Aces High

1976
PG
1h 54min

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John Gielgud, Malcolm McDowell, Ray Milland, Christopher Plummer, Trevor Howard, Peter Firth, Richard Johnson, and Simon Ward in Aces High (1976)

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Action Drama War

En la Primera Guerra Mundial, al alto número de pilotos novatos en la aviación pone bajo presión a los supervivientes.En la Primera Guerra Mundial, al alto número de pilotos novatos en la aviación pone bajo presión a los supervivientes.En la Primera Guerra Mundial, al alto número de pilotos novatos en la aviación pone bajo presión a los supervivientes.

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6.6/10

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Nominada a1 premio BAFTA
- 1 premio ganado y 2 nominaciones en total

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9/10

Good for the beginners

I have seen this film when I was young, and was very impressed. Probably it turns on my interest in aerial warfare in World War I. Despite technically awful from the airplanes types view, the film shows exactly, with no glamour, how was the life of fighter pilots in WWI.

Life expectancy for a new pilot was just two weeks. There was no real training for the pilots, and few of the old pilots care about teaching anything to the new ones. If you look at the dangerous machines they should fly, antiaircraft fire and the enemy machines, it's a miracle that someone has survived to told us the history.

Trivia
This movie is an adaptation of the play "Journey's End" by R.C. Sherriff, written just after World War I. The setting is transplanted from the trenches to an airfield, but most of the characters and some incidents are almost unchanged.

Errores
Because of the use of disguised, more modern, inauthentic aircraft, most (with the exception of the mocked-up SE5s with their forward-facing radiators hiding the V8) are shown with radial, instead of, rotary engines, where the engine block rotates around a fixed crankshaft.

Citas
Mess Corporal Bennett: [as the pilots set off early in the morning on a dangerous mission] How many for breakfast? Any of them?

Créditos curiosos
Opening credits prologue: England October 1916

Versiones alternativas
Some DVD releases feature a shorter print which reduces the French restaurant scene and misses out shots of the officers looking at a slideshow of nude photographs. These appear to have been made by the distributor, as the film has never been cut by the BBFC.

Conexiones
Edited into Blackadder Goes Forth: Private Plane (1989)

Bandas sonoras
Under the Bridges of Paris
(Sous les Ponts de Paris)
(uncredited)
Music by Vincent Scotto
French lyrics by Jean Rodor
English lyrics by Dorcas Cochran