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Director Jack Gold ’s World War I localise dramaAces Highis one of cinema ’s most underrated yet brawny antiwar films . Think of an antiwar motion-picture show and movies like Francis Ford Coppola’sApocalypse Now , Oliver Stone’sPlatoonor Michael Cimino’sThe Deer Hunterprobably springtime to take care . It ’s no coincidence all of those films are coif during theVietnam War , which for many reasons has proven rich taking for the antiwar genre , specially in American cinema .
World War I , the so - anticipate Great War , has revolutionize its fair share of antiwar movie too . The Oscar - gain ground 1930 epicAll Quiet On The Western Frontis considered the unequivocal First World War moving picture , while Stanley Kubrick’sPaths Of Glory(1957 ) and Peter Weir’sGallipoli(1981 ) are similarly hail as classic that use World War I as a backdrop for their antiwar opinion . More recently , World War I set films likeAméliedirector Jean - Pierre Jeunet’sA Very Long Engagement(2004 ) or Michael Haneke’sThe White Ribbon(2009 ) have also receive critical plaudits .
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Released in 1976,Aces Highis one of the lesser - make love and glorify World War I setantiwar movies . The film is based on a gambol byThe Dam Bustersscreenwriter R.C. Sherriff titledJourney ’s death , but swaps the play ’s trench setting for a Royal Flying Corps airfield . It star a post - Clockwork Orangeand pre - CaligulaMalcolm McDowell as a disillusioned squadron leader identify Major John Gresham who is stationed in northerly France and has shoot the bottleful to contend with the horrors of war , as have most of his fellow pilots in a desperate attempt to stay sane .
Set over the course of a week , Aces Highfollows idealistic new enlistee Lieutenant Stephen Croft ( Peter Firth ) as he go far at the airbase fresh from public school and is horror-stricken to acquire that Gresham – his former idol at school and his older sister ’s beau – has turn to drink . Over the scant time - frame ofAces mellow , Croft witnesses manyhorrorshimself and come to realize the press his former sub is under as he matures from a naïve newbie into a solider .
In a brutal but entirely realistic plait distinctive of the gamy casualty rate of the Royal Flying Corps during World War I , Croft celebrates his first victory but is killed shortly after when his planing machine collides mid - tune with a German aircraft . demonstrate the cobwebby futility of war , Aces Highends with a haunted Gresham organise to welcome a gang of Modern recruits who – like Croft – are sure to end up as cannon fodder too .
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