Top Billed Cast

Gary Cooper
Col. Billy Mitchell
Charles Bickford
Gen. Jimmy Guthrie
Ralph Bellamy
Congressman Frank R. Reid
Rod Steiger
Maj. Allan Guillion
Elizabeth Montgomery
Margaret Lansdowne
Fred Clark
Col. Moreland
James Daly
Lt. Col. Herbert White
Jack Lord
Lt. Cmdr. Zachary 'Zack' Lansdowne
Peter Graves
Capt. Bob Elliott
Darren McGavin
Capt. Russ Peters
Robert F. Simon
Admiral Gage
Charles Dingle
Senator Fullerton
Dayton Lummis
General Douglas MacArthur
Tom McKee
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker
Stephen Roberts
Major Carl Spaatz
Herbert Heyes
General John J. Pershing
Robert Brubaker
Major H. H. Arnold
Phil Arnold
Fiorello LaGuardia
Ian Wolfe
President Calvin Coolidge
Will Wright
Admiral William S. Sims
Gregory Walcott
Howard Millikan

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Mon Aug 29 2022

Gary Cooper is perfectly adequate in this rather dry telling of the court-martial of a pioneering American general who, according to this film anyway, prophesied the hitherto unimaginable rise in importance of air power in conflict as well as predicting that an attack on Hawaii by Japan was likely to succeed against the relatively ill-defended islands. Demoted and posted to an administrative job in Texas, things come to an head when he becomes so frustrated by the intransigence of his army superiors (this is before the USAF existed as a separate entity) that he goes to the press and is subseque...