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 [Larger view] | Operation Pacific
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 What a load of rubbish | |
| While technically it may be authentic, there is nothing real about the idiots who man the submarine. They act like adolescents.
The story is buried somewhere amongst the silly story of John Wayne running after a woman - who he is divorced from. The beginning with the children and the nuns is simply pathetically irritating. This movie is one of the worst war movies I have seen. I recommend not wasting any time on it. Move on and forget it. OPeration Pacific? More like Operation Infantile Idiots. | |
| Good For Its Genre | |
| Among the genre of sub movies, this is good, but hardly the best. It's very much a John Wayne movie, with the Duke being literally Duke (his character's name) and yeoman performances by the supporting cast. Patricia Neal, just beginning to develop her emotional range, was preoccupied with her off-screen affair with Gary Cooper. The chemistry she and Wayne would have in In Harms Way 15 years later is absent in this film. One interesting moment is when the crew watches Destination Tokyo with Cary Grant and makes snide remarks about Hollywood submariners. The heavy-handed piety and phoney man-talk are typical of the time but are derisable now. | |
 Operation Pacific | |
| Since I grew up with this movie, I have seen it at least 30 times. This is one of the best Submarine Movies of WW-II action made. And not everyone knows this but this movie did deal with some truth. When the skipper is shot by a "Q" ship in a surface attack, he uses the command "Take Her Down" which was in actuality used by the CO of the USS Growler, after being critically wounded in action in 1942. And the torpedo trouble in the movie was also true and they did drop warheads from on high to test out various firing options. One submarine mentioned in the Movie was the Corvina, which really was a USN Sub, and she was suck by a Japanese Submarine like the movie portrays. Unlike other Sub Movies, this one has a lot of truth in it and is an excellent watch. It is made more realistic by being in black and white. Sources for the above "Sink em All" By Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, USN COMSUBPAC during WW-II |
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