The Eagle Has Landed is a 1976 British war film directed by John Sturges and starring Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, and Robert Duvall. The film is about a fictional German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill near the end of the Second World War. The movie is based on the 1975 novel The Eaglehas Landed by Jack Higgins, who was formerly an Executive at Paramount.
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The Eagle Has Landed is a 1976 British war film directed by John Sturges and starring Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, and Robert Duvall. The film is about a fictional German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill near the end of the Second World War. It was Sturges’s final film, and was successful upon its release. The novel by Jack Higgins was a bestseller in 1975 and was a partnership between Paramount and Jack Wiener, formerly an executive at Paramount Pictures. In October 1974, Paramount announced they had purchased the film rights to Jack Higgins’ The Eagle has Landed in partnership with JackWiener. The book came out in 1975, but the film was not released until 1976. It is revealed that the real Churchill was actually the victim of a double, as he was on his way to the Tehran Conference. The real Churchill is killed moments before being shot dead in the torpedo boat that is waiting for him in the Norfolk coast on the coast. The movie is based on the 1975 novel The Eaglehas Landed byJack Higgins, who was formerly an Executive at Paramount and formerly anExecutive at Paramount Studios.
The original version of this article incorrectly stated that the movie was based on Jack Higgins’ The EagleHas Landed. We are happy to clarify that this was not the case and that the film is in fact based on The Eagle Haslanded, which was a novel written in 1975. We apologise for any confusion this may have caused and we have been asked to make clear that this is a different version of the film that has been made available to the public. We would like to make it clear that we are not aware of any connection between the film and the novel, and that we have no knowledge of any of the events that took place in the film. We have been happy to point out that the book was written in the 1970s and the film has never been made into a TV series or a TV movie. We regret that we did not make the decision to make the film into a film.
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