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Titolo originale: Above and Beyond
Regia: Melvin Frank | Norman Panama |
Anno: 1953
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Azione Dramma Guerra
Tag: atomic bomb | biography |
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 | John McKee | Dick Simmons | Jim Backus | Bess Flowers | Lee MacGregor | Robert Stevenson |

Le angosce e i problemi, anche familiari, del colonnello pilota Paul Tibbets che, sul finire della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, venne incaricato dell'esecuzione materiale del progetto segreto che portò al lancio del primo ordigno atomico sulla città giapponese di Hiroshima.

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Col. Paul Tibbets previously served with the 8th Air Force in England earlier in the war, where he b [...] D
The Enola Gay was named after Col. Tibbetts' mother. Her unusual name was given to her because backw [...] D
The plane seen at the end of the film as bringing Paul Tibbets back to Washington, DC, is a Douglas [...] D
The first Boeing Superfortress seen in the film is a B-29A, serial 44-61733. It was delivered to the [...] D
The medal shown behind the opening and closing credits is the U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Cros [...] D
The B-29 representing Paul Tibbets' plane, shown landing on Tinian, has a tail designation of "T - S [...] D
In the film when the bombers are seen departing for Tinian over San Francisco, there is a brief aeri [...] D
The USAAF serial numbers seen on the requisition Paul Tibbets submits for the six C-54 transports ar [...] D
This film did very well at the box office, earning MGM a profit of $1,037,000 ($9.54M in 2017) accor [...] D
The sequences showing the bombing of Hiroshima were lifted from another MGM film, La morte è disc [...] D
Robert Taylor was a US Navy Flight Instructor during World War II. D
Paul Tibbets' biography indicates that he and Lucy Tibbets divorced in 1955, three years after the m [...] D
The airplane Lucey Tibbets leaves Wendover on is a Douglas C-47B Skytrain, serial 43-49196 made in 1 [...] D
Major Uanna can be seen to holding a pen in his left hand. At that time, left-handers were still in [...] D
The Enola Gay is on permanent display at the National Air and Space Museum Annex, near Dulles Airpor [...] D
The Enola Gay turned sharply after dropping the bomb and was miles away when it went off. The direct [...] D
The B-29 was the only WWII bomber that was capable of flying at 30,000 feet. It was also the first p [...] D
The secret project to create a special bombardment group to drop an atomic bomb was code named "Oper [...] D
The B-29 depicting Tibbets flying to Guam with the large "Z" on the tail is from the 73rd Bomb Wing, [...] D
First of three films in four years to co-star Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker, who play lovers in a [...] D

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Errori

When Tibbetts first lands at Tinean, the numbers on the tail of the plane are backward indicating th [...] D
The name Enola Gay is inscribed on the left (pilot's) side of the real airplane, not on the right as [...] D
In the film, Col. Tibbets is told the bomb must explode at 1,600 feet to be effective but the actual [...] D
Near the end of the movie the air insignia painted on the military aircraft should have the red stri [...] D
When the B-29 is on final approach for the crash landing, the wheels are up but, when it crashes, th [...] D
At one point, Lucy commandeers an Army jeep to drive to where Paul is working. She pulls up to the g [...] D
After the bomb is dropped, the Enola Gay is turned sharply away at a right angle to escape the radia [...] D
Colonel Tibbets is shown wearing his service cap during and after the flight to Hiroshima. In fact, [...] D
During the scene where Tibbets and his flight crew are taking off for the test flight where the plan [...] D
When Lucy and Paul reunite at the airport, Lucy introduces Paul to his son for the first time. She c [...] D
When Tibbets is addressing the men from the flatbed truck, he says they can say they are with a B-29 [...] D
When the B-29s fly over the Golden Gate bridge en route to Tinian, a pre-World War II battleship is [...] D
The air and ground crew are shown smoking inside and outside of the aircraft. Aviation gasoline can [...] D
When Tibbetts and crew are in the air above Tinian, the island shown is round with a single peak in [...] D
When Lt. Col. Tibbets first gets to Wendover, he is asked for his ID three times. The third MP is we [...] D
Toward the end the ground crew is seen pushing the atomic bomb over to the Enola Gay's bomb bay for [...] D
In the first bombing scenes with the B-17's, they actually show a twin engine B-26 dropping the bomb [...] D
When Lucy Tibbets is leaving her husband, for a moment, she is shown holding her second son, through [...] D
Before the B-29 crash landing in Wichita, the plane is shown on approach with tall mountains and des [...] D
The Enola Gay that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima was a plane that was stripped of all armor and mach [...] D
The story is set at the end of WWII, yet the female fashions and hairdos are clearly 1952 styles. D
Lucy is decorating a cake that says "Happy Birthday Paul" just as he leaves for a meeting. When he r [...] D
The real mission took off in darkness about 2 am local time, not daylight as shown in the film. D
When Col.Tibbets tells the Enola Gay crew they are about to see the largest explosion that ever took [...] D
When we see the bomb drop out of the bomb bay, it is not the "Little Boy" atomic bomb. It appears to [...] D
The character Maj. Gen. Vernon C. Brent CO of 2nd Air Force, Colorado Springs, CO was actually Maj. [...] D
In going over events in Tibbets's life, Major Uanna reads Tibbets a report of his having been arrest [...] D
Last scene of film depicts a DC 6 aircraft. The DC 6 began operation in 1946 one year after the WWII [...] D
Col. Tibbetts is by his plane, and the airman asks about a name, when the plane is shown with the na [...] D

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