Film · 20th Century · 1949
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Twelve O'Clock High
68Worth an evening.
A man sends bomber crews until he breaks, and I respected it more than I enjoyed it.
The review
Somebody has to send them. A general takes a bomber group in England whose crews are coming apart, and he tightens the discipline until the missions, and the morning he has to send them, are the whole job. Gregory Peck. The crews are not props. He breaks too. Older teens. I am not going to describe wounds.
I have sent people at work, and I still flinched. Courage here is not a speech. It is staying with a group that is already cracking, and then finding the man who held them can crack as well. The film knows those crews would miss their lives. I respected it. I did not feel like talking on the way home.
Journal
Keep Twelve O'Clock High in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 68. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household is the thin one.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Master and Commander
81 instead of 68
Master and Commander is still a war film, and it scores 81 instead of 68. What you gain is household: The crew is the household.
The eight
- 9Industry
The work is command: the missions, and the morning he sends them.
- 2Household
No spouse or child appears; the cracking crews are not a family.
- 6Piety
Sending them weighs on him until the weight breaks the commander.
- 9Courage
Crews risk the raids, and he risks coming apart in front of them.
- 8Republic
A bomber group owes planes to a war the men are tired of flying.
- 7Temperance
He puts discipline on men who are coming apart from the strain.
- 7Truth
The standard he sets is real, and then the iron man fails it too.
- 6Stewardship
The group is held, and the man who held it is used up.
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