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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.
His first studio film was The Pad and How to Use It (1966) produced by Ross Hunter, shot in 19 days. [6] Hutton then did Sol Madrid (1967) for producer Elliot Kastner. Kastner hired Hutton to direct Where Eagles Dare, from a screenplay by Alistair MacLean at MGM starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood. It was a huge success. [7]
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.
A film about moral dilemmas, Juror #2 is now screening across the U.S., ... (1968), he made $750,000 for Where Eagles Dare (1968) and Coogan’s Bluff (1968) earned him a salary of $1 million.
Coogan’s Bluff (1968) A fish-out-of-water cop thriller with Eastwood as the Stetson-wearing fish. Directed by his mentor and longtime collaborator, Don Siegel, this was the actor’s first non ...
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.
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).
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.