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| ACTORS: | Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Henry King |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1949 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Twentieth Century Fox |
| MPAA RATING: | Unrated |
| FEATURES: | Black & White, Closed-captioned, Black & White |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-action/Adventure |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 024543030065 |
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Customer Reviews of Twelve O'Clock High
The high price of command If you want to see how a real hard nose leader can turn around a "Hard Luck" outfit, then this is the film for you. I am always surprised how complex and realistic a film was made so soon after the last great shooting match in Europe. A great film and cast.
"You can't carry all the load. It's too big."
Brig. Gen. Frank Savage (Gregory Peck) takes over the faltering 918th Bomber Group from Col. Keith Davenport (Gary Merrill) when the hard-luck group threatens to fall apart. Or is it really a hard-luck group? TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH is a movie about leadership, first and foremost, and also the limits of endurance. At issue is the viability of daylight precision bombing, a fighting tactic that demands tight formations and low altitude attacks. It's `our one hope of shortening this war," Maj. Gen. Ben Pritchard (Millard Mitchell) tells Savage at one point, and the 918th are spearheading the test. And they're falling apart. Col. Davenport is relieved of command and replaced by Savage. His failing was an over-identification with his men, propping them up when he should have been testing them to seen when a man reaches his breaking point, when they've taken all they could. Enter Gen. Frank Savage. If Davenport is a bit rumpled, Savage is all spit-and-polish, a by-the-book general stopping just short of being a martinet.
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> TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH is a convincing look at the problems of command without any distracting side stories mucking up things. Dean Jagger, as Maj. Harvey Stovall, won a deserved Academy Award as the general's soft-spoken clerk, a lawyer in real life, who acts as the chronicler of the evolution of the 918th from a dissension ridden outfit to a formidable fighting unit. The movie, in fact, is presented as Stovall's post-war flashback.
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> TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH uses authentic combat film of US and German planes in action. The film is well incorporated in the movie, it feels real, but battle is secondary to the human drama at the heart of the movie. For my money this is Gregory Peck's best movie, drawing on all his strengths as an actor, allowing his air of reserved authority to impart an almost tragic note to his character. Strongly recommended, essential for fans of action and war movies.
Awesome WW2 Battle Film
$7.50! You gotta be kidding. How can you not own this movie? A great film about men in battle and the toll it takes on them. Peck is great as the consummate emotionless hard as nails officer who drives himself and his men to the breaking point. Particularly relevant today when we have men and women coming home from battle in Iraq and Afganistan all the time. Just because they come home doesn't mean they leave it all there.