Daring landing
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Daring landing |
| Original title | Men of the Fighting Lady |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andrew Marton |
| script | Kind of Cohn |
| production | Henry Berman |
| music | Miklós Rózsa |
| camera | George J. Folsey |
| cut | Gene Ruggiero |
| occupation | |
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Daring Landing (Original title: Men of the Fighting Lady ) is an American war film by Andrew Marton from 1954. The screenplay of the film is based on the stories The Forgotten Heroes of Korea by James A. Michener and The Case of the Blind Pilot by Harry A. Burns.
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During the Korean War , the writer James A. Michener visits a US Navy aircraft carrier in the Sea of Japan . Commander Dowling tells him a version of the Christmas story.
Shortly before Christmas, Lieutenant Commander Grayson prepares the pilots around Kenneth Schecter for a mission. The pilots are supposed to bomb a railway line. The men take off with their fighter jets, the mission is a success. However, Grayson has to save himself with the ejection seat. A helicopter crew can save him from the icy sea. Dowling rebukes Grayson. The war veteran Lieutenant Commander Ted Dodson also criticizes him.
The Koreans quickly repair the railway line, so that the American pilots have to drop bombs over and over again. Dowling warns the men, especially Grayson, to fly less than 300 meters. On his return from one of the missions, Dodson had an accident while landing on the carrier. His badly damaged machine explodes on the deck. Schecter and Lieutenant Thayer pack Dodson's things, while Grayson cannot understand why he is alive while a family man is dead.
The 27th attack on the railway line is to take place on Christmas Day. Pilots are allowed to napalm other military targets as well . Towards the end of the attack, Schecter's machine is hit. Schecter goes blind from the rubble hitting him. Thayer flies side by side with Schecter and directs him over the radio. Schecter, who threatens to pass out, goes off course. Thayer asks him to get out of the machine, but a technical defect thwarts the plan. To endure the pain, Schecter injects himself with morphine, while Thayer constantly talks to him over the radio to keep him awake. Thayer decides to guide the young pilot to the porter. In fact, the risky landing succeeds.
In the afternoon of the same day, the men take part in a Christmas party. They are shown a film made by the Navy. Family members of the pilots are shown in the film. The men are moved, but when Dodson's family can be seen, they become sad.
Dowling tells Michener that Schecter can partially see again. He studies economics at Stanford. Michener realizes that every man seeks his own self and that a ship is a good place to learn who you are.
background
The production of the MGM was filmed on the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany . The fighter jets were machines of the type Grumman F9F , a fighter-bomber with the nickname "Panther". The scenes of the crash landing of Lt. Cmdr. Dodson on the carrier was taken from a real accident that happened on June 23, 1951. The pilot George Duncan got into an air hole while approaching the aircraft carrier USS Midway . There was a crash landing in which the machine exploded, but in contrast to the film pilot, Duncan survived the accident with light burns to his ears.
The character of Paul Grayson is modeled after the film's military advisor, Commander Paul N. Gray, US Navy, who was known for flying low during his missions in the Korean War.
Art director Cedric Gibbons and decorator Edwin B. Willis were responsible for the production . The recording studio was headed by Douglas Shearer . The special effects are from A. Arnold Gillespie and Warren Newcombe .
The film premiered on May 7, 1954 in the United States. In Germany it first appeared in cinemas on April 14, 1955.
Reviews
For the lexicon of international film , Daring Landing was a “sentimental, lying war film without any awareness of the problem of the use of military force. Instead, he is interested in the description of technical processes on a US aircraft carrier and the landing of a blind pilot, where he admittedly developed dramatic skill and corresponding tension. "
Bosley Crowther of the New York Times noted that MGM had turned the Korean War into an expensive star vehicle.
Web links
- Daring landing in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Trivia in the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Verwegene landing. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See review on nytimes.com