Humphrey Bogart’s War Films in the 1950s
Chain Lightning (Warner, 1950):
Set in 1943, Bogart was in military uniform, as Matt Brennan, completing a tour of duty over Europe as a bomber pilot.
He has a romance with a Red Cross woman (Eleanor Parker), which is interrupted when he is ordered home after his 25th mission.
After the war. he works as a barnstorming pilot. He is hired later as a test pilot for a new jet that the manufacture hoes to sell to the Air Force.
Happy ending: when delves with the safety of his plane.
Left Hand of Gun (Fox, 1958):
Bogart as Jim Carmody, American flyer forced down in China during WWII; military adviser to a Chinese war lord, who saved him from his wrecked plane.
Happy Ending: romance with Gene Tierney.
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