One of the greatest WWII movies ever!!!

Rating: 10/10 (26 October 1998)

This movie is a classic! The music is great and so is the performances. Clint Eastwood gives his usual cool, quiet, all American, good guy stuff from his westerns - and it works just as good! I'm not going to dig deep into the plot, but it's essentially about a team of military experts who are supposed to get into one of the most heavily guarded German castles and rescue a very important general who holds crucial information about the allies second front. The castle can only be reached by cable-car, or helicopter and has earned the nickname "The Castle of the Eagles", since only an eagle can get to it. The team travel on top of the cable cars to the castle, and it is also on a cable car, one of the best scenes take place. The German spies in the car find out that Richard Burton is tagging along on top, and a spectacular high-altitude fight takes place. Richard has rigged the car with dynamite and manages to jump over to the other cable car in mid air, just before it blows up - great scene!!
If you are still in doubt, just take my word for it and go and rent it - pronto!!!