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Watch: Where Eagles Dare 1968 123movies, Full Movie Online – During World War II, a British aircraft is shot down and crashes in Nazi held territory. The Germans capture the only survivor, American Brigadier General George Carnaby (Robert Beatty), and take him to the nearest S.S. headquarters. Unknown to the Germans, the General has full knowledge of the D-Day operation. The British decide that the General must not be allowed to divulge any details of the Normandy landing at all costs, and order Major Jonathan Smith (Richard Burton) to lead a crack commando team to rescue him. Amongst the team is an American Ranger, Lieutenant Morris Schaffer (Clint Eastwood), who is puzzled by his inclusion in an all British operation. When one of the team dies after the parachute drop, Schaffer suspects that Smith’s mission has a much more secret objective..
Plot: World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that’s nearly impossible to breach. It’s up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it’s too late.
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Ratings:

	7.6/10 Votes: 58,667
	87% | RottenTomatoes
	63/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 719 Popularity: 15.041 | TMDB

Reviews:

So close to being a great film.

There is a lot I enjoyed about ‘Where Eagles Dare’, the core of the film has some greatness to it. The action sequences are fun, the acting is terrific and the music is strong. However, it has far too many lull moments for me to consider it anything other than ‘good’.

A 2hr run time would’ve been perfect, instead it’s stretched out to 2hrs 30mins+ and it really shows. The pacing is bad, any moment of quality is immediately followed by the film dragging its heels. It heavily overstays its welcome, in my opinion.

Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood are excellent together, while the rest of the cast are very good themselves. It’s just a shame about the aforementioned, as I could quite easily see this being one of my favourite films if what I’ve stated wasn’t true.

I’d personally be up for a shorter, tighter remake of this, because all the ingredients are there; it’s like a ‘Bond’ film mixed with ‘Fast & Furious’ in parts.

_**One of the greatest action/adventure films ever made**_

RELEASED IN 1968 and directed by Brian G. Hutton, “Where Eagles Dare” is a World War II adventure about handful of commandos parachuting into the wilderness surrounding a German castle-fortress high in the Bavarian Alps. Their mission is to rescue a captive general before the Germans can interrogate him. However, not everything is as it first appears.

The film is not a conventional World War II flick. Alistair Maclean wrote the script based on his novel and thus the movie is, unsurprisingly, a spy thriller just as much as it is a war picture. Keep in mind that spy flicks were super-hot when the film was released (e.g. James Bond). Are 60’s spy films plausible? Realistic? No, they only have the veneer of plausibility and realism; underneath it’s all escapist fantasy. So it is with “Where Eagles Dare.”

The opening with the breathtaking Alps and Ron Goodwin’s exhilerating score is one of the greatest cinematic openings in history. From there you get intrigue, thrilling action scenes, a magnificent castle, Richard Burton at his charismatic best, two beautiful women (Mary Ure and Ingrid Pitt), surprising plot twists, cable cars, a suspenseful escape and a don’t-see-it-coming ending, not to mention Clint Eastwood.

Speaking of Eastwood, he plays a taciturn American lieutenant, second fiddle to Richard Burton, the British leader of the operation. Believe it or not, Burton’s charisma is so out of the ball park that Eastwood pales by comparison. Of course, this has a lot to do with the way their roles were written, but you still have to give Burton credit for blowing Eastwood, who’s no slouch, out of the water.

Some complain about the utter ruthlessness of the Allied commandos, particularly the characters played by Burton and Eastwood, but they’re Special Forces on a secret mission, not conventional soldiers in infantry combat. They’re professional killing machines, which is why they were given the job. There was no room for mercy in this operation at this stage in the war.

In any case, it’s exciting to see Burton & Eastwood and their team mow down scores of Germans. The film’s so well-done and compelling that you sorta don’t realize how unbelievable it is while watching. This is because it lacks the cartoonish-ness of, say, “Rambo 2” and “Rambo 3” and maintains an air of realism throughout (which is different than saying it’s realistic).

FINAL WORD: “Where Eagles Dare” is one of the greatest action/adventure films of all time and is as-good-or-better than any war flick you care to name. The exhilarating score itself is worth the price of admission, as is the opening. If you’re in the mood for a World War II flick, “Where Eagles Dare” belongs near the top of the list.

THE FILM RUNS 2 hours, 35 minutes and was shot on location in Austria with studio work done in England.

GRADE: A

Most Exciting, Atmospheric, Ingenious–McLean Served Well This Time
“Where Eagles Dare” was produced by folks who decided that Alistair Macleam deserved to be produced on film by someone who followed the author’s exciting ideas. The result is a major improvement of the Us-er qualities of the character played by Clint Eastwood, the potent casting of Richard Burton, who is very very good (for once) in an adventure-level lead as the infinitely-resourceful leader of a WWII team of destructive agents, and an intelligent if action-level work of cinematic artistry. Others have written very well on this film; what I want to add to their basic core of arguments is some notes about the acting and ideas. From the group’s boss, Michael Hordern to the ladies, Mary Ure and zoftik Ingrid Pitt, to enigmatic Robert Beatty, everyone involved is more than adequate in his/her part to very good. The three enemies, Ferdy Mayne, Derrin Nesbitt and Anton Diffring excel in whatever scenes they are given; and Peter Barkworth, Donald Houston, Patrick Wymark, et al as traitors have never been seen to greater advantage. Director Brian Hutton faced the all-but-impossible task of bringing a vaguely-implausible raid staged in snow country on an isolated castle to life. With stirring music, lovely art direction and edge-of-impossible special effects involving explosives, running machine-gun duels in a bus, falling telephone poles, a battle on a cable car, wrecking at an airport and a parachute drop betrayed from the start, he manages to bring the entire tale off very nicely by my standards. The other chief asset of the film lies in its unusually intelligent dialogue, plot turns and constant surprise. I counted at least seven major surprises, every one of which as in a good Hitchcockian thriller leads to a memorable scene; these are therefore not just script gimmicks, but rather they qualify as ingenious use of the adventure genre to keep the audience on the edge of their seats. This film perhaps is what James Bond films always should have been, but only in the case of “Doctor No” and “Goldfinger” ever were. One could wish that “The Secret Ways”, “Ice Station Zebra” and several others of McLean’s thrillers had been treated with as much respect, and near genius, as this memorable piece of screen excitement was (for once) afforded.

An archetypal schoolboy adventure, containing a sufficient variety of excitements…
This time Eastwood plays Shaffer, a professional killer in the American army, who joins an international commando team, led by a British major, Jonathan Smith (Richard Burton).

The group is sent to the Bavarian Alps supposedly to rescue an American general from the hands of the German Army, who possesses highly valuable information on the impending D-Day invasion of Europe… Actually the high-ranking officer is a fake, and the real purpose of the mission is to discover which one of their team is a Nazi double agent who has succeeded in penetrating British intelligence…

Aided by five other commandos, Burton makes the daring parachute drop into enemy territory, and his commando squad succeeds in entering the inaccessible fortress where the general is held, with the assistance of an intelligent operative, Mary Ellison (Mary Ure) whose presence is a secret to the other men…

If you can stop being so serious, you can enjoy another piece of escapism, as scenic and exotic as the Aegean… The film contains a number of twists and turns, treachery and surprise revelations, a fiery battle with so many explosions within a castle, a hand-to-hand struggle to the death atop a moving cable-car, and Eastwood driving a speeding motorbike through a blinding snowstorm while on a terrifying mountain road…

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 38 min (158 min)
Budget 7700000
Revenue 21000000
Status Released
Rated M
Genre Action, Adventure, War
Director Brian G. Hutton
Writer Alistair MacLean
Actors Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure
Country United Kingdom, United States
Awards 1 win & 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints), Mono (35 mm prints)
Aspect Ratio 2.20 : 1 (70 mm prints), 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision Lenses
Laboratory Metrocolor, London, UK
Film Length 4,303 m (Norway)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic) (as Panavision®)
Printed Film Format 35 mm, 70 mm (blow-up)