The Caine Mutiny-Twelve O'Clock High Matrix

Continuing our discussion yesterday of The Caine Mutiny, lets take a look at another movie that deals with leadership.

In Twelve O'Clock High Gregory peck plays Colonel Frank Savage, a staff officer who has been called in to fix a struggling bomb group. Here's his first encounter with Colonel Gately, the group air exec:

Savage ain't kidding. He basically abuses Gately throughout the film.

Now, toward the end, when Savage himself cracks, look what happens:

Gately runs over to see if Savage is OK and when he asks the now delusion Savage who he wants to take the lead ship, Savage says, 'Gately'.

Gately gives Savage the loyalty he needs, as Barney Greenwald says in the Caine Mutiny. Why? 'Because he's got the job or your no good.'

On a personal note the above clip is one of the most intense scenes we've ever watched.

By the way, alert readers may have noticed that the B-2 bomb group in Eastern Storm, Castro's Folly, and soon, The Final Storm, fly in formations named Strike Group Savage, Strike Groupe Gately, etc, etc.