Broadsword Calling Danny Boy: Watching 'Where Eagles Dare'

by Geoff Dyer Narrated by Roy MacMillan

Overview

Geoff Dyer's earlier book on film, Zona, was about Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, so it was perhaps inevitable that he should next devote his unique critical and stylistic energies to Brian G. Hutton's Where Eagles Dare. A thrilling Alpine adventure starring a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a dynamically lethargic Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare is the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous.

'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy' is Geoff Dyer's hilarious tribute to a film he has loved since childhood: it's a scene-by-scene analysis-or should that be send-up?-taking us from it's snowy, Teutonic opening credits to its vertigo-inducing climax.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169125320
Publisher:	Penguin Random House
Publication date:	02/12/2019
Edition description:	Unabridged

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