The Flying Missile

The Flying Missile (1950)

The Bomb That Stalks Its Prey!

A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.

Date of release
1950-12-24
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Drama
Director
Henry Levin

Casting

Interesting facts

The Flying Missile is a 1950 black-and-white Cold War-era film from Columbia Pictures starring Glenn Ford and Viveca Lindfors. Produced with the cooperation of the United States Navy, it tells a fictionalized story of the Navy's first submarine-launched cruise missiles, such as the Republic-Ford JB-2 Loon.

Production

As the film's subject matter was considered restricted, no previous films depicting United States Navy cruise-missile development in the immediate postwar era had been produced. As indicated in the film's opening credits, location photography on naval bases, aircraft carriers, surface fleet ships and submarines took place with the full cooperation of the armed forces. Both Navy and Army installations were made available to the producers.

Rear Admiral Thomas M. Dykers served as the technical director for The Flying Missile. After a long career in the Navy as a submarine commander, Dykers retired and moved to California in 1949. He later served as a technical advisor for other films such as Submarine Command (1951), and Torpedo Alley (1952), and he produced and narrated the 1957–58 television series The Silent Service.

The USS Cusk was filmed for exterior shots of the fictitious Bluefin.

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