Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)

Directed by

Andrew Marton

Genre

war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 20m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Navy pilot helps a blinded fellow pilot land safely during the Korean War. The film follows a squadron of pilots dealing with the dangers and loss of combat missions.

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What happens

Men of the Fighting Lady is a 1954 American war drama film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Louis Calhern and Keenan Wynn. The screenplay was written by U.S. Navy Commander Harry A. Burns, who had written a Saturday Evening Post article, "The Case of the Blinded Pilot", an account of a U.S. Navy pilot in the Korean War, who saves a blinded Navy pilot by talking him down to a successful landing. Men of the Fighting Lady was also inspired by another Saturday Evening Post article, "The Forgotten Heroes of Korea" by James A. Michener. The original music score was composed by Miklós Rózsa. It is also known as Panther Squadron. It is not to be confused with the 1944 documentary The Fighting Lady, which was mainly filmed aboard the USS Yorktown (CV-10). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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