The Big Lift (1950).- Ficha

FICHA TÉCNICA

Título doblado: Sitiados

Año: 1950

Director: George Seaton
Guión original: George Seaton

Música: Alfred Newman
Vestuario: Bobbie Brox
Fotografía: Charles C. Clarke
Efectos fotográficos especiales: Fred Sersen
Montaje: Robert Simpson y William Reynolds
Ingenieros de sonido: Charles Hisserich y Roger Heman.
Dirección artística: Lyle R. Wheelery Russell Spencer.
Orquestaciones: Edward Powell
Producción: William Perlberg

País: EE.UU.
Distribuida por: Twenty Century Fox
Duración: 120 minutos
Género: Bélica (II Guerra Mundial)
Blanco y Negro
Rodada en Frankurt
Otras localizaciones: base aeronaval de Tempelhof (Berlín Oeste), Azores (Portugal), Berlín, base aérea de Rhein-Main (Frankfurt), Schofield Barracks, Wilkina Drive, O'ahu (Hawaii), interiores rodados en los Estudios Ufa (Berlín).

Estreno: 26 de abril de 1950

1 Nominación a los Globos de Oro

REPARTO

Montgomery Clift ............................ Sargento de 1ª clase Danny MacCullough
Paul Douglas ...................................... Sargento Henry 'Hank' Kowalski
Cornell Borchers ........................... Frederica Burkhardt

Brunie Löbel .................................................................. Gerda
O.E. Hasse ...................................................................... Stieber
Danny Davenport .......................................................... recluta
Fritz Nichlisch ................................................................ Gunther

Interpretándose a sí mismos:

Capitán Dante V. Morel, capitán John Mason, capitán Gail Plush, capitán Mack Blevins, mayor R.L. Heltzl, capitán William A. Stewart, teniente Alfred L. Freidburger, teniente Gerald Arons, teniente James Wilson, teniente Richard A. Kellogg, teniente Roy R. Steele, sargento James H. Blankenship, sargento Harold E. Bamford, sargento D.R. Simmons, sargento O.B. Schultz, sargento Andrew Shamless, sargento Elmer Garret, sargento Billy Pierson, sargento Herman Dornbush, cabo Donald R. Neil, soldado William L. Davenport, soldado William J. Hardiman,, corresponsal de la Ap Richard O'Malley, corresponsal de la Abc Lyford Moore.


Curiosidades:

The film was made in occupied Germany. All scenes were photographed in the real locations associated with the story, including episodes in the American, French, British and Russian sectors of Berlin.

With the exception of Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas, all military personnel in the film were actual members of the US military on duty in Germany at the time.

Associated Press correspondent Richard O'Malley and ABC News correspondent Lyford Moore play themselves in the film.

All the US officers appearing in the movie kept their actual rank except one, John R. Mason, who was "demoted" to the rank of sergeant for the story.

During the filming, they would get waivers signed by those who were in a shot and they thought would be in the finished film and paid them $500. Some men appeared but were never paid and some who were paid had their appearances end up on the cutting room floor.

"Screen Director's Playhouse" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 18, 1951 with Paul Douglas reprising his film role.

Resumen (de la Imdb)

(English text)

In 1948, the Soviet Union blockades the Allied sectors of Berlin to bring the entire city under their control. A semi-documentary about the resulting Berlin Airlift gives way to stories of two fictitious U.S. Air Force participants: Sgt. Hank Kowalski, whose hatred of Germans proves resistant to change, and Sgt. Danny McCullough, whose pursuit of an attractive German war widow gives him a crash course in the seamy side of occupied Berlin.

* Ficha en Imdb.

No disponible en Dvd en España, pero salió en una colección del periódico Abc (ver post).