It’s May 1943 at a US Army Air Corps base in England. The four officers and six enlisted men of the Memphis Belle – a B-17 bomber so nicknamed for the girlfriend of its stern and stoic captain, Dennis Dearborn – will soon start their twenty-fifth mission, having completed their previous twenty-four successfully with nary an incident, while fewer and fewer other planes are coming back from their missions at all. If they complete their next mission successfully, they will be the first Army Air Corps B-17 Crew to complete their tour of duty. Visiting communications officer Lt. Col. Bruce Derringer wants to publicize and highly tout their accomplishment, even before it happens, as a long term good news campaign at a time when there is little good news to report. Derringer’s plan is against the wishes of the base commander, Col. Craig Harriman, who would prefer to treat the ten as any of his other hard working men. The previous success of the Memphis Belle is despite the disparate natures …
Release Date: 12 October 1990Runtime: 107 min
Stars:
- Billy Zane
- Courtney Gains
- D.B. Sweeney
- David Strathairn
- Eric Stoltz
- Harry Connick Jr.
- Jane Horrocks
- Jodie Brooke Wilson
- John Lithgow
- Mac McDonald
- Matthew Modine
- Neil Giuntoli
- Reed Diamond
- Sean Astin
- Tate Donovan
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
