The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
He defied the army and navy . . . and they gave him a Court Martial!
100 min
A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.
- Release date
- December 31, 1955
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Dimitri Tiomkin
- Box office
- $3,000,000
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Cast
- Gary Cooper as Col. Billy Mitchell
- Charles Bickford as Gen. Jimmy Guthrie
- Ralph Bellamy as Congressman Frank R. Reid
- Rod Steiger as Maj. Allan Guillion
- Elizabeth Montgomery as Margaret Lansdowne
- Fred Clark as Col. Moreland
- James Daly as Lt. Col. Herbert White
- Jack Lord as Lt. Cmdr. Zachary 'Zack' Lansdowne
- Peter Graves as Capt. Bob Elliott
- Darren McGavin as Capt. Russ Peters
- Robert F. Simon as Admiral Gage
- Charles Dingle as Senator Fullerton
- Dayton Lummis as General Douglas MacArthur
- Tom McKee as Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker
- Stephen Roberts as Major Carl Spaatz
- Herbert Heyes as General John J. Pershing
- Robert Brubaker as Major H. H. Arnold
- Phil Arnold as Fiorello LaGuardia
- Ian Wolfe as President Calvin Coolidge
- Will Wright as Admiral William S. Sims
- Gregory Walcott as Howard Millikan
Crew
- Otto Preminger · Director
- Milton Sperling · Writer
- Emmet Lavery · Writer
- Milton Sperling · Producer
- Dimitri Tiomkin · Composer
- Sam Leavitt · Cinematographer
- Folmar Blangsted · Editor