Better than "Navarone", but still not great

Rating: 7/10 (1 December 2018)

I watched "Where Eagles Dare" back-to-back with "Guns of Navarone". This less famous men-on-a-mission war flick is a better movie. It benefits greatly from Burton's magnetic presence as the main character, and a clear premise. It also has a memorable sequence in which the men ride on the top of a cable car.
Unfortunately, as is often the case with these war flicks, it's terminally overlong, and becomes confusing at about the midway point. The second half largely squanders the goodwill the first half generated.