Eagle Has Landed
A German plot to kidnap Sir Winston Churchill unfolds at the height of World War II.
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Storyline
1943, The war is entering its final stages and Germany is teetering on the brink of defeat. An increasingly unhinged Hitler, orders a mission to have British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill kidnapped and brought to Germany. The plan seems ludicrous in the extreme, but a message sent from a German spy in the Norfolk countryside makes one German officer realize that such a mission may just feasible.
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Director: John Sturges
Writers: Tom Mankiewicz (screenplay), Jack Higgins (novel)
Stars: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall