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A great film. Clint's only WWII movie besides Kelly's Heroes.
 
I have the DVD of Where Eagles Dare, and have watched it more times than I can remember over the years. I also have the soundtrack on CD...truly one of the all-time greats.

The town and castle where the movie is set are actually in Austria, just south of Salzburg. I visited Schloss Werfen back in 2015...it's beautiful, and the views of the surrounding area from the castle are just stunning.

Here's a link to their website...

Welcome to the Hohenwerfen adventure castle | Burg Hohenwerfen
 

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I love that movie and asked the wife to watch it with me back when we were newlyweds. She said it was "boring" and shut it off.
 
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JackM said:
"Broadsword calling Danny Boy, Broadsword calling Danny Boy!" Fantastic!
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My favorite line is delivered by British actor Derren Nesbitt, playing Gestapo Major von Hapen, in the worst phony-German accent you've ever heard...

"I seem to remember zat za Casedral vas on ze ozer side of za sqvare." :)
 
I liked it when during the escape Eastwood
was fighting off the Germans with machine
guns in a hallway.

And despite a concrete wall behind
him, not one Nazi bullet dared richochet back
on him.
 
Beemerguy53 said:
My favorite line is delivered by British actor Derren Nesbitt, playing Gestapo Major von Hapen, in the worst phony-German accent you've ever heard...

"I seem to remember zat za Casedral vas on ze ozer side of za sqvare." :)
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About as campy as the barmaid/Brit agent Heidi telling Mary to "do your homevork vell."
 
JackM said:
About as campy as the barmaid/Brit agent Heidi telling Mary to "do your homevork vell."
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That was the gorgeous Ingrid Pitt, who had a fascinating life story. (Among other things, she was a Holocaust survivor.)

One of my other favorite lines is when Richard Burton introduces the two women, explains that Heidi is one of Britain's top agents in Germany, then, gazing down at her cleavage, says "And what a disguise!" :)

Ingrid Pitt - Wikipedia
 
Rudi said:
Another high point, they actually have some extra magazines and do reload their MP40s. At least a few times.
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The producers went for authenticity wherever possible: German weapons...(the MG42 in the castle was a nice touch)...German vehicles...and of course, that magnificent Junkers JU52.

There were some notable exceptions, mainly the use of T6 Texans in the airfield scenes at the end, but overall, they did a good job.

Here's a great documentary on the making of Where Eagles Dare...

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slGNnC8NOyo[/ame]
 
HOUSTON RICK said:
I love that movie and asked the wife to watch it with me back when we were newlyweds. She said it was "boring" and shut it off.
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Women tend to look for different things in movies.
My ex insisted we leave the theater in the middle of, Jaws, a film that I was eager to see after reading the book. I'd also read all of those shark books that Chief Brody looked at.

Pat thought the movie was too scary and violent.

After our divorce nine years later, I bought the movie and finally got to see it.

Oddly, she liked, The Legend of Boggy Creek, a Bigfoot movie
 
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