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The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (DVD, 1955)

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Otto Preminger's drama, based on a true story, stars Gary Cooper as the eponymous Colonel Billy Mitchell. Mitchell, a Wwi flying hero, is convinced America's security lies not with the navy but with a strong, separate air force. The hidebound traditionalists of the navy and army ignore him but, when one of Michell's friends is killed flying an ill-maintained plane, Mitchell's public outbursts leave them no choice but to court-martial him. But what was supposed to be a quiet affair becomes a cause celebre, as Mitchell rallies to his cause such luminaries as Eddie Rickenbacker and Fiorello LeGaurdia (Tom McKee and Phil Arnold). The film is fascinating for the glimpses of President Calvin Coolidge (Ian Woolfe) and General Pershing (Herbert Heyes) pursuing the traditionalist line but more so for Mitchell predicting, in 1925, the possible destruction of the navy by aerial attack, specifically at the Pearl Harbor base…