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Movie
Command Decision
Synopsis
Command Decision is a stagebound but consummately acted adaptation of William Wister Haines' Broadway play. Clark Gable, starring in the role essayed on Broadway by Paul Kelly, plays Air Force Brigadier General "Casey" Dennis. With time at a premium, Dennis sends waves of bomber squadrons into Germany to knock out the enemy's jet plane factories. Though Dennis seems utterly unconcerned about the fate of his pilots (even his superior officer Walter Pidgeon is appalled by the heavy losses), the audience knows that his duty is exacting a severe emotional toll on him. Thanks to pressure from a misguided US senator, "butcher" Dennis is replaced by the supposedly more humane Brian Donlevy. But Donlevy realizes that Gable's decisions were the correct ones, and he vows to continue his predecessor's "suicide missions".
Cast
- Clark Gable
- Walter Pidgeon
- Van Johnson
- Brian Donlevy
- Charles Bickford
- John Hodiak
- Edward Arnold
- Marshall Thompson
- Richard Quine
- Cameron Mitchell
- Clinton Sundberg
- Ray Collins
- Warner Anderson
- John McIntire
- Moroni Olsen
- John Ridgely
- Michael Steele
- Edward Earle
- Mack Williams
- James Millican
- Gregg Barton
- Bruce Cowling
- Sam Flint
- Don Haggerty
- Henry Hall
- Alvin Hammer
- Holmes Herbert
- John James
- Marten Lamont
- William Leicester
- William 'Bill' Phillips
- George Offerman
- Barry Nelson
- Cedric Gibbons
- Urie McLeary
- Harold F. Kress
- Harold Rosson
- Urie McCleary
- George Froeschel
- William Wister Haines
- William R. Laidlaw