"Inghilterra 1943. Al ""Memphis Belle"", un bombardiere americano B-17 e al suo equipaggio manca solo una missione sul territorio nemico per raggiungere la fatidica quota 25 che significa il... Leggi tutto"Inghilterra 1943. Al ""Memphis Belle"", un bombardiere americano B-17 e al suo equipaggio manca solo una missione sul territorio nemico per raggiungere la fatidica quota 25 che significa il rientro sospirato in patria.""Inghilterra 1943. Al ""Memphis Belle"", un bombardiere americano B-17 e al suo equipaggio manca solo una missione sul territorio nemico per raggiungere la fatidica quota 25 che significa il rientro sospirato in patria."
- Nominato ai 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 vittoria e 4 candidature totali
- Sgt. Virgil Hoogesteger
- (as Reed Edward Diamond)
- Les
- (as Mac Macdonald)
- Singer
- (as Jodie Wilson)
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- QuizThe navigator of the real Memphis Belle was Charles Leighton. From Flint Michigan, he retired as a teacher and counselor. He saved the Belle and other B-17s after identifying false German radio beacons designed to lure unwary B-17s into harm's way.
- BlooperIn Memphis Belle the bomber force is ordered to circle back to the Initial Point when the Primary Target is obscured by smoke or cloud cover. In reality, this would NOT have happened. First, it is VERY hard to have a formation of 300-plus Forts make a 180 degree turn. Second, such a maneuver would alert all flak batteries as to the actual target. Third, such a maneuver would keep the force under fighter attack longer than need be. In actuality, bomber crews were briefed on a primary, a secondary, a tertiary and targets of opportunity. If the primary target was unable to be hit, the primary became the IP to set up on the secondary. If the secondary were unable to be hit, it became the IP for the tertiary, and if that were unable to be hit, the force commander (NOT the pilot of the lead aircraft) would issue an order to go after targets of opportunity. Failing that, the mission would be aborted and the crews would dump their ordnance in either the North Sea or the English Channel. The mission would count toward tour completion, as the crews would have been in combat, and were over enemy territory.
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Richard Rascal Moore: [a German fighter has just passed extremely close under the belly of the plane, right past Rascal] That guy had blue eyes!
- Versioni alternativeThe UK cinema version was rated 12, and was uncut. The video release was rated PG, and removed the use of "all fucked up".
- ConnessioniEdited into Dark Blue World (2001)
- Colonne sonoreThe Chestnut Tree
Written by Tommie Connor, Jimmy Kennedy and Hamilton Kennedy
It had been determined by the US general staff that 25 bombing and combat missions over Europe were the limit that a bomber crew, in order to keep casualties down, can take before they start to fall apart from the stress and cease to be effective. The crew of the "Memphis Belle" are the first to almost reach that goal, 25 successful bombing missions.
The unbelievably ferocious German resistance from it vaunted Luftwaffa and ground anti-aircraft batteries over the skies of Europe cost the USAAF and RAF some 35,000 planes, fighters and bombers, and their crews, over 150,000 airmen, during the bombing of Germany and German controlled Europe from 1942 to 1945. Thats just how savage and bitter the fighting was for air supremacy over that war-torn continent.
Stirring story with fine performances from the "Memphis Belle's" Captain Dennis Dearborn, Matthew Modine, on down. As the legendary bomber weathers wave after wave of deadly German ME 109 Messershmitt fighter planes from the sky and massive and murderous German AK AK anti-aircraft fire from the ground. As the "Memphis Belle" flies over Bremen and drops it's bomb payload and then limps back to England. With it's crew battered and bloody but safe and alive to be the first bomber crew to survive 25 missions over German controlled Europe.
The spectacular air combat photography was the best I've ever seen in a war movie and the cast was on par with the "Memphis Belle" with no one outshining the others but all equal up to their task just like the famed bomber was.
Back on the ground there was another drama played out with officer Col. Harriman, David Strathaim, who sent out the "Memphis Belle" and the other 23 B-17's of his bomber squadron on their mission over Bremen Germany. Col. Harriman didn't go along with Col. Derringer, John Lithgow, the US public relation officer who seemed too eager to reward the "Memphis Belle" crew with honors and glory even before they successfully finished their 25th mission. Not realizing that he was making the bombers crew and Col. Harriman very nervous with his not understanding how dangerous their mission was and even possibly jinxing them.
Tense and terrific the movie has already become a war classic without the false heroics that was so common in war movies made during WWII by Hollywood in order to boost the US morale at home and on the battlefield. The crew of the "Memphis Belle" were just as normal and scared as anyone of us would be if we were in the same situation that they were in. But it was that very fear that brought the best in strength and courage out of them and made them the hero's that they eventually became.
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- 23.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 27.441.977 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 5.026.846 USD
- 14 ott 1990
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- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 47 minuti
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