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Product Information
Based on Jack Higgin's bestseller. A group of German Paratroopers are dropped over England. Their mission is to kidnap Winston Churchill.
Product Identifiers
EAN5037115249937
eBay Product ID (ePID)59500994
Product Key Features
ActorDonald Sutherland, Michael Caine, Larry Hagman, Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Jenny Agutter
Aspect Ratio16:9 Wide Screen
Film/TV TitleThe Eagle Has Landed
DirectorJohn Sturges
Release Year2007
FormatDVD
LanguageEnglish
FeaturesWidescreen, Special Features\Theatrical trailer\Interviews with Michael Caine and Donald Sutherland\Director interview\Location reports\Extended version with 17 minutes of deleted scenes
GenreWar
Run Time145 Mins
Additional Product Features
Certificate15
Number of Discs1
Additional InformationJohn Sturges's adaptation of Jack Higgins's best-selling suspense novel stars Michael Caine as Nazi Col. Kurt Steiner. When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Der Fuhrer. Heinrich Himmler (Donald Pleasence) assigns Col. Max Radl (Robert Duvall) to mastermind the operaton. He enlists the aid of Steiner, who has been imprisoned for subordination and is awaiting sentence, by offering him a chance to save his life. Liam Devlin (Donald Sutherland), an IRA lifer who hates the British, also signs on for the mission. Steiner and his commando team parachute into the small village of Sudley disguised as Polish soldiers and appear to the populace to be paratroopers running through exercises. As they await the arrival of Churchill, one of the commandos rescues a boy from drowning in a nearby river, inadvertently revealing his Nazi colours in the process. Steiner realises that some changes will have to made in his timetable. THE EAGLE HAS LANDED is an enjoyable Alistair MacLean-like mission impossible, ably served by Sturges and a stellar cast.