Un homme de fer

Titre original : Twelve O'Clock High

1949
PG
2h 12m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,7/10

16 k

MA NOTE

Liretrailer2 min 05 s

1 vidéo

38 photos

Drama War

Un général prend le contrôle d'une unité de bombardiers au moral bas et la remet en état de se battre.Un général prend le contrôle d'une unité de bombardiers au moral bas et la remet en état de se battre.Un général prend le contrôle d'une unité de bombardiers au moral bas et la remet en état de se battre.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,7/10

16 k

MA NOTE

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

A remporté 2 oscars
- 5 victoires et 3 nominations au total

Lt. Bishop
(as Bob Patten)

Lee MacGregor

Lt. Zimmerman
(as Lee Mac Gregor)

Sam Edwards

Birdwell

Roger Anderson

Interrogation Officer

Robert Blunt

Officer
(uncredited)

William Bryant

Radio Operator
(uncredited)

Steve Clark

Clerk in Antique Shop
(uncredited)

Russ Conway

Operations Officer
(uncredited)

Campbell Copelin

Mr. Britton
(uncredited)

Leslie Denison

RAF Officer
(uncredited)

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Histoire

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Le saviez-vous

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Anecdotes
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 and Officer Training School. 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.

Gaffes
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.

Citations
General Savage: I take it you don't really care about the part you had in breaking one of the best men you'll ever know. Add to it that as Air Exec you were automatically in command the moment Colonel Davenport left - and you met that responsibility exactly as you met his need: you ran out on it. You left the station to get drunk. Gately, as far as I'm concerned, you're yellow. A traitor to yourself, to this group, to the uniform you wear. It would be the easiest course for me to transfer you out, to saddle some unsuspecting guy with a deadbeat. Maybe you think that's what you're gonna get out of this, a free ride in some combat unit. But I'm not gonna pass the buck. I'm gonna keep you right here. I hate a man like you so much that I'm gonna get your head down in the mud and tramp on it. I'm gonna make you wish you'd never been born.
Lt. Col. Ben Gately: If that's all, sir...
General Savage: I'm just getting started. You're gonna stay right here and get a bellyful of flying. You're gonna make every mission. You're not air exec anymore. You're just an airplane commander. And I want you to paint this name on the nose of your ship: Leper Colony. Because in it you're gonna get every deadbeat in the outfit. Every man with a penchant for head colds. If there's a bombardier who can't hit his plate with his fork, you get him. If there's a navigator who can't find the men's room, you get him. Because you rate him.

Générique farfelu
Opening credits prologue: LONDON 1949

Connexions
Edited into All This and World War II (1976)

Bandes originales
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

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Commentaire en vedette

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.