Where Eagles Dare (1968) * FULL LENGTH REACTION
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A young Clint Eastwood!!! Another older movie, and I'm noticing how different movies are though I can't quite put it into words.
I love how filmmaking has evolved, and I'm super curious to see more.
The mystery, the soundtrack, the cinematography and filming locations were all great!!
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Comments
In addition to Eastwood and Sutherland, "Kelly's Heroes" has both comedy and a heist Some other good Donald Sutherland to add to your recommendations list: "The Italian Job" (2003 remake) "Backdraft" (1991) directed by Ron Howard, music by Hans Zimmer "The Dirty Dozen" (1967) "The Eagle Has Landed" (1976) w/ Michael Caine "Space Cowboys" (2000) directed by Clint Eastwood "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1992 original) "Animal House" (1978) comedy, not sure if it is to your tastes
JAKH
2024-02-03 19:02:23 +0000 UTCForgot to mention that the metal band Iron Maiden did a song about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAYOmJ9W70Y
JAKH
2024-02-03 18:46:47 +0000 UTCVery much appreciated, and when you have time, the spreadsheet with all the links will prove useful :D
Verowak
2024-02-01 17:52:00 +0000 UTCRichard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were in several movies together. The best known are "Cleopatra" (1963) and "The Taming of the Shrew" (1967) based on the Shakespeare play.
JAKH
2024-01-31 14:35:21 +0000 UTCI havent watched a reaction with you for ages but I remain subscribed because I love the movie choices and I want to make more time to watch them, lol.
Kiwi Tau
2024-01-29 16:14:12 +0000 UTCOh thanks, a bunch of this I didn't know. I also realize that I ask questions that I already know the answer to, but I don't think when watching movies ๐คฃ I think that's where I heard the name Richard Burton before, being married to Elizabeth Taylor. Someone else that I only know the name but nothing about.
Verowak
2024-01-29 15:54:26 +0000 UTCI've heard the title "Kelly's Heroes" but never knew it was Clint Eastwood. HUGE bonus that Donald Sutherland is in it too though!!
Verowak
2024-01-29 15:23:13 +0000 UTCAnswers to your questions: 1) Clint Eastwood is 6'4" (~193cm), or at least he was when he was young. 2) Clint will turn 94 this year. His last acting appearances were in 2021 and 2018. He is still directing. 3) Richard Burton was a huge name as a leading actor in the 1950's & 1960's. He was married to Elizabeth Taylor twice. They were great fodder for the celebrity gossip media of the day. Some people mistake him for Anthony Hopkins. They have vaguely similar faces and are both Welsh, so have the same accent. 4) When Richard Burton digs in the snow under the man who died in the drop, he was looking for a rock. branch, stump, etc. that might have caused the injury, but found nothing. 5) Little detail: in Band of Brothers" Ep 3, they mentioned about the German Alpine troops climbing the mountains to get edelweiss flowers. The Alpine Korps uniforms that they are wearing in this movie have a cloth edelweiss patch on the right upper arm and a metal edelweiss badge on the left side of their caps. 6) with their feldgrau uniforms and the style of their field caps, when the German troops are in formation they look a lot like Imperial officers from "Star Wars". It's almost like George Lucas was trying set a tone. ๐ 7) Having the credits at the beginning of older movies was a requirement of union contracts (both US and UK). When Star Wars was released in 1977, Lucas had to get a waiver to have the opening text crawl instead of credits. He couldn't get one for "Empire" so resigned from the Director's Guild in order to do the movie the way that he wanted. Everyone else in the movie got fined by their respective unions (SAG, photographers, editors, etc.). Lucas paid everyone else's fines out of his own pocket. 8) When they walk through the checkpoint, it looks a lot like the scene in "Andor" when they march into the Imperial dam for the heist, yes? 9) when Richard Burton calls himself "Bernard Himmler", Heinrich Himmler was head of the SS, the Gestapo, and commanded all the civilian police in Germany; national, state, and local. 10) Yes, dynamite is shock sensitive, which is a plot point in a lot of Westerns. By WW2, what they were using was TNT (trinitrotoluene) which is much more stable and shock insensitive. In "Band of Brothers" Ep 2, they used TNT to disable the German guns. Instead of sticks, they were fist-sized rectangular blocks. 11) Seat belts? What the heck are those? 12) In video games, if you have played any of the "Warhammer 40,000" games, Colonel Schaffer of "Schaffer's Last Chancers is named after Clint Eastwood's character in this movie, and the Last Chancer's themselves are based on "The Dirty Dozen" (1967), the original "Suicide Squad" (see also "The Eagle Has landed" (1976) w/ Michael Caine) ๐ 13) Cable cars or aerial tramways always have 2 cars. They are attached to the same cable that runs in a loop, so the cars go in opposite directions. 14) Clint Eastwood isn't just always squinting. He also has a signature grimace where he compresses the right side of his mouth but not the left. 15) SHAEF = Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces. The position still exists as Commander of NATO Allied Forces in Europe.
JAKH
2024-01-29 15:09:16 +0000 UTCThis one never disappoints, as much as you seemed to like this one, another good Eastwood WWII outing I think you'd immensely enjoy is Kelly's Heroes. It's got a good cast, and a fun watch. Among others, Donald Sutherland is in it and it's probably my favorite role of his.
Bubba Fett
2024-01-29 03:45:55 +0000 UTC
