Bombers B-52

I really liked this film from the late 50's about the B-52 bomber. The aerial photography is stunning, (although not as stunning as Strategic Air Command with Jimmy Stewart.) It depicts the dedication and sacrifice of those defenders of our nation for all those years of the Cold War. It shows just how committed our nation was to avoiding war through readiness and strength. However, at its core, the film is really about what often happens when we judge people and situations--sometimes we judge wrong. Malden, as the father to Natalie Wood's character tries to protect his lovely daughter from the Casanova ways of his new Colonel, whom Malden doesn't like due to something that happened between them back in the Korean War. Karl Malden and Natalie Wood are fantastic in this film. They both gave great, natural performances. I truly believed that they were father and daughter. You might think it's a romance heavy movie but thankfully, that part is secondary to the father/daughter relationship and very much in the background. There are no "romancey" scenes like what is portrayed on the DVD cover. The movie was beautifully filmed in color and it has subtitles for the hard of hearing. This is a very easy film to watch.

Excellent Movie.. Very much enjoyed and would recommend. This is a high quality DVD! Works well!

Bombers B-52 is a good movie. Especially if you like military aircraft.This movie was filmed at March Air Force Base and at Castle Air Force Base. Bombers B-52 shows plenty of B-47's and B-52's. This is a movie about an Air Force Maintenance Line Chief and his Squadron Commander and the conflict between them. Line Chief Karl Malden thinks that Squadron Commander Efrem Zimbalist Jr. is an Jet Jockey Casanova. Malden doesn't like it that his commander is dating his daughter Natalie Wood. This relationship has the possibility of hurting the deployment of the first B-52 Wing at Castle Air Force Base. Trouble boils over just before Zimbalist B-52 is picked to go on a non stop trip from Castle Air Force Base to Egypt and back. Malden puts in for retirement when his boss is trying to keep him in the air force.Malden as a Line Chief is picked to go on the flight. On the return leg of the flight a fire breaks out in the B-52. Malden is forced to bail out and Zimbalist leads the rescue party to find him. Malden is surprised because he as always thought the Zimbalist character is only out for himself. In the Korean war Efrem Zimbalist Jr's F-86 jet landed at a forward base in Korea. He ordered Karl Malden to fix his plane at night. Malden had always thought that it was so he could keep a hot date in Tokyo/ Zimbalist was under orders to report to Headquarters A.S.A.P with information on a secret North Korean base. Malden is convinced to stay in the Air Force and Zimbalist gets Natalie Wood at the end. I like this movie just for the footage of the B-47's and B-52's on the flight line and in the air. It is well worth watching

A fine vintage Air Force SAC movie that will bring up memories of those that served.

This is a "must have" movie for AF brats raised in the mid-1950's. A very realistic portrayal of what it was like to be in SAC in the early days. This is one of three "recruiting poster" movies for the AF, the other two being Strategic Air Command starring Jimmy Stewart and June Allison, and A Gathering of Eagles starring Rock Hudson and Rod Taylor. The first, Strategic Air Command, deals with the Cold War transition from the troublesome B-36 bomber into the B-47 jet bombers, the second movie, Bomber B-52, stars Karl Malden, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., deals with the transition from B-47's to the B-52, and the third movie covers how SAC dealt with the operational readiness of the B-52's in the early cold war era.

Not bad for a Cold War film, but too much of the film content was WASTED on the relationship between the Base Commander and the daughter of the maint. chief. Having been assigned to the 1st CEG (1969-1971), attached to SAC during the Viet Nam war, I was involved with the "Arc Light" (B-52) missions (to include the "secret" bombings of Laos & Cambodia) & "Combat Skyspot" sorties (AF, Navy, Marine & VNAF jets), so I had an appreciation of the early models of the B-52 portrayed in this film. FYI: my absolute fave Cold War film is: "Doctor Strangelove". Both movies are part of my vast VHS, DVD & Blu-Ray video war library.

I’m a heavy jet transport mechanic all my life and the struggles, trials , challenges portayed in this movie is my life onscreen.

When I was a boy of 10 years, I stood on the flight line where my Father was stationed in Strategic Air Command (SAC) at Griffiss AFB, in Rome, New York and watched the B-47 Jet Bomber take off, fly and land, and in a brief time, replaced by the gargantuan 200-ton B-52 stratofortress bombers. I went on to be come an officer in the USAF, and still, can recall the deafening roar of those 8 Pratt & Whitney engines on a B-52.This DVD movie is not about propaganda for the USAF, because this production is about a war readiness in an uncertain peace during the Cold War Era in which the B-52 aircraft was one of the primary weapon systems on the center stage to deterrence. Of course there is drama, but it accentuates teamwork that overruled professional and domestic conflicts. Some of the Actors such as Karl Malden, Natalie Wood and Efrem Zimbaslist, Jr. are no longer with us. There are a host of actors is this Classic Film which reminds all of us, the price for peace is not only determined by combat, but also readiness and deterrence. The quality of reproduction for this movie on a DVD is excellent.