Where Eagles Dare

Name: Where Eagles Dare
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Released: March 12, 1969
Duration: 158 min
Rating: 63
Cast: Brook Williams, Clint Eastwood, Donald Houston, Mary Ure, Michael Hordern

1969

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: March 12, 1969 | M

Starring: Brook Williams, Clint Eastwood, Donald Houston, Mary Ure, Michael Hordern, Patrick Wymark, Peter Barkworth, Richard Burton, Robert Beatty, William Squire

Summary: Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding an American General prisoner... but that's not all that's really going on.

Director: Brian G. Hutton

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, War

Rating: M

Runtime: 158 min

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Highly entertaining, thrilling and rarely lets down for a moment. Read full review

The Guardian Andrew Pulver

The development of Bond films in the early 1960s brought a new dimension to espionage-oriented cinema. Where Eagles Dare brings these strands together - fusing the spy story with war action - and helped create a wave of patriotic cold war thrillers that arguably climaxed with The Spy Who Loved Me. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

An exciting picture with much derring-do and adventure, Where Eagles Dare is also a lengthy film, though there is more than enough action to keep it moving along. Read full review

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It may be devoid of significance of any sort, but it is nevertheless passably entertaining, and certainly better viewing than most MacLean adaptations Read full review

Empire Ian Nathan

Classic War caper with a few too many plot contrivances but high on adventure. Read full review

Vincent Canby

Where Eagles Dare is the ultimate metaphor. It encapsulates human experience into an ordered, comprehensible melodrama that is both absurd and entertaining. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Routine war adventure, imitating the callousness of Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen but without Aldrich's nihilist zeal. Still, you have to admire any film that casts Clint Eastwood opposite Richard Burton; the real violence is in the clash of acting styles. Read full review

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Feb 11, 2023

Its kinda surprising seeing a movie where Clint Eastwood doesn't steal the spotlight all the time, and this film delivers it in a good way. Great story and characters, the film takes its time showing all the details of the mission while giving a mistery to be solved at the same time. SomeIts kinda surprising seeing a movie where Clint Eastwood doesn't steal the spotlight all the time, and this film delivers it in a good way. Great story and characters, the film takes its time showing all the details of the mission while giving a mistery to be solved at the same time. Some would say its a bit too long but for me it made sense and it paid off.… Expand