Eagle Has Landed
A German plot to kidnap Sir Winston Churchill unfolds at the height of World War II.
Storyline
1943, The war is entering its final stages and Germany is teetering on the brink of defeat. An increasingly unhinged Hitler, orders a mission to have British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill kidnapped and brought to Germany. The plan seems ludicrous in the extreme, but a message sent from a German spy in the Norfolk countryside makes one German officer realize that such a mission may just feasible.
Director: John Sturges
Writers: Tom Mankiewicz (screenplay), Jack Higgins (novel)
Stars: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall