The Big Lift (1950)

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Filmed on location, The Big Lift is a reenactment of the Berlin airlift of 1948. Flexing their postwar muscles, the Russians blockade the Western sector, refusing to allow the Allies to ship supplies to the starving Berliners. From their headquarters at Templehof Airport, a group of courageous American flyers risk their lives to transport supplies by air. Paul Douglas plays a ground operations sergeant with several scores to settle (he had a hard time of it as a POW during the war), while Montgomery Clift costars as a pilot who inaugurates a doomed love affair with German girl Cornell Borchers. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Starring:: Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas, (more)

Director(s):: George Seaton

Format(s):: DVD
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Synopsis of The Big Lift

Theatrical Feature Running Time:: 120 mins

Complete Cast of The Big Lift

Montgomery Clift - Danny MacCullough
Cornell Borchers - Frederica Burkhardt
Bruni Loebel - Gerda

Paul Douglas - Hank Kowalski
O.E. Hasse - Stieber
Danny Davenport - Private

Director(s):: George Seaton

Writer(s):: George Seaton

Producer(s):: William Perlberg

Categories:: War, Action / Adventure

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Being a amateur historian and getting first hand stories from my father who was the crew chief on one of those planes like Clift portraited, I can say the movie was very realistic and romantic. Great movie if you want to get a flavor of what it was like post WWII.

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