The Eagle Has Landed (Blu-ray) PG
The daring World War II plot that changed the course of history.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 58 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: October 29, 2007
- Originally Released: 1977
- Label: Ais
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert Duvall, Donald Sutherland & Michael Caine | |
Performer: | Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Quayle, Jean Marsh, Sven-Bertil Taube, John Standing, Judy Geeson, Larry Hagman & Maurice Roëves | |
Directed by | John Sturges | |
Edited by | Irene Lamb & Anne V. Coates | |
Screenwriting by | Tom Mankiewicz | |
Original story by | Jack Higgins | |
Composition by | Lalo Schifrin | |
Cinematography by | Anthony B. Richmond & Peter Allwork | |
Art Direction by | Charles Bishop |
Entertainment Reviews:
[A] fitting late-'70s swan song for John Sturges.
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Well, it all sounds like a good idea, but other than Caine's amiable acting and some good photography, this Eagle lays a big egg.
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Los Angeles Free Press
The film is a pretty dismal two hours of waiting for Lefty, who never appears. The Eagle Has Landed simply never takes off.
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Gannett News Service
Filled with the kind of suprises and reversals which are at the nub of all good suspense stories.
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Crafted with meticulous precision and infinite patience, the film unfolds like a good novel, with compelling exposition eventually giving way to thrilling action.
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Creative Loafing
...A good old-fashioned adventure movie that is so stuffed with robust incidents and characters that you can relax and enjoy it....Refreshing...
New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
A big name cast makes up for a few flaws.
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Three Movie Buffs
Product Description:
John Sturges's adaptation of Jack Higgins's best-selling suspense novel stars Michael Caine as Nazi Col. Kurt Steiner. When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Der Führer. Heinrich Himmler (Donald Pleasence) assigns Col. Max Radl (Robert Duvall) to mastermind the operaton. He enlists the aid of Steiner, who has been imprisoned for subordination and is awaiting sentence, by offering him a chance to save his life. Liam Devlin (Donald Sutherland), an IRA lifer who hates the British, also signs on for the mission. Steiner and his commando team parachute into the small village of Sudley disguised as Polish soldiers and appear to the populace to be paratroopers running through exercises. As they await the arrival of Churchill, one of the commandos rescues a boy from drowning in a nearby river, inadvertently revealing his Nazi colors in the process. Steiner realizes that some changes will have to made in his timetable. THE EAGLE HAS LANDED is an enjoyable Alistair MacLean-like mission impossible, ably served by Sturges and a stellar cast.