Set at the dawn of the supersonic flight , here Holden is a Korean veteran pilot who broke under brainwashing and who's expected to grin and bear a desk jockey posting to Edward Air Base . But then
Major Lincoln Bond (William Holden who produced too) itches to test new new X-2 rocket plane , as he subsequently will retrieve his self-respect , while falling in love for a beautiful clerk , Connie Mitchell (Virginia Leith) , who at the same time results to be sweetheart of his superior General , Banner (Lloyd Nolan) . Major Lincoln is testing the new experimental aircraft Gilbert XF-120 fighter when some of his pals begin suspecting he's imagining strange things because of his disturning mental condition dating back to his imprisonment in the Korean POW camp where he was mistreated and tortured by the Chinese and Korean soldiers . Rocket ship pilots USA .! So you're going to show the world...by flying right out of it! The screen has never shown what you'll see in Toward the Unknown !. This is the Story of Link Bond, Hottest of 'Em All... But So Hot He Burned Nearly Everyone He Touched...!.They called him coward - and he was going to show the world - by roaring right out of it!.The Deeply Personal Story of Link Bond, Rocket Pilot, U. S. A.
A big-bugeted movie based on a true story with full of thrills and romance , adding emotion , breathtaking aerial scenes and agreeable finale. This is the screen's first story of man-piloted rocket ships hurtling across the heavens at 95.000 feet , a thrillling adventure in somewhere at a secluded U. S. Air Force Base lives a picked handful of very special men , they are the rocket pilots of outer space and the eerie experimental craft that rule the skies beyond the sky. There are great moments in this story of the first American pilots and let that not be forgotten . Quasi-documentary re-creation of the important happenings , being shot with much intrigue, tension and suspense . The special effects , stock-footage , aerial scenes work enough and colorful photography by Harold Rosson , could hardly be bettered . An enjoyable retelling commingling of both fatigue and mental . Creditable interpretations from a long star cast bolster a movie of enough inspired sequences to make it linger in the memory . One of the main entertainments of this stunning picture is to discover the list of notorious secondaries appearing here and there that include the following ones : Charles McGraw of Spartacus , Murray Hamilton of Jaws , Paul Fix of John Wayne films , James Garner who makes his screen debut here only a year earlier the first Maverick , L. Q. Jones still playing at ninety , Karen Steel , Bartlett Robinson, Malcolm Atterbury, Ralph Moody, Richard Cutting, among others.
Stolidly made by previous Warners contractee Mervyn LeRoy in his men-in-uniform period , between the army farce No Time for Sergeants , naval comedy Mr Roberts and plainclothes hymn The FBI Story . This attractive motion picture was competently directed by Hollywood filmmaker Mervyn LeRoy . He was a typical craftsman who often used big budgets and directed a lot of lavish and successful movies, such as : Gold Diggers 1933 , Little Caesar , I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang , Waterloo Bridge , Anthony Adverse , Devil at 4 O'Clock , Quo Vadis , Gypsy , Million Dollar Mermaid , Without Reservations , Little Women that won Academy Award : Oscar 1949 Art Direction/Set Decoration, and the big hit Thirty seconds over Tokyo . The flick will appeal to William Holden fans and airplane aficionados . Rating : 6.5/10. Above average . Worthwhile seeing.
A big-bugeted movie based on a true story with full of thrills and romance , adding emotion , breathtaking aerial scenes and agreeable finale. This is the screen's first story of man-piloted rocket ships hurtling across the heavens at 95.000 feet , a thrillling adventure in somewhere at a secluded U. S. Air Force Base lives a picked handful of very special men , they are the rocket pilots of outer space and the eerie experimental craft that rule the skies beyond the sky. There are great moments in this story of the first American pilots and let that not be forgotten . Quasi-documentary re-creation of the important happenings , being shot with much intrigue, tension and suspense . The special effects , stock-footage , aerial scenes work enough and colorful photography by Harold Rosson , could hardly be bettered . An enjoyable retelling commingling of both fatigue and mental . Creditable interpretations from a long star cast bolster a movie of enough inspired sequences to make it linger in the memory . One of the main entertainments of this stunning picture is to discover the list of notorious secondaries appearing here and there that include the following ones : Charles McGraw of Spartacus , Murray Hamilton of Jaws , Paul Fix of John Wayne films , James Garner who makes his screen debut here only a year earlier the first Maverick , L. Q. Jones still playing at ninety , Karen Steel , Bartlett Robinson, Malcolm Atterbury, Ralph Moody, Richard Cutting, among others.
Stolidly made by previous Warners contractee Mervyn LeRoy in his men-in-uniform period , between the army farce No Time for Sergeants , naval comedy Mr Roberts and plainclothes hymn The FBI Story . This attractive motion picture was competently directed by Hollywood filmmaker Mervyn LeRoy . He was a typical craftsman who often used big budgets and directed a lot of lavish and successful movies, such as : Gold Diggers 1933 , Little Caesar , I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang , Waterloo Bridge , Anthony Adverse , Devil at 4 O'Clock , Quo Vadis , Gypsy , Million Dollar Mermaid , Without Reservations , Little Women that won Academy Award : Oscar 1949 Art Direction/Set Decoration, and the big hit Thirty seconds over Tokyo . The flick will appeal to William Holden fans and airplane aficionados . Rating : 6.5/10. Above average . Worthwhile seeing.