Air Force

Air Force
by Howard Hawks

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Actor: Arthur Kennedy, Charles Drake, Gig Young, John Garfield, John Ridgely
Director: Howard Hawks
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: James Wong Howe
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Producer: Jack L. Warner
Writer: Arthur T. Horman
Writer: Dudley Nichols
Writer: Leah Baird
Writer: William Faulkner
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video

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Movie Review: Air Force
Summary: 4 Stars

This is one of my favorte early World War II movies. It is far from historically correct (I.E. Japanese ground troups are assumed on several Hawaiian Islands), but well acted and full of the stars of the day.

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Summary of Air Force

John Garfield, John Ridgely, and Gig Young star in this hard-hitting, realistic story that celebrates America's airborne heroes during WWII. Year: 1943 Director: Howard Hawks Starring: John Garfield, John Ridgely, Gig Young

Director Howard Hawks casually referred to Air Force (1943) as his "contribution to the war effort." It's also a masterpiece, standing with John Ford's They Were Expendable as the best WWII films Hollywood made while the war was still on. On the evening of December 6, 1941, a B-17 flies out of San Francisco on a routine peacetime training mission to Hickam Field in Hawaii. While en route, the officers and crew overhear radio traffic of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ("Whatcha got there," somebody asks the radio operator, "Orson Welles?"). They touch down in a smoking world like a vision out of Dante, then hop from one Pacific outpost to the next as the clouds of war roil. The plane itself, the Mary Ann, is the movie's main character; the biggest star, John Garfield, actually gets last billing as her newly assigned tail gunner. Air Force is one of Hawks's supreme guys-doing-their-job movies, and the definitive war-movie portrait of America as a melting-pot of diverse individuals and types making common cause. The ensemble (Garfield, Gig Young, John Ridgely, Arthur Kennedy, the great Harry Carey, et al.) is superbly directed, there's a strong Dudley Nichols screenplay (with an uncredited contribution by William Faulkner) and breathtaking editing of the battle scenes (which won George Amy an Oscar), and the camerawork is by James Wong Howe in peak form.

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