A war movie without a war. Rock's the asshole Colonel in charge of whipping a SAC Air Force base into shape after they fail an ORI that's "Operational Readiness Inspection" for you civilians.
Rock uses a lot of tough love to whip these boys into shape. As is typical for these kinds of films he has a wife who stays at home and whines about what a tough guy he's turned into and how she doesn't know who he is anymore da dum da dum da dum.
Truth be told, this is actually a pretty good film about what is essentially a film about guys training all of the time. The director Delbert Mann was always a good craftsman and he excelled at getting good performances out of actors. Rock was never mistaken for a method actor but he does a pretty decent job in this film.
The worst thing you could say about A Gathering of Eagles is that it's hard to work up a lot of tension over whether an Air Force base will pass a training test.
The oddest thing you can say about A Gathering of Eagles is that it has a song written specifically for it by satirist Tom Lehrer and exactly how that got into this film is anyone's guess.
This film has an awesome cast of testosterone fueled actors, Rod Taylor, Kevin McCarthy, Leif Erickson, Richard Anderson, Barry Sullivan, Robert Lansing and Henry Silvia.
116 minutesm screenplay by Robert Pirosh.
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