Operation Cross Eagles (1968) | Full Movie | Richard Conte | Rory Calhoun | Alli King

In this war drama set in Yugoslavia during WWII, a small band of commandos are sent to kidnap an important German commander in exchange for an American general who is being held in a German fortress.
Starring: Richard Conte, Rory Calhoun, Alli King, Rada Djuricin, Relja Basic, Phil Brown
Directed by: Richard Conte
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[@DavidBenner-cy4zl]

You don't throw your knife. As one of my mentors and close working partner of my dad's, once instructed me, "Never throw your knife. You are just arming your enemy." He was OSS behind German lines and actually killed a few sentries with a knife. Dear old dad, both men of legendary status, was no slacker, either. I have personally seen many a man killed with a knife, none thrown. Stabbed through the neck, kidney, or heart.

[@danieljohnson5726]

Watched this movie about 6 months ago, I pick up items previously missed. A good movie, thanks for sharing.

[@normanappleton3627]

It took a second run through to finally figure it all out. Good show, thanks!

[@ellenthorne8222]

Nice to see Richard Conte and Rory Calhune.

[@MeliSavubuliti-re6ed]

Really very interesting movie.I watched the movie in 1973 I was a kid then.Watching from Fiji 🇫🇯.Never tired of watching.😂❤❤❤😂😂

[@dougsims3960]

Life long movie fan. I worked as a projectionist as a teenager. Have a large collection of old favorites.

[@knokname6466]

Glad to see there's someone who knows what a "projectionist" was--- I also was one at a drive-in.

[@abhisankaradhikary1067]

Old is still Gold ................

[@bas3995]

Beautiful locations and nice photography. WWII movies never fail to amaze me and this one is no exception.

[@sirichal1627]

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[@LaughOutLoud696]

Filmed in Croatia Ex YU

[@garrettdavis6500]

Literally, I'll watch a dog show, if Richard Conte's in it. I just love the Hell out of this actor. Really, under-rated star.

[@nonenoneonenonenone]

I think he had to have been a big star in his day, it just occurred before our time.

[@residentalien7055]

Richard Conte's career was a carnival of mediocrity.

[@johnnyssik]

@@residentalien7055 didn't you think that was unnecessarily cruel?? 😂

[@PopsOnethirtyfive-vb8tr]

Watching this video is cruel

[@carolynlewis9019]

Very good, thanks for the upload.

[@norcabreramendoza8067]

I LIKED IT AND INTERESTING MOVIE, THANKS FOR UPLOADING.

[@robertahall4960]

Thank you! As they say " they don't make them like that anymore".

[@kirneyc.thibodeaux649]

Enjoyed. Thanks Charles

[@craig4867]

Battle Taxi-the enemy below-attack-pork chop Hill-The thousand plane raid-great movies!

[@Mastermayham]

Baddest film with a superb action the German Admiral never knew the code Cross Eagle was a plan to get him nabbed 🤣👍🏿👊🏿

[@gunthervonhoffman6453]

The trouble was the German Navy unlike Japan, was never a really powerful force to be beckon considering how they nearly always got beaten by the Royal Navy in surface to surface action. Germany didn't have aircraft carriers and a powerful naval air arm on land and at sea that could have stopped Allied convoys in both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean while at the same time, protecting its own shipping lanes in the North Sea, the English Channel, and in the Mediterranean and could have prevented or stopped the invasion of North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and France. Kidnapping the admiral was a waste of time because of the reasons I had mentioned because, despite the admiral's military skills, his organization was not up to par. It would have been an exercise in futility if the admiral had tried to stop the Sicily invasion.

[@dougmoore5252]

Very good. Thank you

[@melaninwarrior6420]

Great movie👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾💥💥💥💥

[@darylenyland3702]

Was a good script, awesome actors!🗽

[@joandar1]

Good plot and Movie, I enjoyed it. Thanks from John, Australia.

[@freemarketjoe9869]

Directed by Richard Conte. This could have been a great film, but it's clearly limited budget shows throughout the film. This must have been something Richard really wanted to do but for some reason, he could not get any major studio to back it. Very nice Spanish set location, but such poor quality filming on every level. You could even see the helicopter backwash on the salt marsh closeups on the water surface as the men ran across them. On par with the spaghetti westerns coming out of Italy at the time. Like all actors, even great ones, you are only as good as your director, film crew and editors. Behind every successful star performance is top-notch production, film and directing excellence. Even Conte is not immune to that fact. Still worth watching to see Richard's attempt to show this fascinating, little known regional theater of war in the greatest struggle for freedom the world has ever known.

[@freexjola9231]

thank you the great movie

[@mongomay1]

Good movie, great actors and the beginning was a bit strange, then it all came together near the end. Be patient...🙂🙂🤔🤔

[@mikerhodes3563]

Nothing like trying to sneak around in broad daylight I’m an open field - must have forgot about daylight savings time

[@rubiconklbrutorowman7577]

Excellent movie, So glad Roy Calhoun did made other than western and was a part of thrilling adventure movie, RIP Roy!" USA

[@tonyromano6220]

I saw a movie yesterday where Rory played a sailor.

[@TR5T]

Look up his military service,

[@residentalien7055]

Who is "Roy"?

[@scm50able]

Good movie.

[@yomama8873]

Good old movie thank you 🤩🤩🤩💖💖

[@thomaslabantt6625]

what a amazing boat wonder where it is today

[@djamelbouch3670]

Richard Conte great actor

[@SHAKIL-ru3jx]

very nice movie

[@residentalien7055]

A few years later, so that his eyes could have an unobstructed view of anything upwards, Rory Calhoun underwent one of the first instances of a widowspeakectomy.

[@alanwilson6367]

You have to explain that one!

[@Carl-ht7cg]

No Actors died in the making of this movie, Donate to the "Wounded Warrior Project"

[@Nyakunialbert1997]

Nice movie 🍿 and better ground.

[@dickbudig6693]

As I recall, there were no "squeaky" pens in the earlly 1940s . . .

[@eddiem.5811]

The best actor in the film was the German Shepherd. He nailed that role

[@residentalien7055]

True. And he wore real dogtags, too.

[@willemvanlent6955]

😂

[@johnnyssik]

That's RUFF 🐾

[@andrecampbell691]

They played lame music instead of a decent script. I had to stop watching before the ending.

[@andrecampbell691]

I hope the German Shepherd got full pay.

[@tonyromano6220]

This is sorta like like a spaghetti western, just later and a bit East!

[@user-lx568]

When the aeroplane blow up..the song very Sad..Dam..😂

[@outsidertank]

awesome movie..

[@residentalien7055]

Awesomely bad.

[@bmcg5296]

Always love the Wild West hip firing of weapons with such accuracy 😂. Well if it’s free it’s still worth watching as a tribute to those real life commandos and partisans who fought, and lived in fear of being caught. This was a automatic death sentence, when the Geheime Staatspolizei, abbreviated AKA Gestapo were finished with you! The forgotten hero’s of the clandestine wars should have been made into many more films?

[@gunthervonhoffman6453]

It wasn't better when the Russians got their hands on any remaining partisans who were not Communists or were not Communists enough after the war was over in Eastern, Southern, and Central Europe. Of course, the Americans had no love for Communist partisans in Western Europe and Italy and fought to prevent them from being elected to office after the war even though Americans claim to support democracy abroad but doesn't allow other political parties to grow and participate in its own "democratic" system

[@johnrogan9420]

Secret State Police...watch ensheiden vor morgengrauen mit Oskar Werner...Gestopo badge 7117 is shown on dead Else Branbar.

[@secretsquirrel6308]

The United States is a Constitutional Republic. Yes, there are democratic principals but the U.S. since the beginning is never to be a democracy.

[@gunthervonhoffman6453]

@@secretsquirrel6308 USA was more like a plutocracy one.

[@ruthparker1140]

("Sgt.J") maybe. 🤔 If they are accurate. And, not like "Black hawk down." They depicted a guy on the ground. The Sgt. In the humvee going to the rescue. Don't know why Hollywood did that stupid S..T! He resided in Missouri U.S.A. I, heard he committed suicide..? A few years ago. Actually hope not! 👍☮️

[@pmullins1495]

These new Commandos are exceedingly NOISY !! 😂

[@martintramil8084]

Wow Rada Duricin sure was a beautiful lady... love the short hair! Oh yeah, a good film too!

[@gunthervonhoffman6453]

I love the short hair too on the beautiful Rada Duricin.

[@MarkoCrni81]

...Rada Đuričin looked beautiful for a long time, even when she was much older..... now she is 88 years old........

[@kazamshah4543]

It's great to see her playing a lesbian Nazi.

[@eddiereyna2998]

Critics are like flies , but I’ll listen to y’all when y’all act or direct your own movie . It’s a movie, money , timing and well they did the best that they could and I rather enjoyed it .

[@clevlandblock]

Rory's best work was in "Motel Hell".

[@TransparencyandMerit]

Some say Mule feathers

[@juliocesarjuarez2881]

Me gusta y lo que lamento es que no entiendo nada de lo que dicen gracias pero linda película

[@naseerbaloch1175]

I LOVE TO SEE WW2 MOVIES THANKSSSSSSSSSS 2 1 2022

[@premierhoner614]

Very nice and great intertainment... ❤😅

[@larrybone4349]

Ok ....so l read a bunch of comments about this one before I watched. It was a Pretty Good movie. Not Great but Pretty Good. Beautiful lady in the Partisan forces.

[@dennisdavis8649]

Very good movie.

[@user-xx4tx9gl1u]

Bravo

[@soulseer3807]

This is a typical masala movie. The main heroes escape the bullets while the unimportant characters die first.

[@akrukundo]

An original- raw, rich, plain.

[@normanchodrick2630]

I watched all the way to the knife throwing part.

[@philsosshep4834]

Ashamed to say I watched 30 seconds past that

[@normanchodrick2630]

@@philsosshep4834 Yeah, it's probably an ok movie past that. Too bad when this was made they were not aware of all the silenced weapons available to commandos, and such of that era, although in an impromptu sort of spur-of-the-moment mission like this one, they likely would not have had access to such weapons, which leaves me to wonder just how they would have proceeded.

[@frederickbowdler8169]

Snap

[@MrSlitskirts]

Great film and locations. A shame they make the good guys lose so many men though, virtually decimated. Also a shame the German lady's Eagle wasn't either on her right chest and/or if SS, on her mid left sleeve, even though the male German uniforms were pretty good.

[@gunthervonhoffman6453]

Well, they always make the Germans lose a lot of men in American and European films and TV series. In this movie, they wipe out the Germans guarding the oil refineries, nearly wipe out the German prison garrison, nearly wipe out the German unit that was waiting for the lieutenant's landing party, and wipe out the German Admiral's small garrison. "A shame they make the good guys lose so many men though, virtually decimated." Well, as Colonel Hessler told his men in the 1965 movie Battle of the Bulge, the price of victory is never cheap. I agreed with you about them not paying attention to details about the German female uniform.

[@nonenoneonenonenone]

Were women ever in as high positions? I doubt it. They wanted the lesbian undertones.

[@coolroy4300]

I think I met Fulda Gap in the 80's

[@residentalien7055]

Someone needs to look up "great" in his Funk & Wagnalls.

[@davidw.robertson448]

Decimated means one in ten are killed. I think you mean more than decimated. You could say 'almost wiped out'.

[@QNEGRO1]

Good movie

[@paulbaker3490]

It's so amazing how they have guns that never run out of ammo. 😅

[@gordonward537]

I WANTED TO WATCH THIS BUT COULDNT TAKE THE MUSIC

[@Capo51]

But beatiful scenery 👍

[@rachelmyriam7943]

56’ 2” : ça m’étonnerait qu’il prenne la mitrailleuse par le canon après avoir grillé autant de cartouches ! Rien que qu’une dizaine tirées, à peau reste collée au canon...

[@wilsonesparagoza4528]

Good old movie

[@user-sh3ce7ws5h]

فلم روعه يستحق المشاهده 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@cecilypacanin3001]

Good yarn...more please?

[@MichaelJohnson-tw7dq]

Hey! There’s an enemy plane out looking for us. Let’s run out into the open!

[@41divad]

Some weapon fun.... those tommy guns had no accuracy for the distances depicted 😄

[@StephenLoweFinland]

Old 1968 movie but well done & directed. 25Mar2023Finland

[@davidscott3820]

Commandos!

[@Thompson-xp1mk]

It was funny that American lieutenant looked like 50 years old .

[@gunthervonhoffman6453]

Same with Rory Calhoun as a sergeant since he was about 46 years old at the time the movie was made. In the song 19 by Paul Hardcastle, the average age of the American soldier was about 26 years old and being in your late 20s as a pilot was also considered old; however, as time went on, the American Air Force was taking in people at age 35 and sending them to flight school.

[@Thompson-xp1mk]

@@gunthervonhoffman6453 Because It is difficult that he in 20s years old can act well ,which is the same as Korea . By your name ,are you a German ? ( I am not sure whether it is your real name or not)

[@duanelarue6292]

Rory Calhoun was about 45 when it was made

[@Thompson-xp1mk]

@@duanelarue6292 It is difficult that one in young age can act well .

[@garyjarvis2730]

Great plot and filming locations in and around the original salt making flats of modern day Piran, Slovenia. Acting and editing is not the best but stick with it till the end. Thanks for sharing the content.

[@davidallen1418]

Does anyone know what the purpose of those lagoons where at the start.

[@mintonmiller]

A spaghetti ww2 film. Who knew? I will add this to the list of , never watch again I would like to see more movies with those cows. They were very convincing.

[@ruthparker1140]

("Sgt.J"). "I, kinda Think the same." The editing messed up a little. It should have been made better. I, have some WW2 veteran friends. And, could not sit through some of "Saving private Ryan."

[@LV-wl7ch]

They really ought to change the background music in this movie... and see how much better it is to watch. Please do not miss the bullet driven break dancing @ 46:44-49.

[@richardnogan4579]

I get the feel of a spaghetti western.

[@user-dm8my8jw8m]

The African sea is very suitable for starting submarine warfare

[@johnvargo5695]

Really like old WW2 movies but... Think if you added 10 or 15 "more" ads, you could sync the video with the closed captioning? Asking for a friend.

[@k.bheemsenrao1753]

Richard Conte could be passed off as ancester of Pierce Bosnan, the James Bond fame.

[@WJack97224]

Do knives really kill so fast that the victim cannot cry out a warning?

[@sjefhendrickx2257]

No, its a movie. In real you bleed to death and cry out or shoot. So not very realistic!

[@jasholden9741]

No

[@ruthparker1140]

("Sgt.J."). " Normally i, like war movies. But, this one needed more directing..? After 6 - 10 mins. The next 20 minutes, was wasted time." This is barely rated a 5, In my opinion. Sorry. 😐. Thanks for providing it though. 👍✌️. ("Thank you, For your, Comment. 😁. ✌️🕊️ ("Sgt.J.").

[@tewkimhu3270]

La78794 Llp❤

[@dwbiggly6907]

Good movie…the one horse was literally dropping road apples.😀

[@residentalien7055]

It was commenting on the quality of the fiim.

[@jimclark6256]

I know it's just a movie but it has more holes than a sieve.

[@aubreywallace7918]

Wow Wit Rory,,,,I watchin🥱😎😎searchin all day for a **** flick dis will

[@mariolobianco4563]

caricalo in italiano grazie

[@allandavis8201]

Within the first few minutes of the film these “commandos” made enough noise to awake the whole garrison, and buying an oil storage facility it would have been guarded very very well, and yet two guards managed to walk past one of them, pretending to be one of the guards they had so noisily dispatched, with his face blacker than a coal miner’s, and it broke a cardinal rule of camouflage, it was shining so well it was almost a second moon 🌙. Ok, now going to watch and see how many other glaring mistakes are in this film. Standby. Now I am more confused, one minute the remaining guys had lit the signal fires for the exfil aircraft and the next they are on a fishing boat, then paddling up an inlet with rice paddies as background, and when they were onshore and hiding in the rushes the did not hear 👂 the Germans charging through them like a herd of elephants 🐘, how, how didn’t they hear 👂 the Germans?????!!!!!!!, and wearing a bright orange neckerchief is stupid, unless it was a visual signal to the Germans that he was a traitor, or maybe he had a death wish. I stand corrected, salt fields, not rice paddies And whoever heard of sailors wearing “whites” in the field, stood out like a very very sore thumb, and they turned out to be friendlies!!!!!!???? OK, my mistake, it was two different groups, and neither have any real tactical brains 🧠.

[@ruthparker1140]

("Sgt.J.") "Now Men!" You know those foreign cameras has bad quality film. You..! With the orange kerchief. Did you, catch anything while from that small plane? 🐠🐟 Try some light green &, sand camo. That hide you, on the salt farm. I'll be in my dressing room trying on wood land camo briefs.🩲 It's our anniversary.💖 Maybe my wife won't see me coming Tonight.🥂💂😜. Ya have to admit. Some of those spaghetti, Spanish movies had some bad editing too. I, have some old French movies on dvd. they actually insult americans.Have a good one 👍 ☮️.

[@peterleslie8326]

don't pick holes

[@billywylie3288]

Operation eagle double cross

[@paulkirkpatrick6371]

Great acting and good 2 c.a good old world war 2 movie first time I had ever heard of the girl in movie but what a beautiful.actress she was from belfast northern ireland

[@residentalien7055]

"Great acting"??!!!!? Really?

[@simonstevens8745]

After 10 minutes I discovered that the music and sound effects ruined this film for me.

[@user-kk5hs3mn3y]

Good war 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@petbytes7167]

Closed captioning is 10 seconds behind. Can you fix it?

[@justdoingitjim7095]

Same as a "spaghetti western" but based on WWII. English dubbed over is okay, but the closed caption is about 15 seconds behind.

[@alexerhard1198]

Bizarre war? Millions died to protect the freedoms you have today, inc my uncle.

[@gunthervonhoffman6453]

You have various ethnic, political, and even religious groups fighting each other during that time period in both Europe and Asia. What freedoms? You have the rise of various right-wing fascist groups in the last few years in places like Greece, Spain, France, and even in the former Communist countries. You have European right-wing politicians who seem to want to dismantle the social, political, and economic safety nets that were implemented before and after the war and adopted American style business practices and American unregulated capitalism that led to the Great Depression and has caused economic recessions and depressions for the last 41 years especially 4 of them that have occurred in only 20 years of the 21st century. You had Central and South America being treated like colonies by the American corporations and the ordinary people in those areas didn't get anything out of it except hunger, poverty, and the threat of being tortured and/or being killed if they had spoken out.

[@grahamholton8542]

I think bizarre is referring who fought to support the Nazis and who the Soviets. There were all sorts of ethnic groups on both sides. Also bizarre is probably a mistranslation

[@leopoldoalim3767]

@@gunthervonhoffman6453 n be to 2

[@kasimselamat847]

@@leopoldoalim3767 ni

[@mariussielcken]

@@gunthervonhoffman6453 the cause of the great depression was the rosy picture of the economy painted by the Federal Reserve, which is neither federal, nor a reserve.

[@RickDeckardMemories]

Speaking about quality filmmaking, Kubrick made his Space Odyssey the same year, 1968. 😂😅🤣😀😄😂😅🤣😄😀😂😅🤣

[@gracielagomez4388]

TRADUCIDA AL ESPAÑOL LATINO .POR FAVOR. CHAUUU... GRACIELA DE ARGENTINA 🇦🇷😂

[@gabrielantoniea9913]

Filmul este foarte bun ,sint convins dar pacat ca nu este tradus în limba romana

[@kevinlawlor412]

I would love to visit the location of the prison and the river flowing into the cave. Anyone know these locations?

[@MeliSavubuliti-re6ed]

Alcatraz Fyord

[@eutropiomagarao6053]

Ok beautifully

[@simonbroberg969]

Baby Boom? I guess that name came Barnes Wallace, hI am sure he's the one who invented the Bouncing baby used on the dam busters raids!

[@PauloPereira-jj4jv]

He was the inventor. But "baby boom" is another thing.

[@simonbroberg969]

@@PauloPereira-jj4jv yeah I know, just having a bit of fun with the words. I was born in the 1960s so think I know what era you mean.

[@violinoscar]

What sort of place was it where they were being attacked by the plane at about 18 minutes? All those low walls in the ocean. A fish farm perhaps. I am just curious

[@eddiem.5811]

I think/guessing it was a plant to dry out saltwater and collect the salt. I think it was mentioned in the movie?

[@peterrhodes5663]

Along the Adriatic coast of Croatia you will find places like that. They are called salanas, and some go back over 2000 years. They enclose a quantity of salt water, and when it evaporates, the salt content remains. A litre of water contains around 35 grammes of salt, and the term salary comes from the Latin word sal, or salt in English. It was used as payment. Next question?

[@e-curb]

@@peterrhodes5663 Also from Roman days is when describing a lazy person, you might say he "isn't worth his salt".

[@duanelarue6292]

Also the legendary Rory Calhoun

[@SherShahHashmat]

the lieutenant is too old, maybe because of war he could not be promoted

[@Davidsavage8008]

Where eagles dare sure spawned a bunch of movies.

[@chrishopewynne2845]

Boom away Baby

[@deanduggan2915]

Nothing scream s stupidity as going out in open country going through water with a machine gun and not in a German uniform

[@thangdinhquyet1932]

Bô phim qua hay

[@schallrd1]

Operation Crossed Legs took place in a convent.