Fighter Squadron
Overview
Excellent Technicolor photography, principally in the aerial scenes, is the main asset of FIGHTER SQUADRON. Set in the months just prior to D-Day, the plot zeroes in on Major Ed Hardin (Edmond O'Brien), leader of a squadron of fearless combat pilots. In keeping with the conventions of the era, the training and flying sequences are counterbalanced with comic byplay involving wheeler-dealer Sergeant Dolan (Tom D'Andrea), whose flippant attitudes towards the opposite sex are a bit hard to take today. Far more effective is the performance of 15-year-old Jack Larson, making his screen debut in the role of a rookie pilot who grows up in a hurry after scoring his first kill (Larson later gained TV immortality as Jimmy Olsen on SUPERMAN). Also making his first screen appearance, in a role so small it isn't even billed, is a former truck driver named Rock Hudson.
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Main Cast & Crew:
Raoul Walsh - Director
Edmond O'Brien
Robert Stack
John Rodney
Tom D'Andrea
Henry Hull
Jack Larson
William McLean
Mickey McCardle
George Backus
Joel Allen
Details
- Format: DVD (Full Frame, Manufactured on Demand, Mono Sound)
- Run Time: 96
- UPC: 883316231913
- Genre: ACTION / ADVENTURE
- Rating: Not Rated
- Release Date: February 2010
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