Where Eagles Dare

1. Where Eagles Dare (1968) - IMDb

   www.imdb.com/title/tt0065207/

    Rating: 7.6/10 - 25800 votes

   Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding an American General prisoner... but that's not all that's really going on.
   Directed by Brian G. Hutton. Starring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood.
   

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   Last night after going out to dinner with my wife and 2 of my kids and a friend of my sons we came home and turned on the build up to New Years in New York like many folks. But then, my son and his friend got bored of this and asked to put on "Where Eagles Dare" from my Clint Eastwood Collection of about 35 DVD's that I was given in a set a year ago last Christmas. So, we watched "Where Eagles Dare" with Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood in it. It is a very well done movie for the times. However, what I noticed was that blood didn't look like blood really does. So, some effects are really dated but still it is a top of the line movie for those times. Also, because it is 23 years already after World War II it was beginning to get harder to get vehicles (especially German) likely for the movie so you see a lot of "The VW Things" which is a bug with a different open body style and you see them use old Motorcycles with sidecars from that era as well. But, it was great to see Richard Burton still alive and Clint Eastwood back in the days of the early Spaghetti westerns he made back then.
   
   I saw it in a theater then when it first came out because I was about 20 then. I watched all the Clint Eastwood movies and Sean Connery 007 movies at theaters when they first came out back then. My mother started the "Movie" tradition with her Dad and sisters in the 1920s when she was little with her Dad then when movies were only a nickle to go see then in Seattle, Washington and passed on her love of movies to me over the years. Movies when I was little in the 1950s were only about 25cents for a child and 75 cents for a Junior (12-17 years of age) and 1 dollar for an adult in the 1950s by the way when I was a child. Bubblegum was two for a penny, candy bars were a nickle, and Soda Pop was about 10 to 15 cents a bottle or can.