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Command Decision

Name: Command Decision
Director: Sam Wood
Released: 1948-01-01

1948 film by Sam Wood

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Released: 1948
Director: Sam Wood
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1.imdb.com/title/tt0040242/Retrieved 2016-04-18
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Screenwriter: George Froeschel
Producer: Sidney Franklin
, Gottfried Reinhardt
Cast: Clark Gable
, Walter Pidgeon
, Van Johnson
, John Hodiak
+13 more
Runtime: 112 min
Genre: drama film
, war film
Country of origin: United States

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Command Decision is a 1949 war film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, and Brian Donlevy, and directed by Sam Wood, based on the 1948 stage play of the same name written by William Wister Haines, which he based on his best-selling 1947 novel. The screenplay for the film was written by George Froeschel and William R. Laidlaw. Haines' play ran on Broadway for almost a year beginning in October 1947.

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Director of photography: Harold Rosson
Main subject: World War II
aviation
Production designer: Cedric Gibbons
Title: Command Decision
Color: black-and-white
Film editor: Harold F. Kress
Narrative location: London
Assessment: Bechdel test assessment outcome: fails · criterion used: considering named characters only
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1.Stated in Bechdel Test Movie ListRetrieved 2017-12-10
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Set in period: World War II
20th century
1940s

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