Alternate Ending
Does anybody know about an alternate ending for this movie? Is it avaliable? If so, where?
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I've recently seen this film on DVD (fox studio classics) and the ending simply sees Dean Jagger's character cycle off, with the toby jug.
Incidentally, I live close to the old 487th BG airfield at Lavenham, and there are still remnants of the base standing. It was from this airfield that Frederick Castle (on whom Savage's character was based) led his final mission on Dec 24th 1944. Beirne Lay (who wrote the screenplay) was also commander of the 487th group earlier that year.
Well considering the fact that the story is told from Stovall's flashback when he buys the toby and bicycles out to the base. I have the ending where Stovall places the toby on the mantle and turns it around and we hear don't sit under the apple tree in the background.
Savage's Recovery however was still a flashback. The decison to stop the movie there never made any sense to me.
I have a VHS Copy with Stovall placing the jug on the mantle.
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"...Frederick Castle (on whom Savage's character was based)..."
The "General Frank Savage" character in Beirne Lay, Jr. and Sy Bartlett's novel "Twelve O'Clock High!" as well as the 20th Century Fox film and the Quinn Martin TV series was based on Colonel (later General) Frank A. Armstrong, not Frederick Castle.