The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) Reviews & Ratings

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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell reviews

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell holds a 6.8/10 average from 49 TMDB ratings.

Gary Cooper is perfectly adequate in this rather dry telling of the court-martial of a pioneering American general who, according to this film anyway, prophesied the hitherto unimaginable rise in importance of air power in conflict as well as predicting that an attack on Hawaii by Japan was likely to succeed against the relatively ill-defended islands. Demoted and posted to an administrative job in Texas, things com…
— CinemaSerf (6/10)

A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.

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