– Otto Preminger’s sprawling, multi-layered soap opera of Navy life at Pearl Harbor when the bombs drop features John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, a cast full of familiar faces, and lots of 1940s women with groovy 1960s hairdos. A rare film presenting the Japanese point view of WWII, it portrays a Japanese aviator who experiences the euphoria of victory following the attack on Pearl Harbor only to lose his nationalistic fervor when Japan suffers a crushing defeat at the Battle of Midway. – Originally released in Japan as “Hawaii-Midway Battle of the Sea and Sky: Storm in the Pacific Ocean”, the film was given the more sensational (and more succinct) title “I Bombed Pearl Harbor” for the U.S.
The film is probably best remembered for the iconic scene of Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr rolling about on the beach in a lip lock as they are engulfed by waves. – Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed and director Fred Zinnemen all collected Oscars in this Best Picture winner that delves into life on a Hawaiian Army base during the final days of peace. The plane survives and the crew later gets redemption when they help lead an attack on the Japanese fleet. The story follows the crew of a B-17 bomber who has the bad luck of being scheduled to land in Hawaii just as the attack begins. – With campy dialogue, wooden acting, cardboard sets and effects that aren’t very special, “Air Force” is notable as an example of the flag-waving propaganda films that were cranked out by Hollywood in the early years of the war. The War Department aggressively cut almost an hour from the original release because of concerns that the film exposed the military’s lack of preparedness for the attack. It is a tribute to Ford’s abilities that many of the film’s reenactments have often been confused for actual footage and used in other documentaries. – Although awarded the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject, John Ford’s “December 7th” is a dramatization of the attack on Pearl Harbor that contains several scenes of pure fiction. The following is a brief list of movies and television series about or set around the attack on Pearl Harbor. 7, 1941 has produced several dramatic depictions on film and television. military installations on the Hawaiian island of Oahu on Dec. The Imperial Japanese Navy’s attack on U.S.
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