The Eagle Has Landed

The Eagle Has Landed

135 mins | Drama, Action, Thriller, Adventure, War | Dec. 24, 1976

When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.

The Eagle Has Landed

135 mins | Drama, Action, Thriller, Adventure, War | Dec. 24, 1976

The Eagle Has Landed
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers ITC, Associated General Films
Original title The Eagle Has Landed
Directors Terence Churcher, Michael Stevenson, David C. Anderson, John Sturges
Writers Jack Higgins, Tom Mankiewicz

Cast

Michael Caine

as Col. Kurt Steiner

Donald Sutherland

as Liam Devlin

Robert Duvall

as Col. Max Radl

Jenny Agutter

as Molly Prior

Donald Pleasence

as Himmler

Anthony Quayle

as Admiral Canaris

Jean Marsh

as Joanna Grey

Sven-Bertil Taube

as Captain von Neustadt

John Standing

as Father Verecker

Judy Geeson

as Pamela

Treat Williams

as Captain Clark

Larry Hagman

as Colonel Pitts

Alexei Jawdokimov

as Corporal Kuniski

Richard Wren

as Hans Altmann

Michael Byrne

as Karl

Joachim Hansen

as SS-Obergruppenführer

Denis Lill

as Churchill's aide

Rick Parsé

as E-Boat Commander

Léonie Thelen

as Branna

Keith Buckley

as Hauptmann Gericke

Terence Plummer

as Arthur Seymour

Tim Barlow

as George Wilde (Publican)

John Barrett

as Laker Armsby

Kate Binchy

as Mrs. White

Maurice Roëves

as Major Corcoran

David Gilliam

as Sgt. Murphy

Jeff Conaway

as Frazier

Asa Teeter

as Major Neuer's Driver

Rob Reece

as Corporal Becker

Jack McCulloch

as Major Neuer

Siegfried Rauch

as Sgt. Brandt

Brian Blessed

as Arthur Seymour (voice) (uncredited)

Patrick Allen

as Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Anthony Forrest

as Sgt. Hayley (uncredited)

Wolf Kahler

as Hauptsturmführer Fleischer (uncredited)

Roy Marsden

as Sturmbannführer Toberg, SS (uncredited)

George Leech

as Traumer (uncredited)

Ferdy Mayne

as Radl's Doctor (uncredited)

Kent Williams

as Mallory (uncredited)

Leigh Dilley

as Winston Churchill / George Fowler (uncredited)

Harry Fielder

as Motorbike Outrider (uncredited)

Walter Henry

as Constable (uncredited)