The Eiger Sanction

Director: Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood

Overview

"Clint Eastwood directs himself in the action thriller The Eiger Sanction. The film comes to DVD with a widescreen transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1. The closed-captioned English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Mono. Spanish and French subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include cast and filmmaker biographies, production notes, and a theatrical trailer. Eastwood fans will certainly want to take a look at this competently produced DVD, as will genre enthusiasts."

Product Details

Release Date:	12/15/1998
UPC:	0025192044229
Original Release:	1975
Rating:	R
Source:	STUDIO DISTRIBUTION SERVS LLC
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[monaural]
Language:	English
Time:	2:09:00
Sales rank:	18,972

Special Features

Theatrical trailer; Cast and filmmakers' bios; Web links; Production notes

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Clint Eastwood	Dr. Jonathan Hemlock
George Kennedy	Ben Bowman
Vonetta McGee	Jemima Brown
Jack Cassidy	Miles Mellough
Thayer David	Dragon
Heidi Brühl	Mrs. Anna Montaigne
Reiner Schoene	Karl Freytag
Michael Grimm	Meyer
Jean-Pierre Bernard	Montaigne
Brenda Venus	George
Gregory Walcott	Pope
Candice Rialson	Art Student
Elaine Shore	Miss Cerberus
Dan Howard	Dewayne
Jack Kosslyn	Reporter
Walter Kraus	Kruger
Frank Redmond	Wormwood
Siegfried Wallach	Hotel Manager
Susan Morgan	Buns
Jack Frey	Cab Driver
Reiner Schöne	Freytag
Heidi Bruhl	Actor
John Williams	Composer

Technical Credits

Hal Dresner

Warren Murphy

Rod Whitaker

Warren B. Murphy

Clint Eastwood	Director,Executive Producer
Hal Dresner	Screenwriter
Warren Murphy	Screenwriter
Rod Whitaker	Screenwriter
David Brown	Executive Producer,Producer
Richard D. Zanuck	Executive Producer,Producer
Robert Daley	Producer
Ben McMahan	Special Effects
Warren B. Murphy	Screenwriter
Jennings Lang	Producer
Jim Alexander	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

An extremely silly movie, at least partially by design, Clint Eastwood's adaptation of best-selling suspense author Trevanian's novel is his attempt at an over-the-top adventure in the James Bond mold. From Eastwood's casting of himself as an art professor/assassin (someone from the Indiana Jones camp must have been taking notes) to a camp parade of villains and sexpot femme fatales, the tone here is one of implausibility on a grand scale. Up to an anti-climactic mountainside finale, however, Eastwood wrings great fun from the unwieldy enterprise (the outdated, if not actually mean-spirited, attitudes toward women, minorities, and gays now only contribute to the mixture of intended and unintended comedic appeal). Savvy as usual, Eastwood tempers the silliness with some handsome desert climbing sequences and paces his film like the page-turning potboiler that inspired it. He may be out of his element and The Eiger Sanction a curious sidestep in his career, but it still offers enough guilty pleasures for several movies.