Eagle in a Cage (1972)

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Eagle in a Cage is an American-British historical drama film, released in 1971.

Production

Howard Barnes, an executive for Group W who knew Lampell in radio, contacted the author suggesting his television play would make an ideal film and they had an investor willing to put up half the money. Lampell said his adaptation "meant really rewriting pretty much everything, because there’s such a vast difference between what works on television and what works as a theatrical feature." The other financier fell through but Group W agreed to ful…

Lampell wrote the part of the black general specifically for Moses Gunn who had been in a play of his, Hard Traveling. " There were actually black generals in Napoleon’s army, from Haiti and elsewhere, although not with Napoleon on St. Helena," said Lampell.

The original plan was to film in Italy but this proved too expensive so the film was shot in Yugoslavia.

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