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Director
  
Music director
  
Marlin Skiles

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

5.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
War

Screenplay
  
Writer
  
Shimon Wincelberg

Language
  
English

Fighter Attack movie poster

Release date
  
November 29, 1953 (1953-11-29)

Cast
  
(Steve),
J. Carrol Naish
(Bruno), (Nina), (George),
Arthur Caruso
(Aldo),
Frank Dekova
(Benedetto)

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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Tagline
  
Thundering through bomb-rocked skies for the most daring adventure on earth

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Fighter Attack is a 1953 American World War II film directed by Lesley Selander. The film stars Sterling Hayden, Joy Page and J. Carrol Naish. It reunited Hayden and Selander; they had worked together on the film Flat Top (1952). The film is set in Nazi-occupied Italy and involves a U.S. fighter pilot's last sortie, and the help he receives from Italian partisans in an effort to complete it after he is shot down in enemy territory.

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Wings of the luftwaffe fighter attack


Plot

Just after World War II, American Steve Pitt (Sterling Hayden) seeks out Father Paolo (David Leonard) at an Italian village. A new priest tells him Paolo was executed by the Germans. Steve recalls the events of 1944, when as a fighter pilot in Corsica, he flew on a last mission over Italy because his friend Captain George Peterson failed to complete his assignment: to blast a tunnel leading to a German ammunition dump. Steve is shot down, however, and parachutes into enemy-held Italy. Getting help from Nina (Joy Page), a young Italian partisan, she brings him to Bruno (J. Carrol Naish), the local partisan leader.

Bruno is afraid of Nazi retaliation if Steve is found with them. When he finds the tunnel, Steve, with Nina's help, convinces the others, including village priest Father Paolo, to help him destroy it. Father Paolo reveals that he has been hiding George Patterson. Before the attack can take place, jealous partisan Aldo (Arthur Caruso) betrays the band to the Germans because Steve is in love with Nina, but is killed himself. The group escapes an ambush and retreats to their cabin hideout.

The next morning, while Steve and George prepare to blow up the tunnel, American aircraft overhead are alerted to its location when Steve lights a flare. While the aircraft bomb the ammunition dump, the Italians attack a German artillery unit, turning the guns on the tunnel, destroying it, but Bruno is killed. Father Paolo and others help Steve and George escape in a small boat, with Steve promising to come back for Nina. As Steve ends his story, the new priest show him that Nina is still alive; the two lovers kiss and embrace.

Cast

  • Sterling Hayden as Major Steve Pitt
  • J. Carrol Naish as Bruno
  • Joy Page as Nina
  • Kenneth Tobey as Captain George Patterson
  • Arthur Caruso as Aldo
  • Frank DeKova as Benedetto
  • Paul Fierro as Don Gaetano
  • Maurice Jara as Ettore
  • Tony Dante as Mario
  • David Leonard as Father Paola in the credits (also referred to as Paolo by screen characters)
  • Jeffrey Stone as Lt. Gross
  • Production

    Fighter Attack was one of a group of films in the early postwar period that dealt with World War II. The producers relied on the assistance of the USAF and the Department of Defense to provide stock footage of period fighter aircraft. The opening credits indicated, "We desire to express grateful appreciation to the Department of Defense and the United States Air Force for the cooperation which was extended in the production of this picture."

    Reception

    Fighter Attack "... was pleasingly filmed in the two-color Cinecolor process, as were many Monogram/Allied Artists 'A's of the period." Critics appraised the film as "... just a typical post war action movie with a cliche storyline, cliche action and cliche characters. It isn't necessarily terrible but there are a lot better war movies which you could watch instead." Leonard Maltin described it as "modest". Alun Evans, in commenting on its fast pacing in an 80-minute format, simply described it as "brisk".

    References

    Fighter Attack Wikipedia
    Fighter Attack IMDb Fighter Attack themoviedb.org


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