Valley of Eagles (1950)
Typically creaky British Cold War espionage thriller... actually it isn't. It's a highly unusual tale from Bond director Terence Young which sees detective Jack Warner and scientist John McCallum thrust into the wilds of Sweden then Lapland in pursuit of McCallum's former partner and wife who have stolen plans for a scientific Macguffin.
It's a film that will bring a chill to your bones as the chase involves sleighs, reindeer, avalanches, more wolves than you can shake a Liam Neeson at and a mysterious Lapp tribe who hunt using giant eagles. Oh and did i mention Christopher Lee? Well he's in it as well.
Anyone who likes quirky but highly ambitious British thrillers could do a lot worse than check out Valley of Eagles.
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