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Air Force is a american film of genre Drama directed by Howard Hawks released in USA on 20 march 1943 with John Garfield
Air Force (1943)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 20 march 1943
Length 2h4
Directed by Howard Hawks
OriginUSA
Themes Politique, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Rating69%
Air Force is a 1943 American black-and-white war film from Warner Bros., produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner, directed by Howard Hawks, and starring, John Garfield, John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, and Harry Carey.
The story revolves around an actual incident that occurred on December 7, 1941. A bomber aircrew, flying an unarmed Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress named the Mary-Ann, is ferrying the heavy bomber across the Pacific to the United States Army Air Corps base at Hickam Field, when the bomber flies right into the middle of the Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor and the beginning of World War II.
An uncredited William Faulkner wrote the emotional deathbed scene for actor John Ridgely, the pilot of the Mary-Ann. Made in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack, Air Force was one of the first of the patriotic films of World War II, often characterized as a propaganda film.
Synopsis
On December 6, 1941, at Hamilton Field, near San Francisco, a United States Army Air Corps B-17D bomber Mary-Ann and its crew are being readied for a flight across the Pacific.Actors
John Garfield
(Tail Gunner Joe Winocki)
John Ridgely
(Pilot)
Gig Young
(Co-Pilot)
Harry Carey
(Crew Chief)
Charles Drake
(Navigator)
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