Eagle, Falcon, Hawk, Lion, Devil etc. are words in the answers.

1974 novel. Wilbur Smith. South African Air Force fighter pilot fights for Israel in their struggles in the early 1970s.

1975 novel. Jack Higgins. Fallschirmjager. Two honourable German colonels. A highly skilled IRA man. Molly Prior. Winston Churchill. Film 1976.

1968 film. WWII. Special Operations Executive. Paratroopers. Spies. Fight on a cable car. Novel - Alistair MacLean, 1967.

1980 novel. Wilbur Smith. First in the series of 'Ballantyne Novels'. Lost missionary in Africa. Daughter, a doctor, searches for him accompanied by her brother. Slaves. Ivory. Wilbur Smith stuff. American character is handsome, debonair... and a slaver.

1941 film. Sam Spade. Novel - Dashiell Hammett, 1930.

1985 film. Espionage. Story of Christopher Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee.

1981 film. Robberies. LAPD. Terrorism. Sylvester Stallone. "Come on, Bad Ass!"

1991 film. Cat burglar, safecracker. Something about synchronicity and singing while you work.

2001 film. Somali Civil War. Helicopter.

1964 novel. Wilbur Smith. Anglo-Zulu War. Johannesburg gold mines. Fortunes made and lost. Ivory. Rabid jackal. Ivory. Marriage. Return to Johannesburg. Tragic suicide.

1980 film. Senussid resistance against Italian colonisation in Cyrenaica (Libya). Follows the struggle of their leader, Omar al-Mukhtar.

1994 animated film. Made a mint.

1968 film. Henry II of England and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine. Plots, treachery and conniving all over the set. Anthony Hopkins' first major film role (Richard the Lionheart). Timothy Dalton's film debut.

1948 novel. Irwin Shaw. WWII as experienced by a German officer, a WASP and a Jew, the last two joining the US Army. The three had met before the war in Bavaria.

2006 film. Meryl Streep, AGAIN! Nominated for an Academy Award, AGAIN! No win this time but. Boo-bloody-hoo.

1990 novel. Walter Mosley. Los Angeles in the 1940s. Missing person. Someone hired to find them. Murders. Sex. Blackmail. I wonder if the author ever read Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett or John D. MacDonald? 1995 film.

1968 film. Story of the 1st Special Service Force, a joint Canadian/American commando unit in WWII. Italian town captured. Mountain fortress overwhelmed. The movie has shadows of 'The Dirty Dozen', released the previous year, all over it. Richard Jaeckel appears in both films.

1979 novel. Frederick Forsyth. Cold War tensions head towards becoming a food fight.

1997 film. Old Nick's barrister. Allusions - 'Paradise Lost', 'Inferno', 'Faust'.

1968 novel. Wilbur Smith. Hard-drinking, Irish ivory poacher manipulates an English twit into aiding and abetting him into trespassing into German East Africa (Tanzania). High adventure. WWI breaks out and German cruiser gets involved. 1976 film.

1984 film. This third instalment has George Burns playing both God and Old Nick.

1976 film. Much mental anguish in a Catholic seminary in late 1950s Melbourne, Australia.

1968 film. Hate, love, hate, love, hate relationship between an American pilot and a Japanese soldier on an island in WWII. Only two actors in it.

1949 book. The memoir of the most highly decorated US soldier of WWII. 1955 film of the same name. The memoirist plays himself.

1957 film. Corruption at management level in a lorry company leads to high drama. Sean Connery's third film. No sign of "Bond... James Bond" in this early effort. He plays a sniggering, moronic bully.

2001 film. Yet another slant on the 'Jack the Ripper Murders'. Royal involvement again. Bloody Freemasons again. Johnny Depp again.

2005 novel. Missing person. Libel case. Computer hacking. Murder, death, kill, rape. The usual suspects. In a setting amongst the fjords. Film 2011.

1973 film. Martial arts. The star's last film.

1981 novel. Enter Lecter. First filmed in 1986 as 'Manhunter'. Remade 2002.

1981 film. Kingdom of Urland is terrorised by a 400-year-old large, magical, legendary creature. Someone has to stop its nonsense.

1975 novel. Wilbur Smith. Wanted British criminal settles on an Indian Ocean island paradise and buys a magnificent boat to charter for fishing but cannot quite give up his criminal tendencies. Gets caught up in treasure hunt and the bodies pile up. Naturally.

2012 film. Supernatural powers invest a German panzerkampfwagen in Russia in 1943. A Russian T-34 driver is also straight out the X-Files.

1970 film. Attack on Pearl Harbor.

1912 novella. Bizarre story about an aging German writer holidaying in an Italian city where a Jewish moneylender once resided in a work by someone else.

1949 play. Arthur Miller. Eponymous character is Willy Loman. Multiple suicide attempts. Automobile wreck works for him at the end.

1976 film. Parody of private detectives - Charlie Chan, Hercule Poirot, Sam Spade, Miss Marple and Nick and Nora Charles.

1992 film. Yep. Meryl Streep will end up doing it all. Her character in this does a Father Karras and a Regan McNeil. I cannot wait for her 'Napoleon Bonaparte', 'Adolf Hitler' and her 'Mohandas Gandhi'.

1957 novel. Boris Pasternak. WWI and the Russian Revolution.

1964 film. "...precious bodily fluids." Alien Hand Syndrome. "We'll Meet Again."

1965 film. Peter Cushing. Tardis. "EXTERMINATE!"

1920s childrens' books. Hugh Lofting. Polynesia. Gub-Gub. Jip. Dab-Dab. Chee-Chee. Too-Too. Pushmi-Pullyu. Whitey. 1967 film.

1886 novella. Literature's most famous tale about a character and his doppelganger.

1958 novel. Sixth instalment about a vodka martini swiller who would never survive an outing if it was not for the women he seduces and exploits. First of the books to be filmed. 1962.

c. 1592 play. Characters - Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Beelzebub, Seven Deadly Sins, Pope Adrian VI, Charles V and Duke of Saxony. Also the eponymous fellow.

1896 novel. Animals are people too!