That sense of being entertained extends to the casting and whilst I have always been a fan of Patrick Duffy I have to say that I wonder if his casting was as much to do with look liking Rock Hudson when in uniform as it was for being right as Colonel Paul Tibbets. In a similar way I wonder whether Billy Crystal was cast as Lieutenant Jacob 'Jake' Beser because he could deliver the quick fire dialogue and wise cracks which makes him an entertaining character. In fairness Crystal impresses as he does get in to character more than some of the other actors and is one of the movies real highlights. What this all boils down to is that "Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb" is interesting and also entertaining which in many ways makes it a movie for people like me whose knowledge of what happened is limited but don't want to be weighed down by a heavy drama. Paul Tibbets, who piloted the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb, has died at age 92. Check out Enola Gay by I Love the 80s on Amazon Music. But at the same time I get a sense that to make this entertaining some big liberties had to be taken from altering the actual events to the casting.
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