Taglines: Brave young men who rode on the wings of victory.
Memphis Belle movie storyline. It’s May 1943 at a US Army Air Corps base in England. The four officers and six enlisted men of the Memphis Belle – a B-17 bomber so nicknamed for the girlfriend of its stern and stoic captain, Dennis Dearborn – will soon start their twenty-fifth mission, having completed their previous twenty-four successfully with nary an incident, while fewer and fewer other planes are coming back from their missions at all.
If they complete their next mission successfully, they will be the first Army Air Corps B-17 Crew to complete their tour of duty. Visiting communications officer Lt. Col. Bruce Derringer wants to publicize and highly tout their accomplishment, even before it happens, as a long term good news campaign at a time when there is little good news to report. Derringer’s plan is against the wishes of the base commander, Col. Craig Harriman, who would prefer to treat the ten as any of his other hard working men.
Memphis Belle is a 1990 British-American drama war film film directed by Michael Caton-Jones and written by Monte Merrick. The film featured an all-star cast with Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Sean Astin, Harry Connick Jr., Reed Edward Diamond, Tate Donovan, John Lithgow, D. B. Sweeney, Billy Zane, Courtney Gains, Neil Giuntoli.
Memphis Belle is a fictionalization of the 1943 documentary Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress by director William Wyler, about the 25th and last mission of an American Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, the Memphis Belle, based in England during World War II.[1] The 1990 version was co-produced by David Puttnam and Wyler’s daughter Catherine, and dedicated to her father. The film closes with a dedication to all airmen, friend or foe, who fought in the skies above Europe during World War.
Memphis Belle (1990)
Directed by: Michael Caton-Jones
Starring: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Sean Astin, Harry Connick Jr., Reed Edward Diamond, Tate Donovan, John Lithgow, D. B. Sweeney, Billy Zane, Courtney Gains, Neil Giuntoli
Screenplay by: Monte Merrick
Production Design by: Stuart Craig
Cinematography by: David Watkin
Film Editing by: Jim Clark
Costume Design by: Jane Robinson
Set Decoration by: Ian Giladjian
Art Direction by: Norman Dorme, John King, Alan Tomkins
Music by: George Fenton
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: October 12, 1990
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