Italian Film Festival: Eagles over London (La battaglia d'Inghilterra) (15)
24 April 2010
Cinema
In this World War II action-thriller, the British High Command finds itself in the thick of a huge dilemma: they have been infiltrated by spies from a German intelligence group. Nine years before his Inglorious Bastards, Enzo Castellari virtually invented the ‘Macaroni Combat’ genre with this over-the-top saga of valour, vengeance and machine-gun mayhem in the preliminary stages of the Battle of Britain. Hollywood legend Van Johnson and Frederick Stafford star as military officers pursuing a merciless team of Nazi saboteurs through war-ravaged London, featuring Castellari’s jawdropping recreations of the evacuation of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain and more. Francisco Rabal, Ida Galli, and Luigi Pistilli co-star in this explosive epic – also known as Battle Squadron.



