The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell

The CourtMartial of Billy Mitchell is a 1955 film directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Gary Cooper as Billy Mitchell, Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy, Rod Steiger and Elizabeth Montgomery in her film debut.

Politically vocal, he is demoted to colonel and sent to a ground unit in Texas. A highprofile air disaster occurs in which his close friend Zachary Lansdowne is killed, the crash of the dirigible USSShenandoah. This is followed by a second disaster in which six planes, poorly maintained because of lack of funds, flying from a base on the California coast to Fort Huachuca, Arizona, crash.Mitchell at this points calls a press conference in which he makes harsh criticisms of the Army. He is then courtmartialed. ........

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