Reserved

Strategic Air Command (1955)

This is another collaboration between director Anthony Mann and James Stewart which co-stars June Allyson. A WW2 veteran gets recalled to active service just when he was getting back into his career as a professional baseball player.

In real life star James Stewart was in the Air Force and flew bombers in WW2 so presumably the lead role here was not much of a stretch in what is essentially a propaganda piece for the title unit. It seems like a lot of time was spent on technical accuracy and there are some impressive flying sequences but the plot is a little on the light side. This is a well made film but while it has two decent moments of tension it is really lacking in an over all drama that strings everything together.

3/5