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Bookmark this pageThe Eagle Has Landed (1976)
Director: John Sturges
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Plodding time-passer about a Nazi plot tokidnap Churchill from his Norfolk retreat in 1943. Tom Mankiewicz, adapting Jack Higgins' bet-hedging bestseller ('at least half documented historical fact'), goes for an examination of good/bad German motivations that cuts across the sub-Jackal suspense; Sturges turns in a tired study of Cherman and Oirish accents, and little else. There's not one iota of the two-way menace of a partly similar Germans-in-Britain picture like Went the Day Well?Author: PT
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- Gary Millar said...
- Posted on Aug 04 2008 15:20 I guess the above review gives truth to the saying that film reviews are subjective. This is a clever film showing the naivety of pre-WWII Britain. Donald Sutherland is great as the loveable Irish gamekeeper secretly aiding the Nazis to serve his own Irish independence aims. Sure there's no car chases or the same hectic action a modern film would serve up, but this is one of my favourite films. Watch. Enjoy. Make your own mind up. Well worth a look.
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Cast & crew
Director: John Sturges
Producer: Jack Wiener, David Niven Jr
Cast: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Quayle, Jean Marsh, Judy Geeson, Treat Williams full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 135 mins
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