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  • On Where Eagles Dare
  • By: Geoff Dyer
  • Narrated by: Roy McMillan
  • Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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By: Geoff Dyer
Narrated by: Roy McMillan
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of 'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy' by Geoff Dyer, read by Roy McMillan. From the acclaimed writer and critic Geoff Dyer, an extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of Where Eagles Dare - published as the film reaches its 50th anniversary. 

A thrilling Alpine adventure starring a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a coolly anachronistic Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare is the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous. 'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy' is Geoff Dyer's tribute to the film he has loved since childhood: an analysis taking us from its snowy, Teutonic opening credits to its vertigo-inducing climax. 

For those who have not even seen Where Eagles Dare, this book is a comic tour de force of criticism. But for the film's legions of fans, whose hearts will always belong to Ron Goodwin's theme tune, it will be the fulfilment of a dream.  
©2018 Geoff Dyer (P)2018 Penguin Audio
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"Geoff Dyer's funniest book yet. Who else would work in Martha Gellhorn on the first page of a book on the film Where Eagles Dare?" (Michael Ondaatje)

"One of our greatest living critics, not of the arts but of life itself, and one of our most original writers." (Kathryn Schulz, New York Magazine) 

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Great story about a great movie

I liked the whole concept of the story more like theatrical review. Only downside was keeping up with the fast speed of narrators voice.
This aside brilliant can reciting everyone especially movie fans

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Great listen, easy to finish for any fan!

Very entertaining and filled with many anecdotes to keep you interested. This is possibly in my top 2 films of all time, so it wasn't a massive stretch to enjoy listening.

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