Stephen W

Robert Duvall meets up with Michael Caine (who, with his troops are at the time being forced to act as human torpedoes)in a rather lovely harbour setting. Does anyone know where this was filmed please? Is the pub real or just a private house dressed up? Thanks.

DB7

Charlestown harbour in Cornwall.

deckard

Living in Cornwall I have been to Charlestown a few times, it's a beautiful harbour that is still used for some tall ship repair and is Nr St Austell in mid-Cornwall. It does have an old pub, but I'm not sure if it was used for the film(can't remember what it looks like in the film! blush ) but I will try to find out.

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Stephen W

Thanx - vey useful info. Funnily enough my parents used to live nearby but I never visited Charlestown unfortunately whilst they were alive.

emagica

Hi Stephen W,

I know this thread is several years old and you may have your answer by now but I stumbled across your post and being a local to the area I felt obliged to help answer your question.

The scene you refer to in The Eagle Has Landed was filmed at Charlestown, St Austell. The pub in the film really does exist although it was slightly made up for the movie. It is called The Pier House and still exists and is primarlily a pub. The bar in which the fight takes place and someone is thrown through the window is still there too and is as quaint as it was back then. You can actually see the hotel in DB7's picture he posted. It is the very end building nearest the cliff. The window where the guy is evicted is just obscured by the white lorry.

I watched the filming of the movie when I was a boy. I saw several takes where Robert Duval was shot against the beach break and remember thinking just how bored the poor guy (Robert Duval) must have been trying to fall just right for the cameras! It seemed like to took all day to get right but it might just have been me being an impatient child.

I also recall watching a scene when the E-Boat returns to the harbour with dead bodies onboard. I remember it was a bloody scene but dont recall anything as gory in the original movie. It could just be it didnt translate as gory on film, or that I was just more aware of the gore as a child, or I guess the scene may even have been cut. Not sure.

I still have blank bullets fired from the guns on set. Not sure if they are worth anything now, or even if they can be identified as being the genuine article, but I definately picked them up the day of filming, along with some tacky looking plastic fake barbed wire (which looked real on film). Unfortunately I dont have the barbed wire anymore :-(

Anyways, I hope this answers your question, and you really must visit Charlestown if you get the chance - it is a beautiful harbour.

stevie boy

I always go Treyarnon in May, Charlestown is only 20 miles away, so I will visit, thanks

jaybob777

Anyone know the village where the film was shot? Looks like a genuine East Anglian place, but you never know with these film producers.

Thks in advance
Jaybob

batman

The Eagle Has Landed (1976) - Filming locations

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mariocki

Maple Durham in Berkshire was the main location, I've got some recent pictures I can send you if you like?

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