ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – WHERE EAGLES DARE (1968)

 Where Eagles Dare is a WW2 drama film, screenplay written by Alistair MacLean based on his book of the same name and, directed by Brian G. Hutton.

After a British Mosquito aircraft is shot down over Nazi held territory, the Germans capture American Brigadier General George Carnaby (Robert Beatty), and take him to the nearby S.S. headquarters at the Schloss Adler, the Castle of Eagles, because the Germans believe the General is privy to details of the D-Day operation.

So Admiral Rolland (Michael Hordern) and Colonel Turner (Patrick Wymark) of British Intelligence assemble a crack commando team led by Major Jonathan Smith (Richard Burton) to rescue him before he can divulge any details of the plans for the Normandy landings.

Amongst the team of Brits is an American Ranger, Lieutenant Morris Schaffer (Clint Eastwood), who is puzzled by his inclusion in an all-British operation, and when two of the team are killed soon after arriving in Germany, Schaffer suspects that Smith's mission has more than one objective.

It’s a fast-moving war movie with plenty of action and a number of twists and turns along the way to hold your attention all the way to the tense unexpected ending.