El bombardero heroico

Título original: Air Force

1943
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2h 4min

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John Garfield, John Ridgely, and Gig Young in El bombardero heroico (1943)

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La tripulación de un bombardero de la fuerza aérea llega a Pearl Harbor tras el ataque japonés y es enviada a Manila para ayudar en la defensa de Filipinas.La tripulación de un bombardero de la fuerza aérea llega a Pearl Harbor tras el ataque japonés y es enviada a Manila para ayudar en la defensa de Filipinas.La tripulación de un bombardero de la fuerza aérea llega a Pearl Harbor tras el ataque japonés y es enviada a Manila para ayudar en la defensa de Filipinas.

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Ganó 1 premio Óscar
- 3 premios y 3 nominaciones en total

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A more important film than the latté crowd may realize.

The "Got him!" dogfight in Star Wars was practically cut-by-cut from Air Force (just as Indiana Jones lifted the Big Round Boulder scene directly from an Uncle Scrooge comic, but that's another review). Air Force's Dying Pilot scene (check-listing his crew for takeoff, job by job, and they respond) is almost unendurable to any man who has worked in danger and loss with other men. The crew's field-modifying the pre-G-series B-17 to equip it with an effective tail gun, (and stripping hulks for usable parts!) helped prepared me as a boy of the 1950s for my young manhood up on the high banks of Talladega and Daytona, and for business and traffic today. I trust our current young soldiers have found their own examples for courage and resourcefulness as they defend us today.

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Curiosidades
Early in the film, an analyst is shown using a period-era teletype machine and a Hollerith punched card typewriter. This was very high-tech stuff for the time. Such devices became standard equipment on early digital computers, which were under development as this film was being produced in 1943. The punched card deck in particular became an essential component of so-called batch processing of large amounts of data, and for making hard copy of computer programs that could be rapidly (for the era) loaded into another computer.

Pifias
Despite reports by Susan McMartin and other characters attributing the loss of planes at Hickham Field and attacks on civilians to Japanese-American saboteurs in bomb-ladened vegetable trucks, there were in fact no actual acts of sabotage. The reports made in the film were propaganda reflecting the hysteria of time.

Citas
Radio Operator Peterson: [looking down] That's an awful big town, San Francisco.
Assistant Crew Chief Weinberg: Strictly a one whistle stop. There's only one city in the U.S.A. and that's New York.
Sgt. Robbie White: Oh, you're just a hometown hick, Weinberg. What's wrong with California?
Assistant Crew Chief Weinberg: California? The sun shines and nuthin' ever happens. Before you know it, you're 60 years old.
Sgt. Robbie White: It's no different from New York. My sister's been tryin' to get out of Brooklyn for the last 40 years.
Assistant Crew Chief Weinberg: Brooklyn? That ain't New York, chief. Once you cross that Brooklyn Bridge, you're outta this woild. The only noise you hear is the hardening of your arteries. You know when I used to drive a hack, I had a pal who crossed that bridge in 1929. Ain't ever heard from him since.
Radio Operator Peterson: Me, I'll take Minneapolis.
Assistant Crew Chief Weinberg: Minneapolis? Why, the grass still grows in the streets. Besides, that ain't your hometown, Peterson. The hayseed's still stickin' outta your hair.
Radio Operator Peterson: Yeah, but I can still milk a cow. I bet you can't.
Assistant Crew Chief Weinberg: I'll get mine outta a bottle. That's the closest I ever wanna be to a cow.
Sgt. Robbie White: You are handy with the old bull.
Assistant Crew Chief Weinberg: [laughs]

Créditos adicionales
Opening credits prologue: FOREWORD "It is for us the living .... to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced ..... It is ......for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us ..... that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Abraham Lincoln

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Edited into Recuerdos de guerra: Part IV (1988)

Banda sonora
The Army Air Corps Song
(1939) (uncredited)
("Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder")
Written by Robert Crawford
Played during the opening credits and often throughout the film