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Where Eagles Dare (no markers) | |
Where Eagles Dare is a 1968 action adventure war film directed by Brian G. Hutton and starring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood and Mary Ure. | |
Set during World War II, it follows a Special Operations Executive team charged with saving a captured American General from the fictional Schloß Adler fortress, except the mission turns out not to be as it seems. | |
It was filmed in Panavision using the Metrocolor process, and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. | |
Alistair MacLean wrote the screenplay, his first, at the same time that he wrote the novel of the same name. | |
Both became commercial successes. | |
The film involved some of the top filmmakers of the day and was shot on location in Austria. | |
Hollywood stuntman Yakima Canutt was the second unit director and shot most of the action scenes; British stuntman Alf Joint doubled for Burton in many sequences, including the fight on top of the cable car; award-winning conductor and composer Ron Goodwin wrote the film score; and future Oscar nominee Arthur Ibbetson worked on the cinematography. |