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DVD Operation Pacific
If not a seminal World War II submarine picture, then Operation Pacific is at least an entertaining one. John Wayne stars as "Duke" Gifford, first officer of the submarine Thunderfish. Patricia Neal is Duke's ex-wife, and when they meet again after four years, the couple tries to recapture "that old zing." Complications arise when Duke goes on a mission with dud torpedoes, and his best friend's younger brother goes after Neal. Fans will be pleased with Wayne's role, as the Gifford character is one of Wayne's simplest, but most honest performances. Wayne regulars Ward Bond and Jack Pennick are on hand as well; Bond plays sub captain "Pop" Perry, and Pennick the sub's Chief. The scene in which Pop tells his crew to "Take 'er down!" came from real life; a sub skipper uttered the famous command during a desperate surface action. --Mark Savary
This is definately a classic. As some of the reviewers have already mentioned, it does get somewhat juvenille at some points, though.
This movie is from long before my time, but it really was enjoyable to watch.
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.
They Were Expendable is the greatest American film of the Second World War, made by America's greatest director, John Ford, who himself saw action from the Battle of Midway through D-day. Yet it's been oddly neglected. Or perhaps not so oddly: for as the matter-of-fact title implies, the film commemorates a period, from the eve of Pearl Harbor up to the impending fall of Bataan, when the Japanese conquest of the Pacific was in full cry and U.S. forces were fighting a desperate holding action. Although stirring movies had been made about these early days (Wake Island, Bataan, Air Force), they were gung ho in their resolve to see the tables turned. They Were Expendable, however, which was made when Allied victory was all but assured, is... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Robert Montgomery - John Wayne Director(s): Robert Montgomery - John Ford DVD Release Date: Released the 16 May 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Otto Preminger's sprawling World War II drama packs a lot into its 165 minutes, beginning with the attack on Pearl Harbor (which Preminger re-creates in amazing detail) and ending a couple of years later with America's return to the South Pacific in force. John Wayne and Kirk Douglas star as a career naval captain and his self-pitying commander in the peacetime navy who are thrust into battle when Pearl Harbor is bombed while they are on maneuvers. Minutes into WWII, they are already scapegoated and demoted by the embarrassed military brass. Wayne romances a WAVE nurse (Patricia Neal) and attempts a reconciliation with his estranged, spoiled son (Brandon de Wilde) while Douglas sinks into the bottle after the death of his cheating wife until the American fleet rebuilds and calls upon... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Otto Preminger DVD Release Date: Released the 22 May 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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John Wayne and Anthony Quinn star in this touching 1945 drama inspired by real-life heroism in the Philippines following General MacArthur's withdrawal in 1942 and the islands' subsequent conquest by the Japanese army. Wayne plays Colonel Joe Madden, an American who stays behind to organize a ragtag guerrilla army in the forests and hills. At his side is Captain Andres Bonifacio (Quinn), grandson of a legendary revolutionary martyred in the nation's old war against Spanish colonialists. Joe, Andres, and their fearless irregulars (with support from a schoolteacher, played by Beulah Bondi) sap the enemy's resolve through hit-and-run missions, but as time passes the locals wonder, with pronounced disillusionment, why America doesn't return with masses of troops and weapons. Wayne's star... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): John Wayne - Anthony Quinn Director(s): Edward Dmytryk DVD Release Date: Released the 04 May 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The dvd was like advertised, NEW and it came within 5 days, excellent DVD, excellent service, much appreciated. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): John Wayne - Susan Hayward Director(s): Edward Ludwig DVD Release Date: Released the 22 May 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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John Wayne personally produced many of his '50s films, which is why some of them have languished in corporate limbo following his death. The High and the Mighty was one of his most popular vehicles (no pun intended). This long, necessarily sedentary drama aboard an endangered airliner is a CinemaScope bridge between 1932's Grand Hotel and 1970s disaster movies. Despite Wayne's iconic presence as a pilot--now copilot--who survived the plane crash that wiped out his family, it's an ensemble movie with an impressive cast: Robert Stack sharing the cockpit, Oscar® nominees Claire Trevor and Jan Sterling, Laraine Day, Robert Newton, Paul Kelly, John Qualen, Regis Toomey, the ubiquitous Paul Fix, and director William A. Wellman's good-luck character actor Douglas Fowley.... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): John Wayne - Claire Trevor - Laraine Day Director(s): William A. Wellman DVD Release Date: Released the 02 August 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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