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When the Eagles Attack
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Rediscover this classic film starring Clint Eastwood and Richarad Buton with this stunning When The Eagles Strike Movie Poster!
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Description of this Movie Poster When the Eagles Strike
When the Eagles Strike is a 1968 British-American spy war film. The film, set during World War II, was adapted for the screen by American director Brian G. Hutton based on a screenplay by Alistair MacLean. A special British intelligence team is tasked with freeing an American general as a prisoner of war in Germany.
The film is based on a Nazi propaganda rumor that persisted long after the war, namely that a powerful German arsenal and numerous military personnel were in the Alps. Following this rumor, the American attack against the German Reich in 1944 would not have focused on the capital Berlin, but on southern Germany. This estimate is wrong: there was no secret German military camp in the Alps and this was not the reason why the Americans did not march directly on Berlin.
Winter 1943/44: During the Second World War, American Brigadier General George Carnaby was one of the most senior officers involved in planning D-Day. He was killed in a plane crash. During a flight to Crete, his plane was shot down and Carnaby was taken prisoner of war. In order to question him about the imminent Allied invasion, the Wehrmacht took him to the headquarters of the German Alpine Corps, the heavily fortified castle "Schloss Adler". A special British unit, led by Major John Smith, is tasked with freeing Carnaby so that he does not reveal any important information. The hand-picked soldiers are instructed by Colonel Wyatt Turner and Admiral Rolland of the MI6 intelligence service. American Lieutenant Morris Schaffer, of the United States Army Rangers, is assigned to the command as an elite fighter. Agent Mary Ellison, assigned to the MI6 operational sector, secretly accompanies the mission; her presence is only known to Smith, with whom she has a relationship.
Under the protection of dusk, Smith and his team parachute over the Alps. Shortly after, they found the radio operator of the commando dead; Smith realizes that his neck has been broken. Disguised as German soldiers, they go to an inn in the neighboring village of Werfen. Smith briefly leaves the building for a secret conversation with a British agent who works at the inn under the name "Heidi". Meanwhile, a second member of the unit is killed. Back at the inn, Smith and his men are arrested on some pretext. During the car ride to their interrogation, Smith and Schaffer, who had been separated from the other three men, managed to kill their guards. With some effort, they manage to enter the castle which is only accessible by a cable car. They are helped in their task by Agent Ellison, who has obtained a job as a servant at the castle.
There, Smith and Schaffer introduce themselves to the German commander and observe how General Rosemeyer and SS-Standartenführer Kramer are interrogating the American General Carnaby. They then learn that the three other survivors of the liberation commando are German agents who infiltrated the British army. Smith and Schaffer take the round by surprise and manage to disarm the Germans. But to everyone's surprise, Smith also holds Schaffer at bay with his gun. He claims to actually be Major Johann Schmidt, a member of the Wehrmacht military defense service. He would have foiled the release of the general, who is in fact just an American actor named Cartwright Jones, and accuses the three German spies of actually working for England. To prove his words, he was identified by telephone by a German major in Italy, to whom he transmitted obsolete information under this identity. As further proof, he writes to Kramer the name of his superior officer, the highest-ranking German spy in England, which the Standartenführer confirms as correct. In addition, he orders the three alleged defectors to write down the names of their agents in England in order to have them compared to his list. In another surprising twist, however, it turns out he has no such list. Smith does not work for the Germans, nor are the three German agents defectors, but they were unmasked by the British and assigned specifically to this mission. The objective of the mission was not to save the so-called general, but to uncover the double agents within the British secret service MI6. This is done, since the lists of traitors noted by the three German spies are now in Smith's possession.
Meanwhile, Sturmbannführer Gestapo-SS von Hapen, who has become suspicious following a conversation with Agent Ellison, bursts into the middle of the situation, which escalates and during which all German officers are killed. Smith and Schaffer escape with Jones and Ellison and the three tied up German double agents, while several explosions planned in advance by the group sow confusion. During the escape, the three German spies are all killed. Pursued by the Germans, the group went to the Oberhausen military airfield in an omnibus equipped with a snow plow. Thanks to other explosions and exchanges of fire, they finally managed to lose their pursuers. At the airfield, they are picked up by a Ju 52 apparently captured by the secret service, with Colonel Turner personally on board. During the flight back to England, Smith revealed to his superior the name of Germany's best spy: Turner himself. The double agent thus unmasked, who would consequently be court-martialed, wishes to spare himself the passage to the scaffold and asks Smith for an alternative. With the latter's permission, he committed suicide by jumping from a plane without a parachute.
