Command Decision Review
Sinopsis
America’s Flying Fortresses are marvels of airborne fury, raining hell in daring World War II bombing runs over Germany. When the Nazis develop a startling secret weapon-jet fighters- one determined U.S. general realizes that Allied victory depends on destroying the jet factories. Even if scores of Fortresses and their crews perish in the attempt. Even if the brass fights him every blood-soaked inch of the way. Clark Gable heads a top cast in this powerful insider’s look at the wrenching choices officers make in time of war. Based on the stage hit, Command Decision combines thrilling aerial pyrotechnics with tense war-room battles to create an indelible portrait of men whose judgment holds the power of life and death.
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Command Decision (1949) takes on the kind of questions that Hollywood could never have raised during the war--questions about the cruel responsibilities of command, including the responsibility to spend a great many lives to save thousands more in the future. In 1943, from an American airbase in the English countryside, a campaign of daylight bombardment is being waged against aircraft factories in Germany. For much of the way to their targets and back, the bombers are bereft of fighter escort and at the mercy of the Luftwaffe. The mortality rate is shocking--but perhaps, for reasons that are not widely known, necessary. Clark Gable (himself an air war veteran) plays the commandant who has to call the next day's target, and the film never leaves command HQ; the closest we get to combat is a scene of an untrained crewman trying to land a crippled plane. Command Decision is earnest but outshone by the similarly focused Twelve O'Clock High. The main problem is that it's based on--and essentially remains--a play, static in setting and schematic in its arguments. Still, those arguments should be heard. --Richard T. Jameson