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Post by pimpinainteasy on Feb 2, 2019 14:12:28 GMT
the only thing i like about the movie is its background score. maybe its time for a revisit.
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Post by teleadm on Feb 2, 2019 16:09:14 GMT
Before video, this was a surefire hit on summer cinemas, when they used to show old hit movies.
I have read a lot of Alastair MacLean's novels, but not this one.
I've seen the movie version, and it is what it is, an action adventure, where you could still shoot from the hip, I liked the movie, Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton, there is such a difference in their charisma that is intense. Something I had forgotten is that it is very talkative in some scenes, but maybe the producers wanted to hear very much of Burton's melodic Shakespearean voice.
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Post by mikef6 on Feb 2, 2019 20:14:27 GMT
I have very fond memories of seeing “Where Eagles Dare” several times in the theater the year it opened. I hadn’t forgotten very much. All the thrills and laughs are still there, just as I remembered. In the TCM intro, Ben Mankiewicz said that Richard Burton had asked his agent for a traditional WWII war movie because his kids had been seeing him in a lot of Shakespeare. Well, that’s not what I heard. Word on the street was that the movies he had been making since 1964 had been too racy for his kids to see. Anyhow, in many ways he didn’t get what he wanted with “Where Eagles Dare” which only pays homage to “tradition” on the surface. The movie is very forward leaning in its danger every minute, cliffhanger (sometimes literally) movement toward today’s mile-a-minute action movies. The violence is also sometimes disturbing in its body count and in Clint Eastwood’s performance as a blank-faced, almost sociopathic, killer. If I had kids at that time, I would almost want them to see the racy stuff, instead.
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Post by hi224 on Feb 2, 2019 23:15:21 GMT
Its an odd movie for sure and one that doesnt work as well as it should perhaps.
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