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...Gathering of Eagles. The best parts of this film about the Strategic Air Command are scenes where SAC itself provides the action. Rock Hudson takes over a bomber wing and finds himself flying in a domestic circle...
Only Air Force General Curtis E. LeMay, Power's predecessor as commander of SAC, demurred to any degree: "I would think that I would have been against it." Among the things bothering LeMay: lack of an effective U.S. anti-ballistic missile, failure of the U.S. to develop a 50-to-100-megaton bomb. Said LeMay, whose blue uniform set him apart from his three khaki-clad colleagues: "There are net disadvantages from the military standpoint." Still, since the treaty had been initialed, LeMay was now willing to go along...
...nuclear explosion effects, and McNamara admitted there are "uncertainties" in the design. But if the silos did survive the crushing pressures and ground fires of a first strike, the Minutemen would blast off with a combined power of hundreds of megatons. Already, they are aimed (by special tapes at SAC's underground command post near Omaha) at Russian and Chinese Communist targets, over 5,000 miles away...
...Gathering of Eagles. The best parts of this film about the Strategic Air Command are scenes where SAC itself provides the action. Rock Hudson's rantings as a tyrannical wing commander are too wild even for the blue yonder...
...when he fires his best friend (Rod Taylor) for "winning friends and losing efficiency," she indignantly decides to fly home to mother. Rock faces the climactic question: Can a man have marriage and a career besides? What's more important: Is SAC really all that sick? The film provides impressive evidence to the contrary. The spectator sees the inside of a SAC command post, and he briefly watches it work. He also sees the great B-52s, each one almost the size of a football field, form in vast flights and flash through the central blue like an armada...