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Where Eagles Dare

Year:

1969

Duration:

158 min

Genres:

Action | Adventure | War

IMDB rate:

7.7

Director:

Brian G. Hutton

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1969-03-12

Filming Locations: Festung Hohenwerfen, Salzburg, Austria

Earnings

Gross: SEK 11,639,000 (Sweden) Admissions 1,134,000 (Sweden)

Cast

Actor

Character

Anton Diffring

Where Eagles Dare

Richard Burton

Maj. Smith

Clint Eastwood

Schaffer

Mary Ure

Mary Ellison

Patrick Wymark

Col. Turner

Michael Hordern

Adm. Rolland

Donald Houston

Christiansen

Peter Barkworth

Berkeley

William Squire

Thomas

Robert Beatty

Carnaby

Brook Williams

Sgt. Harrod

Neil McCarthy

Sgt. Jock MacPherson

Vincent Ball

Carpenter

Ferdy Mayne

Rosemeyer

Derren Nesbitt

Von Hapen

Victor Beaumont

Col. Weissner

Ingrid Pitt

Heidi

Richard Beale

Telephone Orderly (uncredited)

Ivor Dean

German Officer #2 (uncredited)

Guy Deghy

Maj. Wilhelm Wilner

Jim Dowdall

Extra (uncredited)

Max Faulkner

Sgt. Hartmann (uncredited)

Harry Fielder

German Soldier (uncredited)

John G. Heller

German Major - at 'Zum Wilden Hirsch' (uncredited)

Lyn Kennington

German Woman (uncredited)

Nigel Lambert

Young German Soldier (uncredited)

Olga Lowe

Lt. Anne-Marie Kernitser (uncredited)

Ian McCulloch

German Officer (uncredited)

Terence Mountain

German Radio Op (uncredited)

Derek Newark

German Major (uncredited)

Anton Rodgers

German Officer at Airfield (uncredited)

Bill Sawyer

Helicopter Pilot (uncredited)

Jack Silk

German Officer at Ammunitions Shed (uncredited)

Philip Stone

Sky Tram Operator (uncredited)

Jim Tyson

Innkeeper (uncredited)

Ernst Walder

Airport Control Officer (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Nazi concentration camp survivor Ingrid Pitt found filming very difficult because many of the cast were wearing World War II German army uniforms.

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Derren Nesbitt was nearly blinded when the squibs in his chest blew upwards instead of outwards when filming his death scene - his character was filmed being shot in the head and the chest but in the finished film he is only shot in the head.

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In the scenes where Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood climb the steep fortress walls, Eastwood moves with ease, while Burton is clearly working hard physically. This was due to the fact that Burton, who was a hard-drinker and out-of-shape by that point, chose to ride a crane (made invisible by special effects) up the wall, whereas the young, healthy Eastwood was actually climbing the wall.

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Goofs

After Smith and Schaffer initially climb into the Schloss Adler, Schaffer puts on a cap and Smith doesn't have one as they walk out the door of a room and into a hall. Less than a minute later, both of them are walking down another hall, and Smith now has a hat similar to Schaffer's.

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When the final German vehicle explodes at the airport, the occupants are obviously dummies and don't move at all, despite being engulfed in flames.

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When they prepare to leap into the river, the cable car appears to be over the middle of the river, perhaps even a close to the far bank. But when they do leap, the first jumper lands close the near bank and the cable car moves over the river once again.

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Quotes

Major John Smith: [to Schaeffer] In your own idiom, you're a 'punk'. And a pretty second rate punk at that.

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Maj. Wilhelm Wilner: [into a phone] Major Wilner speaking. Ja, Colonel.

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Lt. Morris Schaffer: [referring to what Smith called him earlier to maintain his cover] "Second rate punk," huh?

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Faq

Did the Germans really have helicopters in World War 2?

Yes, the Germans used a small number of early helicopters in late World War 2 for tasks such as transport and artillery spotting in addition to numerous experimental prototypes. Two Fa 223 Drache ('Dragon') aircraft were actually assigned to the German Army's Mountain Warfare School at Innsbruck so the prescence of a helicopter in the film is surprisingly plausible.

Who killed the 2 other members of the team?

Presumably the trio of double agents killed them because they were suspicious of them and had seen or heard something that betrayed their treason.

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