Eiger Sanction (1975)
Release Year: 1975
Nation: United States
Alternative Title: The Eiger Sanction, Licencia para matar, Im Auftrag des Drachen, Escalado para Morrer, Отмъщението на Айгър
Director: Clint Eastwood
Writer: Hal Dresner, Rod Whitaker, Trevanian, Warren Murphy
Production & Genre
Producer: Producer: Robert Daley
Executive Producer: David Brown, Richard D. Zanuck
Companies: Malpaso Productions, Universal Pictures
Genre: Action, Action Film, Adventure, Drama, Film Based On A Novel, Thriller
Budget: 9.000.000
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Keywords
Keywords: alps mountains, american southwest, art collection, art collector, art historian, assassin, based on novel or book, college professor, espionage, hitman, monument valley, mountain climbing, retired assassin, rock climbing, secret intelligence service, spy ring, spy thriller, swiss alps, switzerland, zion national park
Story
In 'Eiger Sanction', a classical art professor and collector named Jonathan Hemlock, who secretly works as a professional assassin for a secret intelligence service when not teaching, finds himself coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.
Summary
Directed by Clint Eastwood in 1975, 'Eiger Sanction' is an action-packed spy thriller based on a novel of the same name by Trevanian. The film stars Eastwood himself as Jonathan Hemlock, who leads a double life as both an art historian and assassin for hire. The story revolves around Hemlock's reluctant return to his secret profession after his former mentor is killed while attempting to scale the treacherous Eiger mountain in Switzerland.
