Eagles Over London
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Genre: War film, Action, Action/Adventure, World cinema
Year: 1969
Country: Italy
Starring: Van Johnson, Francisco Rabal, Frederick Stafford, Luigi Pistilli, Ida Galli, Teresa Gimpera, Renzo Palmer, Christian Hay
Eagles Over London, also known as Battle Squadron and Battle Command (Italian: La battaglia d'Inghilterra ), is a 1969 Italian "macaroni combat" war film directed by Enzo G. Castellari.
During World War II at the height of the Battle of Britain, British military officers are in pursuit of a merciless team of Nazi saboteurs. They searched though war-ravaged London but the Nazis eluded them. Finally, the British caught up with the Germans in a final battle at the RAF Control Centre.
When Enzo G. Castellari finished the film Kill Them All and Come Back Alone, he asked the producers what their next film would be. They replied a war epic about the Battle of Britain. Enzo thought that was a great idea but the producers had their sights on Alberto De Martino directing. The producers stipulated that stock footage of the actual Battle of Britain needed to be used in the film and that it should be used in a split-screen method. They asked Enzo if he would direct the special effects sequences and cut it with the stock footage using a split-screen method. Enzo had never heard of "split screen" so he was shown the American films The Thomas Crown Affair and the The Boston Strangler. He shot the
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