This article is about the 1950 film. For other uses, see Big lift (disambiguation).
The Big Lift
Directed by
George Seaton
Written by
George Seaton
Produced by
William Perlberg
Starring
Montgomery Clift
Paul Douglas
Cornell Borchers
Bruni Löbel
O.E. Hasse
Cinematography
Charles G. Clarke
Edited by
William H. Reynolds
Music by
Alfred Newman
Color process
Black and white
Production company
20th Century Fox
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release date
April 26, 1950 (1950-04-26)
Running time
120 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Box office
$1.3 million[1][2]
The Big Lift is a 1950 American drama war film on location in the city of Berlin, Germany, that tells the story of "Operation Vittles", the 1948–49 Berlin Airlift, through the experiences of two U.S. Air Force sergeants (played by Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas).
The film was directed and written by George Seaton, and was released April 26, 1950, less than one year after the Soviet blockade of Berlin was lifted and airlift operations ceased. Because the film was shot in Berlin in 1949, as well as using newsreel footage of the actual airlift, it provides a contemporary glimpse of the post-war state of the city as its people struggled to recover from the devastation wrought by World War II.
^Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 223
^"Top Grosses of 1950". Variety. January 3, 1951. p. 58.
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