Where Eagles Dare
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: March 12, 1969 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
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Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
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5
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3
Negative:
0
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80
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
Highly entertaining, thrilling and rarely lets down for a moment. Read full review
80
The GuardianAndrew 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
75
TV Guide MagazineStaff (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
75
Orlando SentinelCrosby Day
If it's explosions, gunplay and wartime treachery that you're looking for, then director Brian Hutton's Where Eagles Dare is right up your alley. [12 Mar 1995, p.51]
70
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
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
60
EmpireIan Nathan
Classic War caper with a few too many plot contrivances but high on adventure. Read full review
60
The New York TimesVincent 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
50
Chicago ReaderDave 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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