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Twelve O'Clock High

  • 19491949
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 2h 12m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
15K
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Gregory Peck in Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
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A hard-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.A hard-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.A hard-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.
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
15K
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    • Henry King
    • Sy Bartlett(screenplay)
    • Beirne Lay Jr.(screenplay)
    • Henry King(uncredited)
  • Stars
    • Gregory Peck
    • Hugh Marlowe
    • Gary Merrill
    • Henry King
    • Sy Bartlett(screenplay)
    • Beirne Lay Jr.(screenplay)
    • Henry King(uncredited)
  • Stars
    • Gregory Peck
    • Hugh Marlowe
    • Gary Merrill
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 162User reviews
    • 49Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Won 2 Oscars

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    Dean Jagger in Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
    Gregory Peck and Hugh Marlowe in Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
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    Gregory Peck
    Gregory Peck
    • Gen. Savage
    Hugh Marlowe
    Hugh Marlowe
    • Lt. Col. Ben Gately
    Gary Merrill
    Gary Merrill
    • Col. Davenport
    Millard Mitchell
    Millard Mitchell
    • Gen. Pritchard
    Dean Jagger
    Dean Jagger
    • Maj. Stovall
    Robert Arthur
    Robert Arthur
    • Sgt. McIllhenny
    Paul Stewart
    Paul Stewart
    • Capt. 'Doc' Kaiser
    John Kellogg
    John Kellogg
    • Maj. Cobb
    Robert Patten
    Robert Patten
    • Lt. Bishop
    • (as Bob Patten)
    Lee MacGregor
    • Lt. Zimmerman
    • (as Lee Mac Gregor)
    Sam Edwards
    Sam Edwards
    • Birdwell
    Roger Anderson
    • Interrogation Officer
    Robert Blunt
    • Officer
    • (uncredited)
    William Bryant
    William Bryant
    • Radio Operator
    • (uncredited)
    Steve Clark
    Steve Clark
    • Clerk in Antique Shop
    • (uncredited)
    Russ Conway
    Russ Conway
    • Operations Officer
    • (uncredited)
    Campbell Copelin
    • Mr. Britton
    • (uncredited)
    Leslie Denison
    • RAF Officer
    • (uncredited)
      • Henry King
      • Sy Bartlett(screenplay) (novel)
      • Beirne Lay Jr.(screenplay) (novel)
      • Henry King(uncredited)
    • All cast & crew
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    • Trivia
      This film is used by the US Navy as an example of leadership styles in its Leadership and Management Training School. The Air Force's College for Enlisted Professional Military Education also uses it as an education aid in its NCO academies. It is also used as a teaching tool for leadership at the Army Command and General Staff College and for leadership training in civilian seminars. It is used at the Harvard Business School as a case study in how to effect change in organizations.
    • Goofs
      Savage is given command of the 918th and tells Pritchard that he'll get there "early" the next day. By the time he does arrive, Lt. Zimmerman has committed suicide, been given a funeral and Major Stovall has had time to get drunk afterwards.
    • Quotes

      Major Stovall: That is not why I am drunk tonight. I got drunk because I am confused. I was thinking, which is a thing a man should not do, and all at once I couldn't remember what any of them looked like. I, I couldn't see their faces, Bishop, Cobb, Wilson, Zimmy, all of them. All of you. They all looked alike, just one face. And it was very young. It confused me. I think I shall stay drunk until I'm not confused anymore.

    • Crazy credits
      Opening credits prologue: LONDON 1949
    • Connections
      Edited into All This and World War II (1976)
    • Soundtracks
      Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree
      (uncredited)

      Music by Sam H. Stept

      Lyrics by Charles Tobias and Lew Brown

      Sung at the officers' club

    User reviews162

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    10/10
    Probably the greatest film of the air war to be made about World War II
    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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    • Dec 3, 2001

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    • Release date
      • February 13, 1950 (Brazil)
      • United States
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Eglin Air Force Base, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, USA
    • Production company
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    • 2 hours 12 minutes
      • Black and White

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