The Eiger Sanction (1975)
fiction · 129 min · United States
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Set in: The Eiger, Switzerland, and the American Southwest
A retired assassin and mountaineer is pressured into one more job: identifying and killing a target within an international Eiger climbing team.
Where it was filmed
- Eiger
Bernese Oberland · Switzerland
climbing sequences on the mountain
Grindelwald on MR. ALPS - Grindelwald
Bern · Switzerland
principal photography began here on 12 August 1974
Grindelwald on MR. ALPS - Kleine Scheidegg
Bern · Switzerland
climbers based at Hotel Bellevue des Alpes
Wengen on MR. ALPS - Zürich
Switzerland
- Monument Valley
Arizona-Utah · United States
practice climb on the Totem Pole; Tyrolean traverse
- Zion National Park
Utah · United States
Zion-Mount Carmel Highway, Zion Lodge, Checkerboard Mesa, the Narrows
- Carmel-by-the-Sea
California · United States
- Monterey
California · United States
Filming locations as stated in the sources below. The story may be set somewhere else.
Also filmed nearby
North Face2008 · Grindelwald +3
Downhill Racer1969 · Wengen +4
On Her Majesty's Secret Service1969 · Mürren +2
The Summit2012 · Grindelwald
Crash Landing on You2019-2020 · Wengen +1
Sangam1964 · Grindelwald
Bachna Ae Haseeno2008 · Rougemont +1
Sources
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