The Eiger Sanction (film)
The Eiger Sanction is a 1975 American action thriller directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. Based on the novel The Eiger Sanction, by Trevanian, N the film is about an art history professor and mountain climber who doubles as a professional assassin and is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.
During his career with a secret government agency called C2, Hemlock amassed a private collection ofmasterpiece paintings, paid for from earnings from his previous sanctions. The director of C2, Mr. Dragon Thayer David, is an albino exNazi confined to semidarkness and kept alive by blood transfusions. He has an uncouth, inept aide, Pope Gregory Walcott, whom Hemlock cant stand.Dragon wants Hemlock to kill two men responsible for the death of another government agent, code name Wormwood. Insisting he is retired, Hemlock refuses until Dragon threatens to expose Hemlocks art collection to the IRS. Hemlock then agrees, travels to Zurich, and carries out the first sanction for 20,000, twice his usual fee, plus a letter guaranteeing no trouble from the IRS. ........
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