The Wild Blue Yonder

The Wild Blue Yonder (1951)

Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of a beautiful nurse, Corey and Tucker prepare to fly a bombing mission in the South Pacific. Before boarding their B29 Superfortress, Tucker appears to be chickening out, but he's steadfastly at his cockpit post at takeoff time.

Data de estreia
1951-12-05
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (2)
Duração
1 h 38 min
Géneros
Guerra, Drama
Realizador
Allan Dwan

Elenco

Curiosidades

The Wild Blue Yonder is a 1951 war film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Wendell Corey, Vera Ralston, Forrest Tucker and Phil Harris. The plot concerns the Boeing B-29 Superfortress air raids on Japan during World War II.

Production

The working title of the film was Wings Across the Pacific.

The production relied heavily on USAF and Marine Corps assistance. Location photography took place from April 3 to mid-May 1951 at March Field Air Base and Mojave Airport Marine Base in California, Davis-Monthan Field in Tucson, Arizona and Walker Air Force Base in Roswell, New Mexico, where the 22nd Bomb Group's 2nd Squadron was flying B-29s operationally. The aerial scenes of the bombing of Tokyo were filmed above Santa Catalina Island.

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