My Favourite Film

Rating: 10/10 (23 March 2019)

I love me some World War 2 films. Many of my favourites are: Inglourious Basterds, The Great Escape and so on. But this, Brian G. Hutton's "Where Eagles Dare" is my favourite. The film is about 7 men and a woman on a mission: get into an isolated Nazi castle, rescue an allied General, and get out. It stars Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood in it's leading male roles, and they both give excellent performances, as does Mary Ure, who is the leading female. This film has some of the best action and suspense scenes in any WWII film (only being bettered by Inglourious Basterds) and it throws many twists and turns at you that you don't see coming. The final half hour or so features some almightily epic explosions and is a joy to watch, as is the rest of the film. A great film that keep's you guessing all the way through it's two and a half hour runtime. It's masterful.