WHERE EAGLES DARE opens in NY. Directed by Brian G. Hutton. Written by Alistair MacLean, from his novel. One of the great "boys own" WW2 adventure epics of the 1960s with Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood leading a seven strong commando unit tasked with rescuing a captured US general from German-held Bavarian castle. Co-starring Mary Ure, Ingrid Pitt, Donald Houston, Derren Nesbitt, Patrick Wymark and Anton Diffring.