The Eagle Has Landed

I would say the movie is good.

Um, but if you ever wanna read just a really, you know, entertaining kinda like, uh, World War II, you know, bit of a boy's own adventure, you know, a bit of a thriller, but a, but a good thriller, um, The Eagle Has Landed.

I, I, I, I, I recommend it heavily.

I r- I read it so many times as a kid, and, um, thought it was based...

And he used to force us to...

You know, Eagles Have Landed, Eagles Dare, you know, all of this kind of crap.

Um, used to love all those.

Um, all-star cast, you never get, you don't get that much these days, you know, when you get the-

And then for Zulu, we have Stanley Baker, who was in The Guns of Navarone with Anthony Quayle, who was in a side recommendation, which is not a siege movie, but a very good war movie called Ice Cold and Alex.

He was also in The Eagle Has Landed with Donald Pleasence, who was in The Great Escape with James.

Well done.

For Zulu Dawn, I'm going to start with Burt Lancaster, who was in The Professionals with Jorge Martinez de Hoyos, who was in The Magnuson 7.

I think I must have seen We- Went the Day Well as a, you know, on a Sunday afternoon a long time ago.

But, but I suddenly thought, or Gary and I were talking about it and, and suddenly thought, well, wouldn't a comparison of Went the Day Well and The Eagle Has Landed be a brilliant way of sort of encapsulating several generations of changing attitudes to, to, to the whole thing.

So that's how we got into it and had a...

We had a seminar session there one night in, oh, I don't know, about 2010, 2011.

Interesting a- avenues that it opens up.

I, I, I mean, this is...

We, we will, I absolutely promise you, come to The Eagle Has Landed and how this sits alongside it.

It, it's, it's interesting.