Twelve O'Clock High
by Henry King
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Actor: Dean Jagger, Gary Merrill, Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Millard MitchellDirector: Henry King
Brand: PECK,GREGORY
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 132 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-05-21
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Twelve O'Clock High
Movie Review: A powerful film that stands up well nearly 60 years later.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a powerful movie that emphasizes the difficulties of military leadership and the pressures on airman who have comfortable beds and means in England and have to fly into death and terror days on end. While there are some powerful air battle scenes in the movie, most of it takes place in officer's quarters and on the airbase in England.
I think Gregory Peck gives one of his best performances as General Savage. He is an officer who cares for his men, but cannot show it. He pushes his mean to keep them safe and flies with them more than he should. Eventually, despite putting on the exterior of the fearless, motivated airman and the kind of tough leader he believes his men need, the emotions he has repressed manifest themselves in a rather shocking way.
The men under him have their own struggles with wanting to serve, but realizing all the friends they have lost in order to drop bombs on things that don't really do much to change the war. They want out of the air service, particularly out from under Savage; yet they fly.
Dean Jagger is spectacular as Major Stovall and won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for this role in 1949. The rest of the cast is very good and the movie holds up well some sixty years on.
Very much worth seeing, but more of a thinking movie than an action film.
I have seen Savage's method of leadership examined in business school for its strengths and weaknesses. Quite an interesting exercise.
Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI
Summary of Twelve O'Clock High
The wartime memories of surviving World War II bomber squadrons were still crystal clear when this acclaimed drama was released in 1949--one of the first postwar films out of Hollywood to treat the war on emotionally complex terms. Framed by a postwar prologue and epilogue and told as a flashback appreciation of wartime valor and teamwork, the film stars Gregory Peck in one of his finest performances as a callous general who assumes command of a bomber squadron based in England. At first, the new commander has little rapport with the 918th Bomber Group, whose loyalties still belong with their previous commander. As they continue to fly dangerous missions over Germany, however, the group and their new leader develop mutual respect and admiration, until the once-alienated commander feels that his men are part of a family--men whose bravery transcends the rigors of rigid discipline and by-the-book leadership. The film's now-classic climax, in which the general waits patiently for his squad to return to base--painfully aware that they may not return at all--is one of the most subtle yet emotionally intense scenes of any World War II drama. With Peck in the lead and Dean Jagger doing Oscar-winning work in a crucial supporting role, this was one of veteran director Henry King's proudest achievements, and it still packs a strong dramatic punch. --Jeff ShannonDuring WWII, a general who daily sends bomber crews on often fatal missions begins to crack.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: NR
Release Date: 21-MAY-2002
Media Type: DVD
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