Command decision

Resource Information

The work Command decision represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Command decision

Statement of responsibility

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Sam Wood production ; screen play by William R. Laidlaw and George Froeschel ; produced by Sidney Franklin in association with Gottfried Reinhardt ; directed by Sam Wood

Contributor

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Turner Entertainment Co
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Arnold, Edward, 1890-1956
• Bickford, Charles, 1891-1967
• Collins, Ray, 1889-1965
• Donlevy, Brian
• Franklin, Sidney A., 1893-1972
• Froeschel, George
• Gable, Clark, 1901-1960
• Haines, William Wister, 1908-1989
• Hodiak, John
• Johnson, Van, 1916-2008
• Laidlaw, William R
• Mitchell, Cameron, 1918-1994
• Pidgeon, Walter, 1897-1984
• Quine, Richard, 1920-1989
• Reinhardt, Gottfried
• Sundberg, Clinton, 1903-1987
• Thompson, Marshall, 1925-1992
• Wood, Sam, 1883-1949

Subject

• Adaptation -- Feature
• Adventure -- Feature
• Adventure films
• B-17 bomber -- Aerial operations -- Drama
• B-17 bomber -- Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Film adaptations
• Germany -- Drama
• Haines, William Wister, 1908-1989 -- Film and video adaptations
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• War -- Feature
• War films
• War films
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American -- Drama
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Germany -- Drama
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Casualties -- Drama
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Drama
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Psychological aspects -- Drama

Genre

• Adaptation
• Adventure
• Adventure films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Film adaptations
• Film and video adaptations
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• War
• War films

Language

• eng
• eng
• fre
• eng
• eng

Summary

General Casey of the U.S. Army Air Forces in England must fight congressional representatives and his own chain of command to be allowed to complete an important mission

Cataloging source

UUC

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Harold Rosson ; editor, Harold F. Kress ; music, Miklos Rozsa

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

Not rated

Language note

In English with optional English or French subtitles; closed-captioned

LC call number

D743.23

LC item number

.C666363 2013

PerformerNote

Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Brian Donlevy, Charles Bickford, John Hodiak, Edward Arnold, Marshall Thompson, Richard Quine, Cameron Mitchell, Clinton Sundberg, Ray Collins

Runtime

112

Target audience

general

Technique

live action