Aces High (1976)
Country: GB
Technical: col 114m
Director: Jack Gold
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer, Simon Ward, Peter Firth
Synopsis:
Losses among rookie pilots in the Flying Corps during World War One have an increasingly deleterious effect on those left alive.
Review:
Sherriff's Journey's End again, this time transposed to the air corps. The trouble is not just that it's all been done before, but the airborne sequences aren't good enough to erase still fresh memories of Von Richthofen and Brown. Not that that's the point, but on the ground things don't quite seem to catch fire either, despite the excellent cast.
Country: GB
Technical: col 114m
Director: Jack Gold
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer, Simon Ward, Peter Firth
Synopsis:
Losses among rookie pilots in the Flying Corps during World War One have an increasingly deleterious effect on those left alive.
Review:
Sherriff's Journey's End again, this time transposed to the air corps. The trouble is not just that it's all been done before, but the airborne sequences aren't good enough to erase still fresh memories of Von Richthofen and Brown. Not that that's the point, but on the ground things don't quite seem to catch fire either, despite the excellent cast.
Country: GB
Technical: col 114m
Director: Jack Gold
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer, Simon Ward, Peter Firth
Synopsis:
Losses among rookie pilots in the Flying Corps during World War One have an increasingly deleterious effect on those left alive.
Review:
Sherriff's Journey's End again, this time transposed to the air corps. The trouble is not just that it's all been done before, but the airborne sequences aren't good enough to erase still fresh memories of Von Richthofen and Brown. Not that that's the point, but on the ground things don't quite seem to catch fire either, despite the excellent cast.