79%User score 79 percent
The Great Escape
1963 · Adventure · Drama
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One weekend Major Smith, Lieutenant Schaffer, and a beautiful blonde named Mary decided to win World War II.
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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John Chard
February 1, 2016
Major, right now you got me about as confused as I ever hope to be. Directed by Brian G. Hutton and adapted to the screen from his own novel by Alistair MacLean, Where Eagles Dare stars Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood. Music is scored by Ron Goodwin and cinematography is by Arthur Ibbetson. A small group of allied agents are sent on a mission to rescue a Allied General from a Nazi castle stronghold. But there is mo…
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Wuchak
June 30, 2018
_**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 fil…
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r96sk
January 12, 2022
So close to being a great film. There is a lot I enjoyed about <em>'Where Eagles Dare'</em>, 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 paci…
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July 19, 2022
The story is very interesting, Clint Eastwood looks very good on Nazi Uniform and kick 4ss so much 4ss it kind of ruins the almost perfect story about counter spies double agents, double cross mumbo jumbo If they wanted to end WWII they should have sent Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton dressed as SS officers.
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