May 21 1975 

THE EIGER SANCTION opens. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Written by Hal Dresner, WAlter B. Murphy and Rod Whitaker. From the novel by Trevanian.  Eastwood stars as an art professor-cum-government hitman who is enjoined to take out a Russian killer hiding out with a climbing team on titular Swiss mountain. Curiously pedestrian, by the numbers non-thriller enlivened only by the odd vertiginous climbing sequence. With George Kennedy, Jack Cassidy and Vonetta McGee. 

 

 

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