Summary:
How much can a man give? When the U.S. 8th Army Air Force 918th Bombardment group is ordered on their fourth harrowing mission in four hard days, Brigadier General Frank Savage (Gregory Peck) demands "maximum effort." The bombers are forced to fly lower, to fly farther, and to test themselves -- overspent and fatigued -- right up until death's door. When their dedicated colonel speaks... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Gregory Peck - (Gen. Frank Savage)
Hugh Marlowe - (Lt. Col. Ben Gately)
Gary Merrill - (Col. Keith Davenport)
Millard Mitchell - (General Pritchard)
Dean Jagger - (Major Harvey Stovall)
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Review:
Most war films maintain that the officer's experience is incomparable to the trauma that befalls the enlisted man. The genre's resulting narratives consistently dwell on the emotional distance between a higher-up and his inferiors -- an exaggerated separation mended only by a common goal (winning the war) and never a common experience (fighting the... Continue >>

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