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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 Wild Geese is a 1978 war film starring an ensemble cast led by Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Krüger.The film, which was directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, was the result of a long-held ambition of producer Euan Lloyd to make an all-star adventure film in the vein of The Guns of Navarone or Where Eagles Dare.
The Monthly Film Bulletin stated: "In terms of rip-roaring, bulldozing action, this attempt to cross The Dirty Dozen with Where Eagles Dare can be said to have achieved its object". However, the review went on: "With all energy apparently expended on sustaining over two hours of consistently devastating explosions, pyrotechnics and demolition ...
In a quote in the film magazine 'Empire', Tarantino described 'Where Eagles Dare' as his favourite 'men-on-a-mission' movie, and said that one day he would make his own 'men-on-a-mission' movie, but I don't think he actually meant that he would like to remake 'Where Eagles Dare'. Halmyre 17:54, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
The cable car in the castle is based on the 1968 movie Where Eagles Dare, where a U.S. Army Brigadier General is captured and taken prisoner to the Schloß Adler, a fortress high in the Alps above the town of Werfen, reachable only by cable car, and the headquarters of the German Secret Service in southern Bavaria.
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).
Where Eagles Dare (December 1968) (Genre: Action adventure war) Larry Siegel: Angelo Torres: 130 October 1969 [index 60] Hoo-Boy, Columbus! Goodbye, Columbus (April 1969) (Genre: Romantic comedy-drama) Arnie Kogen: Mort Drucker: 131 December 1969 [index 61]
With the rise of digital distribution of video games in the latter part of the 2000s, there has been speculation about a possible re-release, or even a remake of the titles in the No One Lives Forever series. However, a number of reports have pointed out the complicated state of the series' intellectual property (IP) rights.