THE FILM
FILM DIRECTOR: Philip Leacock
SCREENWRITER: Howard Koch
FILM STARS: Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, Shirley Anne Field, Gary Cockrell, Michael Crawford, Bill Edwards
COUNTRY: Great Britain
THIS BOOK
AUTHOR: John Hersey
TYPE: Novel
PUBLISHER: Pan
THIS EDITION PUBLISHED: 1962
COUNTRY: Great Britain
COVER: Paperback
THE ORIGINAL BOOK
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: As Above
YEAR FIRST PUBLISHED: 1959
ORIGINAL BOOK TITLE: The film title
NOTES
GENRE: War
WORDS: A great film. Part war movie, part psychological drama, part soap opera. It’s not one for historical minded war movie buffs but it is one that captures some of the emotion in war (I imagine). McQueen is excellent as the central character, a B17 pilot obsessed with war (err hence the title), as is Robert Wagner (much underrated) as his co-pilot, in the air and on the ground. Screenwriter Koch was a blacklisted American screenwriter who lived in England through the 1950s.
The novel, I read many years ago and I loved. I don’t recall now how close it is to the film. It is vivid in its depictions of the title character, amid much philosophising and jabs at authority and war. I highlighted some passages (in pencil of course) as I’m wont to do …
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