June Allyson and Jimmie Stewart are a cute, kind of co-dependent couple who live in a 1950's pastel world, but the real romance here is with the big, beautiful B-36 and B-47 bombers. The movie has a kind of "off we go into the wild blue yonder" theme music, which accompanies long shots of the plane ascending and in flight. Although it's no "Flight of the Phoenix" ordeal for Stewart, he does face his share of tribulations and close calls, only to arrive at an "everybody wins" situation in the end.
Review of Strategic Air Command
