The Eagle Has Landed - Soundtrack song + Credits

[SeKcClan5]

im 13 and i just read the book and i loved it it ws the best book i ever read i read 356 pages in 3 days i couldnt stop reading

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

@SeKcClan5 Good for you. I never had the chance to read it.

[DwightKoh93]

I don't know why, but I actually like Colonel Steiner.

[MelancholyManTR]

lalo schifrin, he's a real legend...

[jorcastify]

Donald Sutherland a rubbish actor

[target42100]

i have the book and the film and have always loved it for me the interesting thing about the story is the way that jack higgins humanizes the germans it is because of the courage of one of the germans that the whole mission goes haywire when he gives his life to save a little girl whos fallen in a watermill.

[KoMmIzZaR98]

It's just so brilliantly implausible, so epicly underrated...with Donald Sutherland, Michael Caine and Donald Pleasence! Good god, why haven't I been able to record this from the start!

[jorcastify]

i would prefer if Stiener was played by Richard Burton

[RJM1011]

I just fell a sleep in the snow ! !

[broadband01]

this is almost identical to the 1943 film british film [ went the day well ]

[carwik149]

Awsome movie!

[superiorelephant]

Terrific. It always fills me with a sneaking admiration for the German paras who used to jump at heights as low as 250 feet. Such brave men in such a rotten cause.

[christopherhoughton1]

Great movie, haven't seen it in years.

[1815ish]

Great movie.

[The09bradman]

i think the most poignant scene was when the german paratrooper died rescuing the children in the mill. thus revealing their true mission.classic line from col steiner

i thought the polish war ended in 1939 . to the ss colonel 'you remind me of something unpleasant i picked up on my shoe.'

and yet and yet he played his hand to the end .

[Hunternet7]

You vill not be so lucky on a thurd occasion.

[bostrumpa]

I like the music

[caravaggio31]

No people is an 'evil people'. There are evils among the people. Among all the people no matter its flag.

[jaimesy27]

When the German saves the little girl selflessly shows not all of them were brutal conformist xenophobes!!

[tharos]

Because of this movie, whenever I see any parachutists drop, this music plays in my head.

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

@tharos Me too.

[romajo]

@TheUnforgivenRebel me three

[skrivbok]

@tharos Mine too... just because you said it :S

[st0405]

@tharos

Ditto lol

[juve96]

@tharos LOL! I thought I was the only one.

[aapmetzegelring]

@tharos Haha where do you live then? Arnhem in 1944? I see parachutists drop every day

[SnIkLeeT]

Michael caine can play any role. This movie is proof :D

[doublemandala]

Thanks for posting this. I was taken to this movie when I was 5 (in 1976), and I do believe it left and indelible mark on me...

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

@doublemandala You're welcome. Classic war movies always left a mark on people... they have something that I don't see in nowaday's war movies, I don't know what is it but when a child I saw Where Eagles Dare... And I loved it.

[LockAndLoadp]

@TheUnforgivenRebel To me it seems that classic war movie heroes behave most of the times knightly . Not like today's war movies where they shoot everyone up without a cause . The German paratrooper for example dies to save a little girl .

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

@LockAndLoadp Nowadays if you see some modern warfare movie those ones about SEALs or Special Forces, you'll see most of them have no ethic at all (but they are proffesionals, aren't they?) and it seems to be pretty badass. Not to me.

[Faxe90Swe]

@TheUnforgivenRebel

In other words, you don't like modern war movies because they shatter your romantic illusions. Soldiers throughout the whole 20th century have killed civilians rather than other soldiers, ww1 being the exception, even though atrocities against civilians occurred in that war also, as when the Germans executed hundreds of Belgian civilians in 1914. During the 19th century 70-80% of all war casualties in Europe were military, in the 20th century it was 70% civilian.

[fdsdh1]

@TheUnforgivenRebel and no more great music, old war film music is so much better

[Faxe90Swe]

@TheUnforgivenRebel

My point is, classic war movies, with the exceptions of the Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far, were generally very very flattering to the military men of the 20th century, idealizing. Also, some movies, like the Guns of Navarone, were nothing short of predecessors to Rambo; one guy or a group taking on battalions of enemies with no great sweat.

[KommandantOrlter]

@TheUnforgivenRebel So very true.

[megagalee]

The village location is the mapledurham estate in berkshire,and the alderney isle harbour is charlestown in cornwall.the shops and pub in the village were just front sets,as was one of the watermills.joanna grey's cottage is just outside mapledurham estate.

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

@megagalee Have you been there?

[megagalee]

@TheUnforgivenRebel.Yes,i went to charlestown,about 20 years ago,& remembered it from the film.I went to mapledurham about 14 years ago,seeing its name mentioned on the credits.Theres a cafe there with the films bill poster in it,also newspaper cuttings of the filming in the church's porch.Also,they added the door to church for the film.

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

@megagalee What a beautiful quiet village it must be.

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

@megagalee It's a wonderful film. It has elements that make you remember the movie and it shows the good side of the german soldier too. The plot is nice, using an odd a rebel Irish man to make it thru' the british lines... and the ending, unpredictable.

[RockandRoller2009]

The music suits this film for the LUFTWAFFE'S paratroopers. I wish I could find a copy of the soundtrack on CD.

[mmmbeachlover]

another great evocative and atmospheric score.

cheers!

[usdeutsch]

There was a real plot against Churchill. So some of this movie could be based on fact and the rest speculaton...

[akirinn9696]

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[skrivbok]

Love this theme.

[Battery20678]

Jee! 1:39 Åke Lindman on ollut tekemässä tätä!

[M0rbidlyObese]

anyone know where i can download the mp3 version of this?

[Frederik5495]

Yeah, the song here is the 19. song on the cd: "End Credits (march)".

The original soundtrack is Available. I´ve it, I´ve postet the soundtracks here on youtube...

I hope you understand me, my english isn´t very well. ;-)

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

Thanks!!! :D

I'm listening to the soundtrack you've uploaded! Thank you very much! :D

Of corse your english is good! :)

[detroyes2]

Does anyone know if this theme is available anywhere on CD?

[SiegfriedRatel]

Mother of God, flying pigs....

[ChrisGS1982]

love the music in this film.

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

Ja, it has the perfect essence for such a film like this.

[bernardcz92]

I read the book and saw the film and I both enjoyed them. But what I like about the film is that it can help you visualize the characters, when you are reading the book. I think Donald Pleasance really looks like Himmler. What I like about the book is the fact that Jack Higgins doesn't potray the Germans as the usual evil people. In reality, they were too humans. The soldiers had to fight and kill just like any other soldiers. I think the best characters are Liam Devlin and Oberst Steiner.

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

Memorable characters both of them.

But I think Donald Pleasance wasn't ugly enough to play a convincing Himmler.

Pleasance is a model compared to Himmler Hahaha!

[DrSquidley]

@TheUnforgivenRebel i think that pleasance was too nice as himmler too, i would imagine himmler as cold and calculating, thats not how he came across in the film

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

@DrSquidley Yeah, for Himmler they should have casted somebody with a more... "mongoloid" appearance so. It would have been even more scary!

[Robo1415]

Which is why Jack higgins is well-liked in germany....

[TheGameTagers]

@bernardcz92 I disagree. The best character was obviously Colonel Pitts ;)

[Faxe90Swe]

@bernardcz92

I always "cast" the books I read, think what actor suits the character and cast the appropriate ones. Johnny Depp is my most common hero character XD

And the German soldiers of ww2 are not compareable to other Western soldiers in that war, in my opinion.

[Waldvogel91]

@bernardcz92 Yes-Devlin is a wonderful character piece. I also have an uncle in Belfast but he hasn't passed on his bare-knuckle boxing skills to me yet.

[silversabre84]

Suggest you read the book, some differences and more detail also the eagle has flown, where steiner survived and is rescued by Devlin

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

I'd like to read the book but I can't find it, if I can I'll buy it for sure.

I didn't know there was a sequel, Thanks for the information! ;-)

[silversabre84]

Do you know how i can get a copy of this theme?? at all

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

Unfortunately no. I have a version I extracted from the movie by myself... same quality.

[silversabre84]

That would be great if you could forward it to me?

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

Ok, I'll send it to you, check your messages inbox soon.

[Robo1415]

I've got both books....the movie version of the book and the sequel....I'll put them on ebay for you:)Let me know!

[hurricane8225]

wonderful!!!!

[Wiktow]

Fantastic movie!

Every actor is perfect for their character

[Cool2BCeltic]

Yes, very true.

[byfleetblue]

tnis is actually a decent movie , mc as a german , fantastic !!

[silversabre84]

Don't forget jenny agutter

[Cool2BCeltic]

From what I remember of the film he ends up in a unit being sent on dangerous missions because he helped a girl escape from a train that was going to the concentration camps.

[silversabre84]

The story goes that hitler in one of his brain storms orders the abduction of churchill and a feasibility study is conducted, himmeler orders radl to execute the plan as its 'apparently' what hitler wants, he selects steiner (caine) as he a paratrooper, english speaking and has the training experience for such an operations. Steiner is currently on a penal colony conducting sucicide missions for saving the jewish girl, saved only from execution because of his iron cross

[dazzerdd1]

thats knights cross

[MyDeerhunter123]

@byfleetblue And Donald Pleasance as a German too. Great performance. Films back in the 70s, 80 and 90s are sooo much better than the worthless garbage of today!

[silversabre84]

Great theme this, shame you can't download it from anywhere

[FesteringButtRash]

Could you post with link that can convert to mp3. I love the end credits march for this film but having trouble locating it again and accidental deletion.

[TheUnforgivenRebel]

I'll help you with that ;-)

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