Where Eagles Dare

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Anyone! (David Rintoul, Toby Longworth, Matt Addis, but as they are soooo good and therefore possibly to expensive to employ).. how about Colin Mace who read 'Nomad' so well ? ...actually that is a bit unfair, but Oliver struggles much like with 'The Guns of Navarone' with accents. The German ones all sound the same and like a cliched parody more akin to the BBC's 'Allo, Allo!', and the female voice of Mary, nearly made my ears bleed. The american accent for Schaffer is identical to Dusty Miller in Guns of Navarone, the germans the same, and I can only thank god that there were no greeks in this story. He seems to only be able to recreate one version of an accent. His fluency is in question as well, as he struggles to turning that into a coherent and not disjointed experience (lots of unnecessary pauses, or bad edits?). The problem here is that this is repeated from previous books, and although I believe he delivers this one slightly better, it is still a long way off from good, let alone perfect.I originally listened to this on cassette read by Martin Jarvis...the cassette, even in it's 40 year, mangled state is better! I have red worse books than this, and at least I suppose it HAD a plot. The hardest part for me to get over was how unlikeable Smith was with his narcissism (which was seen as fair enough in the circumstances, but paranoia is part of narcissism anyway). Perhaps spies in a war have to be a bit like that (any true stories I have looked into suggest otherwise). The cellulord is watching: WHERE EAGLES DARE". Archived from the original on 1 April 2017 . Retrieved 1 April 2017. As the second world war thriller became bogged down during the mid-60s in plodding epics like Operation Crossbow and The Heroes of Telemark, someone was needed to reintroduce a little sang-froid, some post-Le Carré espionage, and for heaven's sake, some proper macho thrills into the genre. Alistair Maclean stepped up, writing the screenplay and the novel of Where Eagles Dare simultaneously, and Brian G Hutton summoned up a better than usual cast headed by Richard Burton (Major Jonathan Smith), a still fresh-faced Clint Eastwood (Lieutenant Morris Schaffer), and the late Mary Ure (Mary Elison). 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!

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 ] Production [ edit ] Festung Hohenwerfen, in Werfen, Austria, where the castle scenes were filmed Development [ edit ]

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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] BROADSWORD CALLING DANNY-BOY … the making of WHERE EAGLES DARE". Film Review 1998: republished in The Cellulord is Watching. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013 . Retrieved 1 October 2013. Canby, Vincent (13 March 1969). "Screen: In the War Tradition, 'Where Eagles Dare' ". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 20 April 2019 . Retrieved 20 April 2019. Armstrong, Neil (3 July 2018). "The Daily Telegraph". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018 . Retrieved 20 October 2018. Mad Magazine published a satire of the film in its October 1969 issue under the title "Where Vultures Fare." In 2009 Cinema Retro released a special issue dedicated to Where Eagles Dare which detailed the production and filming of the film. [38]

Films were still being made out of his novels, including Breakheart Pass (1975) (from Kastner), Golden Rendezvous (1977), Force 10 from Navarone (1978), and Bear Island (1979), but none did very well. In the early 1960s, MacLean published two novels under the pseudonym "Ian Stuart" to prove that the popularity of his books was due to their content rather than his name on the cover. [20] These were The Dark Crusader (1961) and The Satan Bug (1962). He also said it was because "I usually write adventure stories, but this is a sort of Secret Service or private eye book. I didn't want to confuse my readers." [21] I came to know about this novel when joined good reads, then I got the DVD watched it before reading the book. This year in the book exhibition I bought Alistair MacLean's suspense thriller "Where Eagles Dare" 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.The Ian Stuart books sold well, and MacLean made no attempt to change his writing style. He also continued to publish novels under his own name such as The Golden Rendezvous (1962) and Ice Station Zebra (1963). [22] In 1973, MacLean was looking at moving to Jamaica. He also considered moving to Ireland, but decided to stay in Switzerland. [43] 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. Film locations—Where Eagles Dare". Archived from the original on 30 September 2018 . Retrieved 30 September 2018. How book and film compare: With Maclean heavily involved, and the screenplay already in his mind while he wrote the novel, the final film version conforms closely to the original. Only peripheral details are sacrificed, such as Schaffer's romance with undercover barmaid Heidi.

Johnstone, Iain (10 May 1978). "The Man with the Golden Typewriter". The Australian Women's Weekly. p.65 . Retrieved 10 July 2012. According to one obituary, "he never lost his love for the sea, his talent for portraying good Brits against bad Germans, or his penchant for high melodrama. Critics deplored his cardboard characters and vapid females, but readers loved his combination of hot macho action, wartime commando sagas, and exotic settings that included Greek Islands and Alaskan oil fields." [2] Early life [ edit ] Alistair Stuart Maclean was born on 21 April 1922 in Shettleston, Glasgow, the third of four sons of a Church of Scotland minister, [3] but spent much of his childhood and youth in Daviot, 10 miles (16km) south of Inverness. He spoke Scottish Gaelic. [4]Head, Dominic (26 January 2006). The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge University Press. p.431. ISBN 9780521831796. Aviation Safety Network". Flight Safety Foundation. Archived from the original on 16 December 2019 . Retrieved 20 April 2019.