This film was released on the same day as the opening day of the Battle of Midway. Midway being the crushing defeat to the Japanese Imperial Navy and the beginning of the end for their conquest of the Pacific. What a GREAT day to be an American.
Forest Tucker was in the Army during WW2. This Movie was made right before he re-enlisted in the Army. He was discharged as a SECOND LIEUTENANT in 1945. Just an FYI.
Seen from crows nest on carrier, the carrier wouldn't necessarily have been able to be seen from the yacht depending on how much of the carrier was above the horizon.
@@garybee858 Due to the curvature of the earth it is perfectly feasible for the crows nest of the carrier to see the yacht whilst the main bulk of the carrier is below the horizon, (whole point of putting the crows nest high up on a mast), the size of the carrier is irrelevant if only the crows nest is above the horizon as seen from the yacht. Much as some people seem to wish otherwise the world isnt flat.
@@garybee858 Which nonsense would that be? ok the officers see the yacht too but they equally are very high up on its superstructure (which is relatively small) using binoculars, so again no reason it cant not be seen from the yacht plus its a civilian yacht low in the water with no lookout except probably the guy steering. Not sure why you are so het up about being disagreed with, there are any number of reasons the yacht didn't see the carrier some simply practicalities but the main one being it wasn't in the script.
I believe that the story about the US Senator lost that morning is partially true in Final countdown. So this might be fact or both are myths. Who knows. Senator Daniel Chapman in the movie. I personally think the final countdown was inspired by this movie.
This film was on a pare with adventure serials that we played in theaters on Saturday afternoons to entertain kids. Low budget example of an early propaganda film. Sort of comical if not silly in retrospect.
Yeah there was a bunch is really bad stuff. The aircraft in flight and when landing back on the carrier were also pretty bad. Also, a radio tech in that era would have the radio in the sun opened up and be tinkering with tubes and adjustments INSIDE not just spinning dials on the faceplate (I’m a HAM operator). Hat Japs wouldn’t have had an airman jump over the side. He’d have been ordered to hari Kari himself at worst. But hey, it was as much if not more intended to be a feel good, we sunk a Jap carrier (even though we didn’t) propaganda film.
Being a retired US Marine and having been to the PAC theater “trifecta” (Arizona, Hiroshima ground zero, and the deck of the Mighty MO, I think I have the right to comment on this film. Great propaganda war movie so early after the devastating attack on Pearl. HORRIBLE script and absolutely sad “special effects”. BUT, being released so soon after Pearl, it’s job was likely to be more about whipping up the war fever at home than presenting any semblance of reality to the masses. As that Jap flag sinks below the water you can almost hear the 1942 theater crowd exploding in whoops and hollers. In reality, we fired first on the Japanese that day. The USS Ward, holes and sunk a mini sub outside Pearl before the planes arrived.
You need to see it as it is meant, moral boosting propaganda, if Midway only happened as this came out there had been nothing but defeats for the American and allied forces up to this time, Pearl Harbour, Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Burma, Philippines, Indonesia, Wake Island, New Guinea, after that lot plus others were lost in a matter of weeks the people wanted something to raise their spirits. This though not a work of art went some way to doing that.
Undoubtedly, one of the WORST portrayals and acting movies of WW II with wooden, stupid characters, totally cheap and phony models (compare w "Sink the Bismarck" or even "King Kong"), an implausible plot and NO real storyline. They put REAL Japanese-Americans in concentration camps, yet used Chinese ethnicities to portray "Japanese". Clearly a LOW BUDGET film (3 people on the bridge of an aircraft carrier and a guy on a submarine bridge sitting on a rail firing a machine gun?)👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽
You do realise that there was an actual war going on when they made this and America and its Allies weren't winning, they had lost every battle up to this point, so instead of bleating about how bad it is take it in context, there were only a few actors because the others had joined the military, its cheap because they were churning these out at a massive rate, and it jingoistic because they were there to raise spirits not be realistic. Sink the Bismarck was made well after the war and had a proper budget and mainstream actors available, completely different circumstances.
@@davedixon2068 1943 - "Sahara" (Humphrey Bogart); 1944 - "A Wing & A Prayer (Dana Andrews); 1943 - "Guadalcanal Diary" (Richard Conte) Prime actors were available and GOOD written scripts existed. This was a POORLY made movie.
@@centralplains7608It was a B movie, made to be shown with a movie staring the actors you mentioned, they were made by the hundred, I'm pretty sure you arent that stupid so I can only assume you are deliberately being argumentative
Am I the only one who is a sucker for these old films, and their crappy 'special effects'. ... Japanese aircraft carrier sunk at Pearl Harbor? Darn! If only Tora Tora Tora would had known this! 😅😅
If the German atomic bomb project had not been SABOTED by the British (see the movie "The Heroes of Telemark"), by the year 2024 the planet would be Germanophile and there would be no socio-political movements of a social-communist nature, which still persist. Simply, the German National Socialists would have dropped the bomb on Moscow and everything would have ended in favor of the Third Reich.
This movie is so cheesy, it's actually good. The 'Japanese ' commanding officer in the opening scene on the carrier bridge, isn't even Japanese, he's Nino Pipitone, born in Italy. One of the others is Chinese.
Propaganda at its worst. The name calling and the stereotyping, wow. Where did they get the "actors" that would agree to "star" in this? Why degrade yourself like this, I don't understand. This films main contribution is to show history how some people felt back then, and to show how movies can be turned into tools to make people think about others "in a certain way"
Wow you've got a major chip on your shoulder, the Actors were proud to be doing something to fight the enemy in any way they could, (they would probably have preferred to join up but couldn't for one reason or another). You need to see it as it is meant, moral boosting propaganda, if Midway only happened as this came out there had been nothing but defeats for the American and Allied forces up to this time, Pearl Harbour, Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Burma, Philippines, Indonesia, Wake Island, New Guinea, The Solomon islands. They weren't all standing around bleating about being woke or they did this to those poor Japanese who were brainwashed, they wanted REVENGE for Pearl Harbour, hundreds of thousands VOLOUNTEERED to go and kill japs. This was the film industry pushing out propaganda to help that effort, no one was sympathetic to the Japanese. Yes they thought about others in a certain way as you put it but it wasn't the movies that made them think "that way" it was an undeclared attack that killed thousands of American servicemen & women. Remember the Japanese had been carrying out war crimes in China for years before this, so people already were predisposed to hate them. this just pushed them over the top. You need to stop applying your own biases and recognise that somethings are unforgivable to people. As for cheap production, yes, it was cheap, this is a B movie that would be shown with the main feature, there were hundreds of them churned out rapidly, so YES it is cheap propaganda which was all that was wanted at the time.
Marvellous aerobatics with those planes!!! Funny those phoney propaganda films - The Americans making a victory out of their own failure! I'll bet they wished all their victories were that easy. Credit though to their scale model boats, they almost looked real. Films and TV have come a long way since this film was made - but ther fictional heroes haven't; they still produce more fictional heroes than real ones - it's the American way "If we haven't got any we'll make some up so that the public can believe we've got some. Now let's see who we've got...Heston - no he's dead; Lancaster...no he's gone; Stallone - yeah, but he's older than Trump or Biden; Norris...nah, he's gone; what about Swarzenegar - nah, he's past it; well what about Statham - Oh hell no, he's British, we need a tough-looking American; wel we've only gotma few wimps and ham actors left - they'll do. we can give 'em som army training - oh heck, we're dead!
It was moral building propaganda made on an extremely tight budget because they were churning these out by the dozen, it is still better made than most of the Netflix crap that is on, they at least have the excuse that there is a war on what is Net Flix's excuse
How many times do you have to relay the order to fire a torpedo? They did not even take a speed, range and bearing (not to mention no lead on the torpedo spread);
This film was released on the same day as the opening day of the Battle of Midway. Midway being the crushing defeat to the Japanese Imperial Navy and the beginning of the end for their conquest of the Pacific. What a GREAT day to be an American.
It was a tough time . But we were united.
Exactly. Maybe a bit of luck was there as well.
Thank you for your commentary
Not if you were a United States Navy torpedo bomber crewman!
@@PoochAndBoo Damn ! You got that right.
A very spacious radio room on the submarine!
needed to be built big to get all those people and cameras and lights and stuff in there as well
A nice film of Revenge for Pearl Harbour.
Iam watching from Papua New Guinea, an island nation north of Australia.
12 07 1941 83 years later I am watching this movie. Kind of confusion when at the beginning one sees 1942 somewhat comical
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1942 was when this movie was released is all that meant.
Question: What do you call a dog in a submarine?
Answer: a subwoofer
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i like that. good one
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Alright, into the torpedo tube with you
Hey, wasnt that boat shelled the same from the final countdown?
This is a BEAUTIFUL MOVIE!
Funny how all those bullets fired from machine gun but couldn't sink a wooden boat
1942, there was not much for the Americans to cheer about. Any movie, no matter how corney, was a morale booster. Just properganda
I love how the pilot jumps overboard for a minor screw up!
US torpedos at that time Fire 1 run hot CLUNK fire 2 run off course, fire 3 sinks to bottom, fire 4 Runs in circle sinks sub
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The Mark 14s were pretty bad.
Thank you!!
3:40 おお!!ミニチュア特撮!!
ミニチュア特撮大好きだわ
15:31 見たこともない日本海軍機！
英語はさっぱりわからないけど
おおよそのストーリーはシンプルなようで映像の流れでわかる気がする
日本の空母が真珠湾を目指す
途中で漂流する船を発見、日本軍の飛行機が攻撃
漂流する船の生き残りがアメリカの潜水艦に発見される
(なんというか「ファイナル・カウントダウン」みたい)
日本軍が真珠湾を攻撃
それを潜水艦がリベンジする！という流れかな？
19:35 海に突っ込む日本軍の飛行機
(液冷エンジン!!)
1:00:24 魚雷命中!!
更に砲撃で艦橋を破壊!!
随所にミニチュア特撮があって良いね
There's low-budget, and then there's no-budget....
It’s still better than some of the crap that’s being put out today
This must have been a real low budget
Most of the budget must have gin to compose the music & pay the musicians!
The carrier doesn't sail without escorts a wild story.
The crew of the US sub is quite old. I guess because in 1942 most of the young actors had been called up!
Forest Tucker was in the Army during WW2. This Movie was made right before he re-enlisted in the Army. He was discharged as a SECOND LIEUTENANT in 1945. Just an FYI.
52:42 Look at the size of that torpedo room. Pre war subs were spacious.
The carrier can see the yacht but the yacht cant see the carrier,,hmmm
Seen from crows nest on carrier, the carrier wouldn't necessarily have been able to be seen from the yacht depending on how much of the carrier was above the horizon.
@davedixon2068 have you ever seen a carrier in person,,it's so damm big you can't miss it
@@garybee858 Due to the curvature of the earth it is perfectly feasible for the crows nest of the carrier to see the yacht whilst the main bulk of the carrier is below the horizon, (whole point of putting the crows nest high up on a mast), the size of the carrier is irrelevant if only the crows nest is above the horizon as seen from the yacht. Much as some people seem to wish otherwise the world isnt flat.
@@davedixon2068 try watching the movie the offices saw the yacht through binoculars and officers never go to the crow's nest,,,stop with the nonsense
@@garybee858 Which nonsense would that be? ok the officers see the yacht too but they equally are very high up on its superstructure (which is relatively small) using binoculars, so again no reason it cant not be seen from the yacht plus its a civilian yacht low in the water with no lookout except probably the guy steering. Not sure why you are so het up about being disagreed with, there are any number of reasons the yacht didn't see the carrier some simply practicalities but the main one being it wasn't in the script.
48:13 check out how the planes can land one after another on the carrier deck.
Technology way ahead of it´s time (and ours).
This is a new one: a carrier doing the job of a destroyer.
It's cute how the Hiranama's engine room annunciator handles are always in the "all stop" position.
dont think Japanese military committed suicide that way in WW 2. 14:42 plus subs dont stay on the surface while enemy aircraft are around.
early in the war no but there are plenty of cases of Uboats staying surfaced and fighting off aircraft
Chinese actors playing Japanese and they did it with one lone unescorted aircraft carrier. WOW!
Better title for this movie:
US sinks the entire Japanese Pearl Harbor attack task force on it´s return to Japan.
One thing about this movie, aside from most of it is made up, is there are scenes I’ve never seen before if the attack.
Worst anti-aircraft position ever!
Almost quit watching right then ... but laughed so hard I wondered what else might be ahead. I should trust my first instincts.
Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
Love Bruce Bennett.
Awesome vlog mam love from Pakistan
Too bad Hollywood always screws up good action movies by including women in roles they never had in real life.
Why was she THERE, anyway??
@@judyleewhitaker5119 LOVE INTEREST.
58:18 Carriers with depth charges?
Would they really make the pilot jump overboard???
Yeah, he's a great swimmer.
@brianw612 😂
Chopsueyside
I believe that the story about the US Senator lost that morning is partially true in Final countdown. So this might be fact or both are myths. Who knows. Senator Daniel Chapman in the movie. I personally think the final countdown was inspired by this movie.
1:03:20 Saying this without knowing any of the damage details of the Peral Harbor attack???
And they lived happily ever after!
Japanese ships head room was about 6’ , lot of head room in these ships.
This film was on a pare with adventure serials that we played in theaters on Saturday afternoons to entertain kids. Low budget example of an early propaganda film. Sort of comical if not silly in retrospect.
Now we have the legacy media to give us our propaganda. 😊
It was made by the same people who made those serials
Toy ships and Planes, Planes don't turn like those,
Those indeed had remarkable manouvrebility
well the real ships and planes were a bit busy at the time and the Japanese weren't very happy to lend the film company any of theirs.
Slight error, in 1942 American torpedos didn't explode
A lot of them didn’t. But there were supposed to.
True story
A few did work, but not often.
Squealing tires on dirt road, sailors wearing covers at sea, and radios can't transmit or receive from under salt water. Really bad!
Yeah there was a bunch is really bad stuff. The aircraft in flight and when landing back on the carrier were also pretty bad. Also, a radio tech in that era would have the radio in the sun opened up and be tinkering with tubes and adjustments INSIDE not just spinning dials on the faceplate (I’m a HAM operator).
Hat Japs wouldn’t have had an airman jump over the side. He’d have been ordered to hari Kari himself at worst.
But hey, it was as much if not more intended to be a feel good, we sunk a Jap carrier (even though we didn’t) propaganda film.
Being a retired US Marine and having been to the PAC theater “trifecta” (Arizona, Hiroshima ground zero, and the deck of the Mighty MO, I think I have the right to comment on this film.
Great propaganda war movie so early after the devastating attack on Pearl.
HORRIBLE script and absolutely sad “special effects”.
BUT, being released so soon after Pearl, it’s job was likely to be more about whipping up the war fever at home than presenting any semblance of reality to the masses.
As that Jap flag sinks below the water you can almost hear the 1942 theater crowd exploding in whoops and hollers.
In reality, we fired first on the Japanese that day. The USS Ward, holes and sunk a mini sub outside Pearl before the planes arrived.
Notice how the girl´s dress is immaculate after being in seawater?
12:00 Walk the plank
Made it through 2/3 of this trash. Realized I had a raging headache.
You need to see it as it is meant, moral boosting propaganda, if Midway only happened as this came out there had been nothing but defeats for the American and allied forces up to this time, Pearl Harbour, Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Burma, Philippines, Indonesia, Wake Island, New Guinea, after that lot plus others were lost in a matter of weeks the people wanted something to raise their spirits. This though not a work of art went some way to doing that.
You missed the best part. 41:41 the girl´s dress and hair are in perfect condition after being rescued from the sea, no make up on board, etc...
This is the sorryest depection of a US Submarine I have ever seen. I know ETR3(SS).
Undoubtedly, one of the WORST portrayals and acting movies of WW II with wooden, stupid characters, totally cheap and phony models (compare w "Sink the Bismarck" or even "King Kong"), an implausible plot and NO real storyline. They put REAL Japanese-Americans in concentration camps, yet used Chinese ethnicities to portray "Japanese". Clearly a LOW BUDGET film (3 people on the bridge of an aircraft carrier and a guy on a submarine bridge sitting on a rail firing a machine gun?)👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽
You do realise that there was an actual war going on when they made this and America and its Allies weren't winning, they had lost every battle up to this point, so instead of bleating about how bad it is take it in context, there were only a few actors because the others had joined the military, its cheap because they were churning these out at a massive rate, and it jingoistic because they were there to raise spirits not be realistic. Sink the Bismarck was made well after the war and had a proper budget and mainstream actors available, completely different circumstances.
@@davedixon2068 1943 - "Sahara" (Humphrey Bogart); 1944 - "A Wing & A Prayer (Dana Andrews); 1943 - "Guadalcanal Diary" (Richard Conte)
Prime actors were available and GOOD written scripts existed. This was a POORLY made movie.
@@centralplains7608It was a B movie, made to be shown with a movie staring the actors you mentioned, they were made by the hundred, I'm pretty sure you arent that stupid so I can only assume you are deliberately being argumentative
This turned out to be a comedy.
Wow it only took ONE carrier to attack Pearl Harbor.
Japanese super carrier.
Jumping out of a perfectly good truck instead of running the car off the road with it?????
Am I the only one who is a sucker for these old films, and their crappy 'special effects'.
... Japanese aircraft carrier sunk at Pearl Harbor? Darn! If only Tora Tora Tora would had known this! 😅😅
como siempre ,el cine yanki nunca pierde
Yanki = yanque! No "k"
It is very strange, very strange to hear Japanese people speaking English...
Like the Germans in Hogan's Heroes.
It's not strange. They speak English in Star Wars and nobody cares. Including you.
If the German atomic bomb project had not been SABOTED by the British (see the movie "The Heroes of Telemark"), by the year 2024 the planet would be Germanophile and there would be no socio-political movements of a social-communist nature, which still persist. Simply, the German National Socialists would have dropped the bomb on Moscow and everything would have ended in favor of the Third Reich.
Would you rather read subtitles? Otherwise you have no way of knowing the japanese side of the movie. I have no problem with English
I once had that experience indeed. Undecodable
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This movie is so cheesy, it's actually good. The 'Japanese ' commanding officer in the opening scene on the carrier bridge, isn't even Japanese, he's Nino Pipitone, born in Italy. One of the others is Chinese.
Gizmo........ 12/7/24.....
Propaganda at its worst. The name calling and the stereotyping, wow. Where did they get the "actors" that would agree to "star" in this? Why degrade yourself like this, I don't understand. This films main contribution is to show history how some people felt back then, and to show how movies can be turned into tools to make people think about others "in a certain way"
Wow you've got a major chip on your shoulder, the Actors were proud to be doing something to fight the enemy in any way they could, (they would probably have preferred to join up but couldn't for one reason or another).
You need to see it as it is meant, moral boosting propaganda, if Midway only happened as this came out there had been nothing but defeats for the American and Allied forces up to this time, Pearl Harbour, Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Burma, Philippines, Indonesia, Wake Island, New Guinea, The Solomon islands. They weren't all standing around bleating about being woke or they did this to those poor Japanese who were brainwashed, they wanted REVENGE for Pearl Harbour, hundreds of thousands VOLOUNTEERED to go and kill japs.
This was the film industry pushing out propaganda to help that effort, no one was sympathetic to the Japanese. Yes they thought about others in a certain way as you put it but it wasn't the movies that made them think "that way" it was an undeclared attack that killed thousands of American servicemen & women. Remember the Japanese had been carrying out war crimes in China for years before this, so people already were predisposed to hate them. this just pushed them over the top.
You need to stop applying your own biases and recognise that somethings are unforgivable to people.
As for cheap production, yes, it was cheap, this is a B movie that would be shown with the main feature, there were hundreds of them churned out rapidly, so YES it is cheap propaganda which was all that was wanted at the time.
Lol.
*CRAP*
This is horrible.
What a great propaganda movie...
PRECISELY
Marvellous aerobatics with those planes!!! Funny those phoney propaganda films - The Americans making a victory out of their own failure! I'll bet they wished all their victories were that easy. Credit though to their scale model boats, they almost looked real. Films and TV have come a long way since this film was made - but ther fictional heroes haven't; they still produce more fictional heroes than real ones - it's the American way "If we haven't got any we'll make some up so that the public can believe we've got some. Now let's see who we've got...Heston - no he's dead; Lancaster...no he's gone; Stallone - yeah, but he's older than Trump or Biden; Norris...nah, he's gone; what about Swarzenegar - nah, he's past it; well what about Statham - Oh hell no, he's British, we need a tough-looking American; wel we've only gotma few wimps and ham actors left - they'll do. we can give 'em som army training - oh heck, we're dead!
It was moral building propaganda made on an extremely tight budget because they were churning these out by the dozen, it is still better made than most of the Netflix crap that is on, they at least have the excuse that there is a war on what is Net Flix's excuse
LOL, this must be the "abbreviated version of Pearl harbor".
S a former submariner I find the commands comical 🥸
Yeah, I liked the “up rudder” command.
How many times do you have to relay the order to fire a torpedo?
They did not even take a speed, range and bearing (not to mention no lead on the torpedo spread);
Funny how all those bullets fired from machine gun but couldn't sink a wooden boat