Category: 22
All Genres: War, Drama, Action
Release Year: 1976
Country: UK
Runtime: 114
Languages: English, French, German
Director: Jack Gold
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

They prey on HUMAN FLESH!

Writing by: Howard Barker - (screenplay)
R.C. Sherriff - (play "Journey's End")
Cecil Lewis - (additional material from "Saggitarius Rising")

Produced by: Benjamin Fisz - producer (as S. Benjamin Fisz)
Basil Keys - associate producer
Jacques Roitfeld - producer (uncredited)

Cast: Malcolm McDowell - Maj. John Gresham
Christopher Plummer - Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair
Simon Ward - Lt. Crawford
Peter Firth - Lt. Stephen Croft
David Wood - Lt. 'Tommy' Thompson
John Gielgud - Headmaster
Trevor Howard - Lieutenant Colonel Silkin
Richard Johnson - Major Lyle
Ray Milland - Brigadier General Whale
Christopher Blake - Lieutenant Roberts
Gilles Béhat - Captain Beckenauer (as Gilles Behat)

Music: Richard Hartley Carlo Rustichelli
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Plot Outline: A naive young officer straight from school arrives on the Western front to fight the air war against the Germans...
Plot: A naive young officer straight from school arrives on the Western front to fight the air war against the Germans. However, the life expectancy of green pilots is not very good.

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


Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
After every epiosode a clayamation Mel Allen says "Goodbye everybody, see you next week"

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: Sinclair informs Croft that Gresham uses a Nieuport "that he swears by", but every time we see Gresham aloft he is flying an SE5 like the rest of the squadron.

Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• The scene with the balloon observer jumping out with a parachute is reused footage from The Blue Max (1966)