Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD Brand: Sony EAN: 9781404905634 Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 1404905634 Label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Region Code: 99 Release Date: May 13, 2003 Running Time: 105 minutes Sales Rank: 18397 Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: October 25, 1962
Description: Buzz Rickson, (Steve McQueen) is a dare-devil World War II bomber pilot with a death wish. Failing at everything not involving flying, Rickson lives for the most dangerous missions.
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Rating: - The Body meets the Cliff
The War Lover simply tells the tale of two B-17 pilots in love with Daphne Caldwell (Shirley Anne Field) during the middle of WWII. To make things a little more complex (and of course a little more interesting), Capt Buzz Rickson (played by Steve McQueen) is a strong leader of his crew and the other pilot in love with Daphne is in his crew (Lt. Ed Bolland, played by Robert Wagner). The frustrating piece to Buzz is that Ed is winning the war of love.
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A story about WWII, especially one about air crews. I've been fascinated for some time in bomber crews and what they went through. Several boring days waiting for a mission and then you have several hours of raw excitement as you fight your way to and from the target. The War Lover does a great job showing this. The crew of The Body (the name of the B-17) are tight and fly as one. Rickson leads, and none question him. This is the ... Read More
Rating: - You should see this film.
I first saw this film when I was about 8 years old (1962), when it was first released to the theater. I have remembered details from it ever since.
The acting is fine and McQueen is excellent as the sociopath after whom the movie is titled. I had never considered that he was playing the role of a sociopath. The narcissism, lack of empathy, lack of a conscience, hyper-competitiveness, the "the rules aren't made for me" attitude, the conviction of superiority--all well done by McQueen. The only part which I didn't believe was his final comments to Robert Wagner at the end. I guess they wanted to rehabilitate his character for us. With all the weirdness going on daily in our country and the world now (it didn't seem like that in 1962) the sociopathic personality is much better known and more quickly recognized now. I'm trying to say McQueen's portrayal was excellent.
Rating: - Misses the target
The War Lover is a mostly botched but still watchable watering down of John Hersey's novel about a sociopathic bomber pilot (Steve McQueen, playing an airborne variation of his psychotic soldier from Hell is For Heroes). Unfortunately the film is less interested in the thin line between heroism and psychopathic behavior than Robert Wagner's romance with Shirley Ann Field (in a performance so bad that at times her vocal delivery is so far off-target it's like nails on a blackboard), leaving the feeling that the real story has been sidelined for much of the film. Some good airborne sequences keep it watchable if you lower your expectations, but this could have been much more.
Rating: - Typical War Flick
Isaw the movie many years ago and enjoyed the story. The dvd copy was good and the story was still generally good. With age comes the lose of innocence, so the movie was not as exciting. The action was predictable as was the love story. All-in-all, the dvd is a good by and the time watching the movey goes by fast.
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- The Body meets the Cliff
- You should see this film.
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