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Standing tall before the man
Having been a recipient of the US Air Force Civil Air Patrol General Billy Mitchell Certificate of Proficiency, in my youth, I confess much respect for the man. The film is, generally speaking, true to the history of one of the major proponents of the new technology - Air Power. Mitchell demonstrates that higher order of duty, the one where the truth, as one sees it, is more important than just falling in line or following orders. Ironically the United States Army was to make just that point many years later at the Nuremberg Trials, after winning a war which was so much depended on Mitchell's dream. <
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>A part of the film as important as the quest for an adequate Air Force is Mitchell's forecast of a Japanese attack on the US, by air at Hawaii almost two decades before the event. Like Mohan of the Navy, to attuned officers it was a question of when not if - surprise was never an option. <
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>Michell was a short man, but we are dealing with Otto Preminger here whose hero must be head and shoulders above the crowd. Billy Mitchell was a wlidcat, to borrow an aviation term from the Navy, he was the kind of person we always need and the film is true to that.

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Military Update
The story of Billy Mitchell should be told over and over. His court martial records show that he predicted the attack on the Hawaian Islands <
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>How about today? Is Washington listening now? I hope so. <
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>Great movie story that happens to be true.

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I found it riviting.
Today, all movies have to have sex, violence, swearing, computer generated mosters and spcial effects in order to be interesting, because the plots and characters are so thin. But this movie, mostly about a trial held in a warehouse, I could not tear myself away from it. Even though it didn't have any love triangles or karate kicks or explosians or anything like that in it, The power of the story itself was enough. They didn't even show the air crashes that precipitated the trial. I wish there were more movies like this today: drama, integrity, characters with purpose and values, and a plot where the stakes were genuinly high: the security of the future of America.