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Where Eagles Dare is a 1968 action adventure war film directed by Brian G. Hutton and starring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood and Mary Ure.Set during World War II, it follows a Special Operations Executive team charged with saving a captured American General from the fictional Schloß Adler fortress, except the mission turns out not to be as it seems.
In 1969 he took on the role of DCI Jordan in the police drama Special Branch. Nesbitt has also appeared in film roles such as a predatory blackmailer of gay men in Victim (1961), a murderous pimp in The Informers (1963), a slimy assassin in Nobody Runs Forever , and the suspicious Gestapo officer in Where Eagles Dare (1968).
Where Eagles Dare: Winkast Film Productions: Brian G. Hutton (director); Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure: 13 Charro! National General Pictures: Charles Marquis Warren (director); Elvis Presley, Ina Balin, Victor French: The Love Bug: Walt Disney Productions: Robert Stevenson (director); Dean Jones, Michele Lee, David Tomlinson: 26 100 ...
Kastner hired Hutton to direct Where Eagles Dare, from a screenplay by Alistair MacLean at MGM starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood. It was a huge success. [7] MGM hired Hutton to direct Clint Eastwood again in Kelly's Heroes. [1] He then directed Elizabeth Taylor in X Y & Zee (1972) and Night Watch (1973). [8]
February 13, 1969 Mayerling: March 7, 1969 How to Steal the World: Film version of the final two episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; theatrical release overseas only March 12, 1969 Where Eagles Dare: April 23, 1969 Kenner: May 1969 The Appointment: A Marpol production; US opening only in 1970 May 21, 1969 The Green Slime
The most successful was the first of these, the 1968 film Where Eagles Dare, which was also a bestselling novel. MacLean also published two novels under the pseudonym Ian Stuart . His books are estimated to have sold over 150 million copies, making him one of the best-selling fiction authors of all time.
His film appearances included: The Plague of the Zombies (1966), Where Eagles Dare (1968), Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Villain (1971), The Wild Geese (1978) and The Sea Wolves (1980). [4] He was a close friend, assistant and advisor to actor Richard Burton who had known him since he was a child and he appeared in several films in which ...
Where Eagles Dare is a 1968 war adventure film, based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Alistair MacLean. Where Eagles Dare also may refer to: "Where Eagles Dare" (Misfits song), a song by the Misfits from their 1979 single "Night of the Living Dead" "Where Eagles Dare", a song by Iron Maiden from their 1983 album Piece of Mind