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2 January 1953 (USA)
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"You're not the man I married. Not any more. You're ambitious...cold...and heartless!" more
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Story of Col. Paul Tibbetts, the man who piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War 2. full summary | full synopsis
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Nominated for 2 Oscars.
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Sticks to the Personal
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Robert Taylor | ... | Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets 509th Composite Group CO (pilot of Enola Gay) | |
| Eleanor Parker | ... | Lucey Tibbets | |
| James Whitmore | ... | Maj. William 'Bill' Uanna - Security Officer, Operation Silverplate | |
| Larry Keating | ... | Maj. Gen. Vernon C. Brent | |
| Larry Gates | ... | Capt. William 'Deak' Parsons, USN | |
| Marilyn Erskine | ... | Marge Bratton | |
| Stephen Dunne | ... | Maj. Harry Bratton, Co-pilot B-29 tests | |
| Robert Burton | ... | Gen. Samuel E. Roberts (Tibbets' CO in Africa) | |
| Hayden Rorke | ... | Dr. Ramsey | |
| Lawrence Dobkin | ... | Dr. Van Dyke (as Larry Dobkin) | |
| Jack Raine | ... | Dr. Fiske | |
| Jonathan Cott | ... | Capt. Dutch van Kirk (navigator, Enola Gay) | |
| Jeff Richards | ... | Maj. Thomas Ferebee (Enola Gay bombardier) | |
| Dick Simmons | ... | Capt. Robert A. Lewis (co-pilot, Enola Gay) | |
| John McKee | ... | Staff Sergeant Wyatt E. Duzenbury, Enola Gay Flight Engineer |
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Eagle on His Cap (USA) (working title)
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122 min
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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The sequences showing the bombing of Hiroshima were lifted from another MGM film, The Beginning or the End (1947), which was about the development and use of the first atomic bombs.
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Factual errors: Last scene of film depicts a DC 6 aircraft. The DC 6 began operation in 1946 one year after the WWII ended.
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Remade as Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (1980) (TV)
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The actual development of the atomic bomb was documented in films like The Beginning or the End and in Fat Man and Little Boy. Above and Beyond concentrates on the pilot of the B-29 that actually did the deed.
Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker play Colonel and Mrs. Paul Tibbetts who's marriage was put under an incredible strain due to the security surrounding his assignment. Taylor was between his marriages to Barbara Stanwyck and Ursula Thiess and was involved with Parker at the time Above and Beyond was being filmed. Probably that helped a lot during the romantic interludes in the film.
Because this film sticks to the personal story of the Tibbetts marriage and avoids all the debate about the use of the atomic bomb, it still holds up well for today's audience.
In the supporting cast I would have to single out James Whitmore who plays the security head at Wendover field where Tibbetts is training the potential crew for the mission as the most outstanding. He's virtually the only one Taylor can bare his stoic soul to with the assignment he has.
Even with the debate over Hiroshima still raging I would still recommend viewing this film.