The Eagle Has Landed
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Template:Infobox Movie The Eagle Has Landed is a book by Jack Higgins first published in 1975. It was made into a film in 1976.
The book is still in print, as it was reissued in New York by Berkley Books in 2000 with ISBN 0425177181
The film starred Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland and Robert Duvall.
During World War II a German Fallschirmjäger Officer, Colonel Steiner (Caine), intervenes as SS officers round up Jews at a railway station. He is subsequently court-martialled. Rather than face certain death, Steiner and his men are sent to a penal colony in the Channel Islands where their numbers are reduced while manning torpedo boats against British channel convoys. They are then offered a chance to redeem themselves by accepting an assignment to travel to England and capture Winston Churchill. They are aided by a member of the IRA, Liam Devlin (Sutherland.)
The plan is an invention of Himmler, inspired by the daring rescue of Germanys' ally Benito Mussolini by German special forces. Himmler's underlying intention however, is to discredit Admiral Whilhelm Canaris, head of the Abwehr, (German military intelligence). What Canaris (Anthony Quayle) takes as a joke is demonstrated to be feasible by Lt. Col. Radel (Duvall.)
Cast
- Michael Caine .... Col. Kurt Steiner
- Donald Sutherland .... Liam Devlin
- Robert Duvall .... Col. Max Radl
- Jenny Agutter .... Molly Prior
- Donald Pleasence .... Heinrich Himmler
- Anthony Quayle .... Adm. Canaris
- Jean Marsh .... Joanna Grey
- Sven-Bertil Taube .... Capt. von Neustadt
- John Standing .... Father Verecker
- Judy Geeson .... Pamela
- Treat Williams .... Capt. Clark
- Larry Hagman .... Col. Pitts
External links
- WW2DB: The Eagle Has Landed book review (http://www.ww2db.com/read.php?read_id=16)sl:Orel je pristal (film)