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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.
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.
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).
In television, Wymark was best known for his role as the machiavellian businessman John Wilder in the twin drama series The Plane Makers and The Power Game (which were broadcast from 1963 to 1969), which led to offers of real company directorships and the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1965. However, Wymark was a gentle ...
Derren Nesbitt (born Derren Michael Horwitz; 19 June 1935) is a British actor.Nesbitt's film career began in the late 1950s, and he appeared in many British television series throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
After many decades, Clint Eastwood has attained icon status as an actor, filmmaker and Hollywood magnate. At 94 years old, he did not attend the Oct. 27 premiere of Juror #2—the 40th film he’s ...
Elliott Kastner (January 7, 1930 – June 30, 2010) [1] was an American film producer, whose best known credits include Where Eagles Dare (1968), The Long Goodbye (1973), The Missouri Breaks (1976), and Angel Heart (1987).
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.