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Best Film Promoting International Understanding | 1957
Best Picture of the Month for the Whole Family March | 1957 | Douglas
Budget 1,400,000 USD
Box Office Collection 3,900,000 USD
Robert Mitchum lobbied for the lead role. However, the real Col. Dean Hess wouldn't hear of a former jailbird portraying him. He personally approved Rock Hudson instead.
Lt. Maples accidentally strafes a truckload of civilian refugees that happened to be near a convoy of North Korean troop trucks. In the real life incident, it was a fishing junk full of civilian refugees that happened to be near an amphibious assault being made by North Korean landing craft.
Director Douglas Sirk broke his ankle while shooting a scene in March of 1956.Assistant directors John Sherwood and Marshall Green shot some of the Arizona footage.In May of 1956. Sirk was back on the set, working from a wheelchair.
The gold flying helmet with the United Nations emblem that Rock Hudson wears was Dean Hess' actual helmet. It was a Navy-issue helmet that Hess scrounged from a Navy pilot who crash-landed at their airfield in Korea (since the Navy pilot was going to be issued a new helmet as a result of the crash-landing). The helmet is now on display at the US Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH.
The world premiere was held in Dean Hess' hometown of Marietta, OH, on 14 February 1957. "Variety" reviewed the film in its 19 December 1956 edition. The following day, December 20th, was the sixth anniversary of Operation Kiddie Car.
"Old Man, Lun-Wa: But, Colonel, you seem troubled. Col. Dean Hess: There's nothing so terrible as war. I killed today. Old Man, Lun-Wa: Yes, war is evil. I see what is in your heart. Colonel, may a poor, old carver of ivory babble for a moment? Understand that this is no more than babble and may not have more worth than a handful of sand. In times like these can a man of good conscience ask others, 'Protect me, kill for me, but do not ask me to stain my hands?' What must one do when a choice between two evils is all that is offered? To accept the lesser can sometimes be the only choice. In order to save at times we must destroy and in destructiom creates new life. Col. Dean Hess: Is that the answer? Old Man, Lun-Wa: The true answer, Colonel, is not in my babble... 'tis in the Book - 'Oh, Lord, though hast seen my wrong. Judge now my cause.' Col. Dean Hess: Who are you? Old Man, Lun-Wa: Just a very old man anxious to get back to his stall in Pusan."
"Col. Dean Hess: We're hoping to get to Cheju=do, but it seems almost impossible. Old Man, Lun-Wa: The difference between the impossible and the possible is the measure of a man's will."
