Fighter Squadron (1948)
- Starring:
- Edmond O'Brien, Robert Stack, (more)
- Director(s):
- Raoul Walsh
Synopsis of Fighter Squadron
Excellent Technicolor photography, principally in the aerial scenes, is the main asset of the cliché-ridden Fighter Squadron. Set in the months just prior to D-Day, the plot zeroes in on Marjor Ed Hardin (Edmond O'Brien) leader of a squadron of fearless combat pilots. In keeping with the conventions of the era, the training and flying sequences are counterbalanced with comic byplay involving wheeler-dealer Sergeant Dolan (Tom D'Andrea), whose flippant attitudes towards the opposite sex are a bit hard to take today. Far more effective is the performance of 15-year-old Jack Larson, making his screen debut in the role of a rookie pilot who grows up in a hurry after scoring his first kill (Larson later gained TV immortality as Jimmy Olsen on Superman). Also making his first screen appearance, in a role so small it isn't even billed, is a former truck driver named Rock Hudson. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Fighter Squadron
- Edmond O'Brien - Maj. Ed Hardin
- John Rodney - Col. Bill Brickley
- Henry Hull - Brig. Gen. Mike McCready
- Walter Reed - Capt. Duke Chappell
- Arthur Space - Maj. Sanford
- William McLean - Pvt. Wilbur
- Joel Allen - Sentry
- Rock Hudson - Lieutenant
- Bill Cabanne - Control Tower Operator
- Jack Grant - Projectionist
- John Morgan - Gunner
- Gilchrist Stuart
- Jeff Richards - Captain
- Willy Wickerhauser
- Dick Paxton - Turret Gunner
- Robert Manning - Bomber Pilot
- Guy Kingsford - English Photographer
- Hallene Hill - Old Lady
- Robert Stack - Capt. Stu Hamilton
- Tom D'Andrea - Sgt. Dolan
- James Holden - Tennessee
- Shepperd Strudwick - Brig. Gen. M. Gilbert
- Jack Larson - Lt. "Shorty" Kirk
- Mickey McCardle - Jacobs
- Jean Fenwick - Lady Woodbine
- John McGuire - Maj. Duncan
- George Adrian - German Pilot
- Don Phillips - Lieutenant
- William Yetter, Jr.
- John Royce - German Radio Operator
- George Backus
- Patricia Northrup - Blonde Girl
- Harry McKim - Ball Turret Gunner
- Charles Lind - Beagle Operator
- Carl Harbaugh - Cockney
- Director(s):
- Raoul Walsh
- Writer(s):
- Seton Miller, Martin Rackin
- Producer(s):
- Seton Miller
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