Eagles Over London (Italian: La battaglia d'Inghilterra), is a "macaroni combat" war film from 1969 directed by Enzo G.
During the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940, a team of German saboteurs assume the identities of dead British soldiers and are transported to England.
While the Battle of Britain rages overhead, the final confrontation takes place as the German team are about to blow up the RAF Fighter Command control centre.
Enzo had never heard of "split screen" so he was shown the American films The Thomas Crown Affair and The Boston Strangler.
After this, Enzo sat down with a writing partner for a week to rewrite the overlong script to make it more action-oriented and less of a "soap opera".
"[1] In a retrospective review, Sight & Sound noted the plotline of Nazi saboteurs active in Britain "has been used in films from Ealing's Went the Day Well to The Eagle Has Landed, but those movies lacked the formal flamboyance that Castellari brings to his material.