Air Cadet

Air Cadet (1951)

Are you going to let that boy go up alone?

A group of cadets have assorted problems at the U.S. Air Force Pilot Training Academy.

Date of release
1951-03-14
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Drama, War
Director
Joseph Pevney

Casting

Interesting facts

Air Cadet is a 1951 American drama war film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Stephen McNally, Gail Russell, Alex Nicol and Richard Long. Air Cadet featured United States Air Force (USAF) pilots in training along with actors mixed into the training courses. The film had a small early role for 26-year-old Rock Hudson and a scene with future astronaut Gus Grissom.

Production

Production of Air Cadet began at Randolph Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas on October 4, 1950. The scenes at Randolph were filmed in five days and the cast and crew transferred to Williams Air Force Base near Mesa, Arizona where the majority of the film was shot, with filming ending in mid-December 1950. Some sequences were shot at Tyndall Air Force Base and in Panama City, Florida.

The aerial sequences were filmed from a B-25 bomber that had been converted into a camera platform. Because of the film's high-contrast sky backgrounds, when the sky was clear or blue, photography was not possible. Much of the flying was "done at an altitude at which G-forces were in effect, making everything, including the 60-pound camera and the photographers' own bodies, feel seven times heavier."

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