Vintage Poster
When the Eagles Attack
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Accompany Clint Eastwood in this superb cinematic adventure with this splendid When The Eagles Attack Poster!
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Description of this Poster When Eagles Attack
When the Eagles Strike is a 1968 war film directed by Brian G. Hutton starring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood and Mary Ure. It follows a team of Special Operations Executive paratroopers, made up of British and Americans, who attack a castle (filmed in Austria and Bavaria). It was filmed in Panavision using the Metrocolor process and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Alistair MacLean wrote the screenplay, his first, at the same time as the novel of the same name. Both became commercial successes.
The film involved some of the best filmmakers of the era and is considered a classic: Hollywood stuntman Yakima Canutt served as second unit director and shot most of the action scenes; British stuntman Alf Joint doubled Burton in many sequences, including the fight at the top of the cable car; award-winning conductor and composer Ron Goodwin wrote the music for the film; and future Oscar nominee Arthur Ibbetson worked on the cinematography.
During the winter of 1943–44, Brigadier General George Carnaby, chief planner for the Western Front, was captured by the Germans and taken for interrogation to Schloß Adler, a mountaintop fortress accessible only by cable car. A team of seven Allied Special Operations Executive commandos, led by British Major John Smith of the Royal Engineers and Lieutenant Morris Schaffer of the US Army Rangers, are briefed by Colonel Turner and Vice Admiral Rolland of MI6. Disguised as Wehrmacht mountain troops, they must parachute into the German Alps, enter the castle and rescue Carnaby before the Germans can interrogate him. After their transport plane drops them off, Smith secretly meets with Agent Mary Ellison, with whom he has a relationship, and his contact Heidi Schmidt. Heidi arranged for Mary, posing as her cousin Maria, to work temporarily at the castle so the commandos could gain access.
Although two members of the team are mysteriously killed, Smith continues the operation, keeping Schaffer as a close ally and secretly informing Rolland and Turner by radio. He reveals to Mary and Schaffer that Carnaby is in fact an American corporal named Cartwright Jones, a former actor and Carnaby lookalike trained to impersonate him. The Germans, informed of the operation, ended up surrounding the commandos in a gasthaus and forcing them to surrender. Officers Smith and Schaffer are separated from the rest of the team, Thomas, Berkeley and Christiansen. Smith and Schaffer kill their captors, blow up a supply depot and prepare to escape. They reach the castle by climbing onto the roof of a cable car and climb inside using a rope lowered by Mary.
German General der Gebirgstruppe Rosemeyer and SS-Standartenführer Kramer are interrogating Carnaby when the three agents, who claim to be double agents working for the Germans, arrive. Shortly after, Smith and Schaffer burst in, guns drawn, but Smith forced Schaffer to drop his gun. He introduces himself as SS-Sturmbannführer Johann Schmidt of the SD, the intelligence service of the SS, and shows Kramer the name of Germany's chief agent in Britain. Kramer affirms this and calls a high-ranking officer on Kesselring's staff who confirms that Smith is indeed Schmidt. To make sure the three agents are who they say they are, Schmidt asks them to write down the names of their fellow agents in Britain and compare them to the list he has in his pocket. After all three agents complete their list, Schmidt reveals that he was bluffing, that he is actually a double agent for the Allies, and that obtaining the list of agents was the true objective of the mission.
Mary is visited by SS-Sturmbannführer von Hapen, a highly decorated Waffen-SS officer who is convalescing while seconded to the SD and Gestapo in southern Bavaria. He is attracted to her but suspects holes in her cover and stumbles upon Carnaby's interrogation just as Smith finishes his explanation. Smith occupies it until Mary arrives. Schaffer takes advantage of the distraction to kill von Hapen and the other German officers with his silenced pistol. The group then escapes with Jones and the German agents. Schaffer plants a series of explosives to create diversions around the castle while Smith leads the group to the radio room, where he informs Rolland of their success and requests a transport plane to return home. During the escape, Thomas is sacrificed as a decoy, and Berkeley and Christiansen both attempt to escape before Smith kills them. The team finds Heidi on the ground and boards a red post bus she had prepared earlier. They make their way to a nearby airfield and take off in their transport plane, where Turner greets them.
As Turner debriefs the mission with Smith, the latter reveals that Kramer appointed Turner as Germany's main agent in Britain. Rolland tricked Turner and the others into participating in the fake mission so that MI6 could unmask them; Smith's trusted partner Mary and American Schaffer, who has no connection to MI6, have been assigned to the mission to ensure its success. Turner points a Sten gun at Smith, who reveals that Rolland had the firing pin removed from the weapon earlier. He allows Turner to jump from the plane and die to avoid being tried for treason and executed. Schaffer, exhausted, asks Smith, half-jokingly, to make his next mission "an all-British operation".
