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User Rating:
6.2/10   216 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Seton I. Miller (writer)
Martin Rackin (writer)
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Release Date:
27 November 1948 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
The Flying Fist of the Air Force! more
Plot:
During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's promoted. full summary | add synopsis
User Reviews:
One of the forties better flying Movies. more (25 total)

Cast

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Edmond O'Brien ... Maj. Ed Hardin

Robert Stack ... Capt. Stu Hamilton
John Rodney ... Col. Bill Brickley
Tom D'Andrea ... Sgt. Dolan
Henry Hull ... Maj. Gen. Mike McCready
James Holden ... Lt. Tennessee Atkins
Walter Reed ... Capt. Duke Chappell
Shepperd Strudwick ... Brig. Gen. M. Gilbert
Arthur Space ... Maj. Sanford
Jack Larson ... Lt. 'Shorty' Kirk
Bill McLean ... Pvt. Wilbur
Mickey McCardle ... Jacobs
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Additional Details

Runtime:
96 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Rock Hudson's first movie. more
Goofs:
Miscellaneous: In the flying sequences, the "German ME-109" fighter planes are actually American P-51 Mustangs. more
Soundtrack:
Gotta Be This or That more

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11 out of 11 people found the following review useful.
One of the forties better flying Movies., 15 July 2001
8/10
Author: dwaskes from United States

An enjoyable movie. Loaded with clichés and the usual Hollywood gaffes (Like using P-51's for ME-109's), but none the less one of the better flying movies produced in the forties. It has, arguably some of the best flying movie footage of all of the flying type movies produced in that decade. I would buy this one if I could get it from a supplier. I finally was able to make an off the air copy from the TCM channel on satellite the other night. The choice of cast is excellent. Future film star Rock Hudson is wooden in his one liner in the Officers Club, but you gotta start somewhere. And this was his first movie part. If you like airplanes (fighter planes), you'll like this one.

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