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Rating: 7.5 stars

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Where Eagles Dare (1968)

Directed by Brian G. Hutton

Action | Adventure | War

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Overview

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that’s nearly impossible to breach. It’s up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it’s too late.

Rated PG | Length 155 minutes

Actors

Richard Burton | Clint Eastwood | Mary Ure | Patrick Wymark | Michael Hordern | Donald Houston | Peter Barkworth | William Squire | Robert Beatty | Brook Williams | Neil McCarthy | Vincent Ball | Anton Diffring | Ferdy Mayne | Derren Nesbitt | Victor Beaumont | Ingrid Pitt | Guy Deghy | Philip Stone | Chris Adcock | Del Baker | Richard Beale | Ivor Dean | Max Faulkner | Harry Fielder | John G. Heller | Olga Lowe | Ian McCulloch | Terence Mountain | Derek Newark | Jim O'Brady | Anton Rodgers | Jack Silk | Jim Tyson | Ernst Walder | Del Watson | Terry Yorke | Roy Beck | Bill Burns | Pauline Chamberlain | Vic Chapman | Terence Conoley | Jim Dowdall | Frank Henson | Lyn Kennington | Nigel Lambert | Edward Michael Perry | Peter Roy | Bill Sawyer | Larry Sheppard | Fred Wood

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Viewing Notes

Thoroughly entertaining action film. It’s the classic war film formula of a group of crack commandos sent on an impossible rescue mission, where the preparation and journey is as interesting as the rescue itself.

Perhaps the plot gets unnecessarily complicated with surprise twists and double crosses, but that’s just nitpicking. It’s a great watch on a rainy day.

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