Thunder Birds (1942 film)
1942 film by William A. Wellman / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Thunder Birds (subtitled "Soldiers of the Air" and also known as Thunderbirds) is a 1942 Technicolor film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, and John Sutton. It features aerial photography and location filming at an actual Arizona training base of the United States Army Air Forces named Thunderbird Field No. 1 during World War II.
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Directed by | William A. Wellman |
Screenplay by | Lamar Trotti |
Story by | Darryl F. Zanuck (as Melville Crossman) |
Produced by | Lamar Trotti |
Starring | Gene Tierney Preston Foster John Sutton Jack Holt Dame May Whitty |
Cinematography | Ernest Palmer |
Edited by | Walter Thompson |
Music by | David Buttolph |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | 20th Century Fox |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1,250,000 (US rentals)[1] |
The film was made as a propaganda vehicle to boost civilian morale,[2] while at the same time providing a look at training activities and promoting airpower as a means of winning the war. Wellman was himself a veteran of the U.S. Air Service as a World War I fighter pilot.