The fantastic music has. doubled the pleasure of watchinh this all time greatest movie. The opening music got etched in my mind for ever.

Just a brilliant war film, with breathtaking scenery, and great acting by A list actors makes for a classic film that I still love to this day......

I saw this movie for the first time in 1978 with my father. Till today I have a passion for a very few of those time movies, this is one of them.

Wow great video! I love this film no end. Has seen this at. least,500 times!. Want to visit the filming site soon. Thanks for the upload.❤❤

Thanks for the opportunity to relive some great memories I have from working on this movie as a standby prop. I was only 20 and this was my first foreign location film. I spent 11 months on this film and both Burton and Eastwood were really good people with no airs and graces, down to earth. Quick note, we were in Austria for 3 months shooting all the exterior shots and about seven months in the MGM studios in Borehamwood Hertfordshire.

@mikeagate

3 жыл бұрын

Ray Buck: You are a very lucky man indeed. Had I known about you before our drive to Werfen from Watford, I am sure I would have picked your brain for all the location shots like those along the snowy road with the dynamiting of the telegraph poles or the road leading up to the the airport in the red Mercedes bus or the highland pastures hut where they rest upon parachuting from their Junkers Ju 52 aircraft.

@raybuck8199

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikeagate Hi Mike. A quick response to both your replies. I have lived in Florida for the last 40 years so the very short drive from Watford would not have found me at home. I do have a lot of interesting details and one very funny story about the dynamiting of the telegraph poles that was at the very end of shooting in Austria.

@mikeagate

3 жыл бұрын

Ray Buck: I have just uploaded the film on my iCould account (not KZread). Are you able to see any internet content on your large screen TV? Please let me know so that I can send you the link. While seeing the film I just realised that they blew up the same building they first entered from the hills near the railway station, when the soldier trips over the wire!

@raybuck8199

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikeagate Sorry Mike I saw your post a month ago and then forgot about it. Don't have big TV set up with internet. Those explosions at the train station in the small town Werfen. That was the coldest day of the shoot and alongside the tracks ran modern concrete high tension power lines. I was told it cost 100.000 pounds to turn them off for the day in case the explosions did some damage to the lines. The scenes with the dynamite and the car going into the ravine were shot in late March not long before we left for the UK. The very last day shooting on that mountain road with Eastwood and Burton on the motorbike it snowed heavy all day and stopped with daylight ebbing fast. Eastwood and Burton had been waiting in a hotel hours so Burton had been drinking with his wife Liz Taylor. So when Brian Hutton holding the sticks of dynamite showing Burton how to pull the spring loaded fishing line out and attach it to the poles. Burton said "There is nothing in my contract about handling dynamite" all done with a serious poker face This went on for a while until Brian gave up and handed the job over to assistant director Colin Brewer. Colin started banging them on the motor bike handlebars to prove they were not real. Finally we shot the scene and Eastwood was told to turn the bike around a few hundred feet down the road for another shot and Burton said to keep going and the did straight back to the hotel. That was our one and only shot of the day.

@renejean2523

2 жыл бұрын

@@raybuck8199 - Cool stories, Ray. Those are some great youth memories to look back on. I saw an interview with Derren Nesbitt who said that Burton was on four bottles of vodka a day. Maybe that's an exaggeration, but you couldn't tell by watching the film. I think if I were you, I couldn't watch the movie with other people because I'd be talking and telling stories all the way through!

I'm with you all the way on this one, the passion, the love of everything about the film, topped with just the most beautiful country for the setting. I return to Austria most years for our family holiday and have known every line from the film since I first saw it. Thanks for taking the time and effort to complete this, wish I was with you !,

This movie is one of the best movie. I have seen it in 1977 and I was read the storybook of ALISTAIR MACLEAN . Thank you for pull me 50 years past time . It was a great picture . Thanks.

OH! ITS MY MOVIE ONLY MINE I SAW IT AROUND 500 TIMES. THANKS FRIENDS

I was just 5 years old when this was shown in the Philippines. My dad and I watched this together. I remember some scenes but not all at that time.

@mikeagate

Жыл бұрын

Why not see it again here for free: 1drv.ms/v/s!AsP5t2YpxJ53jyPDDbdLF1DwcAPg

I was a child in the 80s when I first watched this timeless classic. One statement I still recall is " koso call Danny boy" laughs..

Masterpiece of a film.

@mikeagate

Жыл бұрын

When and where did you first see this epic?

I went to visit the castle the same year as you. Love the film and the music is fantastic (Ron Goodwill composer) Saw the the film when it first came out.

This is one of my favourite movie, thanks for your kind information

Man, you gotta love that music picking up pace when the cable car comes into view through Burton's binoculars. 1:20 Listen to the drumming from that point on. Just enthralling, like the whole movie.

Keep going and I appreciate your efforts! Not every Brit has lost their mind or is a sheep!

@mikeagate

Жыл бұрын

Just saw 'All is quite on the Western Front', a German production on Netflix. What our parents went through during 1939-1945 was truly heroic. And here we are in 2022 wondering what are pronouns are! How When and Where did this happen?

Great movie acted by two super stars Richard burton &Clint Eastwood. Both are rembered for ever. A deciated movie for world.

The uncredited actors and extras should've gotten an award. They did a great job.

@mikeagate

Жыл бұрын

Do you have a back story?

The best movie of the time who ever had missed this movie kindly try to see thispvie fully

Super bon film

Thank you I enjoyed the movie! AND ALSO your tribute.

@mikeagate

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Great stuff--many thanks.

Fantastic , what else can I say.....👍👍👍

Many of actor of thisl war movie have left ..... long live one and only the legendary Clint Eastwood .....

One of my all-time favorite movies! Thanks, Mike. I hope to visit Werfen and the “Schloss Adler” in June of 2024!

@mikeagate

Жыл бұрын

Have you seen the film of Derren Nesbitt who plays SS - Sturmbannfuhrer - von Hapen on KZread? Here is a link if you haven't - simply riveting. You will love the location. Oh! Don't forget to also visit 'The Eagles 🦅 Nest', not far from Werfen. kzread.info/dash/bejne/gmSEkqqOl6bFYbA.html

Thanks for uploading this. My favourite film of all time. Planned to go to Werfen and the cable car for my 60th last year but the pandemic put paid to that. Maybe next year.....? :0)

Thank You for the video, Enjoyed seeing the castle in the summer time, Remember the epic movie well. Later from Texas usa.

@mikeagate

3 жыл бұрын

Did you that when Brian Hutton, the director was asked about the helicopter landing in the castle courtyard and that there were no helicopters in WW2. He replied, 'they will not notice it in Arkansas'!

Thank you

When I read the novel recentlyI was struck by how much less bloodshed there is in the book.

@renejean2523

2 жыл бұрын

Much less drumming too.

Yes, I saw it when it was released. Still one of the all time greats. MacLean was a great story teller.

One of the best war film climax was excellent and Alistair Maclean Novel Double cross treble cross so nice

@mikeagate

2 жыл бұрын

To see this movie, why not check it here 'classic film research group'.

I had the opportunity to visit Werfen and Hohenwerfen while stationed in Germany. Beautiful location and interesting history. Thank you for putting this together. I appreciated the filming. Next time leave out the music. Could barely hear you at times.

Straordinario.

Wonderful movie

@mikeagate

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I saw this picture in 1973 when I was 17 years old. And after 45 years managed to visit Werfen, in Austria where the picture was shot in 1968!

Wunderbar

In my opinion “Where Eagles Dare” is a superior film to “The Battle of Britain “

@mikeagate

9 ай бұрын

I agree. This is a much superior film. BTW did you manage to see the film by clicking on the link provided. I have good collection of war films one my OneDrive portal. Films like Patton, Guns of Navarone, The longest Day and others.

Even the role of back ground music composer was also created seriousness or mysteriousness of the incedents depicted in war movie

Can people visit this holy mighty place?

@mikeagate

9 ай бұрын

Yes. There is a small fee for the cable car ride to the castle 🏰. Great views of Werfen from the top👍

@northman0077

9 ай бұрын

@@mikeagate Thank you sir for this video. I always wanted to se this place with my own eyes. Is it free(as in move freely) to walk around and explore inside the castle yourself?

Speaking of discredit ,Sleepy Joe brings it upon himself

@mikeagate

2 жыл бұрын

This goes way before sleepy joe. NATO and the EU have forced Putin’s hand. Compare America’s reaction to the possibility of a few missiles in Cuba 🇨🇺 and Russia’s 🇷🇺 concerns now! You and I can see this, and yet our ‘experts’ seem to be blinkered.

Ah !!! .... Za Faderland !!! 👍

@gispel7058

3 жыл бұрын

Ah!! Du Arsch mit ohren!

7:08 A Bell 47-G in World war 2??????

@mikeagate

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly! When questioned, Brian Hutton, the Director, remarked, 'they will not notice in Arkansas'!

Nice effort 👌🏻 But please reupload without the Music when you talk Thanks

@bluemarshall6180

4 жыл бұрын

But thats the music of the movie.

I read 50 millions perished? #Broadsword

Where in Germany is the castle please.

@mikeagate

3 жыл бұрын

The castle is called 'Hohenwerfen Castle' and is located just outside the little town of Werfen in Austria 🇦🇹. It is close to the border of Southern Germany in Bavaria. After visiting the 'Eagle's Nest' in Berchtesgaden we reached Werfen in 45 minutes.

@clivepritchard3609

3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks Mark for your reply. Much appreciated. 👍👍

@clivepritchard3609

3 жыл бұрын

Mike sorry.

Sir can U Plz reupload without Ur voice

What a pity !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn´t understand a word that was said because the music was so darned loud !

Is it just me or is your commentary inaudable?

@mikeagate

3 жыл бұрын

That is true. As I cannot re-edit this I am planning to put the dialogue in the description.