

Where Eagles Dare
One weekend Major Smith, Lieutenant Schaffer, and a beautiful blonde named Mary decided to win World War II.
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $7.7M
- Box office
- $21M
- Language
- German
- undercover agent
- nazi
- germany
- liberation of prisoners
- secret mission
- spy
- world war ii
- bavaria, germany
- mountain
- castle
- two man army
- parachute
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United Kingdom, United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG12 Mar 1969
- PhysicalPGDVD2 Sept 2003
United KingdomGB
- PremierePGLondon22 Jan 1969
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG4 Dec 1968
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical124 Dec 1968
BrazilBR
- Theatrical7 Apr 1969
- Physical12IMDB1 Jan 2000
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1520 Jan 1969
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-164 Dec 1968
FranceFR
- TheatricalU5 Mar 1969
GermanyDE
- Theatrical166 Mar 1969
GreeceGR
- TheatricalPG31 Mar 1969
HungaryHU
- Theatrical1215 Sept 1988
- PhysicalDVD24 Nov 2003
IrelandIE
- TheatricalPG30 May 1969
Frequently asked questions
Where Eagles Dare was released on 4 December 1968.
Audience reviews
5- J9/10
John Chard
2/1/2016
Major, right now you got me about as confused as I ever hope to be. Directed by Brian G. Hutton and adapted to the screen from his own novel by Alistair MacLean, Where Eagles Dare stars Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood. Music is scored by Ron Goodwin and cinematography is by Arthur Ibbetson. A small group of allied agents are sent on a mission to rescue a Allied General from a Nazi castle stronghold. But there…
- W9/10
Wuchak
6/30/2018
_**One of the greatest action/adventure films ever made**_ RELEASED IN 1968 and directed by Brian G. Hutton, "Where Eagles Dare" is a World War II adventure about handful of commandos parachuting into the wilderness surrounding a German castle-fortress high in the Bavarian Alps. Their mission is to rescue a captive general before the Germans can interrogate him. However, not everything is as it first appears. T…
- R7/10
r96sk
1/12/2022
So close to being a great film. There is a lot I enjoyed about <em>'Where Eagles Dare'</em>, the core of the film has some greatness to it. The action sequences are fun, the acting is terrific and the music is strong. However, it has far too many lull moments for me to consider it anything other than 'good'. A 2hr run time would've been perfect, instead it's stretched out to 2hrs 30mins+ and it really shows. Th…
- C5/10
crastana
7/19/2022
The story is very interesting, Clint Eastwood looks very good on Nazi Uniform and kick 4ss so much 4ss it kind of ruins the almost perfect story about counter spies double agents, double cross mumbo jumbo If they wanted to end WWII they should have sent Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton dressed as SS officers.
- C8/10
CinemaSerf
7/15/2024
When an American general's plane is forced down over Nazi Germany, it falls to "Smith" (Richard Burton) to lead a crack team into the depths of the Wehrmacht to get him out before a dose of scopalamine elicits the truth about the plans for an allied invasion of Europe. No sooner do they land, though, when things start to go wrong. With one of their number not even surviving the parachute drop into the snowy forest, "…
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