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The Eagle Has Landed

The Eagle Has Landed

Associated General Films (Dec 25, 1976)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Secret Agent | Thriller | War
UK | English | Color | 02:10
2 Disc Blu-Ray DVD Collector's Edition
Blu-ray
PG (Parental Guidance)
826663143362
| 1 disc
Region A
HD Case

When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Der Führer.



Oberst Steiner, a German parachute unit commander, is sent to England on a covert mission to kidnap Prime Minister Winston Churchill and bring him to Berlin. The seemingly impossible assignment becomes more and more feasible as the mission grows nearer with Steiner and his men arriving in England to a very real possibility of success.
- Written by Anthony Hughes (husnock31@hotmail.com)




Colonel Steiner is a German Officer in WW II who has been court-marshaled for opposing the SS in rounding up Jews. He is offered an assignment to go to England and abduct Winston Churchill. His loyal parachute group dress as Polish soldiers and take over a small English town, supposedly on a training maneuver to await the coming visit of the Prime Minister.
- Written by John Vogel (jlvogel@comcast.net)




Following Mussolini's daring rescue by the SS, Hitler decides Churchill can be abducted and brought to Berlin and orders Wilhelm Canaris chief of Abwerh to make a feasibility study. The feasibility study conceived brilliantly by redoubtable Lt. Col. Radel becomes reality when an Abwehr agent in England reports Churchill's imminent visit to a Bomber Command Unit on the eastern coast...
- Written by vlady@worldnet.att.net




A German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill unfolds at the height of World War II.
- Written by Anonymous




SYNOPSIS


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Michael Caine Col. Kurt Steiner
Donald Sutherland Liam Devlin
Robert Duvall Colonel Radl
Jenny Agutter Molly Prior
Donald Pleasence Heinrich Himmler
Anthony Quayle Adm. Wilhelm Canaris
Jean Marsh Joanna Grey
Sven-Bertil Taube Capt. Hans von Neustadt
John Standing Father Verecker
Judy Geeson Pamela Verecker
Treat Williams Capt. Harry Clark
Larry Hagman Col. Clarence E. Pitts
Alexei Jawdokimov Corporal Kuniski
Richard Wren Hans Altmann
Michael Byrne Karl Hofer
Joachim Hansen SS-Obergruppenführer
Denis Lill Churchill's aide
Rick Parsé E-Boat Commander
Léonie Thelen Branna
Keith Buckley Hauptmann Gericke
Terence Plummer Arthur Seymour
Tim Barlow George Wilde (Publican)
John Barrett Laker Armsby
Kate Binchy Mrs. Wilde
Maurice Roëves Maj. Corcoran

Personal

Owner Kerry & Dawn
Location Movies-01
Storage Device TD 22
Purchased Jul 24, 2017
Quantity 1
Seen Nov 07, 2017
Added Date Jul 24, 2017 15:28:57
Modified Date Apr 17, 2024 00:48:32

Edition details

Screen Ratios Theatrical Widescreen (2.35:1)
Audio Tracks Stereo [English]
Distributor Shout! Factory
Layers Single side, Dual layer
Edition Release Date Oct 15, 2013

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