Where Eagles Dare

Im watching this movie on BBC1 right now. Its pretty good but one thing confuses me. This film is set in WW2 yet there was a helicopter just now. Wasnt the first chopper made in the 50's?

Soviet aeronautical engineers Boris Yuriev and Alexei Cheremukhin began experiments with the TsAGI 1-EA helicopter, the earliest known single lifting rotor helicopter (which had forward and aft anti-torque rotors on it), which managed to attain an altitude of 605 meters (1,984 ft) on August 14, 1932 with Cheremukhin at the controls. The German Focke-Wulf Fw 61 first flew with limited control achieving vertical and forward flight in 1934. Nazi Germany used the helicopter in combat during WWII in small numbers. Models such the Flettner FL 282 Kolibri were used in the Mediterranean Sea. Mass production of the military version of the Sikorsky XR-4 began in May 1942 for the United States Army and was used over Burma for rescue duties. It was also used by the Royal Air Force, the first British military unit to be equipped with helicopters being the Helicopter Training School, formed in January 1945 at RAF Andover with nine Sikorsky R-4B Hoverfly I helicopters.

Originally Posted by westy159

Im watching this movie on BBC1 right now. Its pretty good but one thing confuses me. This film is set in WW2 yet there was a helicopter just now. Wasnt the first chopper made in the 50's?

I've seen that movie. In my opinion it isn't very good. some of the stuff in it is incredibly far-fetched and unrealistic. At one point a snow plow will drive by a plane, moving it slighty and then the plane will just burst into flames!

Clint Eastwood is pretty good in it I thought but the whole movie is some-what hard to follow and the acting is not the greatest.

Bah. I thought this thread was about the Misfits!

Originally Posted by Sir Matthais

Clint Eastwood is pretty good in it I thought but the whole movie is some-what hard to follow and the acting is not the greatest.

With all due respect I've seen that movie and Richard Burton is brilliant.

Wooo great film! I went to the location it was filmed on last summer!

Lol. In their live recording Bruce Dickenson of Iron Maiden says " Whatever the problem is clint eastwood is going to fix it." before launcing into their rendition of Where eagles dare. I think there song was influenced by a novel of the same name.

The helicopter shown in the movie certainly wasn't around at that time.
Either way I quite like the movie, it's the sort of old school unrealistic spy movie that you just have to love to look past some of the more ridiculous scenes. What the movie has going for it are great actors such as Burton and Eastwood, a lot of suspense and thrill, the gloomy athmosphere of a german mountain village in winter and of course eastwood mowing down dozens of evil germans with a 9mm SMG as if he was carrying a minigun.