Air Strike

Air Strike (1955)

JET-HOT ACTION BLASTS THE SKIES!

Tasked with training a group of untested new recruits, a no-nonsense Navy commander faces a host of challenges as he attempts to transform the greenhorns into a squadron of crackerjack jet pilots. Don Haggerty co-stars as the unit's second-in-command who clashes bitterly with the cocky young upstart of the team after the lad shows off with some reckless aerial acrobatics.

Date of release
1955-05-06
TMDB
7.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 7m
Genres
War, Drama
Director
Cy Roth

Casting

Interesting facts

Air Strike is a 1955 American drama film written, directed and produced by Cy Roth and starring Richard Denning, Gloria Jean and Don Haggerty; the supporting cast features former child star Billy Halop. The plot involves pilots training at a United States Navy squadron preparing for the Korean War. The film features the original song, "Each Time You Leave Me" by composers Sylvia Ostrow and André Brummer.

Production

Air Strike relied heavily on stock footage, noting before this film's opening credits, a foreword reads: "With grateful appreciation for the cooperation of the Department of the Navy and the Department of Defense." At the film's end, the following dedication appears: "The mighty air arm of the United States Navy with its control of the seas is a great part of this nation's security.

This movie underwent many changes at the request of the Department of Defense. For example, the lead characters were a young Jewish flyer and a young black flyer who are constantly being subjected to anti-Semitism and racism on the ship.

As noted in the onscreen film credits of Air Strike and in The Hollywood Reporter, sequences were filmed aboard the USS Essex (CVA-9) aircraft carrier, stationed in San Diego. The onscreen cast credit for the military extras reads: "The officers and men of the U.S.S. Essex (CVA 9); The "Fighting Falcons" of VF 142 Cougar Squadron." Additional sequences were shot at the Samuel Goldwyn Studios in 1954.

The aircraft that appeared in Air Strike are:

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