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The Big Lift is a american film of genre Drama directed by George Seaton released in USA on 26 april 1950 with Montgomery Clift

The Big Lift (1950)

The Big Lift
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Released in USA 26 april 1950
Length 2h
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    War,    Action,    Adventure,    Romance
Rating63% 3.199773.199773.199773.199773.19977

The Big Lift is a 1950 drama film shot in black-and-white on location in the city of Berlin, Germany, that tells the story of "Operation Vittles", the 1948–1949 Berlin Airlift, through the experiences of two U.S. Air Force sergeants (played by Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas).

The film was directed and written by George Seaton, and was released April 26, 1950, less than one year after the Soviet blockade of Berlin was lifted and airlift operations ceased. Because the film was shot in Berlin in 1949, as well as using newsreel footage of the actual airlift, it provides a contemporary glimpse of the post-war state of the city as it struggles to recover from the devastation wrought by World War II.

Synopsis

Off-duty American airmen of the 19th Troop Carrier Squadron in Hawaii are ordered to report to their squadron in July 1948. What is briefed as a temporary "training assignment" in the United States becomes a flight halfway around the world to Germany for the C-54 Skymasters of the 19th, where the Soviets have blockaded Berlin in an attempt to force out the Allies by starving the city. Tech Sgt. Danny MacCullough (Montgomery Clift), flight engineer of a C-54 nicknamed The White Hibiscus, is immediately ordered to fly with his crew from Frankfurt into Tempelhof Airport to deliver a load of coal.
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Actors

Montgomery Clift

(Sgt. 1st Class Danny MacCullough)
Paul Douglas

(MSgt. Henry "Hank" Kowalski)
Cornell Borchers

(Frederica Burkhardt)
O. E. Hasse

(Stieber)
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