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1952 film
Flat Top
(also released as
Eagles of the Fleet
) is a 1952 American
drama
war film
filmed in
Cinecolor
, directed by
Lesley Selander
and starring
Sterling Hayden
, with early appearances from
Phyllis Coates
,
Jack Larson
,
Richard Carlson
, and
William Schallert
.
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The film earned
William Austin
an
Academy Award
nomination for
Best Film Editing
in 1953.
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Plot
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On board an aircraft carrier off from the coast of Korea during the
Korean War
, Commander Collier is the Commander Air Group (CAG), or Air Boss, in charge of air operations on the carrier, or 'flat top'. When asked about how he first handled his job, he goes back to the time of
World War II
, where the rest of the film takes place. Told in flashback form, Collier recounts the war in the Pacific, working flight ops on the same carrier as the Fighter Squadron Commander with a new Executive Officer, LT Joe Rogers, and getting a group of fighter pilots ready for the tough fight to come against the Japanese.
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