Dragonfly Squadron
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| Directed by | Lesley Selander |
| Produced by | John C. Champion |
| Written by | John C. Champion |
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| Music by | Paul Dunlap |
| Cinematography | Harry Neumann |
| Edited by | Walter Hannemann |
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| Distributed by | Allied Artists Pictures Corp. |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $300,000 |
| Box office | $700,000 |
Dragonfly Squadron is an American Korean War war film by Lesley Selander from 1954. The film is set in the period shortly before and during the invasion of South Korea by North Korean troops.
Dragonfly Squadron was originally intended to be released as a 3D film, and, therefore, was filmed in dual 35mm Polaroid 3-D. Interest in 3D films, however, greatly diminished towards the end of 1953, so when the film premiered in Los Angeles on January 27, 1954, and went on general release on March 21, 1954,only flat prints were shown.
In May 1950, Major Matt Brady (John Hodiak) is redeployed to Pusan, South Korea. His mission there is to train South Korean pilots in the defensive struggle. Also, there are air support exercises in case the Americans need to be evacuated. Colonel Schuller (Richard Simmons) sends Brady and Captain MacIntyre (Gerald Mohr) to the airbase in Kungju. The American instructors only have 25 days left to introduce the South Korean pilots to U.S. training and tactics.
At the base, Brady meets Donna Cottrell (Barbara Britton), a former fiancé of his. Donna's husband, Red Cross physician Dr. Stephen Cottrell (Bruce Bennett), is said to have been killed in action. When Donna finds out that he is actually alive - he had been captured, but was able to escape - she returns to him. She tells Matt that Stephen cannot work as a surgeon any more, as his hands were badly injured during enemy torture. She is intent on doing the right thing, but she feels torn between the two men.
The training of the South Korean pilots makes progress, which is carefully noted by Dixon (Jess Barker), a reporter. Captain Veddors (Harry Lauter) tells him that Matt does not fly any more because he once caused a fatal crash with a test pilot. Matt receives an encrypted message announcing a serious enemy attack. MacIntyre informs Matt that Lieutenant Kim-Sun is not able to fly due to the illness of his sister, but Matt needs every man. Kim-Sun dies in the crash of his aircraft and, as a consequence, the pilots blame Matt. MacIntyre suspects that Kim-Sun's aircraft was sabotaged.
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