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The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

The Eagle Has Landed poster
Directed by
John Sturges
Genre
drama film, war film, spy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
2h 15m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 388 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A group of German soldiers plan to kidnap Winston Churchill during World War Two. The film follows their attempt and the people they encounter in an English village.

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What happens

The Eagle Has Landed is a 1976 British war film directed by John Sturges and starring Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, and Robert Duvall. Based on the 1975 novel of the same name by Jack Higgins, the film is about a fictional German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill in the middle of the Second World War. The Eagle Has Landed was Sturges's final film and was successful upon its release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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