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Battle Hymn is a american film of genre Drama directed by Douglas Sirk released in USA on 14 february 1957 with Rock Hudson
Battle Hymn (1957)
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Add to a movie listBattle Hymn (aka By Faith I Fly) (1957) is a Universal-International feature film starring Rock Hudson as Colonel Dean E. Hess, a real-life United States Air Force fighter pilot in the Korean War. Hess's autobiography of the same name was published concurrently with the release of the film. He donated his profits from the film and the book to a network of orphanages he helped to establish. The film was directed by Douglas Sirk and produced by Ross Hunter.
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Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dean Hess (Rock Hudson) was a minister in Ohio. The attack prompts him to become a fighter pilot. Hess had accidentally dropped a bomb on an orphanage in Germany during World War II, killing 37 orphans. At the start of the Korean War, Hess volunteers to return to the cockpit and is assigned as the senior USAF advisor/Instructor Pilot to the Republic of Korea Air Force, flying F-51D Mustangs.Actors
Rock Hudson
(Col. Dean E. Hess)
Anna Kashfi
(En Soon Yang)
Dan Duryea
(Sgt. Herman)
Don DeFore
(Capt. Dan Skidmore)
Martha Hyer
(Mary Hess)
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