The Hunters is a 1958 feature film adapted from the novel The Hunters by James Salter. Produced by Dick Powell, it stars Robert Mitchum and Robert Wagner as two very different United States Air Force fighter pilots in the midst of the Korean War. Major Cleve "Iceman" Saville is a veteran World War II fighter ace eager to fly an F-86 Sabre fighter in the Korean War. His commanding officer, Colonel "Dutch" Imil , assigns him command of a flight. Among his pilots is a new replacement, talented, but brash Lieutenant Ed Pell . After he abandons his element leader, Lieutenant Corona , during... combat to down an enemy fighter, Corona's aircraft is shot up; he is killed while trying to land. As a result, Saville wants Pell assigned to someone else, but Imil overrules him; Pell was top of his class in flight school and Imil sees him as a younger version of Saville. If anyone can get Pell to grow up, it is the major. Another pilot under Saville's command, Lieutenant Carl Abbott , poses a different kind of problem. He lacks confidence in his abilities; his worried wife Kristina asks Saville to watch over him.
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| Release date: | August 26, 1958 |
| Directed by: | Dick Powell |
| Runtime: | 108 Minutes |
| Producer: | Joakim Hansson, Björn Carlström |
| Music by: | Paul Sawtell |
| Cinematography: | Charles G. Clarke |
| Screenplay by: | Kjell Sundvall, Björn Carlström, James Salter |
| Adapted from: | The Hunters |
| Genre: | Adventure, Action |