The Rear Gunner

5.2

Genre: Drama War
Run time: 26 min
Premiere: 1943. April 10.

Director: Ray Enright
Writer: Edwin Gilbert
Starring: Burgess Meredith Ronald Reagan Tom Neal Dane Clark

Documentary-style drama on training of aerial rear gunners in World War II. Private PeeWee Williams, a Kansas farm boy, transforms his home-grown shooting skills into those necessary to an aerial gunner in the tail turret of an American bomber. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.