Product Details

• Actors: Martin Sheen, Harvey Keitel, Sam Waterston, Stéphane Audran, Caroline Langrishe
• Directors: Anthony Harvey
• Region: Region 4 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1.0
• Studio: MRA
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000HQSG5I

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Australia released, PAL/Region 4 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), SYNOPSIS: Though made in Britain and Europe, Eagle's Wing qualifies as a Western. Easterner Pike (Martin Sheen) does a lot of growing up in a hurry when he becomes a trapper out-West. By mid-film, Pike is accomplished enough to compete with Comanche chief White Bull (Sam Waterston, there's a masterpiece of nontypecasting!) over possession of a white, wild stallion. The film contains subliminal pro-ecological and pro-tolerance messages, courtesy of its politically-minded stars and the screenplay by future Gandhi scrivener John Briley. Supporting Sheen and Waterston are such never-fail performers as Harvey Keitel and Stephane Audran. SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu,

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4.0 out of 5 stars An unloved child of a movie, May 7, 2009

By	Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

There must have been some interesting conversations on the set of Eagle's Wing, with Martin Sheen straight off Apocalypse Now co-starred with the actor he replaced on Coppola's film, Harvey Keitel. A real unloved child of a movie, dating back to the last major batch of Westerns in 1979-80, it was much reviled at the time for being made by a British studio and director (conveniently ignoring the fact that many of the classic American westerns were directed by European émigrés), which seems a bit of an over-reaction.

The plot is simplicity itself, as Martin Sheen's inexperienced trapper finds himself fighting with Sam Waterston's nonosyllabic Kiowa warrior over the possession of a beautiful white horse, the Eagle's Wing, across a harsh and primitive landscape in a time "before the legends began." Aside from Caroline Langrishe's captive Irish governess, the supporting cast have little to do (Stephane Audran never even gets to open her mouth) and it is a little slow, but Anthony Harvey's film does boast terrific Scope photography from Billy Williams and a very good score from Marc Wilkinson.

The Australian PAL DVD has no extras, but it does boast a decent non-anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen transfer.