The Flying Missile

The Flying Missile is a 1950 blackandwhite Cold War era Columbia Pictures film starring Glenn Ford and Viveca Lindfors. Made with the cooperation of the US Navy it tells a fictionalised story of the then recently revealed story of the US Navys first mounting and firing submarinelaunched cruise missiles such as the Loon off the deck of submarines.

The unorthodox procedures used so well in wartime cause tragedy to the couple Karin losing her job as the Admirals secretary for revealing information and Talbots haste in launching a missile from his boats deck causing him serious injury and the death of his friend Quartermaster Fuss Payne Joe Sawyer. Talbots depression leads him to not desiring to walk without braces and is within a hairs breadth of being medically discharged from the Navy.Karin snaps Talbot out of his whining selfpity to take command of his boat during manoeuvers for a submarine flotilla to attack a surface fleet. Talbot gets the idea for the missile carrying submarines to launch their missiles but then have them successfully guided to the surface fleet by the nearer submarines originally earmarked for a torpedo attack. ........

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