Interesante film de estrategia militar con destacada actuación de sus personajes. Posee sus méritos, pero es una trama demasiado pasiva con muy pocas escenas de acción, especialmente de aviación. La calidad de imagen en blanco y negro es excelente y la opción a idioma español es un valor agregado.

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Buena pelicula sobre la dureza del mando

Revisado en España el 7 de diciembre de 2013

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Una buena pelicula sobre la guerra de la 8ª fuerza aerea, y la dureza d elos bombarderos diurnos de la II WW sobre alemania, reflejando la dureza de la toma de decisiones del mando. Edicion simple, sin extras reseñables

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Janet Johnson

Arrived promptly in good condition!

Revisado en Canadá el 1 de mayo de 2021

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Its great to have this classic movie for my Dad!

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Darth Maciek

M-A-S-T-E-R-P-I-E-C-E! Together with "Twelve o'clock high" this is probably the BEST film about air war against Third Reich!

Revisado en Reino Unido el 1 de octubre de 2014

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I was greatly impressed and fascinated with this film, from the first to the last minute. Below, more of my impressions, with some limited SPOILERS.

IMPORTANT PRECISION: this is a Region 1 NTSC DVD - it will NOT play on standard European Region 2 PAL equipement.

1943, England. We are at the beginning of the really serious American effort in the air war against Third Reich. At that time the long range fighters were not yet available to the allies and therefore the bombers had to go over the Reich unescorted - and as result the whole year 1943 was a time of terrible, heart-breaking losses amongst USAAF crews. In the very first scene we learn that American Eighth Air Force just lost a record 48 bombers shot, which also means the loss of 480 men, when attacking just one undisclosed industrial target (that actually is a reference to the very real and extremely tragic Schweinfurt Raid on 17 April 1943). Those numbers cause of course a shock amongst the brass and even more, a major political tremor. And then the film begins...

Another person reviewing this film (bkoganbing from Buffalo, NY, on IMDB site) described it as the "analysis of political process of a military decision" - and even if I usually try to avoid borrowing from other reviewers, here I simply have no choice, because that phrase is just THE perfect summary of this most excellent film.

In "Command decision" we can see three generals, three congressmen, two journalists and a lot of subaltern officers involved in a dramatic debate about planning and executing an important bombing campaign. The debate however is also about the consequences this campaign will have for all involved, beginning with aircrews who will risk their lives and ending with politicians who will have to answer for the success or failure and the price attached to either before public opinion...

Quite logically the main characters are the three generals:

- Major General Kane (Walter Pidgeon), is the highest ranking person involved as he is the main military co-ordinator and commander of the whole American air effort against Germany; being the number one he is also the main target for all the trouble and therefore, other than being just a military leader, he is also politically savvy - in fact maybe even a little bit too much... Walter Pidegon played this character PERFECTLY!

- Brigadier General "Casey" Dennis (Clark Gable), is at the beginning of the film the main front line commander (and therefore subaltern to Kane), as it is his 5th Bomb Division which essentially carries the missions against Germany; with American losses getting higher and higher, Dennis, a man initially considered as having a brilliant future, finds himself in fact in deep, deep trouble... Gable is absolutely grandiose in this role - not the least because he knew the topic; indeed, during World War II he joined USAAF and flew five actual bombing missions in a B-17 over Germany...

- Brigadier General Clifton Garnet (Brian Donlevy), a friend and West Point classmate of Dennis but also very much involved in politics, is at the beginning a kind of wild card, as he just arrived from USA and we learned that he was send to England by Pentagon with some mission which initially is a secret... I will not say more here, but he ultimately is maybe the most important and most interesting character in the film and Brian Donlevy played it splendidly...

About the rest of the film I will not say much, but it is important to precise one thing - exactly as the splendid "Twelve o'clock high", this is an adaptation of a theatre play and therefore this is a war movie without any fighting. The writer of the play "Command decision", William Wister Haines, based it on his war time experiences (he was an intelligence officer). The play proved to be a great hit both with critics and with public and was showed on Broadway in 1947 and 1948, before being finally adapted to cinema in 1948. Also exactly as "Twelve o'clock high" this film shows the mysteries, tragedies, miseries and splendour of leadership - and also the loneliness of those whose destiny it is to lead...

I really don't want to give too much about this film, as you really REALLY want to discover it by yourself, so even if I could still go and go and go about it, I will shut up and finish here. It is A MASTERPIECE! To buy, watch, love, keep, re-watch and never forget! ENJOY!

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robert cooper

All good.

Revisado en Reino Unido el 28 de octubre de 2023

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Package arrived early, well packed no damage,all good.

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Anthony Prudori

Great show of political vs. strategic vs. optics/PR tug o' war

Revisado en Canadá el 23 de mayo de 2016

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My haiku review:
U.S. day bombing.
Lots dead, crucial target, so
Politics or stats?

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Douglas M. Overman

An excellent portrayal of military activity.

Revisado en Canadá el 3 de noviembre de 2020

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An excellent film.Glad to add to my collection.

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