Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)
May 7, 1954Release Date
Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)
May 7, 1954Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Van Johnson
Lt. (jg) Howard Thayer
Walter Pidgeon
Comdr. Kent Dowling
Louis Calhern
James A. Michener
Keenan Wynn
Lt. Cmdr. Dodson
Dewey Martin
Ensign Kenneth Schechter
Frank Lovejoy
Lt. Cmdr. Grayson
Andrew Marton
Director
Robert Horton
Ensign Neil Conovan
James Michener
Writer
Harry A. Burns
Writer
Bert Freed
Lt. (jg) Andrew Szymanski
Art Cohn
Writer
Lewis Martin
Comdr. Michael Coughlin
George Cooper
Cyril Roberts
Henry Berman
Producer
Dick Simmons
Lt. Wayne Kimbrell
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Men of the Fighting Lady is a 1954 American war drama film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Louis Calhern and Keenan Wynn. The screenplay was written by U.S. Navy Commander Harry A. Burns, who had written a Saturday Evening Post article, "The Case of the Blinded Pilot", an account of a U.S. Navy pilot in the Korean War, who saves a blinded Navy pilot by talking him down to a successful landing. Men of the Fighting Lady was also inspired by another Saturday Evening Post article, "The Forgotten Heroes of Korea" by James A. Michener. The original music score was composed by Miklós Rózsa. It is also known as Panther Squadron. It is not to be confused with the 1944 documentary The Fighting Lady, which was mainly filmed aboard the USS Yorktown (CV-10).