DVD??
I loved this movie. I just saw it on TCM this afternoon. I thought because it was an old movie---even given the history, it would be a little cheesy. But it wasn't. Robert Taylor was awesome...You could feel is frustration, but also kind of hate him for how mean he was to Lucy. And Eleanor Parker...wow, I had never seen her on anything except the Baronness from the Sound of Music. She was great. The way she wasn't the PERFECT 50's wife, yelling at her kids and husband, getting depressed and a little wacky at her husband's treatment of her.
But...it really showed the depth of what went on behind the scenes of this horrible event. It ended the war, but killed so many people. And you can be military, which I was and conservative, which I am...and still feel the pain of war and how it affects everyone.
I don't know the quote exactly, but Robert Taylor as Col Tibbits states something like, "I've walked by the bombs, been able to touch them, I knew we were bombing industrial sites, but I knew innocent people would get killed and I was uncomfortable with it, just as I feel uncomfortable with this, but General I would be more concerned if I wasn't uncomfortable with it."
No one in the midst of war LIKES to kill anyone, but to end it and to save millions of other people, innocent people end up dying, and it's horrible and tragic.
We weren't at war and thousands of innocent people died on Sept 11. We need to stop these things from ever happening again.
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Above and Beyond
Released: January 02, 1953
Synopsis:
The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he knows that it can do tremendously more damage than any other weapon used before, and that the death toll resulting from it will be huge. He is reluctant to be the person who will end so many lives, but as time goes on, the pressure upon him only increase.