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The Memphis Belle (1944)
Directed by William Wyler
“Fly and Fight with the Crew on an Actual Bombing Mission Over Germany!”
Documentary, War · 45m
This WW2 documentary centers on the crew of the American B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle as it prepares to execute a strategic bombing raid on Nazi submarine pens in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
Cast
V
Vince Evans
Himself
J
Jacob L. Devers
Himself (commander, European theatre)
I
Ira C. Eaker
Himself (commander, 8th Air Force)
H
Haywood Hansell
Himself (USAAF)
R
Robert J. Hanson
Himself (radio operator on The Memphis Belle)
E
Eugene Kern
Narrator
King George VI of the United Kingdom
Himself
C
Captain Charles B. Leighton
Himself (Navigator on the Memphis Belle)
H
Harold P. Loch
Himself (Engineer and top turret gunner on The Memphis Belle)
C
Casimer A. Nastal
Himself ( 19 year-old waist gunner on The Memphis Belle)
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Herself
J
John P. Quinlan
Himself
Crew
- Director
- William Wyler
- Writer
- Jerome Chodorov, Lester Koenig, William Wyler
- Director of Photography
- William H. Clothier, William Wyler, Harold J. Tannenbaum, William V. Skall
- Editor
- Lynn Harrison
Details
- Release date
- 1944-04-13
- Runtime
- 45m
- Genres
- Documentary, War
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- First Motion Pictures Unit US Army Air Forces, U.S. Office of War Information, Paramount Pictures