One Minute to Zero

One Minute to Zero
Directed byTay Garnett
Written byWilliam Wister Haines
Milton Krims
Produced byEdmund Grainger
Howard Hughes
StarringRobert Mitchum
Ann Blyth
Charles McGraw
William Talman
CinematographyWilliam E. Snyder
Edited byRobert Belcher
Music byVictor Young
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Pictures
Release date
  • July 21, 1952 (1952-07-21) (US)[1]
Running time
105 minutes
CountryUnited States
Budget$2,181,000[2]
Box office$1.6 million (US rentals)[3]

One Minute to Zero is a 1952 American romantic war film starring Robert Mitchum and Ann Blyth, set during the opening phases of the Korean War, and produced by Howard Hughes as his last film as producer.[4] Victor Young's score for the film includes the first appearance of "When I Fall in Love", as the instrumental titled "Theme from One Minute to Zero". The film showcases the contributions of the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force, the South Korean Army, the United Nations, the British Army and the Royal Australian Air Force during the early days of the Korean War.[5] The effects of air power in the Korean War were also vividly depicted through the use of combat footage.

  1. ^ "One Minute to Zero: Detail View." American Film Institute. Retrieved: January 15, 2024.
  2. ^ Jewell and Harbin 1982, p. 262.
  3. ^ "Top Box-Office Hits of 1952." Variety, January 7, 1953.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference TCM article was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Appleman, Roy E. South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu (June–November 1950). Archived 2014-02-07 at the Wayback Machine Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, 1961.