Twelve O'Clock High (1949) 7.8
A hard-as-nails general takes over a bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape. Director:Henry King |
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Twelve O'Clock High (1949) 7.8
A hard-as-nails general takes over a bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape. Director:Henry King |
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Gregory Peck | ... | ||
Hugh Marlowe | ... | ||
Gary Merrill | ... | ||
Millard Mitchell | ... | ||
Dean Jagger | ... | ||
Robert Arthur | ... | ||
Paul Stewart | ... | ||
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John Kellogg | ... | |
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Robert Patten | ... |
Lt. Bishop
(as Bob Patten)
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Lee MacGregor | ... | |
Sam Edwards | ... | ||
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Roger Anderson | ... |
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. Written by KC Hunt <khunt@eng.morgan.edu>
This movie is the only one I have seen that truly depicts how the air war was conducted in the 8th Air Force. It is patterned after the events which actually occurred at the 306th Bomb Group in England in 1943. In real life, General Savage (played by Gregory Peck) was General Frank Armstrong, former commander of the 306th Bomb Group; The first bomb group to fly over Germany.