The Eagle Has Landed
– When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a cou..
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
25 Dec 1976
English, German, Polish
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John Sturges
Tom Mankiewicz (screenplay), Jack Higgins (novel)
Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter
Oberst Steiner, a German parachute unit commander, is sent to England on a covert mission to kidnap Prime Minister Winston Churchill and bring him to Berlin. The seemingly impossible assignment becomes more and more feasible as the mission grows nearer with Steiner and his men arriving in England to a very real possibility of success.
Columbia Pictures