A writer visits an aircraft carrier during the Korean war to learn more about it and the way it's run. He also gets to find out more about the Navy and Marine aviators themselves, their internal and external conflicts and dangers of their job.
Cast
Van Johnson
Lt. Thayer
Walter Pidgeon
Cmdr. Dowling
Louis Calhern
James A. Michener
Dewey Martin
Schecter
Keenan Wynn
Lt. Cmdr. Dodson
Frank Lovejoy
Lt. Cmdr. Grayson
Robert Horton
Ensign Neil Conovan
Bert Freed
Lt. (jg) Andrew Szymanski
Lewis Martin
Comdr. Michael Coughlin
George Cooper
Cyril Roberts
Dick Simmons
Lt. Wayne Kimbrell
Jerry Mathers
Richard Dodson
Steve Rowland
Pilot Johnson
Crew
Andrew Marton
Director
Art Cohn
Screenplay
James Michener
Story
Harry A. Burns
Story
Gene Ruggiero
Editor
George J. Folsey
Director of Photography
Joel Freeman
Assistant Director
Al Jennings
Assistant Director
Henry Berman
Producer
William Tuttle
Makeup Artist
Miklós Rózsa
Original Music Composer
Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration
F. Keogh Gleason
Set Decoration
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
Paul Groesse
Art Direction
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