Eagle Rock is a movie directed by Henry Geddes in 1964 and based on the book The Quest of the Golden Eagle by Mary Cathcart Borer, first published in 1957. The movie features Pip Rolls, Tony Paul, Colin Neal, Nicholas Young, Gareth Robinson, Kaplan Kaye, and others.
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Storyline
David is a stubborn London teenager with a sense of his own superiority. Spending a couple of weeks at a boys-only youth club in the Lake District, he gets frustrated when forbidden to climb a local mountain – due to a protected eagle nesting at the top – and plots a secret ascent.
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Movie vs Book
Year
1964
Minutes
62
Movie Rate
6.60
Source: IMDb
Year
1957
Pages
122
Book Rate
4.00
S: Goodreads
Book
The Quest of the Golden Eagle
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