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One Minute to Zero (1952)

During the early days of the Korean War, U.S. Army colonel Steve Janowski is one of the military advisers training the South Korean army and he's tasked with evacuating American civilians from the war zone.

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Col. Steve Janowski
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Mrs. Linda Day
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Col. John Parker
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Margaret Sheridan ...
Mary Parker
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Capt. Ralston
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Dr. Gustav Engstrand
Robert Osterloh ...
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Wartime drama about an idealistic young UN official (Ann Blyth) who finds out about the horrors of war when she falls in love with Colonel Steve Janowski (Robert Mitchum), the officer in charge of evacuating citizens from Korea. Written by Jonathan Broxton <[email protected]>

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Love That Lived with Danger! See more »

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August 1952 (USA)  »

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Paralelo 38  »

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$2,181,000 (estimated)
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(RCA Sound System)

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1.37 : 1
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Edmund Grainger replaced Sam Bischoff as producer in early May 1951. See more »

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During an attack on enemy ground targets by American jets, witnessed by the main American characters, one jet is shot down. As it dives downwards, an explosion meant to represent the moment the plane hits the ground, takes place underneath it before it actually does so. See more »

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Opening credits prologue: This is the story of a small detachment of American troops stationed in South Korea at the Outbreak of hostilities and their efforts to stem the surge of enemy aggression until the full force of British, American and other United Nations forces could be brought into action. See more »

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When I Fall in Love
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Written by Victor Young and Edward Heyman
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Ann Blyth is soooooooo pretty...
18 January 2013 | by (Upstate New York) – See all my reviews

ONE MINUTE TO ZERO (1952) is a hokey Korean War movie filled with tired war movie clichés, but it's easy enough to digest and Ann Blyth is soooooo pretty that you don't mind sitting through it.

The initial conflict between Army colonel Robert Mitchum and United Nations worker Ann Blyth soon blossoms into romance, but can Blyth let herself get involved with a soldier during wartime, knowing he's always in harm's way? Meanwhile, Mitchum and company have tough decisions to make trying to hold back the guerrilla fighters, who hide among the swarms of refugees.

Made while our boys were over there fighting the commies, the film has an understandable propagandistic slant, but it's interesting to see a movie of the era set during the Korean War, rather than WWII. And the drama does touch upon some interesting moral gray areas.

Robert Mitchum is always good, but Charles McGraw nearly steals the show in a solid supporting performance as Mitchum's gruff sidekick in the field. Also look for Alfred, the husky young janitor from MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (1947), as one of the soldiers.

The film's romantic theme seems to be the song "When I Fall in Love", as popularized by Nat King Cole.


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