While this is considered a "Men's Movie", it a bit too long and too dull in parts. It's also full of inaccuracies such as the Germans having a Helicopter. Clint Eastwood as a stone killer is the first best part of this, Ingrid Pitt is the second best. While it's worth watching once in a while, it's not a classic in any way.

One of the greatest action spy thrillers ever made. Fantastic cast. Clint Eastwood is a complete badass in the film. Lots of action and great twists in the plot

Continuing my plan to watch every movie in Clint Eastwood Filmography in order, I come to Where Eagles Dare (1968) Or as Clint Calls it 'Where Doubles Dare' due to the amount of stunt doubles used, Plot In A Paragraph: 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.Clint took second billing and a slight pay cut $800,000 compared to Richard Burtons $1.2 million, to star in this bloated WW2 movie.I enjoy war movies, but for some reason I have always disliked this one. Maybe it's because I had to watch it every Christmas it was on TV when I was a child, including one year, when it clashed with Superman 2 on a different channel (which we videotaped) a decision that reduced the younger me to tears!! Despite a lot of screen time Clint doesn't speak many lines. In fact he doesn't speak until the 21st min, his character Lieutenant Schaeffer probably kills more people than any other Eastwood character. One of the lines he does speak, he could actually be speaking for the viewer when he says "You've got me about as confused as I ever hoped to be" I'm sure the movies many twists and turns were meant to add intrigue, but they are just simply baffling!! If you cut an hour out of this movie it may be more entertaining. As it is, I just find it over long and dull. Even Clint looks bored when he is not gunning people down. Give me The Expendables any day!! There I said it.Grossing $7 million at the domestic box office. It didn't quite make its budget back at the domestic Box Office, it fell short by a few hundred thousand, but it did end the year the 21st highest grossing movie of 1969!!

With Richard Burton's film career at a bit of a standstill in the mid-Sixties, he started looking for a property that would jump start things by way of a war time action flick along the lines of "The Guns of Navarrone". Going right to the source, he asked Alistair MacLean if he thought he could come up with a script built around him as the principal character, utilizing an American actor and a handful of British performers. MacLean came up with "Where Eagles Dare" in six weeks! Considering that time frame, I'd say MacLean came up with a remarkable winner, though you've got to pay serious attention to the story or you'll wind up confused with all the double crosses. Burton's character Major Smith provided a real head scratcher at one point when he claimed he was really a German general at the Schloss Adler summit, proving that an ability to think on one's feet and successfully lie one's way out of trouble can be a real life saver.I usually don't get too involved personally in most films, but I'd have to say that the roof top scare where Eastwood's Lieutenant Schaffer barely clawed his way back to safety was pretty tense. As for the action sequences, it was all very much over the top and impossibly fortunate that most everything went against the Nazis. Almost joined at the hip for most of the movie, Smith and Schaffer could do very little wrong on their way to whipping the German war machine. It almost made you feel like the real war could have ended much quicker if it had only been turned over to the screen writers.