The cable car in the castle is based on the 1968 movie Where Eagles Dare, where a U. S. Army Brigadier General is captured and taken prisoner to the Schloß Adler, a fortress high in the Alps above the town of Werfen, only reachable by cable car, and the headquarters of the German Secret Service in southern Bavaria.

By the early 1960s films based on commando missions like The Gift Horse ( 1952 ) based on the St. Nazaire Raid, and Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1956 ) had begun to inspire fictional adventure films such as The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), The Train ( 1964 ), The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ), Where Eagles Dare ( 1968 ) and Hannibal Brooks ( 1969 ), which used the war as the backdrop for spectacular action films.

* Where Eagles Dare ( 1968 ), WWII adventure from the Alistair MacLean novel.

* 5th mission: The cable car revives memories of " Where Eagles Dare ".

Eastwood was paid $ 750, 000 ( US $ in dollars ) in 1968 for the war epic Where Eagles Dare, about a World War II squad parachuting into a Gestapo stronghold in the alpine mountains.

He did enjoy a final commercial blockbuster with Clint Eastwood in Where Eagles Dare in 1968 but his last film of the decade, Anne of the Thousand Days ( 1969 ), was a commercial and critical disappointment.

* Where Eagles Dare

* Alistair MacLean – Where Eagles Dare

* In the movie Where Eagles Dare Major Smith ( played by Richard Burton ) says "... but what the hell, a hole is a hole is a hole, as they say ".

The MGM-British Studios complex ( demolished in the early 1970s ) saw the production of many well-known films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Where Eagles Dare and Goodbye, Mr. Chips, as well as many ITV television series including The Prisoner.

" and " Where Eagles Dare ", were released on the compilation album Legacy of Brutality in 1985 with overdubbed guitar and bass tracks by Danzig.

The original versions of " Where Eagles Dare " and " Teenagers from Mars " were included on the compilation album Misfits in 1986, and the original versions of all five tracks were released in 1996 in The Misfits box set.

" Where Eagles Dare " shares its title with a 1968 World War II spy film.

An alternate version of " Where Eagles Dare " was released on Legacy of Brutality in 1985, with overdubbed guitar and bass tracks recorded by Danzig.

Different versions of " Night of the Living Dead " and " Where Eagles Dare " appeared on Misfits the following year, while " Rat Fink " appeared on Collection II in 1995.

" Where Eagles Dare " was covered by Therapy?

Werfen was also the location for some filming of Where Eagles Dare.

Beatty's film credits include: San Demetrio London ( 1943 ), Another Shore ( 1948 ), Captain Horatio Hornblower ( 1951 ), The Square Ring ( 1953 ), The Amorous Prawn ( 1962 ), 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ), Where Eagles Dare ( 1968 ), The Pink Panther Strikes Again ( 1976 ), Superman III ( 1983 ), Minder on the Orient Express ( 1985 ) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace ( 1987 ).

* Where Eagles Dare ( 1968 )

#" Where Eagles Dare "

Hohenwerfen was also the location for some filming of Where Eagles Dare.

* Hohenwerfen was used as the castle ' Schloss Adler ' in the 1968 film Where Eagles Dare, although the memorable cable car scenes were filmed using the Feuerkogel-Drahtseilbahn in Ebensee as Hohenwerfen Castle has no cable car, unlike the fictional ' Schloss Adler '.

Two years later, when Conan the Destroyer was released, D ' Amato quickly filmed and released Ator the Blademaster, which, while closely resembling Conan, also contained several clips of other movies which D ' Amato had stolen and inserted, among them Where Eagles Dare.

Starred in Where Eagles Dare

* Where Angels Dare ( 1999 )

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Where can that improvement possibly come from??

Where do I go from here??

Where there is a left-hand entry in the ledger, there is a right-hand one, he remembered from his school days.

When that monk came down and approached him with a respectful salutation, he asked: `` Where art thou from ''??

Loew's theater presents `` Where The Boys Are '', an MGM picture produced by Joe Pasternak and directed by Henry Levin from a screenplay by George Wells.

Since the hero, a sterling and upright fellow, is a rich Brown senior, while two Yalies are cast as virtual rapists, I suppose I should disqualify myself from sitting in judgment on `` Where The Boys Are '', but I shall do nothing of the sort.

* " Animal ", by Karen O and the Kids from Where the Wild Things Are ( soundtrack )

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In 1927, Jefferson recorded another of his now classic songs, the haunting " See That My Grave Is Kept Clean " ( once again using the pseudonym Deacon L. J. Bates ) along with two other uncharacteristically spiritual songs, " He Arose from the Dead " and " Where Shall I Be.

" Where y'all goin ' from here?

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