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Overview

User Rating:
7.0/10   2,144 votes
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Director:
Mark Robson
Writers:
Valentine Davies (writer)
James Michener (novel)
Contact:
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Release Date:
December 1954 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance | War more
Plot:
Set during the Korean War, a Navy fighter pilot must come to terms with with his own ambivalence towards... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
Dennis Weaver Dies in Colorado
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User Comments:
Superb film more (40 total)

Cast

  (in credits order) (verified as complete)

William Holden ... Lt. Harry Brubaker

Grace Kelly ... Nancy Brubaker

Fredric March ... Rear Adm. George Tarrant

Mickey Rooney ... Mike Forney
Robert Strauss ... Beer Barrel
Charles McGraw ... Cmdr. Wayne Lee
Keiko Awaji ... Kimiko
Earl Holliman ... Nestor Gamidge
Richard Shannon ... Lt. (j.g.) Olds
Willis Bouchey ... Capt. Evans (as Willis B. Bouchey)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Keith Aldrich ... Pilot (uncredited)

Corey Allen ... Enlisted Man (uncredited)
Bill Ash ... Spotter (uncredited)
Nadine Ashdown ... Cathy Brubaker (uncredited)
Marshall U. Beebe ... Pilot (uncredited)
Ray Boyle ... Marine Orderly (uncredited)
Cheryl Callaway ... Susie Brubaker (uncredited)
Steven Clark ... Pilot (uncredited)
James Connell ... Assistant L.S.O. (uncredited)
Jim Cronin ... Talker (uncredited)
Gene Hardy ... Chief Petty Officer Second Class (uncredited)
James Hyland ... Officer of the Day (uncredited)
James Jenkins ... Assistant C.I.C. Officer (uncredited)
Dickie Jones ... Pilot (uncredited)
Bob Kenaston ... Pilot (uncredited)
Robert Kino ... Bartender (uncredited)
Paul Kruger ... Capt. Parker (uncredited)
Burt Metcalfe ... Military Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Lee Miller ... Officer Seated at Club (uncredited)
Rollin Moriyama ... Bellhop (uncredited)
Dick Morris ... Pilot (uncredited)
Leo Needham ... Pilot (uncredited)
Roger Pace ... Pilot (uncredited)
Paul Raymond ... Spotter (uncredited)
Gene Reynolds ... C.I.C. Officer (uncredited)
Jack Roberts ... Quartermaster (uncredited)
Robert A. Sherry ... Flight Surgeon (uncredited)
Teru Shimada ... Japanese Father (uncredited)
Charles Tannen ... Military Police Major (uncredited)
Bob Templeton ... Military Police Sergeant (uncredited)

Dennis Weaver ... Air Intelligence Officer (uncredited)
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Directed by
Mark Robson 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Valentine Davies  writer
James Michener  novel

Produced by
William Perlberg .... producer
George Seaton .... producer
 
Original Music by
Lyn Murray 
 
Cinematography by
Loyal Griggs 
 
Film Editing by
Alma Macrorie 
 
Art Direction by
Henry Bumstead 
Hal Pereira 
 
Set Decoration by
Sam Comer 
Grace Gregory 
 
Costume Design by
Edith Head 
 
Makeup Department
Wally Westmore .... makeup supervisor
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Francisco Day .... assistant director
 
Art Department
Gene Lauritzen .... construction coordinator (uncredited)
 
Sound Department
Gene Garvin .... sound recordist
Gene Garvin .... sound
Hugo Grenzbach .... sound recordist
Hugo Grenzbach .... sound
 
Visual Effects by
Farciot Edouart .... process photography
John P. Fulton .... special photographic effects
W. Wallace Kelley .... process photography (as Wallace Kelley)
Paul K. Lerpae .... optical cinematography
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Charles G. Clarke .... aerial photographer
W. Wallace Kelley .... photographer: second unit (as Wallace Kelley)
Tom Tutwiler .... photographer: second unit (as Thomas Tutwiler)
Charles G. Clarke .... additional photography (uncredited)
Cliff Shirpser .... assistant camera: Technicolor (uncredited)
Murray Young .... key grip (uncredited)
 
Other crew
Marshall U. Beebe .... technical advisor
Arthur Jacobson .... assistant to producers
Richard Mueller .... technicolor color consultant
Frank Coghlan Jr. .... naval liaison (uncredited)
 
Crew believed to be complete


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Additional Details

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Runtime:
102 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Canada:PG (Ontario) | Australia:G | West Germany:12 (f) | Finland:K-16 | Spain:18
Filming Locations:
Fujiya Hotel, Miyanoshita, Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan more
Company:
Paramount Pictures more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The U.S. Navy's cooperation in the movie's making included the use of 19 ships. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: In the scenes in sickbay after Brubaker is rescued, both CAG and Forney (A Chief Petty Officer) are seen wearing their hats. This is a horrible breach of Naval etiquette since removing one's hat in sickbay is a sign of respect for the sick or dying. more
Quotes:
RAdm. George Tarrant: [Last Lines] Where do we get such men? They leave this ship and they do their job. Then they must find this speck lost somewhere pn the sea. When the find it they have to land on it's pitching deck. Where do we get such men?
Man on loudspeaker: [Last Lines] Launch jets!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Les herbes folles (2009) more

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30 out of 37 people found the following comment useful.
Superb film, 22 March 2005
10/10
Author: DrHypersonic from United States

This is a truly superb film on any number of grounds. First, and generally unknown, it is based on a real incident, the so called "Battle of Carlson's Canyon" which was waged early in the Korean War in an attempt to interdict North Korean supplies on their way to the front. James Michener had gone out to the carrier ESSEX (CV-9) and had been very impressed with the men of VF-172, a Banshee fighter squadron. The book is astonishingly realistic...if one compares what he wrote as a novel with the contemporary Navy strike reports (which were then highly classified), it is amazing how much he got "right." It is also a good look at carrier aviation in the last days of the "straight-deck" carrier with hydraulic catapults and a paddle-waving landing deck officer...all that disappeared after Korea with the introduction of the angled deck, the steam catapult, and the Fresnel-lens mirror landing system. The book is in my view the finest air war novel ever written, bar none, and the movie is the same for the film genre. Incidentally, when made into a film, Grumman Panthers were used in place of Banshees, and one of the pilots who flew in the making of the film was a very young Lt. j.g. named Alan Shepherd--later one of the Mercury and Apollo astronauts. Not to be missed!!!

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