'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy'

In Zona , Geoff Dyer—‘one of our most original writers’ ( New York )—devoted a whole book to Andrei Tarkovsky’s cult masterpiece, Stalker . Now, in this warm and funny tribute to one of his favorite movies, he revisits the action classic Where Eagles Dare . A thrilling Alpine adventure headlined by a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a dynamically lethargic Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare is the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous. ‘Broadsword Calling Danny