if good intention make a film great and then this film might be one of the great film ever make . the film have great actor and a master director and a significant theme at least a would be significant theme and undertone of fifty existential world weariness and aerial scene that ought to have thrill both sens and imagination and and character about which one might deeply care . it be about patriotism and about patriotism in a healthy way . not quite ten year after the film and i know air force officer who teach my r. o. t. c. class at university . they be intellectual . they think deeply about their work . they have sens of humor . one have be a crew member on the first plane to drop a hydrogen bomb . i have wonder if any one of them die in vietnam . i imagine that they fly mission there . regrettably and the film fail . the movie lack visual interest and drama and expression of feeling and and celebration of the very patriotism that underline the narrative . no actress have be bad use that june allison in this movie . her susan holland be a woman that one would flee and not embrace . col. james stewart ( who a then a colonel ) make a good stab at this role a lt. col ( and later col. ) dutch holland . but the most interesting thing he do in the role be bite into a sandwich . i be not kid . stewart be good a biting in sandwich a he do in the spirit of saint louis . one might think of ted williams and but i do not when i watch mr. steward in the role . i do think of william holden a lt. harry brubaker in the bridge at toko ri . the comparison be not good for mr. stewart and who seem waste in this film . footage shot from a b 36 look like outtake from commercial for an airline . though beautiful and the aerial shot be mundane . for the time and they might have impress viewer . the crash in greenland involves unexciting model you expect the outcome to be good . the undertone the subtext for the film voice the tedium that air force flight crew must have felt during their long mission and the banality that the air force use to make it business well business like any other business . one imagine how a la nouvelle vague director might explore this theme and then one begin to think about how someone with imagination might have film this movie . little moment be miss . when crew return from long mission and the member of the crew get a shot of scotch and a massage before debrief the mission . show that might have help . banality be the image the air force want and mr. mann accommodate the brass . maybe and in that sense and the film work and but not for me . i mourn when i watch the movie and because i think all of u and director and actor and crew and viewer and and member of the arm service might have enjoy give and get much more than we get here . i do not think that this movie have to be dr. strangelove or 2001 and both of which it presage and but it have potential never realize . yet and i enjoy watch it . i think of the airman on their long mission and the ground crew in isolated place . there be a certain sense of honor celebrate here and i celebrate that honor . i certainly understand why people who praise this movie here and other place appreciate it . if there be no intentional fallacy and it would get a 10 from me .