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The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay, the bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he knows that it is capable of doing tremendously more damage than any other weapon used before, and that the death toll resulting from it will be enormous. He is reluctant to be the person who will end so many lives, but if using it may bring an end to the war, then not doing so may result in even more lives being lost in continued ground assaults as the fighting goes on. At the same time, the intense secrecy surrounding this mission leaves him with no one he can express his thoughts and doubts to, not even his wife. As time goes on, the pressure upon him only increase.
Col. Paul Tibbetts piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War 2.
This is a good film, first line actors, William Wellman the Director was a combat pilot from WWI, and the film avoided most of the tiresome triteness of most war films especially those about flying and pilots.
Most of the commentaries seem to like the film, but not all agree with the political meaning of the film. Some of the comments mention personal connections with the film, so excuse mine. I was a combat pilot in SAC, and was behind one of the switches that could send off bombs more deadly then a 20K bomb. I served in Japan many years after the War. It was my impression that more young Americans faulted our decision to drop the bomb, than the Japanesse who were the actual targets of the bomb. They, like many Germans were ashamed of their acceptance and participation in the War. Today, the most ardent anti-communists are those who actually lived under communism, unlike many college professors and Hollywood actors, producers and writers.
In 1945, the Japanese Military who wanted to continue the war, wanted to fight to the last man. Not unlike Hitler, who could have ended the war, they were willing to expose every man, women and child in their country to death and starvation. Despite years of war (Japan had invaded China in 1931), the Military Junta still had the capacity to inflict horrible casualties on our troops at Okinawa and Iwo Jima, and they were prepared to fight to the death the Allied invasion set for September, 1945.
The US did not have enough fissionable material to make three bombs. Of the two that were dropped, one was made of Uranium 235, and the other Plutonium. Some critics said we should have set off a "show" bomb off the coast of Japan. We used one of our bombs on Hiroshima, and despite the evidence, it took another at Nagasaki to convince the leaders of Japan to end the war. Japan could, and should have quit before all the devastation.
The former Soviet Union entered this same war on the side of Hitler. They took chunks of land from the Poles,Lithuania,Lativia,Estonia and Finland, and chunks of Eastern Europe while Hitler was conquering Eastern and Central Europe. Hitler and Stalin were like two peas in a pod for two years. Stalin's agents in the US infiltrated our government and media and preached peace-because it was in Stalin's interest to keep us out. When Hitler attacked Stalin, some, but not all of Stalin's agents did a complete flip flop, calling for war against the Nazi's. This propaganda and infiltration continued until the collapse of the Soviet's in 1989. Many documents have been released about the communist reaction to Hiroshima. Unlike this film, which could hardly be considered a propaganda movie, the communists tried to use Hiroshima as a propaganda tool in their fight with the West.
Whereas the US pulled out of all its conquered territory, the Soviet's did not. They occupied all of the lands they had taken during the war. History may eventually judge our one moral failure in the War, was allowing our French and British Allies to continue their colonial territories they held before the War. Their rule, however, never approached the Communists tyranny.
As the events portrayed in this film fade into history, so will the effects of the propaganda that still seems to affect some who have bought into their arguments. The fact may explain why some people still celebrate the Fall of the Bastille and the French Revolution, without accepting the fact that their revolution replaced the tyranny of a King, with the tyranny of Napolean. After Waterloo, France was defeated, humiliated, and bankrupt. These events are hard cold historical facts, just as Hiroshima, and the facts that existed in 1945 lead to its destruction and deaths of many innocent people.
Producers: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank. Copyright 17 November 1952 by Loew's Inc. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture. Filmed with the co- operation of the Department of Defense and the United States Air Force. New York opening at the Mayfair: 30 Jan 1953. U.S. release: Jan 1953. U.K. release: 23 March 1953. Australian release: 30 Jan 1953. 122 minutes.
COMMENT: A sequel to "The Beginning Or the End" (1947), "Above and Beyond" supposedly tells the story of Paul Tibbets, the USAF officer who piloted the plane that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. As his mission is top-secret, the good-natured pilot is not permitted to tell his shrewish wife what he is doing. Obviously a person who is both ill-fitted and ill-equipped to be a serviceman's spouse, Mrs. Tibbets is depicted in the film as a vitriolic, self- centered, argumentative, unpatriotic shrike who does her best to lambaste her husband at every opportunity. She is an expert at putting her own comfort first, last and always.
Beirne Lay is the astute author of "Twelve O'Clock High". I assume that he wrote all the comparatively fascinating air force footage, whilst Messrs Panama and Frank concocted all the irritating and overlong domestic trivia, including the slandering of Lucy Tibbets (Eleanor Parker) who is paraded here as a bitchy, nagging, utterly selfish virago whose verbal claws are constantly scraping against the impenetrable good humor of her meek, submissive husband (played with appropriate blandness by Robert Taylor).
Whilst it's true that intervals between these nauseatingly relentless bouts of one-sided yaketty-yak are punctuated by some fairly exciting action footage, especially in the training sequences in the secret camp, I strongly advise giving "Above and Beyond" a determined miss.
In fact, on its original release, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer set exactly the right tone for this ridiculous domestic eye-view of the atom bomb attack on Hiroshima from the very start with a clumsily simulated newsreel clip showing a group of overly familiar character actors standing around, impersonating real-life figures watching a print of this film being buried in a time capsule! That sequence was later removed—and no wonder! The contentious nature of the attack is not even hinted at, let alone discussed. "Above and Beyond" is certainly no "Hiroshima, Mon Amour"!
Needless to say, the film drew many complaints. So many, in fact that it was withdrawn and re-edited In its studio re-edited version, "Above and Beyond" now begins with a subtitle telling us that "this story could not be told until secret documents had been de- classified." Then up comes the title, "Above and Beyond", underlined by suitably thunderous music. On the next credit card, we read the stars, Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker. Unfortunately, it all too soon becomes abundantly clear that the screenwriters have considerably expanded Mrs. Tibbets into an even more shrewish, moronic, mouth-unmuzzled spouse.
What's worse, this impossible character is played all-stops-out by an always hysterical Parker, who yet manages the ritziest of costumes and the most impeccable grooming in the middle of the desert. Saddled with this sort of liability, Robert Taylor gives one of the glummest performances of his career.
The directors don't help any either. The handling is consistently pedestrian. Even when we finally get into the action material, any vicarious sympathy for the hero's predicament is undermined by flat- footed inserts of obvious stock footage.
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