Strategic Air Command (film)

Strategic Air Command
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAnthony Mann
Screenplay byValentine Davies
Beirne Lay Jr.
Story byBeirne Lay Jr.
Produced bySamuel J. Briskin
StarringJames Stewart
June Allyson
Frank Lovejoy
Bruce Bennett
Barry Sullivan
Alex Nicol
Jay C. Flippen
Harry Morgan
CinematographyWilliam H. Daniels
Edited byEda Warren
Music byVictor Young
Production
company
Paramount Pictures
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • March 25, 1955 (1955-03-25)
Running time
114 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$6.5 million (U.S. and Canada rentals)[1]

Strategic Air Command is a 1955 American military aviation film starring James Stewart and June Allyson, directed by Anthony Mann, and released by Paramount Pictures. It was the first of four Hollywood films that depicted the role of the Strategic Air Command in the Cold War era.

Strategic Air Command was the second film released in Paramount's new widescreen format, VistaVision, in color by Technicolor and Perspecta pseudo-stereo sound. It would also be Stewart and Mann's eighth and final collaboration and the last of three films that paired Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson, the others being The Stratton Story and The Glenn Miller Story.

  1. ^ "1955's Top Film Grossers". Variety. January 25, 1956. p. 1. Retrieved 2022-06-08 – via Archive.org.