Where Eagles Dare
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| Directed by | Brian G. Hutton |
| Produced by |
Elliott Kastner Jerry Gershwin |
| Screenplay by | Alistair MacLean |
| Based on |
Where Eagles Dare 1967 novel by Alistair MacLean |
| Starring |
Richard Burton Clint Eastwood Mary Ure Ingrid Pitt |
| Music by | Ron Goodwin |
| Cinematography | Arthur Ibbetson |
| Edited by | John Jympson |
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Winkast Film Productions
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Release date
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Running time
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155 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $7.7 million |
| Box office | $21 million |
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| Soundtrack album by Ron Goodwin | |
| Released | 4 January 2005 |
| Genre |
Soundtracks Film music |
| Length | 74:07 |
| Label | Film Score Monthly |
| Producer | Lukas Kendall |
Where Eagles Dare is a British 1968 World War II action film starring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, and Ingrid Pitt. It was directed by Brian G. Hutton and shot on location in Austria and Bavaria. Alistair MacLean wrote the novel and the screenplay at the same time. It was his first screenplay; both film and book became commercial successes.
The film involved some of the top moviemaking professionals of the time and is considered a classic. Major contributors included Hollywood stuntman Yakima Canutt, who as second-unit director shot most of the action scenes; British stuntman Alf Joint who doubled for Burton in such sequences as the fight on top of the cable car; award-winning conductor and composer Ron Goodwin, who wrote the film score; and future Oscar-nominee Arthur Ibbetson, who worked on its cinematography. The film is noted for the phrase "Broadsword calling Danny Boy", used by Richard Burton several times throughout.
In the winter of 1943–44, U.S. Army Brigadier General George Carnaby (Robert Beatty), a chief planner for the second front, is captured by the Germans when his airplane to Crete is shot down. He is taken for interrogation to the Schloss Adler, a mountaintop fortress in the Alps of southern Bavaria, accessible only by cable car or helicopter. A team of seven Allied commandos, led by British Major John Smith of the Grenadier Guards (Richard Burton) and U.S. Army Ranger Lieutenant Morris Schaffer (Clint Eastwood), is briefed by Colonel Turner (Patrick Wymark) and Admiral Rolland (Michael Hordern) of MI6. Disguised as German troops, they are to parachute in, enter the castle, and rescue General Carnaby before the Germans can interrogate him. In Germany, Smith secretly meets Mary Ellison (Mary Ure) and Heidi Schmidt (Ingrid Pitt), their presence known only to him. Heidi arranges for Mary to be hired at the castle as a maid.
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