The opening credits. Taken from the movie "Where Eagles Dare." I love the heck out of this movie, and the two things I love the most are the score and scenery, both of which are shown well here.
I saw this back in about 1970 when I was 7. The opening credits, with that plane, and that music still takes me back to that night at the Roxy in Oldham and still makes my hair stand on end.
for war movies, this and the theme for "patton" are the first 2 that come to mind. but then there is also another clint eastwood movie that comes to mind shortly after, and that is "kelly's heroes" with the mike curb congregation singing the song "burning bridges" i don't know if those songs are iconic to film, but seriously, who cares? it's your memories, and no one else needs to worry about it.lol
The castle is "Burg Hohenwerfen" in Austria and can be visited again by everyone once Covid-19 is over. Entry-fee is around 30 US-Dollars. Eagle/vulture-show included.
I was hoping to get a nice view of the Schloss Aldler . Got a fab picture of the actual castle (Hohenwerfen castle just south of Salzburg) a few weeks ago on our way back from mountain climbing in Slovenia which is just over the border. Chuffed to bits our local paper used it this week. It has to feature in one of my growing number of Climbing Slovenian Alps RU-vids soon!
I still remember my Father tried to explain the movie plot, I must have been 8 or 9.... this was my father's favorite movie. He passed away several years back. I love both my Dad & this movie....
Omg somebody just referenced this movie theme to a similar used by The Shaw Brothers in their films lol Brave Archer Shaolin Martial Club i think Yooooo i just watchec the preview to this movie I am so hooked on this film now just from the trailer and this theme I havent even seen the movie yet lol And it's from the same people who did The Dirty Dozen another jam of mine lol
Without a doubt one of the best movie soundtracks and just movie in general of all time especially this opening scene just gives you chills right off the bat.
I agree with you! As I listen to the main title it seems to me Ron Goodwin is using it as a musical synopsis of the entire film. Each movement in the piece captures or creates the essential essence of the movie. Superb!
The first ever action movie I ever saw, as a kid. My father came home and found I had wired the whole house with "explosives" using legos and string :D
One of the finest war-films of all time. Even after watching this hundreds of times, I still can't work out the mayhem of double-crossing in the dining-table scene... Awesome!
"His plane was riddled with machine gun holes - British machine gun holes, but a hole is a hole is a hole as they say" - greatest war movie ever bar none.
I still remember seeing this with a schoolmate in elementary days. We were in a big, old- fashioned theatre with the wide screen, and watching the intro scenes in the dark, when your entire field of view was the pilot's POV as he cleared those ridges at night - the audience sucked in its collective breath each time the scenery dropped away! I'll never forget that. 8-D
@@bobsingh7949 "Where Eagles Dare", "A Bridge Too Far", "Saving Private Ryan", "Band of Brothers". Excellent choices all, gentlemen!! Might I also nominate "Operation Crossbow" (1965) and Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk"?
Saw this when it first came out in about ‘69 and must have watched it 100 times! Absolutely brilliant. “I seem to remember ze cazedral voz on ze uzzer side of ze square”
Nothing takes me back to my childhood like this movie does. This movie had everything a young boy (and middle aged guy) could ever wish for. The ultimate bad guys vs. the ultimate good guys, breath taking scenery, a castle, mystery, adventure, espionage, tension, explosive action and two beautiful women!
This war movie is one of my dad's fave movie of all time as well as the music soundtrack...this is heartfully dedicated to my Father who passed away 20 yrs. ago.
From the sound of that JU 52 roaring overhead, and the growling of her tri-motors, to the music, you just know that you are in for a treat! One of the BEST opening sequences for a movie!😄
There used to be a Ju-52 parked next to a C-47 at the Gary, IN airport. I’d look for them every time I drove to or from college. I believe the Ju-52 is at the VA Beach military aviation museum now, still flying.
Burton foi um monumento do cinema, cuja obra será para sempre lembrada! Tive a honra de ser um entre algumas centenas de anónimos no seu funeral! Uma emoção para sempre! ❤
Love it when I am on my own for the day. A big boys slob out day. In goes "Where Eagles Dare", "Zulu", "The Eagle has Landed" and for a little light humour "Kelly's Heroes". Got to be done when my Mrs and daughter's are out and soundtracks up loud-ish and best of all no one complaining.
You and just about every bloke of our generation thinking exactly the same. A rare moment when the wife and kids are out. All I need is a home cinema to do these classic movies justice.
I love this film so much I can honestly say I must have watched the file over 50 times over the past 20 years - in fact not only can I recite the entire script - I have also been to to the scene of the cable car station (in Ebensee, Austria) on several occasions
"Broadsword calling Dannyboy, I repeat Broadsword calling Dannyboy can you hear me?" Ah could anyone but Richard Burton make such a simple line sound so damn classy with that accent.
A very atmospheric theme tune so typical of the many second world war films that were made in the 1960's. This particular theme tune really made this film and epitomised the mysteriousness, efficiency and brutality of the German armed forces of that period. Modern film makers of the modern age are pretty damn clueless when compared with these type of films made in the golden age..........
I know. It was a costume drama that made the war seem more exciting than it was. Movies like Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and The Fighting Lady depict the war more as it was, They were made in the early 1940s.
I was about 16 when I went to the Odeon theater in Oxford, UK. The sound system they had was fantastic. The score when played in a good theater is worth a memory.
Likely a 70mm print ; the soundtrack's four magnetic stripes had six sections : outside left , inside left , centre , inside right , and outside right , with a surround channel in the roof from 6 strategically placed loudspeakers ; the separation was distinct and clear with that distinctive analogue sound. It had a realistic "ambience". Digital soundtracks these days can be too powerful and oppressive.
"Major, you... seem to be forgetting something..." "Admiral Rolland accompanied you to the plane didn't he? He also gave you that gun..." "You see before the mission began we removed the firing pin as a precaution....."
This film holds a special place in my DVD collection. I still remember the audience laughing out loud when the late great Richard Burton said: "Incredible, yes; but to the British, very very simple." Pure Gold. One of the great moves of the 20th century, and of all time.
Caught this on tv when I was a kid, just switching channels on late Friday night... It was just coming on and those drums just got me. I was transfixed until the end...
Despite it's many flaws, I cant help but love this movie. It reminds me of when I was a kid, and going to the movies was a really big deal, especially with fun, exciting films like this. You really have to suspend belief and just let it roll.
Yeah. By the time the trumpets came, there would be thousands of explosions already had the movie been done today. Old war movies are the best, one of my best childhood memories are watching them.
Watched this with my son last night, seen it loads of times over the years but it's one of those i can watch again and again. The music throughout is awesome and helps in my opinion to make it a classic film. in fact i love the soundtrack so much, i want it playing at my funeral!
@Djaru I know what you mean. Sometimes I find myself randomly saying, "Shtrange...I seem to vemember...zat zee cazeedral vas on zee OZER side of zee shquare..."
I went to see this at the Odeon Leicester Square on the 29th April 1969. I'm one of these boring people that remember dates. I was 15 and with a group from school. We'd visited the Bank of England and the Guildhall and taken copious notes about both as part of a geography field trip, This was our reward in the evening. Us girls wanted to see Ann of Green Gables at the theatre but we were out voted. So glad we were. Yes there are historical discrepancies, but it's one of those films you take at face value. Pure entertainment. (By the way I went on to become a history teacher and I could pick hundreds of holes in the plot, as well as inaccuracies in the uniforms, guns etc. It's still a great film tho'!)
+Kris Spencer It's a great movie. That Nazi nurse with the go go boots and those sideburns on the Germans were a nice touch. In in the late 60s folks weren't concerned with hairdo accuracy. Still I love this movie.
Gerald Johnson Even though it's, with hindsight, a bit far fetched and historically inaccurate in places, it's still a great movie. Glad someone else likes it too.
+Kris Spencer I am not a history teacher but have studied it for over 40 years. I am surprised that a history teacher would shorten the word though to tho. The English language is butchered enough these days without someone in your position doing it. I hope you are not offended. It is not my intention. It is just a pet peeve of mine. You are right. It is a great film.
Peter Newton Good God! Straining at a gnat while swallowing a camel. This isn't an English lesson. It's about a movie. Get a life! Even teachers need to relax!
Don't worry about my grammar folks. Peter Newton, fair point. I don't always shorten words. It's just that some days my arthritic hands can only take so much. That includes typing. If you had read my comment of the 4th September last, you would have seen 'though' written in full. Gerald Johnson, thank you for the defence, it was much appreciated.
Shame because not only do modern films have SO MUCH SWEARING but they aren’t as good as these as well as the actors they aren’t as good as these. Doesn’t seem to make sense saying something similar twice
You certainly know several tunes by Ron Goodwin, like "Miss Marple", "The Dam Busters", "Those Fantastical Men in their Flying Machines" or the "Elizabeth Serenade." It seems he wanted to live a quiet life with a listed telephone and without too much publicity.
TheWuschelMUC Add to that list the iconic soundtracks of The Battle of Britain, 633 Squadron and Operation Crossbow. What a superb composer he truly was :) Eric Coates composed the Dam Busters theme though.
BROAD SWORD calling Danny Boy BROAD SWORD calling Danny Boy DANNY BOY go ahead Broad Sword Woods east of castle. Descending at dusk will you monitor. OVER. yes will monitor. DANNY BOY OUT
Dear Friends, this film strike a chord with me. My family were members of the Italian Resistance. In the town centre, in Italian Alps, was the Headquarters of the German Armies in Italy; just above, in the forest, was my grandmother and mother house, the Headquarters of the Resistance. Many and many dramatic events took place, which could provide the material for many films like “Where the Eagles Dare”.
Major John Smith: Lieutenant, in the next 15 minutes we have to create enough confusion to get out of here alive. Lt. Morris Schaffer: Major, right now you got me about as confused as I ever hope to be.
The music by Ron Goodwin is the action's pulse. You have not seen this film until you have on a Proper Cinema screen. If you're lucky enough to see it Cinematically, you'll get vertigo looking down from the cable car! Why hasn't anyone built a proper Cinema & reshow all those Films that were made for the Cinema. Generations have not seen so many Films as they were made to be seen.
I played in a small marching band in Norway when I was little, and I remember that playing this amazing song was my biggest dream at that time. My parents were a bit worried I think...
I have the 33 1/3 LP of the score to this film. And I still think that the main title theme only sounds "right" with the roar of those big radial engines backing it. :-)
For all the musicians out here, it’s very interesting to hear the thematic development of this theme. Goodwin pays tribute to Strauss’ Alpine Symphony. You can hear little quotes from it throughout his score. genius!
I saw this on the big screen with my Dad and Brother when it first came out. The awesome soundtrack, the roar of those twin radial engines, and the stomach dropping sight of that Junkers maneuvering over the Swiss Alps. Awesome.
This is music for when you jump out of an n aeroplane at dead of night in mid winter, land in ground feet deep in snow, find a handy hut to shelter in, then go for a walk and find another handy hut with a beautiful blonde in it. These things only happen of course when you are Richard Burton
This was one of my dad's favourite movies and the reason I actually know of it and like it because it was way before my time, think I first saw this when I was about 6 or 7. I cannot watch the movie or clips of it without breaking down in tears and also joy and laughter all at the same time. He passed away August 01/24. It's like I feel his presence every time I watch this.
-Well. It seems I have no cards left to play. Do I? -No, Colonel, you don't. -Do I have an alternative? -If you want it. -Thank you. -I'll have those books. -...
Somewhere in the middle of 1970s I had watched this movie as a teenager and after that watched it dozens of times. The the musical theme is one of the best themes ever. 💥💣👍🏼👊
I had a curry recently with Denis Wick, long-standing principal trombone (legend) with the London Symphony Orchestra. He informed me of the brass section for the original recording of this superb Ron Goodwin film music. It was: Trumpets: Dennis Clift Dennis Egan Sid Ellison Trombones: Alfred Flaszinski Denis Wick Ray Premru That would explain the great playing, then and almost a section all called Dennis! Thought it should be recorded on the net for posterity.