Eagles Over London
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Genre: War, Action
Year: 1969
Country: Italy
Starring: Van Johnson, Francisco Rabal, Frederick Stafford, Luigi Pistilli, Ida Galli, Teresa Gimpera
Eagles Over London, also known as Battle Squadron and Battle Command (Italian: La battaglia d'Inghilterra ), is a 1969 Italian "macaroni combat" war film directed by Enzo G. Castellari.
During World War II, British military officers are in pursuit of a merciless team of Nazi saboteurs though war-ravaged London.
When Enzo G. Castellari finished the film Kill Them All and Come Back Alone, he asked the producers what their next film would be. They replied a war epic about the battle of Britain. Enzo thought that was a great idea but the producers had their sights on Alberto De Martino directing. The producers stipulated that stock footage of the actual battle of Britain needed to be used in the film and that it should be used in a split screen method. They asked Enzo if he would direct the special effects sequences and cut it with the stock footage using a split screen method. Enzo had never heard of "split screen" so he was shown the American films The Thomas Crown Affair and the The Boston Strangler. He shot the effects sequences and mixed it using a triple split screen method. An example is having a British plane shoot on the left side, have a Nazi plane getting hit on the right
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