The Big Lift

1950 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

In 1948, the Soviet Union blockades the Allied sectors of Berlin to bring the entire city under their control. A semi-documentary about the resulting Berlin Airlift gives way to stories of two fictitious U.S. Air Force participants: Sgt. Hank Kowalski, whose hatred of Germans proves resistant to change, and Sgt. Danny McCullough, whose pursuit of an attractive German war widow gives him a crash course in the seamy side of occupied Berlin.

Direction George Seaton

Cast Montgomery Clift · Paul Douglas · Cornell Borchers · Bruni Löbel · O.E. Hasse · William Pierson · Franz Nicklisch · Walter Gross