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Director:
Writers:
Howard Barker (screenplay)
R.C. Sherriff (play)
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Release Date:
December 1977 (USA) more
Plot:
A naive young officer straight from school arrives on the Western front to fight the air war against the Germans... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Hard and realistic story! Brilliant acting! more (21 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Malcolm McDowell | ... | Maj. John Gresham |
 | Christopher Plummer | ... | Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair |
 | Simon Ward | ... | Lt. Crawford |
| Peter Firth | ... | Lt. Stephen Croft |
| David Wood | ... | Lt. 'Tommy' Thompson |
 | John Gielgud | ... | Headmaster |
| Trevor Howard | ... | Lieutenant Colonel Silkin |
| Richard Johnson | ... | Major Lyle |
 | Ray Milland | ... | Brigadier General Whale |
| Christopher Blake | ... | Lieutenant Roberts |
| Gilles Béhat | ... | Captain Beckenauer (as Gilles Behat) |
| Elliott Cooper | ... | Lieutenant Wade |
| David Daker | ... | Mess Corporal Bennett |
| Barry Jackson | ... | Corporal Albert Joyce |
| Jacques Maury | ... | Ponnelle |
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Runtime:
114 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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Certification:
West Germany:12 (f) | Singapore:PG | UK:PG | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | USA:PG | Iceland:12
Filming Locations:
Booker Airfield, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK more
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Trivia:
The scene with the balloon observer jumping out with a parachute is reused footage from The Blue Max (1966) more
Goofs:
Continuity: Sinclair informs Croft that Gresham uses a Nieuport "that he swears by", but every time we see Gresham aloft he is flying an SE5 like the rest of the squadron. more
Quotes:
Mess Corporal Bennett: [as the pilots set off early in the morning on a dangerous mission] How many for breakfast? Any of them? more
Movie Connections:
Edited into "Blackadder Goes Forth: Private Plane (#1.4)" (1989) more
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I can't understand, why so many users didn't gave the full stars rating.
Only because some planes are not complete original? Or a truck wasn't from 1914 but from 1916 or something like that? The acting AND the story are superb! One of the rare self critical, hard and realistic movies about the "Allies".
Cowards and cynical "heroes" with with massive nerve and alcohol problems. That looks like the reality.
Not a knights air duel. No! An air butchery. Death with wings. Cruel and slow deaths. That makes men ripe for the mental hospital....
You are dead.....and I survived. That's the only result that counts.
Make no friends! They are dying more quickly, as you can imagine. Don't talk to mechanics! They are not like you. You are an officer. They are something lower.
That's what I call REALISM! Not CGI computer tricks makes a realistic war movie. It only takes a realistic description of air-killing without pathos and with brilliant acting and brilliant actors....and you will feel as if you are watching the reality.
Then you have a good feeling for the spirit of the times beyond old Biggles stories and hero sagas and "Great war" and "Finest Hour" patriotism.
But it's a sad movie. Really sad.