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Using the western powers’ historic Berlin airlift lor its backgroimd, "The Big Lift” emerges one of the significant motion pictures of 1950. Produced by William Perlberg, and written and directed by George Seaton, "The Big Lift” co-stars Montr gomery Clift and Paul Douglas and introduces a new star, beautiful, young, blonde and blue-eyed Cornelia Burch discovered in a bomb-scarred apartment in Berlin. Originally tiUed "Two Corridors East” after those two meager airlanes through which the airlift pilots channelled their triumphant answer to the Communist blockade; this original story was wholly filmed overseas, with Charles Clarke photographing. There is nothing synthetic about "The Big Lift”. With the exception of the three lead- ing players already mentioned, most members of the cast of this timeless and gripping drama play f s himself. The company had the full co-operation of the United States Air Force in filming it. Montgomery Clift, whose performances in "Red River”, "The Search" and more recently in “The Heiress” have made him one of the screen’s most popular stars plays Danny, a humorous, unpretentious sergeant who falls madly in love with a German girl, who vows to become his wife, although already married to a Nazi whom she plans on rejoining through the tricked and, eventually disillusioned American. Paul Douglas is big, brawny, out-spoken, smart, humorous "Hank” who trusts no German, but, in the end, falls in love with a little, warm-hearted Berlin girl, played by Bruni Lobel, a winsome German actress. Like Cornelia Burch, for whom "The Big Lift” is only her second film, Miss Lobel is making her first appearance in a motion picture produced by an American company. Others in the cast include O.E. Hasse, another noted German actor, who was one of a grow of anti-Nazis chosen by the OMGUS to visit the U.S. to study American theatrical trends and who in "The Big Lift” plays a Communist spy who fools nobody but the Russians, and members of Gen. Lucius D. Clay’s 51-man Honor Guard Platoon, Berlin Post Military Band, Berlin press correspondents and photographers, who play themselves.