

Premiere
19
May1976
Box office
Budget$1M
About
Synopsis
Aces High (1976) is a British World War I drama directed by Jack Gold — watch it online on iFILM. It is 1916 on the Western Front, and young RFC lieutenant Stephen Croft arrives at a French airfield carrying every romantic notion about aerial combat that the recruitment posters put there.
Malcolm McDowell plays Croft; Christopher Plummer is his commanding officer, a man long out of illusions. British pilots at that point in the war lasted weeks rather than months, and the film does not flinch from that arithmetic. John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, and Ray Milland anchor the supporting cast. Aces High stands apart from most Great War pictures because it refuses to make the dying look noble. Watch Aces High (1976) online on iFILM.
Cast
Starring

Malcolm McDowell
Maj. John Gresham

Christopher Plummer
Capt. 'Uncle' Sinclair

Simon Ward
Lt. Crawford

Peter Firth
Lt. Stephen Croft

David Wood
Lt. 'Tommy' Thompson

John Gielgud
Headmaster

Trevor Howard
Lieutenant Colonel Silkin

Richard Johnson
Major Lyle

Ray Milland
Brigadier General Whale

Gilles Béhat
Captain Beckenauer

Tim Pigott-Smith
Major Stoppard

David Daker
Bennett

Christopher Blake
Lieutenant Roberts

Barry Jackson
Joyce

Ron Pember
Eliot

Jacques Maury
Ponnelle

Pascale Christophe
Croft's French Girlfriend
Judy Buxton
French Girl

Penny Irving
French Girl

Tricia Newby
French Girl

Jack Gold
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