Eagle Has Landed, The - Desert Eagle Discs

Advantages: Excellent NZ comedy
Disadvantages: Not enough of it around

...... Lily Jemaine Clement ... Jarrod Joel Tobeck ... Damon Brian Sergent ... Jonah Craig Hall ... Doug Davis Rachel House ... Nancy Morag Hills ... Vinny Bernard Stewart ... Zane Taika Cohen ... Gordon David Fane ... Eric Elisi Cohen Holloway ... Mason Gentiane Lupi ... Tracy -The Plot- Most NZ films usually exploit its beautiful baron lands or the Maori tensions but here it's an urban tale of rural town family life and the trail and tribulations of its number one plonker. The plonker in question is greasy haired manic depressive computer games geek Jarrod (Jemaine Clement), who works in an electrical store, his loner friends cut from similar cloth. But he has a secret admirer, gauche fast-food attendant Lily (Loren Horsley), who makes sure she serves him when he comes in at 12 O'clock dead every workday lunch time... Read review

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Advantages: Brilliant Cast
Disadvantages: Not as 'polished' as it could be

...Based on Jack Higgins bestselling World War 2 novel this film (released in 1976) follows the story of a secret mission by a small group of German Paratroopers whose mission was to drop into England and kidnapp Winston Churchill. The story is set in lae November 1943 as the Nazi's realise the tide of the war has turned. Hitler is growing more and more frustrated and wants results immediately. Out of a desperate suggestion the idea is born to go in and kidnapp Churchill while he is in the English countryside for a weekend, thus showing the German might and putting them in a better position for negotiation. The idea is labelled as fantasy by the high ranking Germans, all except Colonel Maximillian Radl (Robert Duvall) who puts togther a workable plan which Himmler (Donald Pleasance) approves of. To safely complete this mission he... Read review

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Advantages: A great film, with great performances.
Disadvantages: The action is directed near the end of the film.

...The Eagle Has Landed (1977) It is 1943, and Mussillini has just been rescued from a mountain top prison in Italy by a daring German commando raid. Now Hitler wants Winston Churchill kidnapped. From the pen of Jack Higgins, the film puts you straight into the depths of Nazi Germany and the story of how Colonel Kurt Steiner (MIchael Caine), Liam Delvin (Donald Sutherland) and 15 German paratroopers desend into the quiet English countryside to carry out their do or die mission. The acting performances are first class with Robert Duval as Colonel Max Radl, a battle scarred survivor of the Russian Front that is now the brains behind the mission. A young Jenny Agutter, who provides the love interest for Donald Sutherland as a young nieve country girl. There is a classic casting of Larry Hagman as Colonel Pitts and his fellow American... Read review

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