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Alistair MacLean's Where Eagles Dare

on BBC One London

A special screening of the famous adventure story as a tribute to the bestselling author who died earlier this month.
Seven paratroopers, led by a British intelligence officer, are sent on a seemingly impossible mission. They must enter the almost impregnable Nazi stronghold 'Castle of the Eagles' to rescue a high-ranking American officer. Their dangerous task is further threatened by a traitor in the group...
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Contributors

Screenplay:
Alistair MacLean
Producer:
Elliot Kastner
Director:
Brian G. Hutton
Lt Morris Schaffer:
Clint Eastwood
Major John Smith:
Richard Burton
Mary Ellison:
Mary Ure
Vice-Admiral Rolland:
Michael Hordern
Col Wyatt-Turner:
Patrick Wymark
Cartwright-Jones:
Robert Beatty
Col Kramer:
Anton Diffring
Olaf Christiansen:
Donald Houston
Reichsmarschall Rosemeyer:
Ferdy Mayne
Torrance-Smythe:
Neil McCarthy
Edward Carraciola:
Peter Barkworth
Lee Thomas:
William Squire
Sgt Harrod:
Brook Williams
Colonel Weissner:
Victor Beaumont
Heidi:
Ingrid Pitt
Captain von Haagen:
Derren Nesbitt
Telephone orderly:
Richard Beale
German officer:
Ivor Dean
German woman:
Lyn Kennington

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