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PTO Movies - 8/1/2009 3:09:59 AM

jazman

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I'm sure this has been done before on the forums here, but in the spirit of this new game, what are your favorite PTO movies? I haven't seen one in a long time, I'd like to know the best list to watch a few.

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RE: PTO Movies - 8/1/2009 3:11:08 AM

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Gotta be Tora Tora Tora, where Andrew the AI attacks PEarl

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RE: PTO Movies - 8/1/2009 4:04:42 AM

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Midway is awesome, as is Letters from Iwo Jima. I haven't seen it in a while, but MacArthur was a good movie too.

Tora Tora Tora is a classic. Its great to watch that and then watch Midway. Plus Midway includes the battle of the Coral Sea.

Just for fun there is Sands of Iwo Jima with John Wayne. Not historically accurate, but lots of fun.

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RE: PTO Movies - 8/1/2009 5:26:50 AM

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Hell in the Pacific...

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RE: PTO Movies - 8/1/2009 5:27:50 AM

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Here's a not so complete list of movies in rough chronological order with brief synopsis.

Tora Tora Tora - docudrama on Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor - Recent Hollywood movie that purists cringe over...with good reason!
From Here to Eternity - classic film starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra
Air Force - story of B-17 'Mary Ann' in the opening days of WW2
Flying Tigers - John Wayne leads the AVG in China
Wake Island - story of the Marines battle to hold the island
Bataan - Robert Taylor and great supporting cast hold out against the Japanese
They Were Expendable - PT Boats in the Philippines stars LtCdr Robert Montgomery USNR and John Wayne
The Fighting Sullivans - Story about the five Sullivan brothers who died aboard USS Juneau
MacArthur - Gregory Peck is 'Dugout Doug' in a fair bio-pic
Empire of the Sun - A young Christian Bale stars in Steven Spielberg's movie about a boy who fights to survive in a Japanese internment camp
Operation Petticoat - Cary Grant stars in this comedy as skipper of the pink submarine, USS Sea Tiger
So Proudly We Hail - Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, and Veronica Lake star as Army nurses on Bataan
Destination: Tokyo - Cary Grant stars as commander of USS Copperfin on a mission to Tokyo Bay
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo Van Johnson and Spencer Tracy star in this movie about the Doolittle Raid
The Purple Heart - Dana Andrews leads a group of downed flyers facing a 'war crimes' trial in Japan
Midway - Star studded cast in movie about the great battle
Wing and a Prayer: The Story of Carrier X Dana Andrews and Don Ameche battle each other and the Japanese at Midway
Gung Ho - story of the Marine raid on Makin Island
Guadalcanal Diary Classic film about Marines on the famous island
The Thin Red Line Artistic film about battle for Guadalcanal
In Harm's Way - John Wayne stars in this navy epic
God is My Copilot - Dennis Morgan is Col. Robert Scott in this movie based on the book by the same name
Operation Pacific - John Wayne stars as Duke Gifford in this submarine action tale
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison - under rated pic starring Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr
The Fighting Seabees - John Wayne establishes the legendary Seabees
Flying Leathernecks - John Wayne leads a Marine fighter squadron in the Solomons
Flat Top - Sterling Hayden stars in this film about carrier pilot training and butts heads with a new commander
Task Force - Gary Cooper stars in film about the development of naval aviation through WW2
The Wings of Eagles - John Wayne stars as navy flier Frank 'Spig' Wead
Father Goose - a romantic comedy starring Cary Grant as a boozy coastwatcher
Beach Red - Cornel Wilde attempts to take Japanese Island
Halls of Montezuma - Richard Widmark fights to destroy a Japanese rocket base. Jack Webb also stars.
Operation Burma - Errol Flynn manages to swashbuckle his way against the Japanese in Burma
Merrill's Marauders - Jeff Chandler stars as Brigadier General Frank Merrill in Burma
Battle Cry - Van Helflin leads a group of marines as they train for battle
Windtalkers - Slightly above-average movie about the Navaho codetalkers
Hell to Eternity - Jeffrey Hunter stars in the true story of Guy Gabaldon on Saipan
Back to Bataan - John Wayne organizes Philippine resistance groups
Hell in the Pacific - Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune star in a fine film of two opposing soldiers who have a tense truce
Mister Roberts - Henry Fonda, James Cagney, and Jack Lemmon in the classic and poignant comedy
The Caine Mutiny - Van Johnson deals with a mentally unstable captain played by Humphrey Bogart...Where are those strawberries?
Hellcats of the Navy - Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis star in their only movie together. A decent submarine movie about the development of mine detecting sonar
Run Silent, Run Deep - the submarine classic starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster
Torpedo Run - an under-appreciated submarine film starring Glenn Ford and Ernest Borgnine
The Bridge on the River Kwai - The classic PoW film that earned Alec Guiness an Oscar
To End All Wars - The awful truth of the prisoners who built the Kwai Bridge. Robert Carlyle stars in a moving masterpiece
The Great Raid - film about the Cabanatuan PoW rescue mission...Stars Joseph Fiennes and Benjamin Bratt
Sands of Iwo Jima - John Wayne leads a squad of Marines from Tarawa to Mount Suribachi
Flags of Our Fathers - Story of the men in the iconic image of WW2
Letters from Iwo Jima - Ken Watanabe stars in a fantastic film about the Japanese on Iwo Jima
The Outsider - Tony Curtis stars as Ira Hayes of Iwo Jima photograph fame
Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku (For Those We Love) - Japanese film on about a kamikaze unit
Otoka-tachi no Yamato (Japanese movie about Battleship Yamato) Great film on the final sortie of the famous battleship
Gekido No Showashi: Okinawa Kessen (The Battle of Okinawa) - The 1971 classic Japanese movie about the horrors of the battle
Mission of the Shark: The Saga of USS Indianapolis - Stacy Keach is the commander of the ill-fated cruiser Indianapolis
Fat Man and Little Boy - Paul Newman pushes for the gadgets to end the war
Hiroshima - Made for TV movie about the events leading up to and including the dropping of the bomb

Documentaries
The Battle of Midway - John Ford's classic
With the Marines at Tarawa - Oscar winning documentary on the Battle for Tarawa
Report from the Aleutians - Great documentary about the boys in the North
To the Shores of Iwo Jima - Fine film on the epic battle
The Fighting Lady - THE movie that provides all the great battle footage in nearly every other movie. Filmed aboard USS Yorktown (CV 10).
Victory at Sea (TV Series) - 'Nuff Said!
Crusade in the Pacific (TV Series) - an average series on the fight in the Pacific

*****Addedum*****
Here Comes the Navy - Though not a WW2 PTO movie per se, this James Cagney movie would be of particular interest. It was shot on board the USS Arizona and therefore a nice time capsule of life aboard a battlewagon in the mid 1930s.

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RE: PTO Movies - 8/1/2009 7:30:35 AM

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^^^ Excellent post!!!

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RE: PTO Movies - 8/1/2009 3:35:08 PM

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ARGGGHHHHHHH!!!

He mentioned the movie that shall not be named!

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RE: PTO Movies - 8/1/2009 4:02:02 PM

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Hi all,

quote:

ORIGINAL: The Island

Here's a not so complete list of movies in rough chronological order with brief synopsis.

Thanks - very nice list - and very nice for 1st post!

One recent Japanese movie missing (Kamikaze unit):

Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku (For Those We Love)

BTW, what is the name of the B&W movie about USN carrier airforce (in the movie the main actor looses his legs in an acident before the WWII but serves in important roles on the bridge and in HQ duing the war)?

Leo "Apollo11"

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RE: PTO Movies - 8/1/2009 4:09:12 PM

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Hi all,

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ORIGINAL: Apollo11

BTW, what is the name of the B&W movie about USN carrier airforce (in the movie the main actor looses his legs in an acident before the WWII but serves in important roles on the bridge and in HQ duing the war)?

I knew I would remember it... it was John Wayne movie (and also missing from the list):

The Wings of Eagles

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RE: PTO Movies - 8/1/2009 4:33:25 PM

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quote:

I knew I would remember it... it was John Wayne movie (and also missing from the list):

The Wings of Eagles"

Yes, I erred in the omission of the Spig Wead bio-pic.

I was not aware of For Those We Love, but I do now and have located a copy!

Both of the movies you noted are now on the list.

Thank you for the kind words in your previous post.

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RE: PTO Movies - 8/1/2009 4:37:08 PM

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Hi all,

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ORIGINAL: The Island

Both of the movies you noted are now on the list.

Great!

quote:

Thank you for the kind words in your previous post.

Welcome on board!

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RE: PTO Movies - 8/1/2009 5:14:44 PM

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I have the Battle 360 1st season. "The Big E" Playing it right now.

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RE: PTO Movies - 8/1/2009 8:34:31 PM

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A few more that could be added to the list:

Away All Boats - Jeff Chandler as captain of an APA
Mister Roberts - Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon, James Cagney on Navy stores ship
The Gallant Hours - James Cagney as Bill Halsey during the Solomons campaign
The Wackiest Ship in the Army - Jack Lemmon in command of an old sailing ship with incompetent crew.

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RE: PTO Movies - 8/1/2009 8:53:41 PM

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Run Silent, Run Deep is only a so-so submarine film, but because Don Rickles is one of the crew, I bump it up to the second scariest horror movie of all time-- the thought of 2 months on a submarine with Don Rickles... oh the horror...the horror...

The Japanese movie about the cut off and abandonded soldiers on Luzon who turn to cannibalism...one of the greatest movies of any kind ever made....circa 1950, -51? What is the title?

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RE: PTO Movies - 8/1/2009 10:57:02 PM

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The Island, terrific list! Reminds me that I've seen many of those (but the memories are dim), on Saturday afternoon movies on TV, growing up.

Is it too much to ask you (or anyone) to add a 1-5 rating on those??

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