This film was a bit too long, but it is well worth watching.
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It is hard to buy in to the premise that an officer would be rewarded for insubordination by a top-secret assignment. I found the scene in which Tibbets is selected for his mission to be problematic. After dropping the bomb, he angrily responds to a reporter's question about how he feels about killing 80,000 people by saying "How do your reader's feel?" When his wife hears what he has done she retreats to her room in silence, ignoring the eager reporters. If I wasn't concerned about what I'm about to do he says I wouldn't be much of a man. In one scene the general questions Tibbets' feelings about his mission. The film makes a sincere effort to deal with the morality of the bomb. Taylor looks at the mushroom cloud and says "God." The enormity of this moment does not need words, and the film delivers. There is one word of dialogue in this scene. "He is very nice," she says, "but he's very smart." Another powerful moment is when the "Enola Gay" drops the bomb on Hiroshima. The plumber turns out to be one of the scientists with the Manhattan Project. "One of the sanitary engineers", she says, referring to the men in white coats she pointed out to her husband upon their arrival. His wife tells him that she has found someone to fix the plumbing.
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The colonel comes home one afternoon to hear sounds from the kitchen. One of them is uncharacteristically humorous. Taylor does a particularly good job as the officer tormented by the morality of his task and the disintegration of his marriage. The rest of the cast includes a bunch familiar faces, but the performances are standard. Pilot Tibbets is played by Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker portrays his wife. This film tells the story of the dropping of the first atomic bomb.