Forget the technical aspects of explaining what the function of these fliers are. It was a tedious explanation at the beginning of the flick and was as confusing as Price Waterhouse's explanation of voting procedures at the Oscars each year and as boring and difficult as Ethel Weintraub's chemistry class at Erasmus Hall H.S. in Brooklyn.
The film begins to take shape when it discusses the human element. Rock Hudson portrays a hard driven commander who pushes his men to the limit so as to prepare our people in aviation for a war emergency.
In the process of doing this, Hudson ruins the life of veteran Barry Sullivan. The former feels that Sullivan can no longer cope with the difficulty of the job and forces him into retirement. This retirement causes Sullivan's son to leave Stanford and the Sullivan character placing a bullet in his body in a suicide attempt. Rock, as Col. Caldwell, ameliorates the situation by visiting Sullivan in the hospital and gets him to say that he will strive for excellence in his new position in civilian life.
Hudson also tries to get rid of Rod Taylor as he believes that the latter has become too chummy with the men.
It is while Hudson is visiting Sullivan at the hospital that a simulated emergency occurs which tests the strengths of all.
Mary Peach plays the British wife of Hudson. Her performance is not peachy-keen. When she first walks off a plane to meet her husband in an early scene, you would think that Queen Elizabeth was playing the part.
A good film relating to working with men in a difficult but often unexplained task.
Rod Taylor and Mr. Hudson can't be commended for their excessive smoking in this film. Is this what our army brass has come to?
The film begins to take shape when it discusses the human element. Rock Hudson portrays a hard driven commander who pushes his men to the limit so as to prepare our people in aviation for a war emergency.
In the process of doing this, Hudson ruins the life of veteran Barry Sullivan. The former feels that Sullivan can no longer cope with the difficulty of the job and forces him into retirement. This retirement causes Sullivan's son to leave Stanford and the Sullivan character placing a bullet in his body in a suicide attempt. Rock, as Col. Caldwell, ameliorates the situation by visiting Sullivan in the hospital and gets him to say that he will strive for excellence in his new position in civilian life.
Hudson also tries to get rid of Rod Taylor as he believes that the latter has become too chummy with the men.
It is while Hudson is visiting Sullivan at the hospital that a simulated emergency occurs which tests the strengths of all.
Mary Peach plays the British wife of Hudson. Her performance is not peachy-keen. When she first walks off a plane to meet her husband in an early scene, you would think that Queen Elizabeth was playing the part.
A good film relating to working with men in a difficult but often unexplained task.
Rod Taylor and Mr. Hudson can't be commended for their excessive smoking in this film. Is this what our army brass has come to?