Details

Release year: 1962

Storyline

While stationed in Britain in 1943, hotshot bomber pilot Captain Buzz Rickson is in command of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, but his cockiness soon begins to annoy everyone around him.

Top credits

Directors

Philip Leacock

Writers

Cast

Steve McQueen — 'Buzz', Buzz Rickson
Robert Wagner — 'Bo', Ed Bolland
Shirley Anne Field — Daphne
Gary Cockrell — Lynch: Crew of 'The Body'

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Did you know

• Warren Beatty turned down the role of Rickson, possibly because he had recently caused the divorce between Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner, and the two men were not on speaking terms.

• The scene where the B-17 pilot Woodman brings his aircraft in for a wheels-up landing, and navigator Marty Lynch is killed, comes from the film Twelve O'Clock High (1949).

• Mike Reilly drowned after parachuting from 2000 feet into the English Channel, near Newhaven, during the filming of a stunt for the film. He was 29 years old, had more than 300 jumps, was British parachute champion and the first Chairman of the newly formed British Parachute Association.