The Eiger Sanction R

The Eiger Sanction
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  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: December 15, 1998
  • Originally Released: 1975
  • Label: Universal Studios

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User Ratings: 7,834
Well, folks, in case you thought humorless, sexist, stupid movies had vanished from the screen, take heart - Clint Eastwood is back. Full Review
Los Angeles Free Press
Dec 3, 2019
Rating: B- -- Though one of Clint's weaker efforts as director, it's perhaps saved by the breathtaking visuals... . Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
May 16, 2017
Clint Eastwood's mountain-climbing spy thriller is surprisingly effective, even by today's standards. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Jul 30, 2009
I enjoy this sort of film largely because it is too remote from life to make any emotional point of contact in the mind. Full Review
The Spectator
Jun 12, 2018
Rating: 4/5 -- One of Clint's lesser-known adventures, and one that's certainly worth of a revisit.
eFilmCritic.com
Apr 3, 2005
Rating: 3/4 -- It has a plot so unlikely and confused that we can't believe it for much more than 15 seconds at a time, but its action sequences are so absorbing and its mountaintop photography so compelling that we don't care. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Oct 24, 2004
Rating: 3/5 -- Flaccid story redeemed by superb mountaineering footage
Film Journal International
Oct 28, 2005

Product Description:

Dr. Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) is tired of killing for a living, but the ruthless government agency he works for needs his services again, and they'll use any kind of manipulation they have to in order to get him to take one last job. They eventually convince him to take on a dangerous undercover mission that involves climbing the Eiger--and the most dangerous aspect is that he doesn't know which of his fellow climbers is the enemy assassin he's supposed to "sanction." THE EIGER SANCTION is Eastwood's exciting journey into the world of the James Bond-style spy thriller. Eastwood was attracted to the script by the opportunity it afforded him to film exciting climbing sequences in the Swiss Alps, and these well-made sequences are the high point of the movie. Eastwood insisted on doing almost all his own climbing. The plot, vased on the novel by Trevanian, is entertainingly far-fetched; its main purpose seems to be getting Hemlock on that mountain, so it succeeds. Eastwood gets strong supporting help from George Kennedy as his aging climbing buddy, Ben Bowman; Vonetta McGee as the provocatively named Jemima Brown, the woman he's not sure he can trust; and, most amusingly, Jack Cassidy in a hilariously over-the-top performance as Miles Mellough, a flamboyant gay double agent.

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  • Sales Rank: 113,249
  • UPC: 025192044229
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