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September 6, 2023… #movieoftheday is Where Eagles Dare (1968)
“Where Eagles Dare is a 1968 war film directed by Brian G. Hutton and starring Richard Burton , Clint Eastwood and Mary Ure . It follows a joint British-American Special Operations Executive team of paratroopers raiding a castle (shot on location 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 that he wrote the novel of the same name. Both became commercial successes.
“The film involved some of the top filmmakers of the day and is considered a classic. Hollywood stuntman Yakima Canutt was the second unit director and shot most of the action scenes; British stuntman Alf Joint doubled for Burton in many sequences, including the fight on top of the cable car; award-winning conductor and composer Ron Goodwin wrote the film score ; and future Oscar-nominee Arthur Ibbetson worked on the cinematography .” - more at Wikipedia .
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“Where Eagles Dare is a 1968 war film directed by Brian G. Hutton and starring Richard Burton , Clint Eastwood and Mary Ure . It follows a joint British-American Special Operations Executive team of paratroopers raiding a castle (shot on location 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 that he wrote the novel of the same name. Both became commercial successes.
“The film involved some of the top filmmakers of the day and is considered a classic. Hollywood stuntman Yakima Canutt was the second unit director and shot most of the action scenes; British stuntman Alf Joint doubled for Burton in many sequences, including the fight on top of the cable car; award-winning conductor and composer Ron Goodwin wrote the film score ; and future Oscar-nominee Arthur Ibbetson worked on the cinematography .” - more at Wikipedia .
#WhereEaglesDare #wikipedia #tangled
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