Yet another great musical score from Ron Goodwin! Sadly over looked in life for a knighthood! One day.... I think he will be belatedly knightd by the Queen for his services to cinema music in the UK! Gordon Brown, take note - before you leave office!
I saw this on TCM this weekend, it still rocks. Great script, great acting, and magnificently filmed. Plus that awesome score! Burton and Eastwood make one heck of a team as actors as well as heroes.
Where Eagles Dare is one of the most incredible movie themes ever composed. I don´t like very much the version presented here, conducted by Paul Bateman and The Philarmonic of Praga, it´s too slow and lacks the strenght of the original one, conducted by Goodwin himself.
Yes Lunardso I agree with you fully....I don't this pounding theme has ever been really equelled, it is really unique. An interesting point about this movie that might not be generally known is why' besides the money' Richard Burton took the part. He said at the time that all the films he was making were unsuitable for children to watch. Then "Where Eagles Dare" came along and he said, this is the only one of my movies I would take my children to see!....cheere mate lol
@spacepatrolman Well compared to the violence in today's movies ' Where Eagles Dare' is like a Walt Disney production, and it was even described by reviewers at the time of it's release as a 'boys own adventure' cartoon violence with action and adventure thrown in...I'm not sure but I think Richard Burtons children were girls one of which often appears on T.V. shows....she seems okay to me!
I didn't like the movie much, thought that it made the Germans look like pushovers.
kpadmirer 2 years ago
@kpadmirer
Thats only because the movie was fictional.
EvilFingers 1 year ago
Yet another great musical score from Ron Goodwin! Sadly over looked in life for a knighthood! One day.... I think he will be belatedly knightd by the Queen for his services to cinema music in the UK! Gordon Brown, take note - before you leave office!
lincsposter 2 years ago 6
I couldn't agree more!.....the movie scores he wrote were fantastic and made some great war movie so much better!
river2walk 2 years ago
broadsword calling danny boy
andyw0101 2 years ago
@andyw0101
No one could say that line better than Richard Burton.
flint55 1 year ago
I saw this on TCM this weekend, it still rocks. Great script, great acting, and magnificently filmed. Plus that awesome score! Burton and Eastwood make one heck of a team as actors as well as heroes.
DEP717 2 years ago
Im so gonna use this in my NEXT war vid!
spottydog4472 2 years ago
Where Eagles Dare is one of the most incredible movie themes ever composed. I don´t like very much the version presented here, conducted by Paul Bateman and The Philarmonic of Praga, it´s too slow and lacks the strenght of the original one, conducted by Goodwin himself.
epaubel 3 years ago 4
I agree, and it's a shame that this great theme is now almost forgotten, but I doubt if the movie ever will be!
river2walk 3 years ago
Great Soundtrack, great movie.
I love this scene : Eastwood with his two Schmeisser-MP (MP40).
favoritner 3 years ago
Hell yeah, and that actually looks realistic and kickass at the same time!
doomrules08 3 years ago
Yes Lunardso I agree with you fully....I don't this pounding theme has ever been really equelled, it is really unique. An interesting point about this movie that might not be generally known is why' besides the money' Richard Burton took the part. He said at the time that all the films he was making were unsuitable for children to watch. Then "Where Eagles Dare" came along and he said, this is the only one of my movies I would take my children to see!....cheere mate lol
river2walk 3 years ago
@river2walk I sort of think it is similar to the theme to, "The Blue Max"......although this one is better.
kyokogodai 11 months ago
@river2walk does he really want his children to see all that gory killing
spacepatrolman 4 months ago
@spacepatrolman Well compared to the violence in today's movies ' Where Eagles Dare' is like a Walt Disney production, and it was even described by reviewers at the time of it's release as a 'boys own adventure' cartoon violence with action and adventure thrown in...I'm not sure but I think Richard Burtons children were girls one of which often appears on T.V. shows....she seems okay to me!
river2walk 4 months ago
@river2walk burtons real name was jenkins he sez on the radio jenkins was kulled in the drop
spacepatrolman 4 months ago
One of the Top Ten WWII movies with one of the Top-Ten war movie themes.
LunarDSO 3 years ago