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In spite of the cut-n-pasted love story with the wooden Virginia Leith, this film catches the flavor of USAF flight testing with William Holden's credible performance as a previously up-and-coming aviator tries to regain his stature following a tormented experience as a POW during the Korean War.
Sep 10, 2012 · Stolidly directed by former Warners contractee LeRoy in his men-in-uniform period, between the naval comedy Mr Roberts and the army farce No Time for Sergeants, and before the plainclothes hymn ...
Toward the Unknown, originally called Flight Test Center and titled Brink of Hell in its UK release, is a 1956 American aviation film about the dawn of supersonic flight filmed on location at Edwards Air Force Base.
TOWARD THE UNKNOWN (1956) is a faithful account of flight testing at the dawn of supersonic age. A big budget and William Holden helps escape the soap opera stigma. Click my link in the comment section.
Toward the Unknown (Mervyn LeRoy, 1956) 6/10. A test pilot (William Holden) captured, tortured and released by the Koreans returns to his Air base and finds it difficult to prove to his superiors that he is trustworthy and can fly again without cracking up.
- Mervyn Leroy
- Toluca Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
Mervyn LeRoy's Toward the Unknown, starring William Holden (also a producer on the film) as a war-damaged Air Force general trying to regain his place in the exclusive field of test-piloting, is a film that raises the question, should we (audiences, reviewers) approach every film as art, and judge it by that lofty criteria?
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