Alistair Maclean - Turner Classic Movies

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The Hostage Tower (1980)

Breakheart Pass (1975)

When Eight Bells Toll (1971)

Puppet on a Chain (1971)

Where Eagles Dare (1969)

Alistair MacLean's Night Watch (1995)

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Ice Station Zebra (1968) -- (Movie Clip) If You Must Have A Suspect

Ice Station Zebra (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Now Now, Comrade!

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Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

The Hostage Tower (1980)

Breakheart Pass (1975)

When Eight Bells Toll (1971)

Puppet on a Chain (1971)

Where Eagles Dare (1969)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Alistair MacLean's Night Watch (1995)

Source Material (From Novel)

Death Train (1993)

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River of Death (1989)

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Bear Island (1979)

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Force Ten From Navarone (1978)

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Golden Rendezvous (1977)

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Breakheart Pass (1975)

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Caravan To Vaccares (1974)

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Fear Is the Key (1973)

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Ice Station Zebra (1968) -- (Movie Clip) If You Must Have A Suspect British spy Jones (Patrick McGoohan), Russian defector Vaslov (Ernest Borgnine) and Commander Ferraday (Rock Hudson) discuss a submarine sabotage attempt in Ice Station Zebra, 1968, from the Alistair MacLean novel.

Ice Station Zebra (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Now Now, Comrade! Commander Ferraday (Rock Hudson) surfaces to pick up Russian defector Vaslov (Ernest Borgnine), warmly greeted by British spy Jones (Patrick McGoohan) in John Sturges' Ice Station Zebra, 1968, from the Alistair MacLean novel.

Ice Station Zebra (1968) -- (Movie Clip) I Measure An Officer's Weakness Commander Ferraday (Rock Hudson) has just met tough Marine captain Anders (Jim Brown), brought aboard his sub to command an untested combat team, taking over for junior Lt. Walker (Tony Bill), in writer Alistair MacLean’s Cold War espionage thriller Ice Station Zebra, 1968.

Where Eagles Dare (1969) -- (Movie Clip) The Castle Of The Eagles Starting with Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood airborne over the Bavarian Alps, flashing back to Col. Turner (Patrick Wymark), overseen by Rolland (Michael Hordern), briefing the Allied spy team, their mission from Alistair Maclean’s original screenplay, Brian G. Hutton directing, Where Eagles Dare, 1969.

Where Eagles Dare (1969) -- (Movie Clip) Broadsword Calling Danny Boy Brit Smith (Richard Burton) briefs American Shaffer (Clint Eastwood) about the Nazi-held Alpine castle, and the background of their superior Turner (Patrick Wymark), whom he radios, along with Admiral Rolland (Michael Hordern), with news of a probable mole, in the hit spy thriller Where Eagles Dare, 1969.

Where Eagles Dare (1969) -- (Movie Clip) I Told Him I Was Himmler's Brother Brit Smith (Richard Burton) and Yank Shaffer (Clint Eastwood), posing as German officers, lead their squad into an Alpine Nazi brew-haus, where they contact bar-maid fellow agent Heidi (Ingrid Pitt) and generally intimidate, in Where Eagles Dare 1969.

Ice Station Zebra (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits Impressive, symphonic and spacey opening credit sequence, NASA guys monitoring the Arctic landing of a Russian capsule, from director John Sturges' Ice Station Zebra, 1968, starring Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine and Patrick McGoohan, from the Alistair MacLean novel.

Guns of Navarone, The (1961) -- (Movie Clip) I Am No Spy! The big scene for native Greek Stavros (Anthony Quinn), scheming to help partner Mallory (Gregory Peck) and the rest of the undercover Allied commando team escape from Nazi occupiers (Walter Gotell, George Mikell) in The Guns of Navarone, 1961.

Guns of Navarone, The (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Suppose They Use The Old-Fashioned Methods? Famous tirade from David Niven as Brit Miller, expressing disgust toward Mallory (Gregory Peck) when he learns of his plan to exploit the interrogation of a captured colleague in the WWII commando thriller The Guns of Navarone, 1961.

Guns of Navarone, The (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Lower Your Sails On their way through the Aegean on their undercover commando mission, posing as local fishermen, Mallory (Gregory Peck) and crew (Anthony Quinn, David Niven, Anthony Quayle, Stanley Baker, James Darren) are waylaid by a Nazi gunboat in The Guns of Navarone, 1961.

Guns of Navarone, The (1961) -- (Movie Clip) It Had To Be Tried After much prologue, we meet Jensen, Mallory and Franklin (James Robertson Justice, Gregory Peck and Anthony Quayle), who hear profane testimony from Australian Banrsby (Richard Harris) as they confront the problem of the guns on the Aegean island, early in The Guns of Navarone, 1961.

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