"Really? (pause) Okay." Duffy, grasping the covert message, hastens to add, "No, no - not that way." The screenplay is adequate, not insulting. Macht turns slowly and looks up at him with surprise and an expression of dead earnest.
There is a striking scene in which Duffy, as Tibbets, is disgusted with the recklessness of an old friend, Gregory Harrison, and snaps out to his commanding officer, Macht, that he wishes somebody could just get rid of Harrison. But not the principals, like Patrick Duffy, Stephen Macht, or James Shigeta. Their unpracticed voices stand out like gastropods on their poduncles. Some of the lesser characters deliver weak performances. In the course of their training at Wendover in the middle of Utah's Great Basin desert and later on Tinian Island in the Marianas, comic incidents take place, friendships are tested, and Lt. CORRECT! The film is a bit stretched out because of the domestic episodes, though they involve an appealing and quietly suffering Kim Darby, and because of semi-comedic efforts of Billy Crystal as an Air Force Lieutenant trying to ditch the bulky MP who has been assigned to accompany him as a bodyguard and watchman. (A) Her husband's increasing distance and irritability due to his burdensome responsibilities (b) Wendover AFB's plumbing is not up to snuff (c) Paul Tibbet's plumbing is not up to snuff. The children and I will be staying at my mothers." "So you're leaving me?" "It just got too confusing." The wife is disturbed by - well, let the experienced viewer pick the right answer. In this case, it's the same as that envisioned in another feature about pilot Paul Tibbetts, "Above and Beyond." "Paul, I have something to tell you. There is of course - there MUST be - some domestic drama in the story. In the UK, too many students think the Holocaust is an amusement park ride and Hitler was a football coach. Substantial numbers think that "Watergate" took place around 1900 and that they thought the USSR was one of our enemies.
Recent polls suggest that students are no long familiar with even the general outlines of the period.
I suspect the subtitle - "The Men, The Mission, The Bomb" - was added to alert younger viewers to the fact that the movie had something to do with a bomb being dropped somewhere.
Fine condition.Serviceable TV movie about the men who dropped the first atomic bomb in warfare in 1945, destroying the Japanese city of Hiroshima and initiating the end of the war. The monument described in this pamphlet has since been erected, appearing just as pictured in the pamphlet. Wendover Air Force Base, at the western edge of Utah, was the training site for the 509th and for many other bomber groups during World War II.
Ferebee remained in the service after World War II, serving mostly with the Strategic Air Command until the early 1970s. As bombardier of the Enola Gay, Ferebee released the atomic bomb which struck Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Thomas Ferebee (1918-2000) flew 60 bombing missions in Europe before being recruited to the 509th Composite Group to be specially trained for the dropping of atomic bombs.
Pamphlet folded into thirds, soliciting contributions for a monument honoring the 509th Composite Group, in West Wendover, Nevada. Ferebee/Bombardier Enola Gay", 2 pages (front and verso), 4x9. He signs a pamphlet soliciting contributions for the Wendover A-Bomb memorial.