The cable car fight scene in which Burton dispatches a Nazi with an ice-pick helps. It's tempting to see the film as a two-person play-off between Burton and Eastwood (in pre- Dirty Harry dirty Harry mode) but the film belongs to Burton after the script was re-worked to give him the lion's share of the dialogue, helping him to out-cool The Man With No Name. ![]() Is Burton's Major Smith a double agent? Why is Mary Ure such a stone cold killer? And why don't British-made guns work? Written as a screenplay by Alistair MacLean (the author behind The Guns Of Navarone) the film tackles Shakespearean themes of betrayal (the title is from a line in Richard III) as well as packing in more twists and turns than a creepy Nazi castle. Re: The statue in the begining of behind enemy lines Originally Posted by seoulstice Im pretty sure its a prop, if I recall from the behind the scenes, that whole area where the ejection seat fell was previously covered by trees and the movie makers had to pay to have them cut down. ![]() ![]() The late Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood parachuting behind enemy lines before donning Nazi uniforms to infiltrate a Nazi fortress high in the Alps may sound like disposable, light-hearted Sunday afternoon viewing, but Brian G Hutton's 1968 classic has much to recommend it.
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