Where Eagles Dare (1968)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1968
	Director: Brian G. Hutton
	Actors: Richard Burton (Zulu, 1984), Clint Eastwood (A Fistful of Dollars, Dirty Harry), Mary Ure
	Country: GB, USA
	Genre: War
	Conditions of visioning: 06.01.2013, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: WWII. An important british general is held prisonners in a castle in Bavaria. A team is quickly set up to go and rescue him before he tells what he knows.
Review: This movie fits well in a Blu-ray collection side by side with The Guns of Navarone. Unsurprisingly they were both adapted from novels by the same author Alistair MacLean. The initial plot of the movie is very clear (rescue the general) which makes the story very linear. But as more elements are revealed, it turns out people are not who we think they are. At some point some many deceptions are even confusing (I was lost for fifteen minutes), but then it gets clearer. The movie was shot on location in Austria which provides beautiful snowy landscapes at day and night, and an inaccesible castle perfect for the story. Richard Burton is excellent as the dead-serious leader, always sure of what to do whatever the situation or adversity. Clint Eastwood is equally good and plays masterfully the American stone-cold soldier, exceedingly good at killing with any weapon. And they never divert from their roles.
Rating: 8 /10