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Where Eagles Dare (1969)
In the wake of The Dirty Dozen, a bevy of fictional WWII secret mission films were released by Hollywood.
Where Eagles Dare, was written by Alistair MacLean, one of the more successful novelists of the era, whose credits also include The Guns of Navarone, which made a blockbuster movie hit in 1961.
The story is reminiscent of that of The Dirty Dozen where a picked commando team is inserted behind enemy lines to penetrate a German castle where an American general is being held captive. Part of the plan is also to come back alive, although that idea, in light of the odds,...
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