ABOVE AND BEYOND [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1952
• Genre: Action, Drama
• Plot: The behind-the-scenes story of the pilot of the Enola Gay.; ; If you could press a button that would sacrifice 100,000 people to save a million, would you do it? In the midst of World War II, Lt. Col. Paul Tibbets Jr. of the Army Air Corps is asked that question, looks at the buzzer his superior officer puts in his hand - and presses. Tibbets' unflinching answer gives him the command of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that will drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and help bring the war to a sudden end. Robert Taylor stars as Tibbets in this carefully detailed true story of the man and the mission that changed the world. 'Above and Beyond has documentary validity. And its final sequence, pieced out with newsreel shots of the Hiroshima bombing, has the impact of epochal drama' (Time).
• Cast: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating, Larry Gates, Marilyn Erskine, Stephen Dunne, Robert Burton, Hayden Rorke, Lawrence Dobkin, Jack Raine, Jonathan Cott, Jeff Richards, Dick Simmons, John McKee, Pat Conway, Christopher Olsen, William F. Leicester, Barbara Ruick, Jim Backus, John Pickard, Harlan Warde, John Baer, Tom Bernard, Robert Board, John Close, Fred Coby, Dick Cogan, G. Pat Collins, Bess Flowers, Robert Fuller, Frank Gerstle, Don Gibson, Tom Gibson, Richard Grayson, Dabbs Greer, Sam Hayes, John Hedloe, Don Hicks, Joseph Keane, Dorothy Kennedy, John Milton Kennedy, Don Kohler, Jack Lomas, Herbert Lytton, Lee MacGregor, Kurt Martell, Roger McGee, Sammy McKim, Walter Merrill, Harold Miller, Ewing Mitchell, Steve Mitchell, Roger Moore, Thomas Murray, Allen O'Locklin, George Pembroke, Barry Rado, Norman Rado, William Ruhl, Dick Ryan, Paul F. Smith, Robert Stevenson, Edward Tierney, Arthur Tovey, Gregory Walcott, Guy Way, Crane Whitley, Mack Williams, Ward Wood, Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, Beirne Lay Jr.
• Director: Melvin Frank
• Runtime: 2:02
• Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Warner Bros. Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie