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Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas, Cornell Borchers, Bruni Löbel

Experiences of two Air Force sergeants during the 1948 Berlin Airlift.

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Directed by: George Seaton

Release Date: April 26, 1950

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DVD Release Date: January 25, 2000

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  • MECreviews
    March 21, 2008
    MECreviews
    I did not really like this movie.
  • rebcal75
    November 19, 2007
    rebcal75
    It didn't make sense. Bad character development. The girl all of a sudden turned evil. Did I miss something?
  • beautifultiger
    November 6, 2007
    beautifultiger
    The Big Lift Summary:
    Filmed on location, The Big Lift is a reenactment of the Berlin airlift of 1948. Flexing their postwar muscles, the Russians blockade the Western sector, refusing to allow the Allies to ship supplies to the starving Berliners. From their headquarters at Tem...( read more)plehof Airport, a group of courageous American flyers risk their lives to transport supplies by air. Paul Douglas plays a ground operations sergeant with several scores to settle (he had a hard time of it as a POW during the war), while Montgomery Clift costars as a pilot who inaugurates a doomed love affair with German girl Cornell Borchers.
  • grantl65
    June 18, 2007
    grantl65
    Typical sombre post-WW2 movie.

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