VALUTAZIONE IMDb
7,4/10
1957
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA documentary on the 25th bombing mission of the Memphis Belle, a B-17 in the US 8th Air Force.A documentary on the 25th bombing mission of the Memphis Belle, a B-17 in the US 8th Air Force.A documentary on the 25th bombing mission of the Memphis Belle, a B-17 in the US 8th Air Force.
- Premi
- 4 vittorie totali
Stanley Wray
- Self - Group Commander
- (as Col. Stanley Wray)
Robert Morgan
- Self - Pilot
- (as Capt. Robert Morgan)
James A. Verinis
- Self - Co-Pilot
- (as Capt. Jim Verinis)
Robert J. Hanson
- Self - Radio Operator
- (as Sgt. Bob Hanson)
Charles B. Leighton
- Self - Navigator
- (as Capt. Chuck Leighton)
Harold P. Loch
- Self - Engineer and Top Turret Gunner
- (as Sgt. Harold Loch)
John P. Quinlan
- Self - Tail Gunner
- (as Sgt. John Quinlan)
Cecil H. Scott
- Self - Turret Gunner
- (as Sgt. Cecil Scott)
Vince Evans
- Self - Bombardier
- (as Captain Vincent Evans)
Clarence E. Winchell
- Self - Waist Gunner
- (as Sergeant Bill Winchell)
Casimer A. Nastal
- Self - Waist Gunner
- (as Sergeant Tony Nastal)
Haywood Hansell
- Self - USAAF
- (as Brigadier General Hansell)
Ira C. Eaker
- Self - Commander: 8th Air Force
- (as General Eaker)
Jacob L. Devers
- Self - U.S. Commander: European Theatre
- (as General Devers)
Trama
Lo sapevi?
- QuizPilot Robert Morgan named the aircraft after his girlfriend at the time, Margaret Polk, of Memphis, TN. Morgan chose the nose artwork from a 1941 illustration in "Esquire" magazine by famous pin-up artist George Petty. She is wearing a blue outfit on the port (left) side of the aircraft and a red one on the starboard (right) side.
- BlooperAs the Forts return to their base, one is shown with its rudder and a good chunk of the fin blown away. In the closeups on the ground, what's left of the tail number reads backward, showing that the film for those scenes was flipped right/left. That plane is 41-9020, which was reassigned as a target tug 32 days before Memphis Belle flew her 25th mission.
- Curiosità sui creditiAll aerial combat film was exposed during air battles over enemy territory
- ConnessioniEdited into Target for Today (1944)
Recensione in evidenza
Ever see paramedics resuscitate a dead man? If you have, it's impossible to take a medical drama seriously again. There is absolutely no drama in their actions. "The Memphis Belle" left me with same impression about soldiers. Although they worked in an inherently tense situation, a situation in which their lives could end on a whim, or an instant shift in kharma, it was their calmness that colored them the most. For two magnificent segments, director William Wyler plays taped intercom conversations over the already breathtaking photography. What we get are scenes that put those of ANY fictionalized war movie to shame. In the first, the camera is in the right place at the right time as he captures the waistgunner engaging a charging Messerschmidt. He lets his gun loose, and a stream of tracers goes sailing off into oblivion, wreathing the enemy plane. Then a few hit, then a few more and then the enemy fighter is engulfed in a cloud of black smoke. As he watches the plane drop with a sickening whistle, he hollers over the intercom in joy: "ha, ha, I got him, I got him." The Captain, annoyed, barks back: "don't yell on the damn intercom!" No joy, no bravado, just the grim realities of war. In the second, the camera captures a foundering B-17 turning on its side and slowly nosing down in a beautiful arc. Their response: {calmly} "a B-17 is goin' down at four o'clock" The crew chants in irritation "come on you guys, get out of there. What are you fellows asleep in there, get out!" Finally, two or three parachutes unfurl, closely resembling a Daffodil blooming. War turns out to be beautiful. Kurosawa's "Ran" and Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" argued this same point. But they were just movies. This film with its countless shots of the clear blue skies and the appealing flak patterns, proves it to anyone who dares to believe. In the film, there was not one patriotic utterance, or a single pean to heroic sacrifice, at least not from the men who flew the planes. These men were not heroes, nor were they warriors, or even soldiers in the sense that we portray those things. They were EMPLOYEES of the U.S. Army Air Corps. They did a job, and did it only because the "Boss" told them to. Even if they hated it (and you get the sense that they did), they did it. That impression never leaves me. The human species and its ability to accept any situation and get used to it. From now on, the passions of the soldiers in all the "blockbuster" war flicks will make me sick. Why dramatize that which is inherently full of tension. but we know most people that write war flicks have never been in jeopardy, so what do you expect. "The Memphis Belle" requires no histrionics or flowery dialogue to be the greatest war movie ever made.
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Dettagli
- Data di uscita
- Paese di origine
- Lingua
- Celebre anche come
- La bella di Memphis
- Luoghi delle riprese
- RAF Bassingbourn, Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, Inghilterra, Regno Unito(ground shots; home of 91st BG in the US 8th AF)
- Aziende produttrici
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- Tempo di esecuzione45 minuti
- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944) officially released in India in English?
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