Thundering Jets (1958)
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An Air Force captain teaches pilots to fly jets but doesn't like it.
- Date of release
- 1958-05-01
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 13m
- Genres
- Action, Drama, Romance
- Director
- Helmut Dantine
Casting
- Rex Reason — Capt. Steve Morley
- Audrey Dalton — Susan Blair
- Buck Class — Major Mike Gerron
- Lee Farr — Captain Murphy
- Barry Coe — "Cotton" Davis
- Giuseppe Addobbati — Kurt Weber
- Robert Dix — Lt. Jimmy Erskine
- Robert Conrad — Lt. Robert "Tiger" Kiley
- Sid Melton — Sgt. Eddie Stone
- Lionel Ames — "Andy" Anderson, instructor
- Gregg Palmer — Cory Dexter, instructor
- Dick Foran — Col. Henry Spalding
Interesting facts
Thundering Jets is a 1958 American drama film directed by Helmut Dantine, written by James Landis, and starring Rex Reason, Dick Foran, Audrey Dalton, Barry Coe, and Robert Dix.
Production
Thundering Jets was filmed primarily at the United States Flight Test School at Edwards Air Force Base, employing the school's Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star jet training aircraft. The production used mainly stock footage with one T-33 on loan to the studio and was featured in the process shots.
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