twelve o'clock

One movie that inspired Spielberg and Hanks was “Twelve O’Clock High,” the 1949 World War II drama about a B-17 bomber unit suffering heavy losses and low morale.

"I think I am a woman. I have been seven years making me a perfect suit of garments appropriate for my sex. As I have passed so long, falsely, for a man, I am ashamed to show myself in my true colors; therefore, I hang myself. The property all to go to the woman I have called my wife. It is now twelve o'clock. I have prepared every thing for the funeral, and desire that I may be laid out in the clothes I have on."

On Saturday I wrapped Erlan’s present myself and then walked across the hall right at twelve o’clock, right when it said on the invitation that his party was going to start.

Roosevelt thought it must be sometime after twelve o'clock, but he wasn’t exactly sure—his watch wasn’t working anymore.

"I smell them! Twelve o'clock."