- Syrian soldiers are shown as brutal and bumbling at once: Major Haikal tortures a captured Israeli at the El Musir prison, while his guards shoot fellow Syrians by mistake, blow up a petrol tanker with stray fire, cower under desks, surrender en masse to a far smaller Israeli squad, and finally gun down their own fleeing major. Israeli actors play the Syrians, and closing shots contrast Israel's green, watered fields with Syria's barren rock.
Eagles Attack at Dawn (1970)
film · also released as: Ha Pritza Hagdola
- Distributor
- CAN
- Cast
- Rick Jason, Peter Braun, Yehoram Gaon, Yoseph Shiloah
- Production notes
- SP: Menachem Golan and Joseph Gross. Filmed in Israel. Israeli actors perform as Arabs