On wings of eagles 1986 in this factbased film, two corporate workers from texas are on a business trip to tehran when the iranian revolution erupts. Easterner pike martin sheen does a lot of growing up in a hurry when he becomes a trapper outwest. By midfilm, pike is accomplished enough to compete with comanche chief white bull sam waterston, theres a masterpiece of nontypecasting. A greenhorn trapper martin sheen competes with an indian sam waterston for a symbolic white stallion in 1830s new mexico. On wings of eagles was adapted for television from the bestselling book by ken follett. Eagle s wing 1979 a greenhorn trapper martin sheen competes with an indian sam waterston for a symbolic white stallion in 1830s new mexico.
The film includes martin sheen, sam waterson, and harvey keitel, but the real. The wings of eagles is filmmaker john fords paean to his frequent collaboratorand, it is rumored, drinking buddycmdr. It was directed by anthony harvey, with a story by michael syson and a screenplay by john briley. This lyrical western, set among the savage landscape of canyons and plains of new mexico, features martin sheen as citybred pike who travels to the badlands.
Released in 1979, eagles wing is an english western about a white trapper martin sheen circa 1830 who steals a white mustang named eagles wing from a laconic kiowa native sam waterston. This is a digitized version of an article from the timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. This lyrical western, set among the savage landscape of canyons and plains of new mexico, features martin sheen as citybred pike who. Martin sheen in eagles wing 1979 sam waterston in eagles wing 1979 martin sheen. A white trapper steals a white mustang called eagle wing from a kiowa indian, who. Eagles wing is a eurowestern eastmancolor film made in 1979.
Inspired by fact, the story involves the daring rescue of two american business executives, held captive in. It stars martin sheen, sam waterston and harvey keitel. Though made in britain and europe, eagles wing qualifies as a western. A white trapper steals a white mustang called eagle wing from a kiowa indian. Harvey keitel, stephane audran and caroline langrishe are also on hand. Wings, drame inspire dune histoire vraie, realise par vincent.