| Above and Beyond | |
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| Directed by | Melvin Frank Norman Panama |
| Screenplay by | Melvin Frank Norman Panama Beirne Lay Jr. |
| Story by | Beirne Lay Jr. |
| Produced by | Melvin Frank Norman Panama |
| Starring | Robert Taylor Eleanor Parker James Whitmore |
| Cinematography | Ray June |
| Edited by | Cotton Warburton |
| Music by | Hugo Friedhofer |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Loew's Inc.[1] |
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Running time | 122 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,397,000[2] |
| Box office | $3,980,000[2] |
Above and Beyond is a 1952 American World War II film about Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr., the pilot of the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945.
Directed by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, it stars Robert Taylor as Tibbets and features a love story with Eleanor Parker as his wife. James Whitmore plays security officer William L. Uanna.The story of the dropping of the atomic bomb is treated as a docudrama,[3] with the film focusing on the relationship between Tibbets and his wife.[4]
- ^ Above and Beyond at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- ^ a b "The Eddie Mannix Ledger". Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study, Los Angeles.
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