High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.
Cast
Clark Gable
Brigadier General K.C. 'Casey' Dennis
Walter Pidgeon
Major General Roland Goodlow Kane
Van Johnson
Technical Sergeant Immanuel T. Evans
Brian Donlevy
Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet
Charles Bickford
Elmer Brockhurst
John Hodiak
Col. Edward Rayton Martin
Edward Arnold
Congressman Arthur Malcolm
Marshall Thompson
Capt. George Washington Bellpepper Lee
Richard Quine
Maj. George Rockton
Cameron Mitchell
Lt. Ansel Goldberg
Clinton Sundberg
Maj. Homer V. Prescott
Ray Collins
Maj. Desmond Lansing
Warner Anderson
Col. Earnest Haley
John McIntire
Maj. Belding Davis
Moroni Olsen
Congressman Stone
John Ridgely
James Carwood
Michael Steele
Capt. Lucius Malcolm Jenks
Edward Earle
Congressman Watson
Mack Williams
Lt. Col. Virgil Jackson
James Millican
Maj. Garrett Davenport
John Cannon
Officer (uncredited)
Crew
Sam Wood
Director
William R. Laidlaw
Screenplay
George Froeschel
Screenplay
Harold F. Kress
Editor
Harold Rosson
Director of Photography
Sid Sidman
Assistant Director
Sidney Franklin
Producer
Gottfried Reinhardt
Associate Producer
Miklós Rózsa
Original Music Composer
Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration
Al Shenberg
Production Manager
William Wister Haines
Theatre Play
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
Urie McCleary
Art Direction
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