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Eagle Has Landed, The 134 minutes, UK (1976), 15
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Michael Caine leads a group of English-speaking actors playing German paratroopers on a mission to kidnap Churchill. Silly World War II action

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Eagle Has Landed, The: Michael Caine is the only German officer ever to have been born in south London, so it's no wonder the Nazis have locked him up (actually it's because his Colonel Steiner doesn't approve of certain Nazi policies. Fiendishly, though, they contrive a mission for him: to lead a disparate band of renegades, Brit-haters and soldiers, parachute into England, kidnap Churchill and bring him to Berlin...
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