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Flight Command

Name: Flight Command
Director: Frank Borzage
Released: 1940-01-01

1940 war film

FilmfilmQ3073724

Released: 1940
Director: Frank Borzage
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1.imdb.com/title/tt0032477/Retrieved 2016-07-12
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Screenwriter: Wells Root
Producer: J. Walter Ruben
Cast: Robert Taylor
, Ruth Hussey
, Walter Pidgeon
, Addison Richards
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Runtime: 113 min
Genre: romance film
, drama film
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Country of origin: United States

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Flight Command is a 1940 American U.S. Navy film from MGM, produced by Frank Borzage and directed by J. Walter Ruben and Frank Borzage (uncredited), starring Robert Taylor, Ruth Hussey, and Walter Pidgeon. It has the distinction of often being credited as the first Hollywood film glorifying the American military to be released after the outbreak of World War II in Europe, a year before the U.S. entered the conflict.

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Director of photography: Harold Rosson
Main subject: aviation
Title: Flight Command
Nominations: Academy Award for Best Special Effects(February 6, 1942) nominee: Albert Arnold Gillespie, Douglas Shearer · statement is subject of: 14th Academy Awards
Production designer: Cedric Gibbons
Color: black-and-white
Costume designer: Gile Steele
Film editor: Robert J. Kern
Distribution format: video on demand

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