Directed by:
Otto PremingerCinematography:
Sam LeavittComposer:
Dimitri TiomkinCast:
Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy, Rod Steiger, Elizabeth Montgomery, Fred Clark, James Daly, Jack Lord, Peter Graves, Darren McGavin (more)Plots(1)
A courtroom drama based on the true story of an American general who was court-martialled for accusing the military of criminal negligence and incompetence. The time was 1925 and, in the wake of World War I, General Billy Mitchell considered the Army and Navy's failure to begin seriously building up the Air Force akin to treason. He said so publicly and, during the famous trial that followed, predicted a situation akin to the bombing of Pearl Harbor that would occur some two decades later. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Gary Cooper
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
Charles Bickford
USA
Best movies:
Of Mice and Men (1939)
The Big Country (1958)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Ralph Bellamy
USA
Best movies:
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Trading Places (1983)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
Rod Steiger
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Der Zauberberg (1982)
The Longest Day (1962)
Elizabeth Montgomery
USA
Best movies:
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963)
Face to Face (1990) (TV movie)
Fred Clark
USA
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
White Heat (1949)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
James Daly
USA
Best movies:
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Roots: The Next Generations (1979) (series)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
Jack Lord
USA
Best movies:
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
Dr. No (1962)
The Hangman (1959)
Peter Graves
USA
Best movies:
Stalag 17 (1953)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Darren McGavin
USA
Best movies:
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
The Natural (1984)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Robert F. Simon
USA
Best movies:
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
Compulsion (1959)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Charles Dingle
USA
Best movies:
The Talk of the Town (1942)
The Little Foxes (1941)
Edge of Darkness (1943)
Ian Wolfe
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Love Crazy (1941)
Will Wright
USA
Best movies:
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Charles Chaplin Jr.
USA
Best movies:
Limelight (1952)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
High School Confidential! (1958)
Gregory Walcott
USA
Best movies:
Man of the East (1972)
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
Frank Wilcox
USA
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Edge of Darkness (1943)
Mike Lally
USA
Best movies:
The Sting (1973)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Harold Miller
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Robert Brubaker
USA
Best movies:
The Sting (1973)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
Airport (1970)