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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569797048
Format: Black & White, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 05, 2007
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 13962
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1949-02
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
World War II drama that shows the battles - on and off the field - that a general must fight in order to win the war. General Casey of the US Forces in England must fight congressional representatives and his own chain of command to be allowed to complete an important mission. He must get his men's planes out during a small window of fair weather in order to prevent the Germans from making more military jet planes. Although the general knows the success of his plan could decide whether the Germans get the upper hand in the war it could also mean suicide for his men. Adapted from the William Wister Haines stage hit.Running Time: 111 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC Rating: NR UPC: 012569797048 Manufacturer No: 79704
Amazon.com:
Command Decision (1949) takes on the kind of questions that Hollywood could never have raised during the war--questions about the cruel responsibilities of command, including the responsibility to spend a great many lives to save thousands more in the future. In 1943, from an American airbase in the English countryside, a campaign of daylight bombardment is being waged against aircraft factories in Germany. For much of the way to their targets and back, the bombers are bereft of fighter escort and at the mercy of the Luftwaffe. The mortality rate is shocking--but perhaps, for reasons that are not widely known, necessary. Clark Gable (himself an air war veteran) plays the commandant who has to call the next day's target, and the film never leaves command HQ; the closest we get to combat is a scene of an untrained crewman trying to land a crippled plane. Command Decision is earnest but outshone by the similarly focused Twelve O'Clock High. The main problem is that it's based on--and essentially remains--a play, static in setting and schematic in its arguments. Still, those arguments should be heard. --Richard T. Jameson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Superb
Gable's best postwar effort. Gripping war film with superb supporting cast.
Neal Robertson
Rating:  - similar to 12 o'Clock High
Good movie if you like the older post WWII movies, especially if you liked 12 O'Clock high. Clark Gable is very good in this one.
Rating: - Stiff and Memorized!
While the story line is good, the acting is stiff and memorized. Van Johnson gives the best performance, playing the part of "top kick" sargent that I would want to have working for me. Walter Pidgeon and Clark Gable are just repeating their lines, until the end when Gable catches on to his character. This film doesn't come close to Twelve O'Clock High.
Rating:  - Good guys versus good guys in a battle about competing strategies. Clark Gable dominates in a fine cast
If anyone has any doubts about why Clark Gable was the alpha dog among Hollywood's leading men from the mid-Thirties through the Forties, Command Decision is the film to see. This all-male movie tells the story of Brigadier General Casey Dennis (Gable), who in 1943 unleashes Operation Stitch on three German cities where German jet fighters are being developed. These fighters, if produced in any quantity, will be able to sweep Allied fighters from the skies and give the Germans air superiority again. ... Read More
Rating: - Classic study in leadership
Another classic in leadership ... not as good as 12 O'Clock High ... but a close second.
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