Gregory Peck
Gen. Frank Savage
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Twelve O'Clock High is a 1949 American war film directed by Henry King and based on the novel of the same name by Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay, Jr. It stars Gregory Peck as Brig. General Frank Savage. Hugh Marlowe , Gary Merrill , Millard Mitchell , and Dean Jagger also appear in supporting roles.
Gregory Peck stars as a tough general who takes over a B-17 bomber unit with low morale and leads them on dangerous missions over Nazi Germany. The film won two Oscars and is used as a leadership training tool in various fields.
- (15K)
- Drama, War
- Henry King
- 1950-02-13
Find out who directed, wrote, produced, and starred in the 1949 war film Twelve O'Clock High, based on a novel by Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay Jr. See the full list of actors, crew members, and production details on IMDb.
In this story of the early days of daylight bombing raids over Nazi Germany, General Frank Savage (Gregory Peck) 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.
Twelve O'Clock High (1949) steps into the cockpit of the traditional World War II movie and flies it in unexpected directions. It's traditional because it has many of the usual ingredients for a story about American soldiers in the European theater - a bomber unit, tension between superior officers and subordinates, tense missions to distant targets, aerial dogfights with German planes, and ...
Twelve O'Clock High is a high-stakes, high-tension war drama powered by great, well-written characters. In 1942, an American Air Force unit stationed in England is plagued with morale problems ...
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- War, Drama
