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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.
Twelve O'Clock High: Directed by Henry King. With Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell. A tough-as-nails general (Gregory Peck as General Savage) takes over a B-17 bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape.
- (16K)
- Drama, War
- Henry King
- 1950-02-13
In 1949, American attorney and former U.S. Army Air Forces officer Harvey Stovall (Dean Jagger) is vacationing in Great Britain when he spots a familiar Toby Jug in an antique shop window.
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.
Twelve O’Clock High was one of the first major films about World War II to forgo a propagandistic approach and instead present the horrors of the conflict—particularly the psychological toll of warfare on its participants—in a realistic light.
- Lee Pfeiffer
Twelve O'Clock High was one of the first and arguably the greatest of the Hollywood films to examine the pressures of command and psychological toll of making life and death decisions for men they come know and care for. It was based on a novel by veteran screenwriter Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay, Jr., who served in World War II under Air Force ...
Twelve O'Clock High features one of Gregory Peck's best performances as Brigadier General Frank Savage, a tough no nonsense martinet brought in to shake up a World War II Bomber Squadron.
