Above and Beyond

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Above and Beyond ★★★ 1953

Good performance by Taylor as Col. Paul Tibbets, the man who piloted the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Focuses on the secrecy of the mission and the strain this puts on Tibbets marriage. Exciting action sequences of the mission itself. 122m/B VHS . Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating, Larry Gates, Robert Burton, Jim Backus, Marilyn Erskine, Steve (Stephen) Dunne, John Pickard, Hayden Rorke, Lawrence (Larry) Dobkin, Jack Raine, Jeff Richards, Barbara Ruick, Harlan Warde, John Close, Frank Gerstle, Dabbs Greer, Ewing Mitchell, Gregory Walcott, John Baer, Jona-thon Cott, Dick Simmons, John McKee, G. Pat Collins, John Hedloe, Mack Williams, Dorothy Kennedy; D: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama; W: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, Beirne Lay Jr.; C: Ray June; M: Hugo Friedhofer.