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Strategic Air Command is one of three non-Westerns (out of eight features total) made by James Stewart and director Anthony Mann from 1950 to 1955. For Mann, the film allowed him to depict ever-advancing military might on a grand scale and to explore the theme of men acting as a cohesive unit (his appropriately titled Men in War would take this idea even further in 1957). For Stewart, the film was something more. During World War II, the Hollywood heavyweight had put his patriotic money where his mouth was, serving as a B-17 instructor pilot and a B-24 squadron commander, and completing nearly two dozen combat missions. Even years later, he was a colonel in the Air Force Reserve and was promoted to brigadier general. This was a picture Stewart wanted badly to do, and the reverence with which he, and everyone else involved, treated all things Air Force is evident from start to finish. http://www.cutprintfilm.com/blu/new-blu-ray-strategic-air-command/