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Schaffer holds all the Germans at gunpoint. One of the Germans gets the upper hand again, but then Mary comes to the rescue. WED-MOUNTAIN-Image6-TXT". xtremelaser.com. Archived from the original on 28 February 2016 . Retrieved 12 January 2022. Smith and Schaffer sneak into the hall of the Schloss Adler, where they find General Carnaby being interrogated by a German general. The other three members of the British team arrive and reveal that they are all double agents.

It’s early in 1944. The Germans have shot down and captured General George Carnaby, one of the planners of the upcoming D-Day invasion. They’ve taken Carnaby to the Schloss Adler, the Bavarian SS headquarters. The Schloss Adler is on top of a mountain, with only a cable car for access, and so practically impregnable. There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. Production [ edit ] Festung Hohenwerfen, in Werfen, Austria, where the castle scenes were filmed Development [ edit ]

Where Eagles Dare: The classic World War II thriller from the

Dyer, an unclassifiable author of essays, novels and off-centre criticism, is part of that post-war generation. He remembers Airfix models and Dad's Army. Observing Burton and Clint Eastwood in white parkas, he notes that "one of the most prized items in my Action Man wardrobe was his ski-patrol outfit". He was far too young to remember the war, but he gorged on the popular entertainment created by those who fought in the conflict. Prime among that pulp were the novels of Alistair MacLean and the films they generated: The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare. In his slim volume on Where Eagles Dare, Dyer employs the best jokes to pay tribute to the film and to an entire era. It's a very funny book. It's occasionally a moving one. ‘Ageless magic’ I've found that MacLean's stories generally work better on the screen than in book form.In this case,he wrote the screenplay as well,and it's pretty good. However, nowadays I find all such stories shallow, the adventure rather juvenile and the Anglo-centric view a bit nauseating. Hence the three stars. The Clint Eastwood Archive: Eastwood Interviewed # 03 Clint on Clint Empire Magazine November 2008". 15 December 2009. Archived from the original on 20 October 2017 . Retrieved 19 October 2017.Dyer might admit that the volume's very existence is something like a gag. Six years ago, in the fine Zona, he genuflected towards Andrei Tarkovsky's sombre science-fiction masterpiece Stalker. It is hard to imagine a work more different to Where Eagles Dare. Were the two books to be placed on the same shelf, Zona might edge itself away like the possessed drinking glass at the end of the Russian film. Auch die Flucht im Bus mit der Schneeräumschaufel hat besseres Bond-Niveau. Aber diese Art von Achterbahn-Kino sollte man sich ansehen, wenn man drauf steht, das literarische Niveau dieses Buches entspricht einer Schussfahrt vom Anfängerhügel. As Turner debriefs Smith about the mission, Smith reveals that Kramer named Turner as Germany's top agent in Britain. Rolland lured Turner and the others into participating in the fake mission so that MI6 could expose them; Smith's trusted partner Mary and the American Schaffer, who had no connection to MI6, had been assigned to the mission to ensure its success. Turner aims a Sten gun at Smith, who reveals that Rolland had the gun's firing pin removed earlier. He permits Turner to jump out of the plane to his death to avoid being tried for treason and executed. An exhausted Schaffer half-jokingly asks Smith to keep his next mission "an all-British operation". Aba, Marika (21 July 1968). "The Burtons... 'Just Another Working Couple' ". Los Angeles Times. p.c18. Romanul este plin de acțiune, de ține în suspans încă de la primele pagini. Descrierile sunt clare, la obiect, chiar dacă povestea este plină de detalii. Modul în care este scris romanul, ne face pe noi să ne imaginăm fiecare miscare pe care o face Smith și combină perfect seriozitatea misiunii cu umorul replicilor dintre personaje. Se pare că spionajul nu e chiar floare la ureche, mai ales pe timp de război. Atitudinea lui Smith este revigorantă!

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We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.” Indeed. Funny how the mindless rubbish of fifty years ago is *still* streets ahead of most 21st century films. Where Eagles Dare is more than a war film, though. I’m not about to claim it’s a meditation on the human condition, because it plainly isn’t, but it skips across genres with a kind of abandon. At various times it is a heist movie (get into impregnable target, get goods, get out), an odd-couple movie (Burton and Eastwood are clearly a very odd couple, even if they don’t ever argue), a suspense movie (will the evil Gestapo major figure out that Mary Ure is One of Ours? Will she give the game away by mistake?) – and it has the brilliant and bonkers central sequence in which Burton bamboozles everyone by swapping sides again and again as he both explains and unravels the plot. That section has more in common with Sleuth than it does The Dirty Dozen. Burton approached producer Elliott Kastner "and asked him if he had some super-hero stuff for me where I don't get killed in the end." [6] My father fought in that War, oh the tales we heard! Lunch was always peppered with episodes of strange places like Ethiopia, Burma. We still have my Father's Water Canteen.

Where Eagles Dare: My Verdict

The film involved some of the top filmmakers of the day and is considered a classic. [4] Hollywood stuntman Yakima Canutt was the second unit director and shot most of the action scenes; British stuntman Alf Joint doubled for Burton in many sequences, including the fight on top of the cable car; award-winning conductor and composer Ron Goodwin wrote the film score; and future Oscar-nominee Arthur Ibbetson worked on the cinematography. Acolo unde se avântă vulturii este un roman de acțiune, dar mi-ar fi plăcut ca autorul să își definească mai bine personajele, mai ales că numărul lor este destul de mare pentru un volum atât de scurt; nici nu vreau să o aduc în discuție pe Mary, care m-a enervat de la început până la final. Dyer’s general mode of art here is wry scene-by-scene description. Our parachuting heroes land in the snow. “‘Major!’ bellows one of the search team, loudly disregarding what might reasonably be assumed is the first rule of stealthy survival behind enemy lines.” When Burton’s character is shot in one hand, Dyer relishes the absurdity of describing the aftermath like this: “With his other hand he is able to tie an aptly named handkerchief around the injured hand.” Eastwood has 'the unhurried grace of a Roger Federer in a German uniform' Der Kampf des an der Hand verwundeten Superhelden Smith/Schmidt auf dem Dach der vereisten Seilbahn gegen drei gesunde und bewaffnete Gegenspieler strapaziert zwar die Glaubwürdigkeit bis zum Äußersten ist aber eine deutliche Steigerung gegenüber den vorher gehenden Szenen. Allerdings wehrt sich Smith-Darsteller Burton in zähem Ringen erfolgreich gegen zwei Gegner, im Roman hampelt darüber hinaus noch ein Caracciola mit einer Maschinenpistole in der Gondel und zuletzt auch auf dem Dach herum, - natürlich gibt es auch noch einen Nazi-General namens Rosemeyer. It’s hard to credit now, but when I was a kid in the 1970s and 80s, the second world war was pretty much the heart of childhood entertainment: I am of the generation that grew up assuming “Schnell!” and “Achtung!” were pretty much the only words anyone from Germany ever spoke. I watched 633 Squadron and The Bridge at Remagen; I read novels by Sven Hassel; I played with Airfix Afrika Korps soldiers and built models of HMS Hood and the battleship Tirpitz; in the playground, we played the game simply known as “War”, in which everyone divided into English and German and pretended to shoot each other. (It was tacitly agreed that, whichever side you were on, the English got to win.) But Where Eagles Dare seemed to stand, somehow, above that. It was – and I use the word advisedly – classier than the competition.

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Involves one or more Allies in their Mission (Optionally, there is a romance sub-plot with one of the Allies).Hardcover. Condition: Good. original illustrations by Gary Rees (illustrator). Undated edition with illustrations dated 1973. Published by arrangement with William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd from the 1987 Cymbeline Production Ltd edition. Firmly bound blue artificial leather boards, with gilt titles and decorations. Some rubbing on the spine. Membrii echipei nu știu aproape nimic despre misiune, cu excepția maiorului Smith, liderul secretos și inuman, care mi-a amintit de un robot extrem de inteligent. Nu pare capabil să simtă empatie, nu are nevoie de somn și are o rezistență ieșită din comun, care o depășește până și pe cea a răufăcătorilor din filmele de acțiune sau de groază americane, când antagoniștii sunt împușcați de cel puțin 3-4 ori înainte de a muri (dacă e un film SF, deja știi că o să învie în următoarele 10 minute). A plot with the premise of an ever-interesting World War II scenario where the author chooses to aim and enlarge upon the cloak-and-dagger activities rather than the blood-shed and the extensive violence. The characters are susceptible to any circumstances that might drastically change the following course of events or the character's fate which generally can be attributed to a very well-written espionage thriller. It has double agents as well as speculated treble agents.(Kudos to Alistair Maclean!) Unele „acrobații” mi s-au părut exagerate sau imposibile. Sunt conștientă că sunt soldați și că au avut parte de antrenamente intense, dar autorul a uitat că sunt și oameni, că simt durerea și că nu pot să își țină echilibrul pe acoperișul înghețat al unei telecabine, în mijlocul unei furtuni de zăpadă, după ce au fost împușcați și fugăriți timp de aproape 24 de ore. Lightman, Herb A. "Front Projection for "2001: A Space Odyssey" ". American Cinematographer. Archived from the original on 2 January 2013 . Retrieved 26 October 2013.