Fritz Bauer Institut · Cinematography of the Holocaust
ID |
FBW000987 Fiction |
Country / Year |
USA, 1942 |
Original Title |
Eagle Squadron |
Directed by |
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Produced by |
Universal Pictures Company, Inc., Universal City, CA / New York, NY |
Staff |
Producer: Walter Wanger; Script: Norman Reilly Raine (Nach einer Cosmopolitan story von C. S. Forester); Original story: C.S. Forester (Cosmopolitan story); Camera: John P. Fulton (Spezialeffekte), Stanley Cortez; Editing: Philip Cahn; Art direction: Jack Otterson, Alexander Golitzen; Music: Frank Skinner; Musical direction: Charles Previn; Narration: Quentin Reynolds |
Cast |
Robert Stack (Chuck Brewer); Diana Barrymore (Anne Partridge); John Loder (Paddy Carson); Eddie Albert (Leckie); Nigel Bruce (McKinnon); Leif Erickson (Johnny Coe); Edgar Barrier (Wadislaw Borowsky); Jon Hall (Hank Starr); Evelyn Ankers (Nancy Mitchell); Isobel Elsom (Dame Elizabeth Whitby); Alan Hale, Jr. (Olsen); Don Porter (Ramsey); Frederick Worlock (Grenfall); Stanley Ridges (Air Minister); Gene Reynolds (The Kid); Robert Warwick (Bullock); Clarence Straight (Chandler); Edmund Clover (Meeker); Gladys Cooper (Aunt Emmeline); Rhys Williams (Sergeant Johns); Paul Cavanagh (Sir John); Gavin Muir (Severn); Richard Fraser (Lt. Jeffreys); Richard Crane (Griffith); Howard Banks (Barker); Harold Landon (Welch); Todd Karns (Meyers); Charles King, Jr. (Chubby); Jill Esmond (Phyllis); Ian Wolfe (Sir Charles Porter); Alan Napier (Black Watch Officer); Harold de Becker (Private Owen); Donald Stuart (Hoskins); Carl Harbord (Lubbock); Charles Irwin (Sir Benjamin Trask); Olaf Hytten (Day Controller); Stanley Smith; Richard Davies (R.A.F. Fliers); Queenie Leonard (Lankershire Blonde); Ivan F. Simpson (Simms); John Burton (Wing Commander); Bruce Lester (King); Tom Stevenson (Allison); Jimmy Eagles (Blind Patient); James Seay (Medical Officer); Audrey Long (Nurse); Mary Carr (Mother); Peter Lawford (Pilot); Rex Lease (German Soldier); Tarquin Olivier (Georgie); William Severn (Billy); Linda Ann Bieber (A little girl); Peggy Ann Garner (Child) |
Length |
109' |
Format |
35mm/sw/1:1,37 |
Abstract |
American volunteers fighting with the RAF before Pearl Harbor, chronicling their induction to an elite flying corps, their training, their air battles with the Nazi Luftwaffe, their brief romances with British women, and some of their deaths. One segment deals with a raid on the French coast where American pilots hijack a mysterious Nazi plane. |
Subject Terms |
Anti-Nazi films (US); British, the; Air raids; National Socialists; Pearl Harbor Attack; World War II |
Bibliography |
- Nash, Ray R. / Ross, Stanley R. / Conelly, Robert B. (Ed.): Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1987 |