Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

Directors:

Richard Fleischer
Kinji Fukasaku

Drehbuchautoren:

Larry Forrester (screenplay) &
Hideo Oguni (screenplay) ...

Premierendatum:

23. September 1970 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Abenteuer | Drama | Historienfilm | Kriegsfilm

Werbezeile:

The incredible attack on Pearl Harbor.

Plot:

A dramatization of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the series of American blunders that allowed it to happen.

Plot Keywords:

Telegram | Oahu | Alert | Flag Raising | Typing

Filmpreise:

Won Oscar. Another 7 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Great, great, great

Besetzung

Martin Balsam	...	Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet
Sô Yamamura	...	Vice-Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (as Soh Yamamura)
Joseph Cotten	...	Henry L. Stimson, U.S. Secretary of War
Tatsuya Mihashi	...	Commander Minoru Genda, Air Staff Officer, Japanese First Fleet
E.G. Marshall	...	Colonel Rufus S. Bratton
James Whitmore	...	Admiral William F. Halsey
Takahiro Tamura	...	Lt. Commander Fuchida
Eijirô Tono	...	Admiral Chuichi Nagumo (as Eijiro Tono)
Jason Robards	...	Lt. General Walter C. Short, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Army Hawaii
Wesley Addy	...	Lt. Commander Alvin D. Kramer
Shogo Shimada	...	Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura
Frank Aletter	...	Lt. Commander Thomas
Koreya Senda	...	Prince Funimaro Konoye, Prime Minister of Japan
Leon Ames	...	Frank Knox, U.S. Secretary of the Navy
Junya Usami	...	Vice-Admiral Zengo Yoshida

Länge:

144 Min

Produktionsland:

USA | Japan

Sprache:

Englisch | Japanisch

Farbe:

Farbe (as De Luxe)

Seitenverhältnis:

2.20 : 1

Tonverfahren:

70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Mono (Westrex Recording System) (35 mm prints)

Altersfreigabe:

New Zealand:PG | South Korea:12 | Iceland:12 | Brazil:Livre | Australia:G (DVD rating) | Australia:PG (cable rating) | Finland:K-12 | Norway:16 (1972) | Singapore:PG | Sweden:15 | Taiwan:GP | UK:U | USA:G | West Germany:16

Drehorte:

20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Firma:

Toei Company

Dies und das:

Many of the replica Japanese planes were also used in the filming of Midway (1976), The Final Countdown (1980) and Pearl Harbor (2001).

Pannen:

Audio-Visuelle Asynchronität: When Ambassador Nomura is speaking with Secretary Hull, Shogo Shimada's voice is dubbed by Paul Frees. However, when Hull invites Nomura to sit down, you can hear Shimada speak with his own voice and then the dubbing resumes.

Dialogzitate:

[last lines]
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto: I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Wird parodiert in Howard the Duck (1986)

Soundtrack:

The Star-Spangled Banner

Great, great, great

Forget the recent, rubbish Pearl Harbor movie. DVD review.

December 7 1941.

Fantastic war movie that still holds up today. Worth viewing alongside the terrible Ben Affleck version just to see how bad today's movies really are. There's a good build up to the attack and the picture shows how unprepared the Americans were: the radar was in a bad location; the President was not fully informed about the threat; the US planes were all stored together to avoid espionage (but ideal to be attacked); and for every sensible soldier just doing his job there was a superior officer who dismissed the warnings. The Japanese navy seemed to consist of young and energetic pilots ruled by stern older officers who respected rank. The fighting scenes were spectacular to watch; there's plenty of destruction, but little violent deaths. Some good actors appear including Whitmore, Robards, and Brand. All in all this movie has a great title and is far better than the recent Pearl Harbor movie - there's no crummy romantic sub-plots. Director Fleisher seems to have done his best work from the late '60s and early '70s.

Tora, Tora, Tora is essential war movie viewing.