Strategic Air Command (1955)

Directed by

Anthony Mann

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 55m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A former professional baseball player is called back to active duty in the Strategic Air Command. He must balance his family life with the demands of flying bombers during the Cold War.

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What happens

Strategic Air Command is a 1955 American military aviation war drama film starring James Stewart and June Allyson, directed by Anthony Mann, and released by Paramount Pictures. It was the first of four Hollywood films that depicted the role of the Strategic Air Command in the Cold War era. Strategic Air Command was the second film released in Paramount's new widescreen format, VistaVision, in color by Technicolor and Perspecta pseudo-stereo sound. It would also be Stewart and Mann's eighth and final collaboration and the last of three films that paired Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson, the others being The Stratton Story and The Glenn Miller Story. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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