Where Eagles Dare

Where Eagles Dare is a 1968 movie directed by Brian G. Hutton and starring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, and Mary Ure. The screenplay and its subsequent novelization were written by Alistair MacLean.

Plot

During World War II, an American General, George Carnaby, with full knowledge of the forthcoming plans for the Second Front D-Day landing in Normandy falls into German hands after his plane is shot down. A special team of commandos is hurriedly assembled and briefed by Colonel Wyatt Turner and Admiral Rolland. It is led by Major John Smith and Lieutenant Morris Schaffer and their mission is to parachute into Germany and somehow infiltrate the castle known as the Schloss Adler (The Castle of the Eagles - hence the title of the story), the Headquarters of the German Secret Service in Southern Bavaria, where the General is held and rescue him. Unknown to the group, except Smith, they are accompanied on the drop plane by a mysterious British female agent, Mary Elison. Soon after they arrive in Bavaria, however, it becomes apparent that things are not as they seem and there is an ulterior purpose to the mission.

Related Topics:
World War II - American - D-Day - Normandy - German - Commando - Castle

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