One of my favorite early Clint movies.
“In today’s world, the humor in “The Eiger Sanction” would arouse the ire of the NAACP, NOW, Anti-Defamation League, LGBT community, and any other assortment of political correctness enforcers. A black character named Jemima Brown, played by the late and beautiful Vonetta McGee, is the movie’s double agent and possible femme fatale. When she first meets Hemlock on a plane disguised as a stewardess (they were still called that back then) and introduces herself as “Jemima”, Hemlock responds that he’s “Uncle Ben”. Jemima: “I’m serious, that’s really my name. My mother was hooked on being ethnic”. Hemlock: “Or else turned on by a pancake. As long as we both agree that it’s too much for a black chick to have the name of Jemima.” Jack Cassidy plays the obviously gay Miles Mellough who keeps a small dog named “Faggot”, and of whom it’s said by George Kennedy’s character Ben Bowman: “He looks like he could change a nine dollar bill in threes.” There’s something refreshing – and laugh-out-loud funny – in one-liners from a period when sensibilities weren’t so . . . sensitive.”
http://www.teapartytribune.com/2011/08/08/eastwood-flashback-a-look-at-the-eiger-sanction/
Boy did they ever nail that.
One of my winter favorites to watch.