A team of 6 British special forces headed by Major John Smith and one American Lieutenant Morris Schaffer were airdropped behind enemy lines to rescue an US Army General George Carnaby having secret with him about D-day plan, he who had crash landed and is in the custody of Germans in an impregnable fortress, an inaccessible eyrie set between mountain and sky, Schloss Adler. Production [ edit ] Festung Hohenwerfen, in Werfen, Austria, where the castle scenes were filmed Development [ edit ] Possibly not. I love the story, it is a classic, and possibly Maclean's best work... but.. it is only a good listen if the narrator can recreate this. The producer/editors should also take some of the blame to. This recording is not upto the standard of the 40 year old cassette version!

a b c "Where Eagles Dare". TCM. Archived from the original on 11 November 2022 . Retrieved 11 November 2022. At one point during filming, Burton was threatened at gunpoint by an overzealous fan, but fortunately danger was averted. [21]

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a b c d e War Is Hell, but It Pays Off for MacLean: War Pays Off for MacLean War Pays Off for MacLean War is Hell, but It Pays Off for Alistair Johnstone, Jain. Los Angeles Times 17 December 1972: p1. Aba, Marika (21 July 1968). "The Burtons... 'Just Another Working Couple' ". Los Angeles Times. p.c18.

Head, Dominic (26 January 2006). The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge University Press. p.431. ISBN 9780521831796. The Clint Eastwood Archive: Eastwood Interviewed # 03 Clint on Clint Empire Magazine November 2008". 15 December 2009. Archived from the original on 20 October 2017 . Retrieved 19 October 2017. Whilst a university student, MacLean began writing short stories for extra income, winning a competition in 1954 with the maritime story "Dileas". He sold stories to the Daily Mirror and The Evening News. The wife of Ian Chapman, editor at the publishing company Collins, had been particularly moved by "Dileas" and the Chapmans arranged to meet with MacLean, suggesting he write a novel. [10] MacLean responded three months later with HMS Ulysses, based on his own war experiences and credited insight from his brother Ian, a master mariner. [7] [11] MacLean is a natural storyteller", said Kastner. "He is a master of adventure. All his books are conceived in cinematic terms. They hardly need to be adapted for the screen; when you read them, the screen is in front of your mind." [33] MacLean wrote a sequel to Guns of Navarone, Force 10 from Navarone (1968). A film version was announced in 1967, but did not result for another decade. [34] The same year, an expensive film based on Ice Station Zebra was released.In 1976, MacLean's second wife Mary formed a company with producer Peter Snell, Aleelle Productions, which aimed to make movies based on MacLean novels, including Golden Gate, Bear Island, The Way to Dusty Death, and Captain Cook. This company still owned these film rights after MacLean divorced Mary in 1977, but the rights soon passed to Snell. [52] The author: Alistair Maclean (1922-1987) was the son of a minister in the Scottish Highlands, and saw active service in the second world war in the Royal Navy. He became a schoolteacher, but won a short story competition in 1954 that encouraged him to put his war experiences into a novel. HMS Ulysses (1955) was the result, and was an immediate success, allowing Maclean to become a full-time writer. More war novels followed, notably The Guns of Navarone (1957), and Maclean moved to Switzerland in 1957 to escape UK tax laws. In the 1960s, he turned to espionage, writing The Dark Crusader (1961) and The Satan Bug (1962) under the pseudonym Ian Stuart. With a string of successful film adaptations boosting his name, Maclean's sales flourished in the 1960s, though he briefly retired from writing in 1963 to become a hotelier. Where Eagles Dare (1967) marked a return to his favourite second world war territory. As he struggled with alcoholism in the 1970s, Maclean's popularity began to wane, and his novels began to recycle old ideas. He died after a stroke in Munich in 1987. Geoffrey Reeve directed a film of Caravan to Vaccarès (1974). By 1973, MacLean had sold over 24 million novels. [23] "I am not a writer," he said in 1972. "I am a businessman. My business is writing." [4] MacLean had spent a number of years focusing on screenplays, but disliked it and decided to return to being predominantly a novel writer. "Hollywood destroys writers," he said. [5] He wrote a biography of Captain James Cook, which was published in 1972. [44] He wrote Breakheart Pass (1974), [45] Circus (1975), [46] The Golden Gate (1976), [47] Seawitch (1977), [48] Goodbye California (1979) and Athabasca (1980). His niece Shona MacLean (also published under S.G. Maclean) is a writer and historical novelist. [60]

Maclean wrote a thriller about narcotics, Puppet on a Chain (1969), and Caravan to Vaccarès (1970). These books all began as screenplays for Kastner. [36] Maclean said Puppet was "a change of style from the earlier books. If I went on writing the same stuff, I'd be guying myself." [37] Maiorul Smith dovedește incontestabile calități de lider, dar și inteligență iețită din comun ce le salvează viețile de nenumărate ori. Este cu un pas înaintea băieților răi si e atent la detalii. Ceea ce mi-a plăcut cel mai mult la Smith este calmul cu care tratează orice situatie, și culmea, mereu reușește să acționeze în așa fel încât să scape la limita din mâinile inamicului. Nu se lasă intimidat sau distras de la misiune, abia în momentul încheierii acesteia își permite să dea frau liber emoțiilor.Cred că am avut așteptări prea mari de la roman, altfel nu-mi explic sentimentul dulce-amar de la final, în condițiile în care l-am devorat în mai puțin de trei ore, în miez de noapte. O intrigă foarte bună, un stil alert, multe răsturnări de situație și un duo exploziv (Smith și Schaffer), însă, la un moment dat, am avut impresia că Alistair Maclean mi-a oferit scenariul pentru unul dintre filmele din franciza Misiune imposibilă. MacLean was awarded a doctor of letters by the University of Glasgow in 1983. [ citation needed] Critical appraisal [ edit ] His later works include River of Death (1981) (filmed in 1989), Partisans (1982), Floodgate (1983), and San Andreas (1984). Often, these novels were worked on by ghost writers specializing in drama, with MacLean providing only the plots and characters. [53] His last novel was Santorini (1986), which was published after his death. [54] His estate left behind several outlines. One of them was filmed as Death Train (1993). [55] His later books were not as well received as the earlier publications, and in an attempt to keep his stories in keeping with the time, he sometimes lapsed into unduly improbable plots. [ citation needed] Death [ edit ] Wales, Roland (3 March 2017). Movie Countdown: 52 – 46. Pen and Sword Books / WordPress. ISBN 978-1-47386-069-8 . Retrieved 5 February 2018. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help)

MacLean died of heart failure [56] at the age of 64 in Munich on 2 February 1987; his last years were affected by alcoholism. [57] According to one obituary, "A master of nail-chewing suspense, MacLean met an appropriately mysterious death; when he died in the Bavarian capital after a brief illness, no one, including the British Embassy, knew what he was doing there." [2] [58] [57] Personal life [ edit ] In 1967, MacLean formed a partnership with Geoffrey Reeve and Lewis Jenkins to make films for MacLean to write and Reeves to direct. They planned to make a sequel to Guns of Navarone, only to discover that Carl Foreman, producer of the original film, had registered the title After Navarone. This led to a falling-out with Foreman, and a delay in the Navarone sequel. [35] I drew a cross square, lines down representing the characters, lines across representing chapters 1–15. Most of the characters died, in fact only one survived the book, but when I came to the end the graph looked somewhat lopsided, there were too many people dying in the first, fifth and tenth chapters so I had to rewrite it, giving an even dying space throughout. I suppose it sounds cold blooded and calculated, but that's the way I did it. [12] He said his stories tended to pit "character against character as a kind of intellectual chess game" and that he found writing "boring" and "lonely", but "I guess it all boils down to that rather awful philosophy of take the money and run." [5] "I am just a journeyman," he said. "I blunder along from one book to the next always hopeful that one day I will write something really good." [5]

Burton later said, "I decided to do the picture because Elizabeth's two sons said they were fed up with me making films they weren't allowed to see, or in which I get killed. They wanted me to kill a few people instead." [5] The producer consulted MacLean and requested an adventure film filled with mystery, suspense, and action. Most of MacLean's novels had been made into films or were being filmed. Kastner persuaded MacLean to write a new story; six weeks later, he delivered the script, at that time entitled Castle of Eagles. Kastner hated the title, and chose Where Eagles Dare instead. The title [7] is from Act I, Scene III, Line 71 in William Shakespeare's Richard III: "The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch". Like virtually all of MacLean's works, Where Eagles Dare features his trademark "secret traitor", who must be unmasked by the end. Writer Algis Budrys described MacLean's writing style as - "hit 'em with everything but the kitchen sink, then give 'em the sink, and when they raise their heads, drop the plumber on 'em". [61] Pentru el, vibraţiile puternice erau, neîndoios, la fel de relaxante ca serviciile celui mai blând masor, zgomotul asurzitor al motoarelor, un bun somnifer, iar temperatura din jur, potrivită pentru un individ pasionat de lecturi uşoare.”