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Release year: 1957

Storyline

A remorseful bomber pilot-turned-minister rejoins for the Korean War.

Top credits

Directors

Douglas Sirk

Writers

Cast

Rock Hudson — Col. Dean E. Hess
Anna Kashfi — En Soon Yang
Dan Duryea — Sergeant Herman
Don DeFore — Captain Dan Skidmore

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Did you know

• Robert Mitchum lobbied for the lead role. However, the real Col. Dean Hess wouldn't hear of a former jailbird portraying him. He personally approved Rock Hudson instead, not realizing that Hudson was gay.

• This was the feature playing at the movie theater in Where Is Everybody? (1959), the first episode of The Twilight Zone (1959).

• The gold flying helmet with the United Nations emblem that Rock Hudson wears was Dean Hess' real helmet. It was a Navy-issue helmet that Hess scrounged from a Navy pilot who crash-landed at their airfield in Korea (since the Navy pilot was going to be issued a new helmet as a result of the crash-landing). The helmet is now on display at the US Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH.