The Hunters

The Hunters

Major Cleve Saville

Lt. Ed Pell

Colonel Dutch Imil

1st Lt. Carl Abbott

1st Lt. Corona

Col. Monk Moncavage

Korean Farmer

Korean Child

MIG Pilot (uncredited)

Greek Sergeant (uncredited)

Chinese Soldier (uncredited)

Officer (uncredited)

Korean Bartender (uncredited)

Chief Master Sergeant (uncredited)

Stand in for May Britt (uncredited)

Major Dark (uncredited)

Korean Woman (uncredited)

Headwaiter (uncredited)

Korean Woman (uncredited)

Casey Jones, Chinese Ace (uncredited)

Package Wrapper (uncredited)

Major Gifford (uncredited)

Japanese Clerk (uncredited)

Mrs. Mason (uncredited)

Officer (uncredited)

Jackson (uncredited)

Chinese Soldier (uncredited)

WAF Lieutenant (uncredited)

Korean Woman (uncredited)

Chinese Soldier (uncredited)

Nurse (uncredited)

Chinese Officer (uncredited)

Captain Owynby (uncredited)

Red Chinese Officer (uncredited)

Sukiaki Girl (uncredited)

Doorman (uncredited)

Lt Corona's F86 Sabre develops engine trouble on his landing approach. When the aircraft is shown stalling and crashing, the shot is of an F-100 Super Sabre, a different type of aircraft. The crash shown happened at Edwards AFB. The pilot, Lt. Barty Brooks, was killed. The name Sabre Dance originated from this accident but the context of the phrase relates to this accident alone and should not be generally attributed to additional accidents involving the F100. Dudley Henriques President Emeritus International Fighter Pilots Fellowship

The film utilizes an oft-used storyline of the war movie genre which has two soldiers in love with the same girl.

One scene in the film quite realistically realizes author James Salter's description of Seville's (Connell in the novel) first sight of the fighter pilots in their club at the base in Korea. Salter wrote that "It looked like a lumberjack camp. No two pilots dressed alike." In the film, Seville eventually wears a WWII sheepskin-lined leather cap and a sage green flight jacket over a blue flight suit, while Pell wears a flap-eared winter hat and a blue flight jacket over a green flight suit. Other pilots wear similar mixes of uniform clothing from both the WWII and Korean War eras.

Lt Corona's F86 Sabre develops engine trouble on his landing approach. When the aicraft is shown stalling and crashing, the shot is of an F-100 Super Sabre, a different type of aircraft.

All of the vehicles used by the North Koreans are actually US military vehicles.

On the first combat mission, Lt. Abbott says, "Why don't they come down to us for a change?" You can see that his microphone plug is not plugged into the helmet jack on the left side of the helmet... no-one could possibly hear him.

Major Cleve Saville: You don't tinker with a man's fear. He does that for himself.

Major Cleve Saville: You any good with that automatic?