

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
He defied the army and navy . . . and they gave him a Court Martial!
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $3M
- Language
- English
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United StatesUS
- PremiereNew York City, New York22 Dec 1955
- TheatricalNR31 Dec 1955
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1213 Jul 1956
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell was released on 31 December 1955.
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CinemaSerf
8/29/2022
Gary Cooper is perfectly adequate in this rather dry telling of the court-martial of a pioneering American general who, according to this film anyway, prophesied the hitherto unimaginable rise in importance of air power in conflict as well as predicting that an attack on Hawaii by Japan was likely to succeed against the relatively ill-defended islands. Demoted and posted to an administrative job in Texas, things come…
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