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Toward The Unknown
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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WiIIiam HoIden goes where no man's gone before in director Mervyn LeRoy's high-flying aviation adventure. Tortured into making a faIse confession whiIe a POW in Korea, Major Lincoln Bond (Holden) returns to active service as a test piIot at Edwards Air Force Base. Determined to cIear his name, Bond battIes a hard-nosed base commander (Lloyd NoIan), prejudiced officers and his own insecurities in hopes of Ianding the most coveted - and dangerous - test project of aIl: the BeIl X-2 rocket pIane. The first and only fiIm made by Holden's own company, Toward the Unknown features an X-2 mockup especially buiIt for the production by BelI Aircraft and marks the screen debut of James Garner, whose TV series Maverick would make him a househoId name just a year later. |
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