Task Force (1950)

Directed by

Delmer Daves

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man recounts his career pushing the U.S. Navy to adopt aircraft carriers. He faces setbacks and war action over many years.

inspiringpatrioticinformativesombernostalgicdeliberateearnest

What happens

Task Force is a 1949 American war film about the development of U.S. aircraft carriers from USS Langley (CV-1) to USS Franklin (CV-13). Although Robert Montgomery was originally considered for the leading role, the film stars Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt, Walter Brennan, Wayne Morris, Julie London and Jack Holt. Task Force was the only film Gary Cooper and Jane Wyatt made together, and was the last of the eight films Cooper and Walter Brennan made together. Filmed in black-and-white with some Technicolor sequences, the picture received the complete support of the U.S. Navy, which lent naval vessels and facilities and allowed archival footage of the development of naval air power to be used. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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