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Post by Jep Gambardella on Dec 17, 2023 14:19:28 GMT
Destination Tokyo (1943) - WW II submarine movie with Cary Grant as the captain of an American submarine tasked with a very dangerous mission that will take the boat all the way to Japan. Made as the war was raging, so the propaganda aspect is very present throughout. Different times.
Very good and tense and realistic-sounding to me who’s obviously never set foot on a submarine that wasn’t a museum relic. Cary Grant whom I’ve seen mostly in comedies acquits himself very well in this serious role. There are many (justified) complaints that the timeline of this fictional mission is completely wrong in regards to the actual war events that were depicted, but that doesn’t particularly bother me.
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Post by vegalyra on Dec 19, 2023 12:28:07 GMT
Great film, thanks for bringing it up for conversation. The cast is perfect from Grant, to Garfield, Alan Hale, and my favorite underrated actor from the era, John Ridgely. The mission is interesting and there is a lot of tension throughout the film. Grant does a good job of holding his crew together and being a sort of father figure. The model work is well done, particularly the underwater scenes as well as the Zero float plane attack. In some ways this could almost be considered a Christmas film due to the time period of the mission, the Christmas dinner on the sub and the gift giving. The film make a brief appearance in Operation Pacific. This is definitely one of my favorite wartime made films, Air Force being my next favorite (also starting Ridgely and Garfield). Also one of my favorite submarine films, it’s really well done.
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Post by mattgarth on Dec 19, 2023 14:21:55 GMT
Agree about John Ridgely, especially in AIR FORCE in 1943.
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Post by staggerstag on Dec 20, 2023 1:18:12 GMT
"It has to be said that the special effects are pretty poor as it’s obviously just scale models of submarines in the studio tank at times. Was the budget really so tight back then?!" - one reviewer, Tokyofox, in 2021.
Well, I guess there was the small matter of a world war going on at the time and I suppose most of the submarines were in actual military use. Even so, I wouldn't call a $1.5m budget tight.
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Post by vegalyra on Dec 25, 2023 18:27:07 GMT
"It has to be said that the special effects are pretty poor as it’s obviously just scale models of submarines in the studio tank at times. Was the budget really so tight back then?!" - one reviewer, Tokyofox, in 2021. Well, I guess there was the small matter of a world war going on at the time and I suppose most of the submarines were in actual military use. Even so, I wouldn't call a $1.5m budget tight. I always liked the model work. It’s looks as good as anything else produced during the war. They actually attempted to make a convincing looking Zero floatplane instead of dressing up an American AT-6 like a lot of films did. Obviously it would be really hard to do underwater shots of an actual American submarine in the 1940s.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Jan 1, 2024 10:02:16 GMT
For me the most interesting thing about DT is having to remind myself that Cary Grant & John Garfield co-starred in a movie together.
They actually interact in relatively few scenes, so you don't think of it as a Grant-Garfield teaming, the way you think of Operation Petticoat as a Grant-Curtis movie.
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Post by Hurdy Gurdy Man on Jan 18, 2024 8:00:27 GMT
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