Post by Zone Fighter on Nov 22, 2006 12:11:35 GMT -8
Eagles Attack at Dawn (1970)
Yehuda Barkan - Valentino
Peter Brown - Abraham
Yehoram Gaon - Eli
Rick Jason - Beno
Joseph Shiloach - Heikal
Five Israeli soldiers are taken prisoner, charged with being spies (a charge that is entirely unfabricated). One of them escapes. He's wounded as he flees and wakes up two weeks later in a Hospital in Israel. Shocked to learn that there are no plans to make a rescue attempt because the new government policy is to trust the UN to negotiate their release, he contacts the members of the just disbanded special squad to form an unathorized rescue mission. Assisting the commandos as their inside man is an "American reporter". What makes this film interesting is the fact that the major who runs the prison camp knows the reporter is an Israeli agent and the agent knows the major knows, because instead of hiding the fact he advertized it by having a passport which list his first name as Abraham and by having clothes with Iraeli labels on them in his suitcase. So it becomes a cat and mouse game between the agent and the major. Of course this being an Iraeli film you know who's going to win in the end, but it still fun to watch the game being played out. For no good reason most of the commandos rip off their shirts at the end of the film.
According to the IMdb the dialogue was originally in Hebrew.
I have this on a $1 DVD.
Yehuda Barkan - Valentino
Peter Brown - Abraham
Yehoram Gaon - Eli
Rick Jason - Beno
Joseph Shiloach - Heikal
Five Israeli soldiers are taken prisoner, charged with being spies (a charge that is entirely unfabricated). One of them escapes. He's wounded as he flees and wakes up two weeks later in a Hospital in Israel. Shocked to learn that there are no plans to make a rescue attempt because the new government policy is to trust the UN to negotiate their release, he contacts the members of the just disbanded special squad to form an unathorized rescue mission. Assisting the commandos as their inside man is an "American reporter". What makes this film interesting is the fact that the major who runs the prison camp knows the reporter is an Israeli agent and the agent knows the major knows, because instead of hiding the fact he advertized it by having a passport which list his first name as Abraham and by having clothes with Iraeli labels on them in his suitcase. So it becomes a cat and mouse game between the agent and the major. Of course this being an Iraeli film you know who's going to win in the end, but it still fun to watch the game being played out. For no good reason most of the commandos rip off their shirts at the end of the film.
According to the IMdb the dialogue was originally in Hebrew.
I have this on a $1 DVD.