The Eagle Has Landed (film)

The Eagle Has Landed
The Eagle Has Landed
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Sturges
Screenplay by	Tom Mankiewicz
Based on	The Eagle Has Landed; by Jack Higgins
Produced by	David Niven Jr.; Jack Wiener;
Starring	Michael Caine; Donald Sutherland; Robert Duvall; Jenny Agutter; Donald Pleasence; Anthony Quayle; Jean Marsh; Sven-Bertil Taube; Judy Geeson; Siegfried Rauch; John Standing; Treat Williams; Larry Hagman;
Cinematography	Anthony B. Richmond
Edited by	Anne V. Coates
Music by	Lalo Schifrin
Production; company	ITC Entertainment
Distributed by	Cinema International Corporation
Release dates	25 December 1976 (Finland and Sweden); 31 March 1977 (UK);
Running time	135 minutes (Europe); 151 minutes (restored version);
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$6,000,000

The Eagle Has Landed is a 1976 British war film directed by John Sturges, and starring Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland and Robert Duvall.

Based on the 1975 novel The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins, the film is about a fictional German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill in the middle of the Second World War. The Eagle Has Landed was Sturges's final film, and was successful upon its release.^[2]

^ Lovell, Glenn. Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges. University of Wisconsin Press, 2008, pp. 284–288.
^ Canby, Vincent (26 March 1977). "The Eagle Has Landed (1976)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 17 October 2019. Retrieved 17 August 2013.