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Titolo originale: Above and Beyond
Regia: Melvin Frank | Norman Panama |
Anno: 1953
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Azione Dramma Guerra
Tag: atomic bomb | biography |
Cast: Robert Taylor | Eleanor Parker | James Whitmore | Larry Keating | Larry Gates | Marilyn Erskine | Stephen Dunne | Robert Burton | Hayden Rorke | Lawrence Dobkin | Jack Raine | Jonathan Cott | Jeff Richards | John McKee | Dick Simmons | Jim Backus | Bess Flowers | Lee MacGregor | Robert Stevenson |

Le angosce e i problemi, anche familiari, del colonnello pilota Paul Tibbets che, sul finire della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, venne incaricato dell'esecuzione materiale del progetto segreto che portò al lancio del primo ordigno atomico sulla città giapponese di Hiroshima.

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Col. Paul Tibbets previously served with the 8th Air Force in England earlier in the war, where he b [...] D
The Enola Gay was named after Col. Tibbetts' mother. Her unusual name was given to her because backw [...] D
The plane seen at the end of the film as bringing Paul Tibbets back to Washington, DC, is a Douglas [...] D
The first Boeing Superfortress seen in the film is a B-29A, serial 44-61733. It was delivered to the [...] D
The medal shown behind the opening and closing credits is the U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Cros [...] D
The B-29 representing Paul Tibbets' plane, shown landing on Tinian, has a tail designation of "T - S [...] D
In the film when the bombers are seen departing for Tinian over San Francisco, there is a brief aeri [...] D
The USAAF serial numbers seen on the requisition Paul Tibbets submits for the six C-54 transports ar [...] D
This film did very well at the box office, earning MGM a profit of $1,037,000 ($9.54M in 2017) accor [...] D
The sequences showing the bombing of Hiroshima were lifted from another MGM film, La morte è disc [...] D
Robert Taylor was a US Navy Flight Instructor during World War II. D
Paul Tibbets' biography indicates that he and Lucy Tibbets divorced in 1955, three years after the m [...] D
The airplane Lucey Tibbets leaves Wendover on is a Douglas C-47B Skytrain, serial 43-49196 made in 1 [...] D
Major Uanna can be seen to holding a pen in his left hand. At that time, left-handers were still in [...] D
The Enola Gay is on permanent display at the National Air and Space Museum Annex, near Dulles Airpor [...] D
The Enola Gay turned sharply after dropping the bomb and was miles away when it went off. The direct [...] D
The B-29 was the only WWII bomber that was capable of flying at 30,000 feet. It was also the first p [...] D
The secret project to create a special bombardment group to drop an atomic bomb was code named "Oper [...] D
The B-29 depicting Tibbets flying to Guam with the large "Z" on the tail is from the 73rd Bomb Wing, [...] D
First of three films in four years to co-star Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker, who play lovers in a [...] D