The Eagle Has Landed: Difference between revisions
The Eagle Has Landed: Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
The Eagle Has Landed: Difference between revisions
Oberst Kurt Steiner ([[Michael Caine]]) and his men from the 12th Fallschirmjaeger Abteilung all carry [[Sten Mk II]] submachine guns on the mission when they are disguised as Polish Paratroopers.
Oberst Kurt Steiner ([[Michael Caine]]) and his men from the 12th Fallschirmjaeger Abteilung all carry [[Sten Mk II]] submachine guns on the mission when they are disguised as Polish Paratroopers. Note the two-finger salute. This was (and is) the actual Polish military salute.
[[Image:Unitsten2.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Sten Mk II Submachine Gun - 9x19mm.]]
[[Image:Unitsten2.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Sten Mk II Submachine Gun - 9x19mm.]]
[[Image:TEHLSten3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Hauptmann Von Neustadt ([[Sven-Bertil Taube]]) and his Sten Mk II submachine gun disassembled and attached to his chest harness ready to parachute into the UK (All Steiner's men parachuted with their Sten guns in this way). ]]
[[Image:TEHLSten3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Hauptmann Von Neustadt ([[Sven-Bertil Taube]]) and his Sten Mk II submachine gun disassembled and attached to his chest harness ready to parachute into the UK (All Steiner's men parachuted with their Sten guns in this way). ]]
The Eagle Has Landed is a 1976 WWII thriller based on the Jack Higgins novel of the same name and stars Michael Caine as a German officer who is part of the German High Command's elaborate plan to capture Winston Churchill and bring him to Germany using what remained of a detachment of elite Paratroopers.
The following weapons were used in the film The Eagle Has Landed:
Colonel Pitts (Larry Hagman) carries a Colt Commander as his sidearm. He is seen with the pistol when he searching Joanna's house. A Colt Commander is also seen briefly being used by a Ranger during the church battle. This was probably a stand-in for the regular Colt 45, the Colt Commander itself wasn't introduced on the market until after World War II.
Liam Devlin (Donald Sutherland) appears to carry a Walther PPK as a sidearm. The pistol is found by Arthur who shows it to Molly Prior (Jenny Agutter). Oberst Max Radl (Robert Duvall) is seen relinquishing his sidearm, a Walther PPK, when he is arrested by the Gestapo.
Oberst Kurt Steiner (Michael Caine) and his men from the 12th Fallschirmjaeger Abteilung all carry Sten Mk II submachine guns on the mission when they are disguised as Polish Paratroopers. Note the two-finger salute. This was (and is) the actual Polish military salute.
Colonel Pitts (Larry Hagman) and most of his Rangers, including Captain Clark (Treat Williams), are equipped with anachronistic M2 Carbines fitted with curved 30 round magazines instead of the more historically accurate straight 20 round magazines. Several of the Rangers' magazines are seen taped together "Jungle Style" for faster reloads. The M2 Carbine was possibly meant as a substitute for both the M1 Garand and the Thompson Submachine gun, which are mentioned in the book.
At least two of Steiner's men are armed with FG 42 rifles when they arrive at the train station. This is historically accurate as the FG 42 was designed for and used by paratroopers.
The Rangers use several anachronistic M20B1 "Super Bazookas" during their attempts to eliminate the Germans in the watermill and also take control of the church. The M20, and the lightened aluminum barreled M20B1 which appears here, was a substitute for the historically accurate M9 Bazooka and/or the M1A1Bazooka.
