Right on, plus Donald Sutherland played a memorable character. What did he say to the South African lady spy: "Revenge, an excellent motive. I congratulate you!" I think that was how it went.
I have a great new for you guys: Oberst Kurt Steiner IS NOT DEAD at the end of this story. Jack Higgins wrote also a sequel of this novel, "The Eagle has flown" in which Steiner is rescued by Devlin. I assure you it's a very incredible story, I think better than "The eagle has landed". Unfortunately there is not a movie
Liam Devlin: It's all right, Father, I'm just telling him about the Holy Trinity. You know it? Footwork, timing, and hitting! And a little bit of dirty work. Learn these, my uncle'd say, and you'll inherit the Earth as surely as the meek.
Deutsche Fallschirmjäger - I guess there are not too many of you left alive now but you deserve utmost respect for what you have done for your country. great soldiers... respect from Poland
Well that's a compliment coming from Poland ,,,,I'm British and we've always venerated the Paras, Arnhem Suez , Goose Green , etc their the best of the guns we've got 🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴
@@SPiderman-rh2zk yeah and I brave man ,,, he was an airman captured by the German's when they told him to put his hands up and surrender he told them to piss right off 🇬🇧✌
One of the best!!! It has been a privilege to serve with you.... the cast itself is heavy.,;there is Michael..Donald and Robert...Treat too. Never gets bored re wstching it time and time again...
When I first seen this Classic in Cape Town, S.A I loved this music score. Classic book and Jenny Augutter, what a babe lucky Mr Sutherland for getting to kiss her...
Great memories... being a child one friday night went with my father to watch this film... I felt like an adult one.. We liked so much that the following friday again both went back to the REAL CINEMA (Madrid) to enjoy this film... I never have understood the reasons of the cut versiin... horrible!
The score for this film suits it well, there's nothing heroic in the flavour here its clearly musically telling the tale of what will become a botched mission the same as A Bridge Too Far.
"A Águia Pousou", sucesso das programações de filmes, nas sessões "primeira exibição" no sábado, nas reprises das madrugadas de domingo, período anterior ao advento dos videocassetes.
The bass is a little off in this recording, but the music itself is stirring. As for the film, it's superb of course. I wish there were more like it. Instead, we have Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" - which gets close in the character of Fredrick Zoller, played by Daniel Brühl, but not close enough. Tarantino basically indulges in a vision of Nazi killing, which had already been done in Robert Aldrich's 1967 film "The Dirty Dozen." It's nothing original or insightful. "The Eagle Has Landed," on the other hand, was groundbreaking.
I love the film. I only wish they could have worked in a scene from the book at the beginning where the narrator finds the graves thirteen German paratroops in the English churchyard.
Ever notice how both classic WW2 movies with Eagle in the name are about soldiers who don enemy uniforms? The difference being Richard Burton and Clint Eastward weren't stupid (sorry, 'honourable' :p) enough to wear their Allied uniforms underneath, leading to their whole plan coming undone...
Surely Steiner and his men were discovered because of the German uniform underneath the polish one, but it was a choice, because if they were discovered, they didn't want to be arrested as spies. And they could have been discovered in many other ways. And in the original novel, they wear the German uniform as a direct order of Himmler
+(InsertNameHere) hey, that was a great movie! They were just really short-budget and couldn't afford the real heavy tanks like the later panzers. Chaffees were one of the lightest, most reliable, and most of all cheapest tanks available at the time.
Why is it that every time I hear this song, I have an image pop into my head of myself in a German officers uniform, commanding a battle group of panzers and panzergrenadiers against a oncoming horde of Russians on the eastern front?
An Anti-Nazi film (I think) that makes the audience root for the bad guys. Edit: You know something about your story is wrong when the audience want Steiner to win.
@@carljohnson-up3gm The original book contains a map inside back cover, Jack Higgins said the book and film are both 50% fact and fiction make up your mind which is which?
I think it's one ready for a remake,,, how about Brian Gleeson as Devlin , Sean Bean as Radl , Charles Dance as Canaris , and Tom Hardy as Steiner , or if they're all too busy Cillian Murphy as Devlin , and Damian Lewis as Steiner .
