Where Eagles Dare

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dead in Junkers Ju 52 crash in Switzerland". Airliners.Ne. 4 August 2018. Archived from the original on 5 August 2018 . Retrieved 5 August 2018. I think a good book must make you tremble, laugh, leave you speechless, hold your breath, make you eager to read it, make you sorry you finished it so fast.

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Where Eagles Dare - Memorabilia UK". Archived from the original on 10 October 2022 . Retrieved 21 October 2018.At one point during filming, Burton was threatened at gunpoint by an overzealous fan, but fortunately danger was averted. [21]

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Where Eagles Dare has a roller-coaster Mission plot (see Spy Novel Plots), but it’s really all about the twists and the action. The ‘Mission’ Plot Burton later said, "I decided to do the picture because Elizabeth's two sons said they were fed up with me making films they weren't allowed to see, or in which I get killed. They wanted me to kill a few people instead." [5] Five Great War Stories: H.M.S. Ulysses/ The Guns of Navarone/ South By Java Head/ Where Eagles Dare/ Force 10 From Navarone.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. 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. Mad Magazine published a satire of the film in its October 1969 issue under the title "Where Vultures Fare." In 2009 Cinema Retro released a special issue dedicated to Where Eagles Dare which detailed the production and filming of the film. [38]

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I have red worse books than this, and at least I suppose it HAD a plot. The hardest part for me to get over was how unlikeable Smith was with his narcissism (which was seen as fair enough in the circumstances, but paranoia is part of narcissism anyway). Perhaps spies in a war have to be a bit like that (any true stories I have looked into suggest otherwise). Involves one or more Allies in their Mission (Optionally, there is a romance sub-plot with one of the Allies). 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!) Film locations—Where Eagles Dare". Archived from the original on 30 September 2018 . Retrieved 30 September 2018. Had I reviewed this in my thriller-loving youth, I would have given it five stars. It is the adventure story par excellence: the secret mission behind enemy lines carried out by a group of intrepid adventurers: the snowbound castle up in the sky: fights on the top a moving cable car: and double-crosses, double-double-crosses and (even) double-double-double-crosses.I'm about to review a modern techno-thriller and while researching the author something jogged my 14 year old self's memory of Alistair McLean. Sadly being young girls we were more interested in school stories, June and Schoolfriend, Schoolgirls, those tales of War bored us to tears. One of the best action-centred, roller coaster rides of a spy novel ever written. Should be on every aficionado’s bookshelf. Where Eagles Dare: The Movie

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Returning to this novel as an adult has been a surprisingly enormous amount of fun. The plot (with its breathtaking amount of twists) still holds up extremely well, even if the characterisations are very shallow. 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". a b c "Where Eagles Dare". TCM. Archived from the original on 11 November 2022 . Retrieved 11 November 2022. Aba, Marika (21 July 1968). "The Burtons... 'Just Another Working Couple' ". Los Angeles Times. p.c18.Schaffer holds all the Germans at gunpoint. One of the Germans gets the upper hand again, but then Mary comes to the rescue.