Bombers B-52 is a 1957 Warner Bros CinemaScope

CinemaScope

CinemaScope was an anamorphic lens series used for shooting wide screen movies from 1953 to 1967. Its creation in 1953, by the president of 20th Century-Fox, marked the beginning of the modern anamorphic format in both principal photography and movie projection.The anamorphic lenses theoretically...

 film starring Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood, born Natalia Nikolaevna Zacharenko was an American film and television actress. After first working in films as a child, Wood became a successful Hollywood star as a young adult, receiving three Academy Award nominations before she was 25 years old.Wood began acting in movies at the...

, Karl Malden

Karl Malden

Karl Malden was an American actor. In a career that spanned more than seven decades, he performed in such classic films as A Streetcar Named Desire, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, On the Waterfront and One-Eyed Jacks...

, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., and Nelson Leigh

Nelson Leigh

Nelson Leigh was a prolific motion picture actor of the 1940s and 1950s.-Career:...

. It was directed by Gordon Douglas

Gordon Douglas

Gordon Douglas may refer to:*Gordon Douglas , American film director*Gordon Douglas , the first Western monk in Buddhism-See also:*Gordon K. Douglass, sailor*Gordon, Douglas County, Wisconsin...

, and was adapted from a story by Sam Rolfe

Sam Rolfe

Samuel Harris Rolfe was an American screenwriter best known for his work on 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Eleventh Hour, both on NBC.-Background:Rolfe was born in New York...

. The screenwriter was Irving Wallace

Irving Wallace

Irving Wallace was an American best-selling author and screenwriter. Wallace was known for his heavily researched novels, many with a sexual theme. One critic described him "as the most successful of all the many exponents of junk fiction perhaps because he took it all so seriously, not so say...

. Leonard Rosenman

Leonard Rosenman

Leonard Rosenman was an American film, television and concert composer.-Life and career:Leonard Rosenman was born in Brooklyn, New York. After service in the Pacific with the Army Air Forces in World War II, he earned a bachelor's degree in music from the University of California, Berkeley...

 composed the film score. The first choice for the lead was Tab Hunter

Tab Hunter

Tab Hunter is an American actor, singer, former teen idol and author who has starred in over forty major films.-Background:...

 who turned it down as he was tired of military roles. It was filmed at Castle Air Force Base

Castle Air Force Base

Castle Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force Strategic Air Command base located northeast of Atwater, northwest of Merced and about east southeast of San Francisco, California....

 and March Air Force Base California. It concerns the introduction of the B-52 Stratofortress

B-52 Stratofortress

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber operated by the United States Air Force since the 1950s. The B-52 was designed and built by Boeing, who have continued to provide maintainence and upgrades to the aircraft in service...

 to the Strategic Air Command

Strategic Air Command

The Strategic Air Command was both a Major Command of the United States Air Force and a "specified command" of the United States Department of Defense. SAC was the operational establishment in charge of America's land-based strategic bomber aircraft and land-based intercontinental ballistic...

 and the dilemma of a respected and experienced mechanic having to choose between the importance of life in the US Air Force or making a large amount of money in civilian life.

Plot

20 year USAF M/Sgt. Chuck Brennan (Malden) dislikes the 'hotshot' Lt. Col. Jim Herlihy (Zimbalist) and this career long problem interferes with flight operations and aircraft support. Brennan has not trusted Herlihy since an incident in the Korean War

Korean War

The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...

. When Herlihy dates Brennan' daughter Lois tensions grow. Story aircraft is the B-52 Stratofortress

B-52 Stratofortress

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber operated by the United States Air Force since the 1950s. The B-52 was designed and built by Boeing, who have continued to provide maintainence and upgrades to the aircraft in service...

 bomber of the 329th Bomb Squadron, Castle Air Force Base

Castle Air Force Base

Castle Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force Strategic Air Command base located northeast of Atwater, northwest of Merced and about east southeast of San Francisco, California....

, California

California

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.

Cast

Source: IMDB

• Natalie Wood
  Natalie Wood
  Natalie Wood, born Natalia Nikolaevna Zacharenko was an American film and television actress. After first working in films as a child, Wood became a successful Hollywood star as a young adult, receiving three Academy Award nominations before she was 25 years old.Wood began acting in movies at the...
  
   as Lois Brennan
• Karl Malden
  Karl Malden
  Karl Malden was an American actor. In a career that spanned more than seven decades, he performed in such classic films as A Streetcar Named Desire, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, On the Waterfront and One-Eyed Jacks...
  
   as Master Sergeant Chuck V. Brennan, Line Chief
• Marsha Hunt
  Marsha Hunt
  Marsha Hunt may refer to:* Marsha Hunt * Marsha Hunt...
  
   as Edith Brennan
• Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Lieutenant Colonel Jim Herlihy, Commanding Officer 329th Bomber Squadron
• Don Kelly
  Don Kelly
  Donald Joseph Kelly is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League for Torquay United.Don Kelly, a centre-forward born in Market Harborough, began his career as an amateur with Coventry City, but joined Torquay United for the resumption of league football in 1946...
  
   as Master Sergeant Darren McKine
• Nelson Leigh
  Nelson Leigh
  Nelson Leigh was a prolific motion picture actor of the 1940s and 1950s.-Career:...
  
   as Brig. General Wayne Acton, Commanding Officer Castle Air Force Base
• Robert Nichols
  Robert Nichols
  Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols was an English writer, known as a war poet of World War I, and a playwright....
  
   as Wilbur 'Brooklyn' Stuart
• Ray Montgomery
  Ray Montgomery
  Raymond James Montgomery is a retired Major League Baseball outfielder. He played during three seasons at the major league level for the Houston Astros. He was drafted by the Astros in the 13th round of the 1990 amateur draft...
  
   as Barnes
• Robert Hover as Simpson (as Bob Hover)