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The Eiger Sanction Movie Review

The Eiger Sanction Review

"The Eiger Sanction" Overview


Rating: R
1975

Cast and Crew

Director : Clint Eastwood
Producer : Robert Daley
Screenwiter : Hal Dresner,Warren Murphy,Rod Whitaker
Starring : Clint Eastwood,George Kennedy,Vonetta McGee,Jack Cassidy,Heidi Brühl,Thayer David,Reiner Schöne,Michael Grimm,Jean-Pierre Bernard,Brenda Venus

Before there was Cliffhanger, there was The Eiger Sanction, a thrill ride of a movie that largely takes place on an icy mountaintop. The mountaineering is almost beside the point: Eiger's most curious aspect is its setup, which offers Clint Eastwood as a haughty art history professor who finances his art collection by performing contract assassinations for a shadowy group. His final assignment takes him to Eiger mountain in the Swiss Alps, where he has to figure out who on his climbing team is the villain, then dispatch him. Eastwood is at his smarmy best, and a host of memorable supporting players round out the production amiably. Great fun.


Reviewer: Christopher Null


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