“Broadsword calling Danny Boy…” If those words jump out at you then, like me, you’ve probably sat through Where Eagles Dare multiple times.

It remains one of the very best WWII “men on a mission’ movies – terrific action sequence, a twisty (and admittedly somewhat ridiculous) plot, plus great chemistry between Richard Burton’s verbose British mission commander and Clint Eastwood as his right hand man, who says very little but kills an awful lot of Nazis.

I loved this as a boy when it first came out at the cinema and given it is something of a British TV staple I have seen it many time since. Other than the above classic line, it is probably most famous for its gripping fight scene atop an icy cable-car. I like that it makes no attempt to pretend to be in any way a realistic war film (fact fans: for starters, it features a helicopter, which wasn’t invented until after the war) – but who cares?

At one point, I owned the UK quad poster but sold it at auction years ago. I’m still kicking myself for that, but I subsequently bought the above French ‘petit’ poster by way of compensation. This features a different illustration, which still manages to hit many of the same explosive action notes.

More recently, I picked up the Spanish 70s re-release version above. Oddly, for this version, an image of Clint wearing a cap was re-painted to make him more recognisable. The artist however took as his reference a still from Dirty Harry – so here we have Clint with machine gun and 70s hair!

I also have a couple of nice retro Spanish lobby cards, such as the one above showing Burton trying to explain the ludicrously complicated plot to an exasperated Eastwood! These are for sale here.