scene from Twelve O'Clock High
(From left) Gary Merrill, Gregory Peck, and Dean Jagger in Twelve O'Clock High (1949).
Twelve O’Clock High
film by King [1949]
Twelve O’Clock High, American war film, released in 1949, that was noted for its groundbreaking depiction of the psychological effects of war on soldiers. American attorney Harvey Stovall (played by Dean Jagger) is a tourist in London in 1949 when he happens upon an old Toby jug (a beer jug in the shape of a man) in an antique shop. The jug reminds him of his days in England during World War II, and he subsequently visits the village of Archbury and the abandoned airfield where seven years earlier he had served with the U.S. 8th Army Air Force 918th ...(100 of 384 words)