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Overview

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Director:
Henry King
Writers:
Sy Bartlett (screenplay) and
Beirne Lay Jr. (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
13 February 1950 (Brazil) more
Genre:
Action | Drama | War more
Tagline:
A story of twelve men as their women never knew them...
Plot:
A hard-as-nails general takes over a bomber pilot unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations more
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Actor Gregory Peck has died of natural causes, aged 87
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User Comments:
Probably the greatest film of the air war to be made about World War II more (97 total)

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Additional Details

Runtime:
132 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | West Germany:16 (f) | USA:Approved (certificate #13818) | Canada:G (video rating) | Finland:S | Spain:T | UK:U | Sweden:15 | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Ontario)

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Trivia:
The air battles were cut together from authentic World War II footage. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: During the aerial combat scenes of the movie's last mission, actual WWII combat footage is randomly inserted to add realism. However, three of these clips clearly show a closeup of an American P-47 fighter attacking the B-17's. more
Quotes:
General Frank Savage: [Addressing the 918th for the first time at 0800] There will be a briefing for a practice mission at 1100 this morning. That's right, practice. I've been sent here to take over what has come to be known as a hard luck group. Well, I don't believe in hard luck. So we're going to find out what the trouble is... more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Star Wars (1977) more
Soundtrack:
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree more

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Probably the greatest film of the air war to be made about World War II, 3 December 2001
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Author: shih_tzu from Lincoln, England

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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