'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy'By: Geoff Dyer A Telegraph, Evening Standard and Daily Mail Book of the Year From the acclaimed writer and critic Geoff Dyer, an extremely funny scene by scene analysis of Where Eagles Dare published as the film reaches its 50th anniversary A thrilling Alpine adventure starring a magnificent, bleary eyed Richard Burton and a coolly anachronistic Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare is the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous.