YMMV / Where Eagles Dare

• Adaptation Displacement: The film is so much more famous than the novel, that, despite Alistair MacLean's mild fame, most people are unaware there even was a book.
• Awesome Music: The main theme and associated Recurring Riffs are absolute classics amongst war movies.
• Special Effects Failure: While most of the effects, namely explosions, are well done and are, for the most part, realistic enough for most viewers, one instance has not aged well: when Christiansen falls off the tram car, it's quite obviously fake, not helped by the cable car closeup shots being made with rear projection.

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