![]() ![]() My English was not good enough at the time to understand the intricacies of the plot but I do remember the thrilling climb to the top of the steep cliff and the guns getting blown up in the end. I saw The Guns of Navarone in a theatre when I was a kid. In Where Eagles Dare, he is the most dangerous double agent in Europe who is said to have “a seventh, eighth and ninth and a built-in radar set for danger”, à la James Bond. ![]() In The Longest Day he is a fatigued pilot who has just watched his best friend take his final dive in the depths of the English Channel. ![]() Notice how different the characters are that Richard Burton plays in these two movies. But my absolute favourite WWII movie from the sixties is the 1962 movie The Longest Day. I love the little tricks and stratagems employed throughout the movie. That’s the reason why I have watched Where Eagles Dare countless times. (I have heard good things about editors on the Alpha Centauri system.) No editor within a radius of 4.2 light-years would have allowed that. ![]()
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