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The Eiger Sanction (1975) 6.3
An classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend. Director:Clint Eastwood |
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Freytag
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Michael A. Grimm | ... |
Meyer
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Montaigne
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George
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Pope
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Candice Rialson | ... |
Art Student
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Elaine Shore | ... |
Miss Cerberus
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Dan Howard | ... |
Dewayne
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Jack Kosslyn | ... |
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Plot Synopsis
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Jonathan Hemlock is an art history professor and collector who finances his hobby by performing the odd sanction (assassination) for an obscure government bureau. He is forced to take a case where he must find out which of the members of a mountain climbing team is the Russian killer he has been given as a target by joining an expedition to climb the treacherous Eiger. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
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Revenge atop a Swiss Mountain... one of his team is a killer but who? See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
21 May 1975 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Im Auftrag des Drachen See more »Box Office
Gross:
SEK 1,554,575 (Sweden)Company Credits
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Dr. Jonathan Hemlock: Only when there's a climb. Then the Eiger birds start flocking in.
Jemima Brown: Eiger birds?
Dr. Jonathan Hemlock: Yeah, jet setters, assorted zombies, come here to watch a climb. If they're lucky, they get to see a man die on the mountain.
Jemima Brown: That's grim.
Dr. Jonathan Hemlock: So's the Eiger.
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Clint Eastwood did all of his own stunts, including the scene where he cuts his safety line over a drop of at least one thousand feet. The only stunt he did not perform was a 2500-foot drop, for which a dummy was used. See more »Goofs
When driving on sand/dirt roads out in the desert, the tires screech as if driven on asphalt. See more »Quotes
Jemima Brown: Is this hotel always so crowded?Dr. Jonathan Hemlock: Only when there's a climb. Then the Eiger birds start flocking in.
Jemima Brown: Eiger birds?
Dr. Jonathan Hemlock: Yeah, jet setters, assorted zombies, come here to watch a climb. If they're lucky, they get to see a man die on the mountain.
Jemima Brown: That's grim.
Dr. Jonathan Hemlock: So's the Eiger.
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"Jonathan Hemlock" (Clint Eastwood) is a professor of art history, which previously led a dangerous double life as a murderer in the pay for a secret international organization. However, now is blackmailed into carrying out one last mission: the victim is one of three people attempting the ascent of the Eiger, a dangerous peak in the Swiss Alps.
Clint Eastwood works well in front of and behind the camera in this great action thriller, full of interesting dialogue, as well as excellent climbing action scenes in which Eastwood himself constantly had to face death (and it had cost the life of one of the specialists).
The film has a superb background music of John Williams and some beautiful scenery and good supporting actors like George Kennedy (who had worked with one year earlier Eastwood in "Thunderbolt & Lightfood"), sensual Brenda Venus and hateful Gregory Walcott playing "Pope", who is a goofy messenger of "C2" (intelligence company where Eastwood works). From the Grand Canyon, passing through Zurich to the Alps, the film is a demonstration of force that Eastwood has to tell a good story without falling into the topics are quite characteristic of this genre.
It's good film with an unexpected ending, an excellent performance from Eastwood.