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The Eiger Sanction is a 1975 American action film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.Based on the 1972 novel The Eiger Sanction by Trevanian, the film is about Jonathan Hemlock, an art history professor, mountain climber, and former assassin once employed by a secret government agency, who is blackmailed into returning to his deadly profession for one last mission.
The Eiger Sanction (1975), directed by Clint Eastwood, was partly filmed in Monument Valley; both Eastwood and George Kennedy were filmed on top of the Totem Pole, which has been off-limits to climbers since the movie was filmed here. Joshua (1976) The Villain (aka Cactus Jack) (1979) Wanda Nevada (1979) The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)
The Eiger Sanction is a 1972 thriller novel by Trevanian, the pen name of Rodney William Whitaker. [1] The story is about a classical art professor and collector who doubles as a professional assassin, and who is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an American agent.
His first novel, published at the age of 40 when he was teaching at the University of Texas, was The Eiger Sanction, a thriller that became a worldwide best seller. In 1975, it was adapted as a movie directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. [4] Trevanian described the movie as "vapid" in a footnote in his later novel Shibumi. He requested (and ...
In 1975, Haston was credited as an adviser on the movie The Eiger Sanction, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. [3] Haston was killed in an avalanche in January 1977 while skiing alone above Leysin on the northeast face of La Riondaz to the Col Luisset. It appeared that he had been choked by his scarf. He is buried in Leysin.
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