Where eagles dare 1968/2008

[WEISNER]

What a wonderful looking place, thanks very much for the then and now tour, I love these side by side tours!

Kevin

[birdie]

And the best for last: after you leave Hohenwerfen, and you are just beginning to come into town, look for the knight (St. George) at the corner of one of the first buildings you come upon . . . within the building next door, some of the finest Leberknoedelsuppe is served there - oh my . . . I want to go back!

Look behind the iron railing ,lower left..a huge ORB...Ghost?

[N.C. Wyeth]

Seems the 50th Anniversary is upon us . . . and this "tell-all" book might be a neat read:

https://play.google.com/store/books/...FUdnAQodGN8L1Q


Broadsword Calling Danny Boy: Watching "Where Eagles Dare"
Geoff Dyer
February 12, 2019

From a writer of "derelict luminosity" (David Mitchell), a scene-by-scene exploration of Where Eagles Dare, one of cinema's most cherished and popular films, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.

Geoff Dyer has loved Where Eagles Dare since childhood. It is both a thrillingly realized Alpine World War II adventure with tough, compelling acting from its two great stars, Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, and a flippant travesty, reducing the central disaster in Europe's modern history to a series of huge explosions and peopled by campy SS officers.

As he did in Zona--which took on Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker--in Broadsword Calling Danny Boy, Dyer gives us a scene-by-scene reaction to and reading of the film. And perhaps as only he can, the author both extols and denigrates--lovingly and entertainingly no matter which way he falls--this acme of the late '60s action movie.

[sniper11]

What an excellent post.Like many this was one of my favorite movies growing up in my youth.The scenery looks outstanding so I must go there sometime.

[Kyle Harrington]

Great thread

I was nine on holiday in a caravan in Tenby South Wales, the weather was so awful my old man took me and my two brothers to see this. Changed my life got into WW2. My old man RIP bless him loved this film.We discussed it right up to his passing.

[N.C. Wyeth]

It is certainly a "MUST" . . .

The scenery looks outstanding so I must go there sometime.

That whole region still ranks near the top, of all my most favorites places to have visited. I will never forget those experiences, so long as I live . . .

[Tom B]

Thanks for this info ! very interesting ! Tom

[Arthur Kullmer]

great pics thanks for showing them

[chen]

Saw this railroad model years ago on ebay.
Any idea where it is now?

[Jeff V]

Wow, that is so cool Chen, thanks for the pic!

[chen]

:

[chen]

Ultimate Castle model

[Jeff V]

Great pics Chen!

[Arthur Kullmer]

Wow love the railway model, also wonder if any of their kit in that black & white studio photo is genuine, obviously the Kubel but some of the other props ?

[BrianK]

If this movie does not inspire one to become a TR collector, then nothing will. It did me.