Where Eagles Dare

Where Eagles Dare is a very long but also very entertaining and unpredictable thriller, scripted by Alistair MacLean, who later wrote a novel based on the film.

During the Second World War, Major Jonathan Smith leads a seven-man elite unit that is parachuted into the German Alps. Their ultimate goal is to free a high-ranking British officer who is being held prisoner in the all but impregnable Eagle's Castle. The group faces a daring and complicated operation, which is not made any easier by the fact that there is a mole who knows about the mission. This means that Smith's group is slowly decimated, putting the whole operation at risk.

The story keeps taking new turns, although the pace of the film is somewhat different from today's, and Germans speaking English still sounds wrong to my ears.