Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
BDRip 720p | MKV | 960x720 | x264 @ 4385 Kbps | English DTS 5.1 @ 1509 Kbps | 132 min | 5,45 Gb
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Director: Henry King
Writers: Sy Bartlett (screenplay), Beirne Lay Jr. (screenplay)
Stars: Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill
In this story of the early days of daylight bombing raids over Nazi Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a "hard luck" bomber group. Much of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a disciplined fighting unit in spite of heavy losses, and withering attacks by German fighters over their targets. Actual combat footage is used in this tense war drama.
IMDB - Won 2 Oscars
No gungho up and at 'em men. No false heroics. A great war film, but also an anti-war film of great intensity. Just ordinary men (and boys) doing the job they knew they had got to do. Greg Peck magnificent as the general forced to stiffen the morale of his bomber group, and who he himself eventually cracks under the strain. Dean Jagger outstanding and thoroughly deserving his oscar as best supporting actor. A truly great film, 10 out of 10 in my book. There are still disused airfields like that shown at the beginning only a few miles from where I live (although they were RAF bases). In 1943-45 as a young schoolboy I lived further down south in England and often saw the American Fortresses going to, and returning (not all of them!) from their daylight raids over Germany . A fine tribute to those American airmen wo gave their lives over Europe.
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Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
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