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22 February 1957 (USA)
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A biography of Navy flier-turned-screenwriter Frank W. "Spig" Wead. | add synopsis
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An excellent "non-war" movie about people who make winning wars possible.
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | John Wayne | ... | Frank W. 'Spig' Wead |
 | Dan Dailey | ... | 'Jughead' Carson |
 | Maureen O'Hara | ... | Min Wead |
| Ward Bond | ... | John Dodge |
| Ken Curtis | ... | John Dale Price |
| Edmund Lowe | ... | Adm. Moffett |
| Kenneth Tobey | ... | Capt. Herbert Allen Hazard |
| James Todd | ... | Jack Travis |
| Barry Kelley | ... | Capt. Jock Clark |
| Sig Ruman | ... | Manager |
| Henry O'Neill | ... | Capt. Spear |
| Willis Bouchey | ... | Barton |
| Dorothy Jordan | ... | Rose Brentmann |
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110 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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Mono (Westrex Recording System) |
Perspecta Stereo
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Argentina:Atp |
West Germany:12 (nf) |
Canada:PG (video rating) |
Finland:K-12 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Spain:13 |
USA:Approved (PCA #18317) |
Sweden:15
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Continuity: In the first scene where Lieutenant Junior Grade Wead is flying with Captain Hazzard, on the ground Captain Hazzard is in the front seat, but in the air Wead is in the front seat.
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John Dodge:
I don't want a story just about ships and planes. I want it about the men who run them - how they live and think and talk. I want it from a pen dipped in salt water, not dry martinis.
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Referenced in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
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Mama Inez
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Despite the title and the time frame (and the misunderstanding of the movie by other reviewers), this is not a typical war movie. This movie is really a biography and personal study of the obsessiveness and dedication that is necessary in the technological nature of warfare today. In one respect it is too bad that the movie stars John Wayne because the expectation is that it would feature a "gung ho" performance. Instead it is an amazing acting effort by Wayne as a suffering, crippled, insensitive Navy officer and author whose vision and commitment made much of the Naval air force possible. It is an excellent performance by Wayne and almost more of a "stretch" for him than Dustin Hoffman portraying an autistic "Rainman."