It turns out the Allies could be just as deranged as the Axis when it came to thinking of ways to win the war, and no one gives them enough credit for that.
By age 30, William McGovern had two doctorates spoke anywhere between 12 and 17 languages, and had spent time exploring the heck out of our planet in ways that should have gotten him killed several times over.
When Hollywood sets out to write up a good old-fashioned space adventure, it often just rips real scenes from the pages of history -- it really is hard to top them.
