1968 · action · war · thriller
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Directed by Brian G. Hutton2h 35m1968
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.
Our read: Where Eagles Dare (1968) (1968) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · war · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / war, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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