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The Eagle Has Landed
film by Sturges [1976]
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discussed in biography
- In John Sturges: Later films
The Eagle Has Landed (1976) showed flashes of Sturges’s old prowess. The old-fashioned suspense thriller was based on a Jack Higgins best seller about a Nazi plot to kidnap British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. As with most of Sturges’s more-popular productions, it featured a stellar…
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role of Caine
- In Michael Caine
…King (1975) and John Sturges’s The Eagle Has Landed (1976). He continued his prodigious output during the 1980s, appearing in some two dozen films during the decade. Though many of these films were dismal failures, Caine’s reputation did not suffer, because he had garnered respect for being such a tireless…
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