00:00Force was produced with the full cooperation of the United States Navy. The Navy provided ships
00:04and facilities for the production. The Long Beach Naval Shipyard gave Warners access to equipment
00:10from the Commander-in-Chief's operations room free of charge. One shot involving a barge and
00:16planes cost the Navy $24,000 an hour, and that's 1949 money. It's your tax dollars at work, or at
00:23least your grandparents' tax dollars at work. Navy also allowed Warners to use Technicolor war
00:28footage shot during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Some critics suggested that footage was the most
00:34exciting part of Task Force. The movie made money for Warners, but not much of an impression on Gary
00:39Cooper. He admitted doing the film for a paycheck, later told gossip columnist Hedda Hopper,
00:45the main thing I remember about that film is that it interfered with my fall hunting. Coming up,
00:52Gary Cooper is an ex-Confederate soldier who cooks up a complicated ruse to exact revenge on a group
00:58of carpetbaggers in a Western from 1950. Dallas is next on Turner Classic Movies.
01:05Next on TCM, Dallas, then Springfield Rifle, and later Bright Leaf. Coop rolls his own on TCM today.
