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Howard Lydecker
Special Effects -
Dick Geary
Stunts -
Howard Wilson
Sound -
Allen Rivkin
Screenplay -
Elmer Bernstein
Original Music Composer -
George Milo
Set Decoration -
John McCarthy Jr.
Set Decoration -
Theodore Lydecker
Special Effects
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CinemaSerf 11/14/2022 2:31:05 PM
This is another film that is really let down by it's title. One that suggests more of a swashbuckler - or a romance, at any rate - than a biopic of American Admiral Hoskins (Sterling Hayden) who was a pioneer of the use of jet aircraft from aircraft carriers. As it is, it's an OK depiction of the struggles of the man against the elements, technology, human frailty and government to get his ideas implemented. Hayden is a charm-free actor here, his dedication to his task is laudable, but cheerless and any semblance of romance with wife Sue (a rather prim Alexis Smith) left me cold. It does have oodles of wonderful original aerial photography to augment it, though - and that helps. Sadly, though, this is all as flat as the deck on the "USS Princeton".
Dean Jagger
Vice-Adm. Thomas L. SempleSterling Hayden
Rear-Adm. John Madison HoskinsBen Cooper
Seaman P.J. 'Zuggy' ZugbaumMorris Ankrum
Vice-Adm. Arthur Dewey StrubleVirginia Grey
Dorothy BurackerHayden Rorke
Capt. William BurackerFrank Ferguson
Admiral L.D.Alexis Smith
Sue Hoskins