Where Eagles Dare (DVD)

Where Eagles Dare is one of my favourite films. It's part of the old-school of war films, where attempts at psychological realism are largely absent, and the harrowing nature of what was actually going on is completely absent. You wouldn't get a film like this made now, not about World War II, at any rate, and that's probably for the best. But since the film is here, it can be watched and enjoyed for what it is: a marvellous, over the top action movie. A team of British (and one American) commandoes are sent to a remote castle in Germany to try to free an imprisoned American general. The team is led by Richard Burton, who is quite clearly the most ...

One of the most hilariously bad films of all time, it never ceases to amaze me that countless legions of film fans nominate this farrago of nonsense as their favourite. Richard Burton in the guise of Cynical Hero No.1 plods through the film under remote control, whilst Clint Eastwood, up-and-coming Cynical Hero No.2 looks ever more befuddled at the increasingly unbelievable plot, explained for him often and at great length by C.H. No 1. The film is chiefly memorable for one of the greatest screen mismatches in cinema history, namely the wintery cable-car encounter between mild-mannered suburban banker Peter Barkworth (of Telford's Change fame) and ...

I keep posting this review everywhere left, right and center. Anyways, let me post it for the plotline. I am explaining a scene of 15 mins as it explains the complete plotline for the movie. There are a few suspect German agents in Britain. For some time classified information which only the British intelligence and high ranking officers knew passes into the hands of the Germans. Vice Admiral Rolland plays a game to flush out the agents. He plans a crash of an American general (who is a actually a corporal) and asks all suspect agents to go on the rescue mission. But then, the ace up his sleeve is Major John Smith himself who is a double agent ...