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The supporting characters, including all the Germans, have no real characterisation at all; they’re just extras. This kind of shorthand in writing and characterisation might be because Alistair Maclean wrote the book and film script simultaneously. Action 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. German troops surround the bar and capture the British team. Smith and Schaffer escape, cause a diversion by setting fire to the train station, and then travel to the Schloss Adler on the roof of the cable car. When they get near the castle, they jump onto the roof, and Mary helps them climb in through a window. Schaffer disables the German’s helicopter, and Smith cuts the telephone lines to isolate the castle. At the Schloss Adler On the plus side, the writing is punchy, the pace is high, and the twists make sense within the logic of the book. Further, Alistair Maclean is undoubtedly one of the greatest ever writers of an action scene. Inevitably, any book primarily driven by a roller-coaster plot suffers from familiarity after a few reads, but even having read the book and seen the movie multiple times, the fight on top of the cable car is still one of the most gripping scenes ever written. Where Eagles Dare: Alternative Cover

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Where Eagles Dare: No 24 best action and war film of all time". The Guardian. 19 October 2010. Archived from the original on 19 February 2014 . Retrieved 23 July 2013. MyHome.ie (Opens in new window) • Top 1000 • The Gloss (Opens in new window) • Recruit Ireland (Opens in new window) • Irish Times Training (Opens in new window) 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. 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.Sadly being young girls we were more interested in school stories, June and Schoolfriend, Schoolgirls, those tales of War bored us to tears. Siddique, Haroon (5 August 2018). "Swiss Alps plane crash leaves all 20 passengers and crew dead". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 5 August 2018 . Retrieved 5 August 2018.

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BROADSWORD CALLING DANNY-BOY … the making of WHERE EAGLES DARE". Film Review 1998: republished in The Cellulord is Watching. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013 . Retrieved 1 October 2013. First Edition. 256 pp. White endpapers, with previous owner's name on ffep. Green cloth with gilt titles. Corners lightly bumped. Colour illustration on DJ. Small chips, wear along the edges. VG+/VG. 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. A good book should leave you with a big smile of satisfaction because you've read it. And it must leave you thinking about it long after you finished it.

Production [ edit ] Festung Hohenwerfen, in Werfen, Austria, where the castle scenes were filmed Development [ edit ] A weak but beautiful love interest, Mary, who seems a bit more nervous than you might expect in a supposed top MI6 agent. A team of 6 British special forces headed by Major John Smith and one American Lieutenant Morris Schaffer were airdropped behind enemy lines to rescue an US Army General George Carnaby having secret with him about D-day plan, he who had crash landed and is in the custody of Germans in an impregnable fortress, an inaccessible eyrie set between mountain and sky, Schloss Adler.

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It's been a long time since I read an Alistair MacLean novel so I grabbed one that was a favorite, and it didn't disappoint. Even though it's been years, MacLean is still a sure bet if you are looking for an entertaining story. The World's Top Twenty Films." Sunday Times [London, UK] 27 September 1970: 27. The Sunday Times Digital Archive. accessed 5 April 2014It depends on plot and scenario much more than it does on explosions’ … Mary Ure in Where Eagles Dare. Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar It is filmed in a beautiful setting,the Austrian Alps,snowbound in winter.There are thrilling stunts and plenty of action.

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Alistair Maclean’s writing is as brisk and efficient as ever, with little in the way of literary flourish. He does though overuse adverbs, particularly in dialogue: For example this exchange: The story starts off with a great flourish when Major Smith and Lt Shaffer together with their motley crew are sent on a perilous mission to the Schloss Adler, a fortress high in the alps of Southern Bavaria. There is initial intrigue when having parachuted into enemy territory one of the saboteurs is found murdered, there is an enemy agent within the ranks! We then proceed in a set formulaic manner as Smith and Shaffer proceed to infiltrate the fortress stronghold by means of a perilous journey on the roof of a cable car. Their task it would appear is to rescue Col Carnaby before the Germans can interrogate him and discover the plans for the second front ie the expected imminent Normandy Landings. There is lots of shooting, and a final confrontation within the castle when the true nature of Smith’s mission is disclosed. This is followed by more shooting as our brave heroes depart the bloody scene amidst chaos and a smouldering fortress that is fast being destroyed by fire and turning into dust and decay. 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. Cred că am avut așteptări prea mari de la roman, altfel nu-mi explic sentimentul dulce-amar de la final, în condițiile în care l-am devorat în mai puțin de trei ore, în miez de noapte. O intrigă foarte bună, un stil alert, multe răsturnări de situație și un duo exploziv (Smith și Schaffer), însă, la un moment dat, am avut impresia că Alistair Maclean mi-a oferit scenariul pentru unul dintre filmele din franciza Misiune imposibilă.

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.