Twelve O'Clock High - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "Twelve O'Clock High"
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
Timing:
2:12 (132 min)
7.085/10
135
135
6.872/10
604
604
7.7/10
17000
17000
Film crew
Director
Producer
Editor
Art Direction
Maurice Ransford
Art Direction
Set Decoration
Bruce MacDonald
Set Decoration
Makeup Artist
Original Music Composer
Orchestrator
Edward B. Powell
Orchestrator
Director of Photography
Leon Shamroy
Director of Photography
Screenplay
Beirne Lay Jr.
Screenplay
Novel
Beirne Lay Jr.
Novel
Special Effects
Fred Sersen
Special Effects
Sound
Roger Heman Sr.
Sound
W. D. Flick
Sound
What's left behind the scenes
- The term 'Twelve O'Clock High' refers to the combat crews’ protocol for locating approaching enemy aircraft, referencing an imaginary clock face where the aircraft is at the center, and whether the opponent is above, level with, or below the aircraft. Thus, a call of 'Bandits, twelve o’clock high!' was a warning of impending danger.
- Many of the ground scenes were filmed in Chino, California, at an airport that had been used to train military pilots during the war, and where a replica of a control tower, a copy of the 8th Air Force base in England, was built. The airfield was used in the postwar period as a junkyard for old fighters and bombers, and was later used for the penultimate scene of the film 'The Best Years of Our Lives'.
- The crash of the B-17 bomber near the runway at the beginning of the film was not planned. Pilot Paul Mantz was paid $4,500 to crash the bomber, and Mantz himself survived. Until the 1970s, this was the largest sum of money ever paid to a stuntman for performing a single stunt.
- The aerial combat scenes were cut and spliced together with footage from World War II newsreels.
- The term "Twelve O'Clock High" refers to the combat crews' protocol for locating approaching enemy aircraft, referencing an imaginary clock face where the aircraft is at the center, and whether the opponent is above, at the same level, or below the aircraft. Thus, a call of, "Bandits, twelve o'clock high!" was a warning of impending danger.
- Many of the ground scenes were filmed in Chino, California, at an airport that was used to train military pilots during the war, where a replica of a control tower, a copy of the 8th Air Force base in England, was built. The airfield was used in the postwar period as a dumping ground for old fighters and bombers, and was later used for the penultimate scene of the film "The Best Years of Our Lives".
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