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Date of Release: 1955
Running Time: 100 minutes
Director: Otto Preminger
Screenplay: Milton Sperling, Emmet Lavery, Dalton Trumbo, Ben Hecht and Michael Wilson
Cinematography: Sam Leavitt
Film Editing: Folmar Blangsted
Art Direction: Malcolm Bert
Set Decoration: William L. Kuehl
Costume Design: Howard Shoup
Recording Director: Stanley Jones
Producer: Milton Sperling
Original Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
Assistant Director: Jack McEdwards
Make-Up Artisit: Gordon Bau
Special Effects: Hans F. Koenekamp
Technical Advisor: Major General Douglas Keeney, USAF, Res., (Ret.)
Note: Also known as One Man Mutiny
Gary Cooper...Billy Mitchell
Charles Bickford...General Guthrie
Ralph Bellamy...Congressman Frank Reid
Rod Steiger...Major Allan Gullion
Elizabeth Montgomery...Margaret Lansdowne
Fred Clark...Colonel Moreland
James Daly...Colonel Herbert White
Jack Lord...Commander Zach Lansdowne
Peter Graves...Captain Elliott
Darren McGavin...Russ Peters
Robert Simon...Admiral Gage
Charles Dingle...Senator Fullerton
Dayton Lummis...General Douglas MacArthur
Tom McKee...Captain Eddie Rickenbacker
Steve 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 Sims
Steve Holland...Stu Stewart
Adam Kennedy...Yip Ryan
Manning Ross...Ted Adams
Carleton Young...General Pershing's Aide
Peter Adams...Officer
Griff Barnett...Civilian Steno
Charles Chaplin, Jr....Reporter
William Forrest...Commandant F.S.H.
William Fox...Reporter
Lars Hansen...Reporter
William Henry...Officer
Edna Holland...Secretary
C. Anthony Hughes...Court Judge
Edward Keane...Court Judge
Mike Lally...Reporter
Cy Malis...Reporter
John Maxwell...Court Judge
George Mayon...Reporter
Ewing Mitchell...Court Judge
Al Page...Reporter
Fred Perce...Reporter
Jack Perrin...Court Reporter
Jordan Shelley...Reporter
Joel Smith...Reporter
Max Wagner...Sergeant Major
Gregory Walcott...Reporter Millikan
Frank Wilcox...Officer Tom
Robert Williams...Reporter Tuttle
General Billy Mitchell tries desperately to get the Army to see the importance of the Air Corps. As hundreds of his fellow officers die in antiquated and unfit machines and after repeated attempts to get recoginition through the proper channels, Mitchell publicly criticizes his superiors for failing to give the needed attention to the Air Corps. This results in a court-martial in which Mitchell tries valiently to prove he was justified in his actions. Well-done biopic of real-life hero Billy Mitchell who in 1925 predicted the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Cooper is good in the title role with nice performances by Steiger and Bellamy. Montgomery, in her first film role, is good although she only has one really significant and lengthy scene.
