Where Eagles Dare

TCM's Dave Karger introduces Where Eagles Dare, 1968.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Where Eagles Dare, 1968.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Where Eagles Dare, 1968.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Where Eagles Dare, 1968.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Where Eagles Dare, 1968.

Brit Smith (Richard Burton) and Yank Shaffer (Clint Eastwood), posing as German officers, lead their squad into an Alpine Nazi brew-haus, where they contact bar-maid fellow agent Heidi (Ingrid Pitt) and generally intimidate, in Where Eagles Dare 1969.

An Allied team sets out to free an American officer held by the Nazis in a mountaintop castle in Where Eagles Dare (1969) starring Richard Burton & Clint Eastwood.

Brit Smith (Richard Burton) briefs American Shaffer (Clint Eastwood) about the Nazi-held Alpine castle, and the background of their superior Turner (Patrick Wymark), whom he radios, along with Admiral Rolland (Michael Hordern), with news of a probable mole, in the hit spy thriller Where Eagles Dare, 1969.

Starting with Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood airborne over the Bavarian Alps, flashing back to Col. Turner (Patrick Wymark), overseen by Rolland (Michael Hordern), briefing the Allied spy team, their mission from Alistair Maclean’s original screenplay, Brian G. Hutton directing, Where Eagles Dare, 1969.