16.8.15

the big lift (1950)

"When you live in a sewer, you soon discover that the sewer rats are best equipped to survive."
Two Air Force sergeants, Danny MacCullough (Montgomery Clift) and Hank Kowalski (Paul Douglas) are sent to Germany to take part in the 1948 Berlin airlift. Hank dislikes the Germans, having experienced their brutality as a POW during the war. Danny is more open and is soon smitten with Frederica (Cornell Borchers), but she hids a dark secret...
A semi-documentary style acts as a history lesson pre the Berlin wall, as well as entertainment.

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