kastner. "A lot could be done with him. But I didn't want a Tony Curtis. I didn't want a star. I wanted a classical actor. A real actor." [10]
Where Eagles Dare is a 1968 war adventure film, based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Alistair MacLean. Where Eagles Dare also may refer to: "Where Eagles Dare" (Misfits song), a song by the Misfits from their 1979 single "Night of the Living Dead" "Where Eagles Dare", a song by Iron Maiden from their 1983 album Piece of Mind
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