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May 21, 1975 · The Eiger Sanction: Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy. Classical art professor and collector Dr. Jonathan Hemlock, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.
Release Date (Streaming) May 18, 2016. Runtime. 2h 9m. Aspect Ratio. Scope (2.35:1) Former government assassin Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) now devotes his time to teaching and collecting ...
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Synopsis. Dr. Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) is a college Art professor whose former life as an international assassin comes back to haunt him when a ruthless leader of a secret agency called C-2, Dragon (Thayer David) pulls him back into action. Hemlock is given a large amount of money and security for his priceless collection of original ...
The Eiger Sanction (1975) There comes a time in some movies when sheer spectacle overwhelms any consideration of plot, and Clint Eastwood's "The Eiger Sanction" is a movie like that.It has a plot so unlikely and confused that we can't believe it for much more than 15 seconds at a time, but its action sequences are so absorbing and its ...
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The Eiger Sanction is a 1975 American action thriller directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. Based on the 1972 novel The Eiger Sanction, by Trevanian, the film is about an art history professor, mountain climber, and former assassin once employed by a secret United States government agency who is blackmailed into returning to his deadly profession and do one more "sanction", a euphemism for killing.
THE EIGER SANCTION is Eastwood’s exciting journey into the world of the James Bond-style spy thriller. Eastwood was attracted to the script by the opportunity it afforded him to film exciting climbing sequences in the Swiss Alps, and these well-made sequences are the high point of the movie. Eastwood insisted on doing almost all his own climbing.
