Just perfect...

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Absolutely brilliant

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

TWELWE O'CLOCK HIGH is a very good war drama based on the novel and rather on personal experience. The story is focused on individuals. Every character in this film deserves space. How creates tremendous losses and the death of his comrades affects every individual. In such circumstances, a man just can not stay calm. I would like to praise realistic view. The story is in the same time alive, depressing, gloomy, aggressive, emotional and dramatic. Such moods express characters in the film. This is the best example of the atmosphere of the film. War destroys the human psyche in a myriad of ways. I always draw the line at war films with similar themes. What is the order and what the decision is. In war movies is too coincidence. The killings were not justified. Never. Therefore, in statements to the subjugation can never be purely tactical. In this case, the main character comes to emotional conflict with itself.I think that this is not a film about heroism. This is a deliberate provocation that will certainly everybody provoke an emotional response. The absurdity of war. The conditions of warfare. People's collapse. Win!? Well, I was with some segments can not agree. The term "maximum effort" is in my opinion unacceptable. In practice, of course steady. Put a character of cowards from the beginning of the film to the hero at the end of the film is inappropriate.Gregory Peck as Brigadier General Frank Savage deserves praise for good performance. He was able to present your character in totally two different states. It seems pretty impressive.Twelve O'Clock High is the authentic war drama, full of tension in the general human drama that is finally born heroes.

Although I first saw this film many years ago as an adolescent, I have never forgotten it. It always reminded me of my aviation minded father who would reminisce about narrowly missing flying bombers in WWII due to being color blind. I couldn't help think that this would have been his fate. For me this is the greatest WWII film of all time, machine clad gladiators hammering the foe high in the clouds, cold, frightened, young, detached, alone, ordinary, facing death each duel until the battle is won and those that had to send them to their deaths. They will never make a movie like this again. No one will be left to understand when the sons and daughters of my father's generation pass away.

A hard-as-nails general takes over a bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape.What do you know about Paul Tibbets? If that name means anything at all to you, it is probably that he dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan. But he also flew air missions over Europe in 1942. This guy was everywhere."Twelve O'Clock High" is considered culturally important, and I would have to agree. If nothing else, it does have the Americans over Europe, which frankly is something few people know about. The story is normally that following Pearl Harbor (December 1941), America declared war on Japan. There was no invasion of Europe until June 1944. But that is not strictly speaking accurate.

It's 1949 London. Stovall buys a gaudy cheap mug but he values it like fine china. He travels to Archbury which is the derelict home of the 918th Bomb Group during the War. The movie flashes back to the dark days when they had the reputation of a hard luck group due to daylight bombing. Their commander Davenport (Gary Merrill) confronts headquarters and his friend Brigadier General Frank Savage (Gregory Peck). Davenport is relieved of command and the group is given to Savage. Savage brings stiff discipline back to the group.The first hour and forty five minutes are rather bland. Gregory Peck keeps the movie going. It is considered one of the more accurate depiction of a bomber group from that era. It's also not necessarily that dramatic. The last section is their big mission and it is intercut with real footage of the air battle. Some of the footage is unreal and it's the more compelling because they are the real thing.