Fighter Attack

Name: Fighter Attack
Director: Lesley Selander
Released: 1953-01-01

1953 film by Lesley Selander

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Released: 1953
Director: Lesley Selander
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Screenwriter: Shimon Wincelberg
Producer: Walter Mirisch
Cast: Sterling Hayden
Runtime: 80 min
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Genre: war film
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Country of origin: United States

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Fighter Attack is a 1953 American World War II film directed by Lesley Selander. The film stars Sterling Hayden, Joy Page and J. Carrol Naish. It reunited Hayden and Selander, who had worked together on Flat Top in 1952. The film is set in Nazi-occupied Italy and involves a U.S. fighter pilot's last sortie, and the help he receives from Italian partisans in an effort to complete his mission after he is shot down in enemy territory.

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Main subject: aviation
Director of photography: Harry Neumann
Title: Fighter Attack
Executive producer: Walter Mirisch
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Narrative location: Italy
Set in environment: aircraft

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