The Big Lift (1950)

Directed by

George Seaton

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 59m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two U.S. Air Force sergeants take part in the Berlin Airlift, bringing supplies to a blockaded city. The film shows their work and the difficulties faced by the people of post-war Berlin.

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What happens

The Big Lift is a 1950 American drama war film on location in the city of Berlin, Germany, that tells the story of "Operation Vittles", the 1948–49 Berlin Airlift, through the experiences of two U.S. Air Force sergeants played by Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas. The film was directed and written by George Seaton, and was released April 26, 1950, less than one year after the Soviet blockade of Berlin was lifted and airlift operations ceased. Because the film was shot in Berlin in 1949, as well as using newsreel footage of the actual airlift, it provides a contemporary glimpse of the post-war state of the city as its people struggled to recover from the devastation wrought by World War II. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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