Air Force (1943)
Country: US
Technical: bw 124m
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: John Garfield, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy
Synopsis:
We follow the crew of an Air Force bomber from Pearl Harbor to the Philippines, as they prepare to defend that sector from the Japanese with revenge not far from their hearts.
Review:
Propagandist in intent, this obvious Warners actioner efficiently channels its sentiment towards the overriding imperative to kill as many Japs as possible, its characters' emotional spur being, of course (since this is an American film and not a Russian one), as much personal as national vendetta. Hawks's combat sequences are as explosive as we have come to expect since Hell's Angels, and the last half-hour could almost have been inspiration for George Lucas's equivalent sequence of bongo-bashing heroics, in Star Wars.
Country: US
Technical: bw 124m
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: John Garfield, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy
Synopsis:
We follow the crew of an Air Force bomber from Pearl Harbor to the Philippines, as they prepare to defend that sector from the Japanese with revenge not far from their hearts.
Review:
Propagandist in intent, this obvious Warners actioner efficiently channels its sentiment towards the overriding imperative to kill as many Japs as possible, its characters' emotional spur being, of course (since this is an American film and not a Russian one), as much personal as national vendetta. Hawks's combat sequences are as explosive as we have come to expect since Hell's Angels, and the last half-hour could almost have been inspiration for George Lucas's equivalent sequence of bongo-bashing heroics, in Star Wars.
Country: US
Technical: bw 124m
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: John Garfield, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy
Synopsis:
We follow the crew of an Air Force bomber from Pearl Harbor to the Philippines, as they prepare to defend that sector from the Japanese with revenge not far from their hearts.
Review:
Propagandist in intent, this obvious Warners actioner efficiently channels its sentiment towards the overriding imperative to kill as many Japs as possible, its characters' emotional spur being, of course (since this is an American film and not a Russian one), as much personal as national vendetta. Hawks's combat sequences are as explosive as we have come to expect since Hell's Angels, and the last half-hour could almost have been inspiration for George Lucas's equivalent sequence of bongo-bashing heroics, in Star Wars.