A Gathering of Eagles - 1963

Condition: Excellent

Folded as Issued

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Size: 14 x 30 inches (36 x 76 cm)

An original Australian Daybill poster for the 1963 release of “A Gathering of Eagles”

An American war film directed by Delbert Mann. Rock Hudson plays United States Air Force colonel Jim Caldwell, a Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52 wing commander who must prepare his unit to pass a gruelling operational readiness inspection.

The film also stars Rod Taylor, Mary Peach, Barry Sullivan, Kevin McCarthy, Henry Silva, Robert Lansing, Leif Erickson and Richard Anderson.

A SuperScope Eastmancolor film about the U.S. Air Force during the Cold War and the pressures of command. The plot is patterned after the World War II film Twelve O'Clock High, which producer-screenwriter Sy Bartlett also wrote, with elements also mirroring Above and Beyond and Toward the Unknown, films written by his collaborator, Beirne Lay Jr.

"THE HIGHER THEY FLY...THE FASTER THEY LIVE!" 

Tags: Australian 1960s Drama Thriller Adventure Daybill War