Task Force (film)

Task Force
theatrical poster
Directed byDelmer Daves
Written byDelmer Daves
Produced byJerry Wald
StarringGary Cooper
Jane Wyatt
Narrated byGary Cooper
CinematographyRobert Burks
Wilfred M. Cline
Paul Mantz (Aerial photography)
Edited byAlan Crosland Jr.
Music byFranz Waxman
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • August 30, 1949 (1949-08-30) (premiere)
  • September 30, 1949 (1949-09-30) (New York City)
Running time
116 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,893,000
Box office$1.8 million (US/Canada rentals)
$4,071,000 (worldwide)

Task Force is a 1949 American war film about the development of U.S. aircraft carriers from USS Langley (CV-1) to USS Franklin (CV-13). Although Robert Montgomery was originally considered for the leading role, the film stars Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt, Walter Brennan, Wayne Morris, Julie London and Jack Holt. Task Force was the only film Gary Cooper and Jane Wyatt made together, and was the last of the eight films Cooper and Walter Brennan made together.


Filmed in black-and-white with some Technicolor sequences, the picture received the complete support of the U.S. Navy, which lent naval vessels and facilities and allowed archival footage of the development of naval air power to be used.