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    The film depicts the conflict between a brigadier general and the American military leadership after World War I. The general passionately advocates for the development of military aviation, leading to a trial in 1925. The plot focuses on the dramatic events of the trial and the general's call to recognize the importance of aviation in future military conflicts.
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  • @theredbaron1043
    @theredbaron1043 Před 5 měsíci +18

    The foresight of this man.
    A man before his time.

  • @garyjarvis2730
    @garyjarvis2730 Před 5 měsíci +190

    The movie points out the obvious incompetence of the military elite at the time. History bears out much of what Mitchell was stating. A well done version of how the military railroaded Mitchell with their pompous rules and regulations. It's actually amazing that we succeeded in the face of such stupidity. Thanks for sharing the video.

    • @howardjolley2215
      @howardjolley2215 Před 5 měsíci +36

      The worst of it is, it continues to today.

    • @kylewood8327
      @kylewood8327 Před 5 měsíci +20

      And it hasn’t changed much as stupidity still hails big today.

    • @Clydesirota
      @Clydesirota Před 5 měsíci +12

      @@howardjolley2215Yes, but the issue is much larger as the country becomes increasingly under the control of government and private bureaucracies e.g. elitist schools. And no IM NOT Maga I’m a very liberal liberal. Have faith and trust in American ability. Unfettered to as little a degree as possible by bureaucracies.

    • @garyteague9555
      @garyteague9555 Před 5 měsíci +11

      And stupidity still reigns supreme in our leadership

    • @user-bu2ro8vg8b
      @user-bu2ro8vg8b Před 5 měsíci +3

      Gosh let's every mid level military guy have unlimited funds to play about with his pet project and lie and steal military supplies to prove his point. Because he knows he is right. And deify the chain of command.... what could possibly go wrong. The rewriting of history is strong with this one.

  • @DrMatey215
    @DrMatey215 Před 5 měsíci +16

    I watched this movie a few years back. Gary Cooper presents a masterfully subtle performance. Based on a true story, it exemplifies one man's belief versus stalwart opposition to his vision of the future.

  • @bryantsmith3372
    @bryantsmith3372 Před 4 měsíci +8

    I was in the Civil Air Patrol as a cadet. One of our milestone awards is called the Billy Mitchell award for the rank C/2ndLT.

  • @jeffwilsonfhb
    @jeffwilsonfhb Před 5 měsíci +12

    My father, an Air Force colonel, loved this movie.

  • @anthonywaszkiewicz615
    @anthonywaszkiewicz615 Před 4 měsíci +11

    Rod Steiger the prosecutors expert assistant at the trial gets Best Actor award from me. Enjoyed this movie and cast.👍
    (Mitchell died in 1936 not in time to see his vindication five years later.
    But he is remembered now as the real founder of the modern American Air Force.)

    • @rescuepetsrule6842
      @rescuepetsrule6842 Před 4 měsíci +3

      Steiger was so good. I just rewatched two of his best, In The Heat of the Night and his phenomenal portrayal of a psychotic movie producer in The Big Knife (Ida Lupino/Jack Palance). He became the people he played and never got the credit he deserved.

  • @rtstrong
    @rtstrong Před 5 měsíci +9

    my god the cast in movie is absolutely star-studded.

  • @user-xy2bc9ms2c
    @user-xy2bc9ms2c Před 5 měsíci +11

    Any movie with Gary Cooper is a good movie, period! Some of the older actors made nothing but good movies, a very far cry from today. Billy Mitchell was a true American soldier, hero, icon .. men like him don't exist today, in my opinion. He was instrumental in procuring funding for the air corps and in honor of his many achievements, the B-25 "Mitchell" was named after him. That's another story in history. This is a good movie to watch if a person has an interest in this subject, there sure are a lot of familiar faces .. young faces .. in the cast!

    • @adamnoman4658
      @adamnoman4658 Před 5 měsíci +1

      I rather think that Cooper is miscast in this role: Col. Mitchell, aged 46, was a seemingly assured peacock of a military man with a chest full of medals, whereas Cooper's a rather tired-looking 54 here -- and he acts it.
      - -

    • @biglebowski5737
      @biglebowski5737 Před 5 měsíci +1

      Carry Pooper!

  • @nupagadii5834
    @nupagadii5834 Před 5 měsíci +10

    Great Movie and Actors....
    What a foresight that happened and still evolving to happen.... A Man with the VISION and vision of restrictions....

  • @robertcooper3491
    @robertcooper3491 Před 5 měsíci +7

    To those who don’t know…there is some great old films like this on utube at your convenience

  • @petepal55
    @petepal55 Před 5 měsíci +20

    It is NOT the duty of an officer to give unquestioned obedience, such a thing leads to things like the My Lai Massacre. Officers are expected to use their own judgment on whether their orders are legal, as are all other soldiers. The prosecutor is who's in the wrong.

  • @johnmack537
    @johnmack537 Před 5 dny +4

    Ah, this movie is actually titled “The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell”; 1955, staring Gary Cooper.

  • @robjus1601
    @robjus1601 Před 5 měsíci +4

    Wow what a great film. I can’t believe that this movie isn’t played on TV late at night.

  • @JonathanEzor
    @JonathanEzor Před 4 měsíci +11

    The proper title of this film is "The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell" from 1955, and that's a young Elizabeth (Bewitched) Montgomery as Margaret.

    • @michaelmahoney5251
      @michaelmahoney5251 Před 4 měsíci +1

      And Rod Stiger was a prosecuting attorney.

    • @johnstudd4245
      @johnstudd4245 Před 4 měsíci +1

      And Jack Lord, Mac garret of Hawaii 5 O. As the naval officer killed in a crash of an airship. That was Elizabeth Montgomery's first movie role. Two small roles in this film that would later be some of the biggest names in television. Also Peter Graves, and Darren McGavin, one of my personal favorites.

  • @andrewphillips8341
    @andrewphillips8341 Před 5 měsíci +10

    Based on true events, but . . . 'Hollywoodfied'. Still an enjoyable film, thanks for posting it.

  • @JohnDoe-ot3zd
    @JohnDoe-ot3zd Před 5 měsíci +8

    This is a great movie. Mitchell was a visionary long before it ever happened. Without him, we would have lost WWII had he had not fought for air power.

  • @freddixon
    @freddixon Před 5 měsíci +14

    Elizabeth Montgomery too ;

    • @xzqzq
      @xzqzq Před 5 měsíci +1

      She was nice, too. See my earlier comment.

  • @hurricane7950
    @hurricane7950 Před 5 měsíci +7

    For me this is the most interesting film I have watched for years. Based on a true story

  • @jbwentworthe6082
    @jbwentworthe6082 Před 2 dny +1

    The best take away from the diologue - " Think for yourself, and say what you think.". A piece of wisdom that seems to have gone missing in America today. Don't just blindly accept the Media's " spin" on world events. Go to at least 2 reputable authorities, outside the usual opinion makers, and listen to the independent voices.

  • @RoyatAvalonFarms
    @RoyatAvalonFarms Před 4 měsíci +3

    Wow, there were a lot of big names in this. Both real life men whose real contributions still resonate in our military today. And also a lot of great actors who went on to become big names in the big screen. I've heard about this movie for years and regrettably didnt get a chance to see it before now. Glad to finally watch it.

  • @brucekaraus7330
    @brucekaraus7330 Před 4 měsíci +12

    Darren McGavin, Jack Lord, Peter Graves, Elizabeth Montgomery. All future stars of the own TV shows. Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Hawaii Five O, Mission Impossible and Bewitched.

    • @laurenetemple-link5660
      @laurenetemple-link5660 Před 4 měsíci

      Hawaii50myUnclewroteepisodes4, PeterGraves"made"missionimpossable&bewhiched_wasthemostdemonicshowthatairedwheniwasakid..itwastheprecurcertothedemonshowsoftoday.

  • @lgaamr8192
    @lgaamr8192 Před 5 měsíci +3

    I love how Dimitri Tiomkin's music is instantly recognizable.

  • @fufutakorua5888
    @fufutakorua5888 Před 5 měsíci +11

    The court martial was unfair..Mr Mitchell was right all along

  • @Springbok295
    @Springbok295 Před 5 měsíci +6

    My father remembered being on deck of the Sub Tender Orion watching the Navy's brand new F2H Banshees making mock attack runs on the ships. The AA crews could hardly track their guns fast enough as the jets flew over. My father just shook his head knowing the ships were just floating targets.

  • @rickcoona
    @rickcoona Před 3 měsíci +10

    *fBilly Mitchel WAS RIGHT!* (and the Japanese heard him loud and Clear) Yamamoto was assigned to another tour in the United States, first as an aide to an admiral and then as a naval attaché in Washington (1926-28) so he was in DC when these events took place and he was a student at HARVARD from 1919 to 1921 Years later, as a naval attaché at the Japanese embassy in Washington, D.C. he would have been VERY aware of the Mitchel Sandal and the warnings that were posted in the newspapers at the time

    • @geronimo5537
      @geronimo5537 Před 3 měsíci +1

      I found the accusation that the Japanese would attack was a little reaching in the movie. But that is definitely the public knowledge that Yamamoto took inspiration from. Perhaps as a greater irony to the nation attacked. As well as a military man appreciating another who's nation would not listen to the obvious.

    • @rickcoona
      @rickcoona Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@geronimo5537 Yamamomo was an avid poker player according to those who knew him at Harvard so it is quite plausible they he would have played poker with the navy and army guys as they did run in similar social circles at the time.

  • @ScoutSniper3124
    @ScoutSniper3124 Před 4 měsíci +7

    There has always been resistance to military genius. Why I myself as a young Sailor put in a Request Chit to "Paint Hanger 1 at Moffett Field California a Light Golden Brown, so as to disguise it as a large Hostess Twinkie from the air". Of course, the short-sighted leaders in the command rejected my request.
    I feel for you Billy Mitchell, I understand your frustrations.

  • @maytagmark2171
    @maytagmark2171 Před 5 měsíci +8

    Using the arguments that Major Allen Gullion used in regards to obedience to duty and to unquestioningly obeying orders he would have been an excellent Defense Attorney for every defendant at the Post WW2 Nuremberg trials.

  • @stevenrussell5340
    @stevenrussell5340 Před 5 měsíci +11

    The Margarette charactor at 13:00 is Elizebeth Montgomery of Bewitched.

  • @jerlewis4291
    @jerlewis4291 Před 3 měsíci +9

    Billy Mitchell did predict Japan attacking the United States after touring Japan in 1910 due to the lack of resources. He also predicted rockets (V1-V2) to attack cities in future wars

  • @douglasdunlop9156
    @douglasdunlop9156 Před 5 měsíci +6

    Rod Stager towards the end blew my mind

  • @butziporsche8646
    @butziporsche8646 Před měsícem +3

    Loved this entire cast. Ralph Bellamy, Peter Graves, Elizabeth Montgomery, and most of the rest. Fred Clark was great in Twilight Zone.

  • @lornehargis2614
    @lornehargis2614 Před 3 měsíci +1

    What a cast. What a story. How accurate his insight was.

  • @clarkabrpi3428
    @clarkabrpi3428 Před 5 měsíci +7

    A very good movie. Gary Cooper is at his best in this movie.

  • @kongu1969
    @kongu1969 Před měsícem +4

    Wow! Superb movie. Old is always gold

    • @user-hz7xc1xw6u
      @user-hz7xc1xw6u Před 25 dny

      Except Biden, he is silver, thirty pieces to be exact.

  • @stjbananas
    @stjbananas Před 5 měsíci +6

    Wow, what a movie! Thank you for the upload!

  • @user-vr7eh5zf9b
    @user-vr7eh5zf9b Před 5 měsíci +10

    Shows the udder incompetence of our military leaders of that time, unfortunately their names have been lost to history, their names should forever be used to describe failure and incompetence.

    • @marbleman52
      @marbleman52 Před 5 měsíci +1

      @user-vr7eh5zf9b....I am not quite sure who you are referring to, but the military leaders of that time who were against Mitchell's ideas are well known. If you want to listen to a good factual account of the life of Billy Mitchell, I suggest you look up a CZcamsr : Ward Carroll. He is a retired navy F-14 backseat navigator, weapons officer and has a great channel. Mr. Carroll just did a factual episode about Billy Mitchell and his court Martial.

    • @xzqzq
      @xzqzq Před 5 měsíci +1

      I still don't understand how the military was caught flat-footed at Pearl Harbor in 1941, since the a Japanese attack was a virtual repeat on their attack on the Russians in 1905.

    • @andrew3203
      @andrew3203 Před 3 měsíci

      @@xzqzq , when at peace, a surprise attack has a big chance. USA was not at war, there was a group of planes expected to return to Hawaii around that time, so no radar alert, etc.
      Doesn't compare at all with 1905, except in strategical consideration of crippling the nearest fleet so Japan obtains time to achieve the land offensive without naval problems, then deal with the second fleet, etc. But while Russia lost 2 fleets and peaced out, USA lost hundreds of ships in WW2 and built thousands more.

  • @thomassmythe8258
    @thomassmythe8258 Před 5 měsíci +13

    The swamp has been around for a long time. The good lord blesses America with men like this from time to time.

    • @KR72534
      @KR72534 Před 3 měsíci

      It wasn’t the swamp that failed America in the 1930s; it was the isolationists, the Trump voters of that time.

    • @KR72534
      @KR72534 Před 3 měsíci

      He who doesn’t learn from history is doomed to repeat it.

    • @KR72534
      @KR72534 Před 3 měsíci

      The swamp protects you. trump wants to return to rule by the rich with no “swamp” to protect us.

    • @KR72534
      @KR72534 Před 3 měsíci

      What us the swamp. It is the law and regulatory regime that Trump wants to destroy so that he will have total power. The choice is America or TRUMP.

  • @TXGRunner
    @TXGRunner Před 4 měsíci +6

    As others pointed out, the actual title is "The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell," 1955. IMDB doesn't even list "Skyward Rebellion" as an alternate title in some markets.

    • @eaglesfly5236
      @eaglesfly5236 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Would you prefer the correct title and NOT available on YT?

  • @skyedog24
    @skyedog24 Před 3 měsíci +10

    They laughed at him when he said that submarines would attack Pearl harbor or we would be attacked by the Japanese😊😅😂.
    It's only fitting that the only aircraft capable of making it to Japan in order to make a retaliatory first strike on the Homeland was the b-25 Mitchell piloted by Dolittle 🇺🇸👍

    • @narajuna
      @narajuna Před 3 měsíci +2

      Yeah even TOP Brass can be very obtuse, traitorous to but own ego before Country safety.

  • @frankroberts9320
    @frankroberts9320 Před 4 měsíci +5

    The actor playing General Douglas MacArthur (Dayton Lummis) is the spitting image of him.

  • @johnmclachlan1023
    @johnmclachlan1023 Před 4 měsíci +8

    I liked the irony of a Japanese officer watching ths battleship test.

    • @bruanlokisson8615
      @bruanlokisson8615 Před 3 měsíci +2

      I think they did that on purpose, to show that Japan took air power very seriously.

  • @geertdecoster5301
    @geertdecoster5301 Před 4 měsíci +4

    Oh what a great actor Rod Steiger was!

  • @1Rabble-Rouser
    @1Rabble-Rouser Před 2 měsíci +5

    "The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell" 1955..... 👏

  • @kevincozens6837
    @kevincozens6837 Před 3 měsíci +4

    There is a scene in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Picard says, "There are times, sir, when men of good conscience cannot blindly follow orders."

  • @m.w.wilson234
    @m.w.wilson234 Před 4 měsíci +8

    @1:07:50 Did anyone else notice that the pilots, Billy Mitchell and Hap Arnold, are not wearing the high collar uniform but instead the fold-down collar with dress shirt and necktie because the high collar rubbed the neck raw on pilots in the cockpit when they looked around (this was before the radar days)?

  • @kevinpittman2517
    @kevinpittman2517 Před 5 měsíci +7

    love these classics

  • @benediktmorak4409
    @benediktmorak4409 Před 2 měsíci +8

    And he was right about Pearl Harbor.
    He was right about the Japanese.
    And that planes will fly faster then sound..
    A sad story this trial. many a dead could have been averted, had those blockheads just listened.

  • @trevorgale1176
    @trevorgale1176 Před 5 měsíci +9

    Darren Mcgavin, Night Stalker, awesome.

  • @bigpeeler
    @bigpeeler Před 5 měsíci +5

    Thank you very much for the movie. 👍

  • @davidyoung5114
    @davidyoung5114 Před 5 měsíci +10

    You have to think that Mitchell got the last laugh at those who court martialed him, as decades later, the B-25 bomber was nick-named after him, which was the bomber that was chosen for the incredibly dangerous Doolittle Raid of April, 1942!

    • @389383
      @389383 Před 5 měsíci

      Chuckling in the cemetery.

  • @pinetree9343
    @pinetree9343 Před 2 měsíci +8

    We need a billy Mitchell today

  • @76rjackson
    @76rjackson Před 5 měsíci +2

    Interesting movie. The matters of human imperfection it highlights make it kind of timeless.

  • @rogerbarnstead7194
    @rogerbarnstead7194 Před měsícem +4

    did you see that little Japanese officer taking notes? You can bet he knew Billy was right.

  • @alec2726
    @alec2726 Před 5 měsíci +4

    Such great actors!

  • @watchgoose
    @watchgoose Před 24 dny +10

    The real name of this film is The Court Martial of BIlly Mitchell. The man was ahead of his time.

    • @terryrussel523
      @terryrussel523 Před 15 dny +1

      WAY ahead . . . ! And like most all prophets, despised in his own 'village'.

  • @doraldeddy1836
    @doraldeddy1836 Před 4 měsíci +6

    Thoroughly enjoyed this film. Thought Cooper and Steiger were good. Thanks👍👍👍

  • @johnwaller2886
    @johnwaller2886 Před 5 měsíci +3

    As Warden Hodges said in an episode of Dads Army;- "I knew it was some PERISHING General!!!".

  • @PaymaanJafari
    @PaymaanJafari Před měsícem +6

    This is "The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell" (1955)

    • @robertwilliams533
      @robertwilliams533 Před měsícem

      Thanks for pointing that out. This leaving off of tiles and credits is teally annoying. I think you would agree.

  • @dabigkahunacatfish2992
    @dabigkahunacatfish2992 Před 3 měsíci +3

    AMAZING!! This movie is exactly like "The Cort-Marshel of Billy Mitchell", now isn't that something?

  • @warriorqueen1609
    @warriorqueen1609 Před 7 dny +2

    EXCELLENT MOVIE!!!!! GREAT ACTÒRS!!

  • @maggiealena
    @maggiealena Před měsícem +4

    The military of all the branches has changed in many ways for the betterment of the services. Much of this change was brought about by men and women like William Michael. Our nation will always owe a great debt to these people that take duty to this nation above all else. duty, honor, country.

  • @d-day67
    @d-day67 Před 5 měsíci +14

    Just goes to show that courts have never been just or seeking the truth, and that power/money corrupts.

  • @BlackAdam1231
    @BlackAdam1231 Před 5 měsíci +3

    Stellar cast

  • @danielgregg2530
    @danielgregg2530 Před 5 měsíci +4

    What a cast!

  • @David_B_Dornburg
    @David_B_Dornburg Před 4 měsíci +5

    I had no idea there was a movie made with Samantha Stevens, Carl Kolchak, Jim Phelps and John Robinson in it. 😁👍

    • @user-db6og8rl3s
      @user-db6og8rl3s Před 4 měsíci +4

      Don't forget "Hawaii Five-O"Jack Lord and "Mission Impossible" Peter Graves

    • @fokkerd3red618
      @fokkerd3red618 Před 4 měsíci

      Elizabeth Montgomery was one hot tamale.

  • @Judokast36
    @Judokast36 Před 4 měsíci +7

    Incredible that this is very true, air power was fought against over and over, basically only Japan took it seriously for oceans and Germany took it serious for their blitzkrieg. America had to fight for every millimeter of invention for the airpower and only once war actually broke out MAJOR improvements were made at breakneck speed. The British had some good luck with their engines and built good airframes around it, but they were an island nation and threw money into it where other allied powers wouldn't.

    • @redskindan78
      @redskindan78 Před 3 měsíci +1

      USN had built eight aircraft carriers by December, 1941, if we include Hornet. She was working up in the Chesapeake from Norfolk. Our navy had kept up a steady evolution of aircraft, something the Royal Navy had not been able to do during nearly 20 years when the RAF controlled all British aircraft procurement. Like Billy Mitchell, the RAF thought that aircraft carriers were unimportant. The RAF did, however, work hard at developing fighter planes, like the magnificent 8-gun Hurricane, the fighter that won the Battle of Britain. After 1938, the Fleet Air Arm had to rebuild itself almost from scratch. If Mitchell had had his way, the USN would have been as far behind as the FAA had been in 1939.

  • @evilborg
    @evilborg Před 3 měsíci +6

    Movie real name is "The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell"

  • @johnvargo5695
    @johnvargo5695 Před 5 měsíci +3

    Excellent

  • @donnarainville2256
    @donnarainville2256 Před 24 dny +1

    EXCELLENT MOVIE. LOVED THE MOVIE . LOVED THAT BILLY FOUGHT FOR WHAT HE BELIEVED.👍🙏🇨🇦

  • @mjfieldsjr
    @mjfieldsjr Před 4 měsíci +7

    ... The letter dated December 14th 1923 ( Timestamp: 1:26:32 ) predicted the Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

  • @tommysimmons5266
    @tommysimmons5266 Před 5 měsíci +8

    This takes place in 1925. Just think 25-30 years later starting the test flights for breaking the sound barrier.

    • @maytagmark2171
      @maytagmark2171 Před 5 měsíci +2

      That 30 years later would be American efforts to break the sound barrier. The Germans we already making those attempts before and during the war. And Germany had entered space (the first to do so) during the war with their V missiles that were exceeding the speed of sound.

    • @flybobbie1449
      @flybobbie1449 Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@maytagmark2171 Well sound barrier already broken the V-2 rockets.

    • @maytagmark2171
      @maytagmark2171 Před 5 měsíci

      I said that.
      @@flybobbie1449

  • @Humbertusmarius
    @Humbertusmarius Před 5 měsíci +2

    So many familiar faces in this movie, just younger than I remembered!

  • @ridgesail
    @ridgesail Před 4 měsíci +3

    Incredible how green and park like the scenes were of old D.C. by the Reflecting Pool.

  • @ashwinimishra9936
    @ashwinimishra9936 Před 4 měsíci +1

    One of the finest I have seen in my Life as War Movies. The present state of sir power and supremacy is certainly the greatest commendation for the centric idea.

  •  Před 4 měsíci +10

    Today, Mitchell would be protected as whistleblower and cherished.
    But Secretary of Defense has denied his posthumous promotion as late as in '40-s - well after his opinions were avenged, well after B-25 was named after him.
    This movie puts forward the exemplary man, who put his integrity and the values of the service above his career and personal matters.

    • @redskindan78
      @redskindan78 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Baloney. Mitchell was wrong every which way. For one, he opposed aircraft carriers.

    • @christophercoupe5006
      @christophercoupe5006 Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@redskindan78 Why would oppose carriers if he foresaw Japan using them?

    • @redskindan78
      @redskindan78 Před 4 měsíci

      I'm not sure what you mean. Mitchell argued that the US did not need carriers because long range bombers could protect the continental US against any enemy. Could the USAAF B-17 force have protected Pearl Harbor against the Japanese Strike Force? @@christophercoupe5006

    • @MarkFranklin-ws5jf
      @MarkFranklin-ws5jf Před 4 měsíci

      Baloney sandwiches! Your certainly WackoDan,not redskindan

    • @redskindan78
      @redskindan78 Před 4 měsíci

      Mitchell did not foresee anyone using aircraft carriers. The USN, the IJN, and the RN (against hostility from the RAF) believed in aircraft carriers. How many Japanese warships did the B-17 sink? A movie is not meant to be a history book. Mitchell firmly believed in high-level long-range bombers@@christophercoupe5006

  • @Davy.J.Y
    @Davy.J.Y Před 16 dny

    This movie is fantastic !

  • @Military-Museum-LP
    @Military-Museum-LP Před 5 měsíci +9

    This film is packed with stars!

    • @vincejackson730
      @vincejackson730 Před 5 měsíci +2

      Then I recommend Dive Bomber (1940). Error Flynn, Fred McMurray, Ralph Belamy and a very young USS Enterprise in her only pre-war appearance on color film.

    • @Military-Museum-LP
      @Military-Museum-LP Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@vincejackson730. Thank you. I will definitely look for this.

    • @Military-Museum-LP
      @Military-Museum-LP Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@vincejackson730. I don’t know all their real names but Samantha from bewitched, Steve from Hawaii 5 O, the older duke brother from Trading places, its just a few faces. I’ve never seen a more star packed film that this.

    • @vincejackson730
      @vincejackson730 Před 5 měsíci +1

      @1-st-CAV Then you will have a treat. Watch It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Full of comedic legends. Jerry Lewis, Milton Berle, The Three Stooges (with Curly Joe), to name a few.

    • @kurtgodel5236
      @kurtgodel5236 Před 5 měsíci

      @@vincejackson730 Error Flynn

  • @rescuepetsrule6842
    @rescuepetsrule6842 Před 4 měsíci +10

    How sick is it that the man that predicted the cowardly Pearl Harbor attack got booted from his Army. MacArthur was already showing his true colors, and Pershing was the epitome of a stiff old man living in the past. RIP, GENERAL Mitchell!

    • @redskindan78
      @redskindan78 Před 4 měsíci

      Mitchell did NOT predict Pearl Harbor. The USN had practiced bombing Pearl in several Fleet Problems before WW2. The Royal Navy did it to the Italian fleet at Taranto. Mitchell opposed aircraft carriers, and would have take all the aircraft from the US Navy.

    • @Anashadk
      @Anashadk Před 4 měsíci

      All military get their behaviour from past experiances. Things are little better today. Aircraft carriers are ok if you target a non-peer enemy, but any nuclear power can rid the earth of all aircraft carriers in one day, and I might add, that Ukraine has shown that non-peer countries, can also fight against modern navies now.

    • @redskindan78
      @redskindan78 Před 4 měsíci

      Think about WW2. Mitchell's long range high-level bombers never hit a moving warship. The Japanese Betts hit PoW and Repulse with torpedoes. The B-17s were useless againist the Japanese navy. @@Anashadk

  • @venussky4677
    @venussky4677 Před měsícem +1

    Great Movie ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @rogernemos795
    @rogernemos795 Před 4 měsíci +3

    There are many messages going out from this excellent movie. The ethics of military men is the most important. The obeyence is also very important for an army. Anyway, the US Army is the Army of a leading country in this era. We wish to that country, those congressmen, that Army to work for the ethics and the piece of this world. To lead as the good example, preserving world piece. The world needs ethics, let's give this meaning its gravity. May Good bless the leaders and inspire the total example, to be as it has to be, full of light, and less of darkness. For a better world!

  • @otahu26
    @otahu26 Před měsícem +1

    This Movies Shows You can do everything write in the normal Code of Faith and History will reward those with legendary stories.

  • @glorybound7599
    @glorybound7599 Před 4 hodinami

    Billy Mitchell was a visionary and a great patriotic leader.

  • @thomasreed8259
    @thomasreed8259 Před měsícem +5

    Should have been Re-enstated as a 4 star general

  • @donalddangerfield8064
    @donalddangerfield8064 Před měsícem +5

    Kinda ironic hat it was Mitchell bombers that the Doolittle Raiders flew to Japan to make the first American attack on Japan itself

    • @halojump123
      @halojump123 Před 27 dny +1

      I’ll bet very few people even know what U a talking about. I’ve ran into kids who have no idea about the USS Oklahoma or the USS Missouri.

  • @carmenfoote7999
    @carmenfoote7999 Před 2 měsíci +9

    It wasn't so much of a trial, but more of a kangaroo court. Mitchel lost, but proved to be right in the end. Joe S

  • @Yalnif5200
    @Yalnif5200 Před 2 měsíci +5

    Nothing has changed in all the years since that trial.

  • @Pentonavalsolutions
    @Pentonavalsolutions Před 4 měsíci +1

    Un visionario!!!

  • @shawnnelson6146
    @shawnnelson6146 Před 4 měsíci +5

    Post WW1 budget shrinkage was a real issue, branches of the military (interwar era) had budgets cut so low the military could scarsely operate.
    Then you got the riots from the 1932 Bonus Army

    • @rescuepetsrule6842
      @rescuepetsrule6842 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Which gave the monster known as MacArthur a chance to storm in shooting everything up, an act he bragged about later. In WWI, nobody wanted to sign up after hearing what carnage was taking place. Our Gov. lied and promised the bonuses- one of our greatest shames. It never stops, either.

  • @gallagjg
    @gallagjg Před 2 měsíci +6

    1:26:10 “… you seem to write that Pearl Harbor has no adequate defense against air defense”. 😂

  • @novakva
    @novakva Před 3 měsíci +1

    What a visionary

  • @MrSheckstr
    @MrSheckstr Před 5 měsíci +7

    The “i write two letter a week (or is it day) sometimes two reminds me of the movie shawshank redemption with Andy trying to inprove the prison library…. Wonder if this movie is where Stephen King got the idea

  • @lindaweber5599
    @lindaweber5599 Před 3 měsíci +7

    Gary Cooper is the perfect every man hero.
    He can take it.

  • @robertahall4960
    @robertahall4960 Před měsícem +6

    An excellent movie. Thank you! Typical and a rotten shame what was done to Col. Mitchell. I will have to look up & see how close this movie came to the truth. Greetings from Canada!

    • @fred1barb
      @fred1barb Před měsícem +1

      50-50 facts and entertainment

    • @nedhill1242
      @nedhill1242 Před měsícem +1

      General Mitchell and his predictions were correct. You have heard of Pearl Harbor and December 7, 1941?

    • @fred1barb
      @fred1barb Před měsícem +2

      @@nedhill1242 Gosh do you mean that harbor that is so popular with Japanese tourists where some Navy ships accidentally sank on December 7th? I was an Army aviator with a tour in Vietnam and I am familiar with the consequences that budgetary decisions, training doctrine and interservice rivalry can have for troops in combat. I am also by education and experience tolerably familiar with how large organizations tend to work. The Army is not a 100% top down organization, but it tends to require its officers to observe discipline, to follow orders and regulations. Then and now it is an offense use "contemptuous speech" against the President, elected state officials, and superior officers. Service members are limited in their freedom to make public comments on a range of topics.
      Mitchel was as bound by these rules as an PFC, He chose to disobey orders and to break the rules. What he should have done was to resign first.
      A man can be right, as he was, but still be wrong in the way he goes about selling his ideas, as he was. As a general officer, he knew better.
      The movie has has almost all of the details of the sinking of the battleship wrong. The Army adopted parachutes around the end of WW1. Plus many more plot devices added for storytelling.

    • @elizabethmartin4328
      @elizabethmartin4328 Před měsícem

      Go Canadians ! ! !

  • @cdrocrossdiscovery
    @cdrocrossdiscovery Před 4 měsíci +5

    I thought I saw Jack Lord in a cameo. Peter Graves and Darren McGavin? This film is overloaded with future stars.

    • @geoffreydavisiii7678
      @geoffreydavisiii7678 Před 4 měsíci +1

      You did! As that Lt. Commander in Pajamas.

    • @markroeder2491
      @markroeder2491 Před 4 měsíci +4

      Was that Elizabeth Montgomery, Margaret the wife of Zach the naval officer from Washington D.C.?

    • @cdrocrossdiscovery
      @cdrocrossdiscovery Před 4 měsíci

      I think you're right!@@markroeder2491

    • @ictpilot
      @ictpilot Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@markroeder2491Yes.

    • @carltonstidsen8806
      @carltonstidsen8806 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Jack Lord was "Commander Lansdowne" in the first scene

  • @STho205
    @STho205 Před 5 měsíci +7

    I always liked this movie, and it is a showcase for a lot of up and coming stars of the 60s and 70s...however even as a kid I knew this was a PR piece for the relatively new USAF in 1955. A force only broken out as a seperate department 8 years before....the same year the Department of Defense and the Joint Chiefs were founded.
    Mitchell's memory is used as a martyred Nostradomus of US military foresight...and the eventual wisdom post WW2 of the creation of the DOD and USAF...as well as the security agencies like the CIA. Such other movies came out in the mid 50s too.
    As to history...it is sorta right, with a lot of time compression and fictional encounters or soliloquies. A lot of Mitchell's predictions are compressed into 1925 or before, but they are taken from letters and press interviews as a civilian all the way up to his death in the mid 30s.
    The Japanese attack was predicted in that decade not the 20s. It was already a concern of the Navy and Army as Japan had greatly expanded their aircraft carrier fleet...as did we (even without Billy Mitchell's guidance). Japan had also started alliance talks with Germany by then and was engaged in empire expansion.

    • @MicMc539
      @MicMc539 Před 5 měsíci +1

      QUOTE. ''Japan had also started alliance talks with Germany by then and was engaged in empire expansion.''
      That would be from a Yank textbook I take it?
      In 50 years of study I've seen NOTHING to suggest that, (please cite if you can).
      Hitler was more surprised than the Yanks by Pearl Harbor, that's a verifiable fact.
      Hitler finally declared War on the U.S.on December 11th, because FDR was too gutless/greedy/immoral to.
      (FDR wanting the U.S. to continue profiting from both Warring sides, just like today's U.S. supplying Ukraine weapons while still buying Russian Oil and Uranium)
      FDR and his Japanese Oil embargo made sure the Japanese had no option but to take the Dutch East Indies Oil fields/neutralize Pearl Harbor.
      Thus FDR (inadvertently and amateurishly) dragged the Yanks into another European War attempting to stop the Japanese Economic/Military expansion into S.E.Asia.
      I can understand why the Yanks keep going back to the Last War they 'Won'.
      It was the high point of their Military Prowess and strength, since followed by near 80 years of loss, shame, humiliation, War Crimes and Global ridicule.
      It also explains the U.S. current Political/ Strategic missteps and madness.
      ''Having been shamefully late to the last two World Wars, the Yanks are determined to be early for the next.''
      Peace.

    • @STho205
      @STho205 Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@MicMc539 quite a diatribe...but Japan started alliance discussions with Germany in 1935.

    • @MicMc539
      @MicMc539 Před 5 měsíci

      @@STho205 ''Some guy on the Internet'' is your cite?
      Dumbocracy in action.
      Peace.

    • @romad357
      @romad357 Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@MicMc539 The Tripartite Pact (a.k.a. "The Pact of Steel") between Germany, Italy, and Japan was signed in Berlin on September 27, 1940. Hitler declared war on these United States on December 11, 1941 because of this pact.

    • @MicMc539
      @MicMc539 Před 5 měsíci

      @@romad357
      Germany's attack on Poland, Italy's attack on Libya, and Japan's attack on the U.S. and British/Dutch Empires all occurred without ANY co-ordination between members of the Tripartite Pact.
      None.
      Regarding Japans attack, Hitler preferred to keep the U.S. neutral in Europe and advised the Japs to negotiate, which they did until the Yanks left them no choice.
      You must know (unlike the OP), the Yanks considered the Brits as their only Naval opponent all through the 1920's-30's?
      Screwing the Japanese seriously started after 3 September 1939 and finally paid off 7 December 1941.

  • @JRRodriguez-nu7po
    @JRRodriguez-nu7po Před 3 měsíci +6

    Pershing in particular was a terrible commander that put politics and personal advantage over the lives of his men. Today a movie like this cannot be made because of "The Message" would demand a rewrite of history.

  • @rexbentley8332
    @rexbentley8332 Před 5 měsíci +10

    If man were meant to fly, God would have given him more money.

    • @robertroberto2487
      @robertroberto2487 Před 5 měsíci +1

      If Man Was Ment To Fly..The Divine Would Have Given Him Wings.

    • @downedaviator
      @downedaviator Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@robertroberto2487 By Means Of Aeroplanes.

  • @stinkeye460
    @stinkeye460 Před 5 měsíci +5

    One of the lessons we should learn from this movie, also Spitfire starring Leslie Howard and David Niven, is conventional wisdom is usually wrong. If it can be dreamed it can be invented. Militarily speaking this is why DARPA was established. One of the reasons the MOSSAD is so successful is because they are open to ideas that most intelligence agencies would consider insane.

    • @ianmcsherry5254
      @ianmcsherry5254 Před 5 měsíci +2

      Apart from them completely failing to note HAMAS preparing for an attack and sitting twiddling their thumbs - despite observers at the border repeatedly informing them of exercises and prep to breach the border en masse. Those observers lost their lives. Maybe they just let it happen, eh?

  • @stenmoeller
    @stenmoeller Před 4 měsíci +4

    There is a reason I despise many lawyers and old has-beens. We all know they were wrong and Mitchell right. When will they ever learn?

    • @pete9501
      @pete9501 Před 4 měsíci

      Only after a bloody disaster.

  • @pingpong5000
    @pingpong5000 Před 5 měsíci +11

    Good film about a great patriot, shame they start the film showing an aircraft that did not exist until a decade later, the Curtis SOC Seagull did not enter service until 1934, seems the US film industry shows the same disdain to historical accuracy as the US military elite did to their heroic servicemen and women.

    • @brianmorris8045
      @brianmorris8045 Před 5 měsíci +4

      What this and similar films did show, was the 'old fuddy duddies' in the army, and navy, who couldn't see progress with the idea of air support. Fortunately there were people like Mitchell who had great vision for the air service.