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The Eagle Has Landed is a British film of genre Drama directed by John Sturges released in USA on 2 april 1977 with Michael Caine
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
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Add to a movie listThe Eagle Has Landed is a 1976 British film directed by John Sturges and starring Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland and Robert Duvall.
Based on the novel The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins, the film is about a German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill during the height of the Second World War. The Eagle Has Landed was Sturges' final film, and received positive reviews and was successful upon its release.
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The film begins with captured Second World War film footage of the rescue from Italy of Mussolini by German paratroopers.Actors
Michael Caine
(Col. Kurt Steiner)
Donald Sutherland
(Liam Devlin)
Robert Duvall
(Col. Max Radl)
Jenny Agutter
(Molly Prior)
Donald Pleasence
(Himmler)
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