The Eiger Sanction (film)
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| Directed by | Clint Eastwood |
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The Eiger Sanction by Trevanian |
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| Music by | John Williams |
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| Edited by | Ferris Webster |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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129 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $9 million |
| Box office | $14,200,000 |
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. He later agrees to join an international climbing team in Switzerland planning an ascent of the Eiger north face in order to complete a second sanction to avenge the murder of an old friend. The film was produced by Robert Daley, Richard D. Zanuck, and David Brown in a co-production with Eastwood's The Malpaso Company and Universal Pictures. The film co-starred George Kennedy, Jack Cassidy, and Vonetta McGee. Principal photography started on August 12, 1974, and ended in late September 1974. The picture was filmed on location by cinematographers William N. Clark and Frank Stanley on the Eiger mountain and Zurich in Switzerland, in Monument Valley and Zion National Park in the American Southwest, and in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Monterey in California. Special equipment and handheld cameras were employed to film the climbing sequences. Eastwood did his own climbing and stuntwork under dangerous conditions. Twenty-six-year-old British climber David Knowles died on the Eiger during the production. The film was edited by Ferris Webster, and the soundtrack was composed by John Williams.
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