Updated review: Night Of The Eagle
Let’s take a trip back to the early days of this website, when I was knocking out reviews with gay abandon and also very little knowledge of what I was talking about.
It had been 20-odd (very odd) years since the last time I saw Night Of The Eagle when I found a copy on DVD in a local CEX last week. So I watched it again, and really enjoyed it (again).
Night Of The Eagle was an early addition to the website and on re-reading the review I posted back in the day, I realised it wasn’t great. Not poor (it had, after all, survived the great purge of two years ago when I re-launched the site), but basically an unfunny synopsis of the film’s story.
So I’ve given it a bit of an update, really just as an excuse to remind everyone what a great film it is.
And while we’re talking Peter Wyngarde, can I just mention Peter Wyngarde? I mean, in THIS film he’s a handsome leading man, with a decent haircut and some VERY high trousers. But as someone who was born in 1970 and therefore missed Jason King the first time round, can I just ask what the holy eff was going on with THAT character? From what I can gather, he was portrayed as some kind of sex god, but SURELY no-one ever found something that looked like that remotely attractive, even in the early 70s? Different times…
