Is Where Eagles Dare based on a true story?

According to a special feature about this film, Ingrid Pitt, who plays Heidi, made a daring escape in real life, over the Berlin Wall. An accident during one of the action scenes left producer Elliott Kastner and director Brian G. Hutton badly burnt.

What planes were used in Where Eagles Dare?

The JU-52 (HB-HOT), used in this movie as the rescue aircraft at the end, crashed into Piz Segnas, a mountain in the Swiss Alps, on August 4, 2018, killing all twenty on-board. It was on a flight from Locarno to Dubendorf, Switzerland.

Where did they shoot Where Eagles Dare?

Austria
Even when I was young, Where Eagles Dare looked different. Unlike so many shoot-’em-up-and-churn-’em-out war movies, it was filmed largely on location, in Austria and Bavaria. The Schloss Adler is a real castle; the Alpine village is a real village; the cable car to the castle is a real cable car.

Who was the traitor in Where Eagles Dare?

Colonel Wyatt-Turner
The real traitor turns out to be Colonel Wyatt-Turner, one of the high command who sent Smith on his mission in the first place.

Where was the cable car scene in Where Eagles Dare filmed?

The castle – Hohenwerfen Castle, Werfen, Austria; filmed in January 1968. Cable car – Feuerkogel Seilbahn at Ebensee, Austria; filmed in January 1968.

What is the plot of Where Eagles Dare?

A crack team of Allied soldiers stages a daring rescue during World War II. A U.S. general is being held captive in an imposing castle fort, high in the Bavarian Alps. The audacious plan calls for Lt. Schaffer (Clint Eastwood), Maj. Smith (Richard Burton) and other operatives to parachute down wearing Nazi disguises. They’ll penetrate the mountain outpost while undercover operatives assist them from within. But their mission changes when they discover that there’s a traitor in their midst.
Where Eagles Dare/Film synopsis

What age was Richard Burton when he died?

58 years (1925–1984)
Richard Burton/Age at death

He wrote more than 400,000 words in pocketbooks, desk diaries and loose paper until just before his death at the age of 58 in 1984.

What is the plot of the movie Where Eagles Dare?

What happens at the end of Where Eagles Dare?

In the film Christiansen is killed and Berkeley (Carraciola in the novel) incapacitated by Smith on the cable car (he dies apparently when the cable car explodes), and Thomas is shot and killed by a German soldier while climbing down a rope.

Did Richard Burton have an illegitimate child?

Legendary actor Richard Burton had a secret child with his first wife Sybil Williams. The Welsh-born Hollywood star left Williams in 1963 to marry fellow Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor. Until now it was believed that Burton and Williams had just one child together – Kate, now 44.

Did Elizabeth Taylor attend Richard Burton’s funeral?

Taylor did not attend the funeral, to avoid creating any difficulty for Burton’s widow, Sally Hay, who had been married to him for 13 months. Taylor, 52, arrived in Switzerland Sunday on a private jet from London and, accompanied by an aide, went directly to the village’s new cemetery.