Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident

Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident



Director: Delbert Mann

Writers: Curt Gentry (book), Francis Gary Powers (book)Lee Majors ... Francis Gary Powers

Noah Beery Jr. ... Oliver Powers

Nehemiah Persoff ... Rudenko

Brooke Bundy ... Barbara Powers

William Daniels ... Bissell

James Gregory ... James Donovan

Marcel Hillaire ... Charles DeGalle

Alf Kjellin ... Ivan Vasilev

Biff McGuire ... John McCone

Jim McMullan ... Robert F. Kennedy

David Opatoshu ... Grinev

Charles Robinson ... Wheatley (as Charles Knox Robinson)

Lew Ayres ... Allen Dulles

Katharine Bard ... Ida Powers

James Flavin ... President Dwight D. Eisenhower



Storyline



The story of Francis Gary Powers, a U-2 pilot for the CIA who was shot down in his spy plane over Russia, captured and imprisoned.