Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb

• Director: David Lowell Rich
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• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Docudrama
• Release Year: 1980
• Country: US
• Run Time: 150 minutes

Plot

This made-for-TV historical drama chronicles the personal and professional lives of Colonel Tibbets and the airmen who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The story is based on a book by Gordon Thomas and Max Gordon Witts and also looks at the ways in which the aftermath of the bombing affected their lives. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cast

Kim Darby - Lucy Tibbets; Patrick Duffy - Col. Paul Tibbets; Peter Fox; Gary Frank - Maj. Tom Ferebee; John Fujioka - Gen. Nagai; Gregory Harrison - Capt. Bob Lewis; Richard Herd - Gen. Groves; Stephen Macht - Maj. William "Bud" Uanna; Bill Morey - Gen. George Marshall; Ed Nelson; Walter Olkewicz - Sgt. Shug Crawford; Robert Pine - Capt. William "Deke" Parsons; James Saito - Lt. Tatsuo Yamato; James Shigeta - Field Marshal Abehata; Michael Tucci - Capt. Claude Eatherly; Richard Venture - Alexander Sachs; Robert Walden - J. Robert Oppenheimer; Than Wyenn - Gen. Curtis Le May; Marion Kodama Yue - Aya; Billy Crystal - Lt. Jake Beser; Phillip Pine; Henry Wilcoxon - Secretary of War Stimson; Stephen Roberts - Franklin D. Roosevelt; Stephen Burleigh - Theodore Van Kirk

Credit

John V. Cartwright - Art Director, Jack de Shields - Art Director, David Lowell Rich - Director, Byron Ross Chudnow - Editor, Franklin R. Levy - Executive Producer, Mike Wise - Executive Producer, Richard Reisberg - Executive Producer, Maurice Jarre - Composer (Music Score), Robert L. Morrison - Cinematographer, Ted Zachary - Producer, Stanley Kallis - Producer, Millard Kaufman - Screenwriter, James Poe - Screenwriter, Clay Lacey - Aerial Photography, Gordon Thomas - Book Author, Max Morgan Witts - Book Author

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