Aguilas al acecho

Título original: A Gathering of Eagles

1963
Approved
1h 55min

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Rock Hudson and Mary Peach in Aguilas al acecho (1963)

Durante la Guerra Fría, el coronel de la Fuerza Aérea Jim Caldwell prepara a su Comando Aéreo Estratégico B-52 para pasar una prueba en caso de guerra nuclear.Durante la Guerra Fría, el coronel de la Fuerza Aérea Jim Caldwell prepara a su Comando Aéreo Estratégico B-52 para pasar una prueba en caso de guerra nuclear.Durante la Guerra Fría, el coronel de la Fuerza Aérea Jim Caldwell prepara a su Comando Aéreo Estratégico B-52 para pasar una prueba en caso de guerra nuclear.

Dirección
- Delbert Mann
Guionistas
- Robert Pirosh
- Sy Bartlett
Elenco

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6.1/10

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Dirección
- Delbert Mann
Guionistas
- Robert Pirosh
- Sy Bartlett
Elenco

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Nominado a 1 premio Óscar
- 1 nominación en total

Trivia
This was the final film former MGM costume designer Irene worked on. She committed suicide the fall of 1962 prior to the release of this film. Irene provided a very simple understated wardrobe for British actress Mary Peach in this film.

Errores
In many scenes, officers are wearing hats and caps indoors. Air Force custom dictates that personnel will not wear headgear indoors, except when participating in ceremonies.

Citas
Sgt. Banning: Well, sir, I used to be a pretty slow "walker" myself. I mean, you really had to build a fire under my tail to get me to move. Then one day, General Hewett dropped in to have a little talk with us. And he built one hell of a fire. Only this one wasn't under my tail - he built a fire inside of me.
Col. Jim Caldwell: Sergeant, if I'm reading you right, you think I'm building the wrong kind of fires around here.
Sgt. Banning: Sir, I'm sure you can judge that better than I can.

Conexiones
Edited into Columbo: The Most Crucial Game (1972)

Bandas sonoras
The Sac Song
Words and Music by Tom Lehrer

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7/10

Surprise Inspection

Rock Hudson does a bit of stretching in his acting resume in playing a tough as nails Colonel who takes over a Strategic Air Command base and tries to whip it in shape. There's a guy over him who's tougher, a general played by Kevin McCarthy who just flunked the previous base commander in a surprise inspection and that's why Hudson has the job.

A few years earlier James Stewart who was in the Air Force and retired as a Brigadier General in their reserve did a film about the Strategic Air Command entitled just that. Stewart was way too close to the subject to make a really good film about it. This film is far better and has a more objective point of view.

Anyway Hudson moves bag, baggage, and pretty British wife Mary Peach from London to San Francisco. And Hudson thinks it's fortunate that an old pal from the Korean War Rod Taylor is his executive officer. That soon changes however.

A lot of the plot of A Gathering Of Eagles is taken from the John Wayne/ Robert Ryan World War II film Flying Leathernecks. In that one Wayne takes over command of a group of Marine aviators with Ryan as his Executive Officer. If you've seen that one, you know what happens in this film.

Hudson and Taylor as the clashing military officers fill their roles out quite well and look very official in their Air Force uniforms. Also pay attention to Barry Sullivan as an alcoholic officer whose problems bring the problems of Hudson and Taylor to a head.

A Gathering Of Eagles is a good service film and a nice recruiting film for the Air Force.