The Eagle Has Landed (DVD)

The 70's was perhaps for many the heyday for the seminal war movie particularly ones that combined a emsemble cast, in fact you only have to take the best of these and you've pretty much hired every key actor Hollywood had to offer. The Eagle Has Landed is one of the collective of what we would term today "boys own adventure" films released during the 70's and is certainly on par with the the likes of Kelly's Heroes and Where Eagles Dare or The Longest Day and A Bridge too Far. The Eagle Has Landed is based on the Jack Higgins novel of the same name,made in 1976 and filmed on a budget of 6 Million Dollars it stars Michael Caine who plays ...  Read the complete review

Real boy's own stuff from the same World War Two stable that John Sturges had already plundered for his late sixties hit 'Where Eagles Dare'. This is from a Jack Higgins novel rather than Alistair Maclean, but the recipe is exactly the same - undercover heroics, decent action, and Nazis. This is odd, in that most of the central characters are in fact Nazis (Michael Caine's 'hero' for example), involved in a plot to take over a small English village as part of an entirely improbable plot to assassinate Churchill. It is, in a rather daft way, highly entertaining, with solid performances from Caine, Robert Duvall, and Donald Sutherland as an ...  Read the complete review