Above and Beyond Movie Review 1953

Good performance by Taylor as Col. Paul Tibbets, the man who piloted the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Focuses on the secrecy of the mission and the strain this puts on Tibbets marriage. Exciting action sequences of the mission itself.

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 122 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

World War II, Airborne, True Stories, Skateboarding, Meltdown

Screenplay

Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, Beirne Lay

Cast

Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating, Larry Gates, Robert Burton, Jim Backus, Marilyn Erskine, Steve (Stephen) Dunne, John Pickard, Hayden Rorke, Lawrence (Larry) Dobkin, Jack Raine, Jeff Richards, Barbara Ruick, Harlan Warde, John Close, Frank Gerstle, Dabbs Greer, Ewing Mitchell, Gregory Walcott, John Baer, Jonathon Cott, Dick Simmons, John McKee, G. Pat Collins, John Hedloe, Mack Williams, Dorothy Kennedy

Cinematography

Ray June

Director

Melvin Frank, Norman Panama

Music

Hugo Friedhofer

Producer

Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, MGM