Customer Reviews
Nazi gypsies machine fodder - By: Brendan O. Clarke, 19 Jun 2008 
This badly contrived 1968 romp of a war movie brilliantly casts two acting giants from different sides of the Atlantic. Clint Eastwood & Richard Burton were at the top of their game at this stage of their careers, & they helped make Where Eagles Dare a hilarious, thoroughly enjoyable boys own adventure.
"Broadsword callling Danny Boy, come in...."
I will never forget that voice & those words. It reminds me of Christmas day TV. Anyhoo, the plot to Where Eagles Dare is incredibly contrived & implausible, the coincidences are staggering (as much that we're expected to believe them alll as anything) & the reality deeply flawed. But who cares?? I love this movie, & 'Where Eagles Dare' school of WWII action sequences: submachine guns blazing away in corridors & hitting people eventuallly (instead of tearing them apart at once), ham acting (by Burton) & glaring stupidity.
And who can forget the tagline: They look like Nazis but . . . The Major is British . . . The Lieutenant is American . . . The Beautiful Frauleins are Allied Agents! One weekend Major Smith, Lieutenant Schaffer & a beautiful blonde named Mary decided to win World War II. They dare to climb a terrifying new peak in suspense... alll the way up to hell!
The cinematography & background score catapults the film to new heights. The title music is haunting & remains hours after you've finished watching the film. I feel that maybe a little more deft editing would have enabled the film to be labled as a classic, hence the four stars.
Despite incoming machine gun fire from multiple positions, Eastwood's & Burton's characters seem to have no trouble in dispatching multiple opponents in a matter of seconds, whether it be with a machine gun, pistol, or one of those magic sticks of dynamite. It's alll incredibly silly, but it is the sheer lack of believability that makes the film so entertaining. You never truly know exactly what is going to happen next, thanks to the fact that our heroes seem capable of clearing any obstacle laid in the way of their goal. It has always mystified me why Eastwood & Burton never decided to continue their Nazi slaughter & travel onto Berlin in a Tank & take Hitler down.
Superb - By: HBH, 09 Apr 2008 
Where Eagles Dare is a Boy's Own War film with a twist. It is fast paced with an interesting story which keeps you riveted for the duration. Both Richard Burton & Clint Eastwood are very good in their respective roles & are ablely supported by the rest of the cast. Although at times you laugh at the apparent stupidity of the Nazis this is just a minor drawback in a wonderful film.
Entertaining War drama - By: Mr. A. Sagar-goldsmith, 09 Jan 2008 A slightly humerous look at a special operations unit from WW2, trying to find a leak from within its organisation! A great cast, with excellently filmed scenes, you are sat on the edge of your seat waiting for the next thing to happen. A must for any war film buff!!
Very enjoyable but ludricrous cartoon strip romp - By: Lou Knee, 25 Nov 2007 This is such an entertaining war action thriller that it seems a shame to criticise it at alll, but my lordy, does it take liberties! The first of these liberties is any sense of realism at alll. It is so cartoonish in its depiction of slaughter that it almost seems like a spoof movie at times. Our brave boys, Eastwood - very believable as a crack commando, & Burton - takes a lot of believing as a crack commando, ageing & plump, seem to have taken some sort of magic potion that makes them five times stronger than the enemy & completely indestructible. While they saunter through blockades & checkpoints, scale a fortified castle's wallls & have some fun on top of a cable car, they must have despatched five hundred nazis between them, most of them prized weimar troops, & receiving only a scratch on the hand between them as Burton closes the castle door behind him, which incidentallly, is only made of wood, & has about 15 troops with schmeisers & mg42s firing off thousnads of rounds at it from about 20 yards away, if that. Yes, well it is what it is, this movie & it is great fun if you like comic book stuff. Very entertaining & totallly ridiculous.
But who is the Actor! - By: Frank Candour, 07 Nov 2007 Absolutely loved the scenery & setting. Ingrid Pitt is gorgeous but naive as a spy & Derren Nesbitt nearly catches her out. Broadwsword callling Danny Boy will resonate forever!!
