Prima vittoria

Titolo originale: In Harm's Way
Regia: Otto Preminger |
Anno: 1965
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Guerra Dramma
Tag: suicide | navy | military officer | world war ii | pearl harbor | u.s. navy | military service | naval officer | pacific war | pacific island | black and white | admiral | second chance | military life | estranged father | military uniform | military | date rape | guilty conscience | naval battle | father son conflict | waves (u.s. naval women's reserve) | military nurse |
Cast: John Wayne | Kirk Douglas | Patricia Neal | Tom Tryon | Paula Prentiss | Brandon De Wilde | Jill Haworth | Dana Andrews | Stanley Holloway | Burgess Meredith | Barbara Bouchet | Franchot Tone | Henry Fonda | Patrick O'Neal | Carroll O'Connor | Slim Pickens | James Mitchum | George Kennedy | Bruce Cabot | Tod Andrews | Larry Hagman | Stewart Moss | Richard LePore | Chet Stratton | Soo Yong | Dort Clark | Hal Needham |

Il capitano Torrey ed il comandante Eddington devono arginare i danni che le navi hanno subito in seguito all'attacco di Pearl Harbor. In tutto questo il primo cerca di ricucire i rapporti con il figlio e di dare una svolta positiva alla sua relazione con un'infermiera.

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The car in which the Army Air Corps Officer and Liz Eddington had an apparent head-on collision with [...] D
The action takes place in the Solomon Islands, though they are renamed. The Yamato, never ventured i [...] D
When Torrey returns home and finds Powell on the couch, Powell has a copy of PHOTOPLAY on his chest. [...] D
When the boatswain's mate orders, "On deck, attention to port," the water in the background can be s [...] D
When making the parachute drop all of the Marines have proper chin straps with cups. Gregory just ha [...] D
Answering the concerns of Burke about sending the radio message in the clear, Torrey asks, "Don't yo [...] D
When the submarine that torpedoes the 'Swayback', in one shot the cable pulling the sub is visible. D
During the Pearl Harbor attack sequence, smoke is seen being carried away in the opposite direction [...] D
Powell drives a 1946 Ford convertible in 1941. D
Naval mines do not sit on the surface. They sit under the waterline where their detonation could bre [...] D
When Torrey visits his son on the PT Boat, there is a "gun crew" in the background, but neither the [...] D
When the Cassidy goes to full speed ahead, the bow anchor robe is still connected. D
As Nimitz reads Torrey's promotion orders, he says Torrey is being appointed to the rank of "Rear Ad [...] D
In the scene in which the motor launch bearing Harding and his exec (bow# 3) is trying to catch up w [...] D
As the soldier with Canfil's group goes to pick up the message thrown from Torrey's plane, two crew [...] D
Early in the movie while Liz Eddington and her lover are fleeing the Japanese attack in his Lincoln [...] D
Virtually all of the prototype US naval vessels seen in this film were of classes that existed only [...] D
There are several aircraft types referred to in the film:R4D, PBY, F4F, PBJ. Those are all naval des [...] D
During the Pearl Harbor attack, Liz Eddington and her lover are being strafed on the beach and in th [...] D
When Torrey orders the 'Swayback' to General Quarters two of the anti aircraft mounts are showing Bo [...] D
When Torrey says goodbye to his son, one of the 1952 GMC trucks belonging to the production company [...] D
The house that Haynes and Dorne share is not in Hawaii. It is Spanish style with Spanish arches, a S [...] D
Ensign Dorne committed suicide due to reason believing she was pregnant. The time-line seems too sho [...] D
CINCPAC I is told that the USS Ballard is among the ships underway after the Japanese attack. The Ba [...] D
At the formalities bestowing Admiral Nimitz's rank on Torrey, he said, "After the formalities of the [...] D
The model of the Yamato has her 6-inch secondary guns in double-barreled turrets. The real one's 6-i [...] D
When Torrey and Eddington are coming from the brig they look at a cruiser leaving "to join Halsey". [...] D
At the "Pineapple Moneybags" party, Torrey's dress white jacket had curved (rank insignia) shoulder [...] D
When the USS Cassidy is beginning to leave Pearl Harbor, her stern anchor line has been cut, but her [...] D
When Nimitz enters Torrey's stateroom, Maggie salutes him. Navy and Marine Corps personnel do not do [...] D
When Eddington climbs into the plane to look for the Japanese fleet, he is flying from the right (co [...] D
The hole in the hull is too small for a torpedo explosion and not enough water is rushing in. D
Mrs. MacConnell tells her husband, "Mac, you've got that brainwashed look again." The term "brainwas [...] D
In the opening scene at the Navy dance, a bra strap can be seen across Liz Eddington's back as her d [...] D
The oiler spotted after the escape from Pearl Harbor is identified by its hull number as the USS Gua [...] D
It would be completely impossible for a WWII submarine to make a torpedo run on a cruiser so shortly [...] D
In the initial depth charge attack on the submarine, a shot shows a charge sinking below the submerg [...] D
When Eddington is killed and his plane is shot down, Torrey and the other officers present on base l [...] D
Nearly all female characters in the film wear popular and current 1965 clothing and hairstyles. D
Motor torpedo boats would not have fired their machine guns during a torpedo run at night when they [...] D
In the very opening scene at the dance, a boom mic's shadow is clearly visible panning over the offi [...] D
During the surface battle, Torrey and his staff are all without life jackets or helmets. When at gen [...] D
After Torrey's cruiser is hit by torpedoes, it is dead in the water. But the helmsman can be seen tu [...] D
Before the final battle one of the Navy officers says the Yamato had a 16-inch armored belt. The fil [...] D
While sitting in Torrey's office, he and Maggie have the radio on. The Japanese show comes on with t [...] D
On the Cassidy's bridge early in the Pearl Harbor attack, an officer answers an intercom phone sayin [...] D
In the scene in which Eddington takes the reconnaissance plane, it is given to him with a machine gu [...] D
When Eddington takes the PBJ to scout the Japanese fleet, he sits in the right hand seat. The pilot [...] D
When Torrey is riding up to the top of the lookout mountain to tell Bev about her husband missing, F [...] D
They refer to the Naval Academy as "Campus" when in fact it is referred to as the "Yard". D
When Torrey arrives at his new command, he deplanes Powell before his aide, Mr. Armstrong. The prope [...] D
In the hospital ship approaching Pearl Harbor, Torrey is told that he had been asleep for almost thr [...] D
Torrey's first task force is referred to as a "bat blind" group with no radar, yet as the destroyer [...] D
Eddington, while flying over the Japanese Battleship Yamato, states that "she's got twelve big guns" [...] D
Japanese lookouts had to be blind if they could not see the sea mines floating on the surface of the [...] D
When the aircraft's jump door is open, a significant wind blows inside toward the tail. Torrey is si [...] D
(01:53:20) When Dorne and Eddington break away from the beach party she goes over a short rise in th [...] D
Prior to the battle in Palu Passage Egan asks Rock what a surface battle is like. Rock would have no [...] D
Just before the car crashes into the truck, it is seen on fire. The fire could not have happened unt [...] D
When Eddington is identifying Liz's body at the morgue, he was told the "Air Force" claimed that of [...] D
During the Pearl Harbor attack, the fleet commander is referred to as CINCPAC (Commander in Chief Pa [...] D
When the cruiser is struck by the torpedo and Torrey's arm is caught in the door, the upper part is [...] D
Fonda affects a fake southern accent. Nimitz was from Texas, not the deep south. D
This movie features a US Navy Albatross, which was not built until after the end of WW II. D
The helmet covers worn by the Marines, particularly in the 'para marine' sequences are the 1960s 'vi [...] D
Liz's lover left the driver's door ajar on the Lincoln parked on the beach. When he tried to start t [...] D
When Torrey walks Eddington from the brig to the duty launch, a boom mic's shadow is very clearly se [...] D
When Captain Torrey returns to his quarters after the X-Rays and cast removal, he finds the radio of [...] D
When Eddington's plane is shot down, the left wing is blown off and the plane is on fire. In the nex [...] D
Prior to the torpedo hit of his cruiser near Pearl, Torrey ordered Burke to "radio" the fleet as to [...] D
At about 1:17:55, as Torrey is giving his toast, Egin's chair moves out of frame by itself, no doubt [...] D
At the meeting in the bomb shelter, Clayton Canfil changes position between shots. D
At the beginning of the film Liz Eddington leaves the Officer's Club without a purse. She leaps out [...] D
The "Powell-Hyde" cable car prominently featured is the present day Powell Street style of car that [...] D
When Torrey drops his message from the R4D aircraft to Canfil, the streamer blows toward the nose in [...] D
At the 1:37:00 mark, paratroopers are jumping out of the plane. The door of the plane is open. At th [...] D
When the Cassidy is starting her run from Pearl Harbor during the attack, her stern depth charge rac [...] D
When Eddington absconds with the long range bomber to scout out the Japanese, he scrambles into the [...] D
During the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Kimmel (Franchot Tone) says, "Out of 9 battleships?" Ther [...] D
Before the Pearl Harbor attack begins, as McConnell is being ferried out to his destroyer there is a [...] D
In the scene in the quonset hut when Admiral Torrey receives the phone call from Powell about Edding [...] D
In the beginning Torrey sends a radio message to Pearl Harbor requesting a tanker to refuel his batt [...] D
After Eddington identifies the IJN Yamato, Mac refers to her as an 80,000-ton vessel. At this point [...] D
M-151 "Jeep"-type vehicles used in many scenes were from the 1960s not 1940s. Note horizontal grill [...] D
When McConnell first arrives aboard the Cassidy, the other officers are playing cribbage. One office [...] D
The Yamato is described by Capt. Eddington as having 12 big guns; both in the view of her from the a [...] D
The cover art for the Paramount DVDs and Blu-Rays shows John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, and a navy vessel. [...] D
During the initial dance scene, when Mac asks the band to stop playing the leader waves his arm and [...] D
When the car driven by the Air Corps Major and Liz Eddington goes off the side of the road the passe [...] D
When Broderick arrives at Gavabutu, PT-48 is in the background with the flag flying from the mast af [...] D
As Torrey is returning to the "Swayback," a sailor on it sends an intercom message saying, "Quarterd [...] D
When discussing the paratrooper jump, George Kennedy states it would be a low-level jump. But when t [...] D
The Japanese submarine in the Pearl Harbor attack changes appearance radically between shots - diffe [...] D
CINCPAC I is reprimanding Torrey and relieving him of his command because "he wasn't zigzagging at t [...] D
The cruiser used in the beginning of the movie, U.S.S. St. Paul CA-73, did not enter service until 1 [...] D
When Torrey is leaving Maggie's house, he says, "Thank you, Maggie," but his lips don't move. D
As the paratroop assault launches, an M-38A1 jeep can be seen moving on the runway. The M-38 (&A1) s [...] D
As the Cassidy is attacking the sub in the beginning of the film, we are given what is supposed to b [...] D
In the first (and only) full length shot of the cruiser, a small black helicopter is visible on the [...] D
When the paramarines are loading into the Douglas R4-Ds, the insignia on the fuselages are white sta [...] D
John Wayne's character makes a comment to Burgess Meredith's character about his marrying three Holl [...] D
The Hawai'ian Islands were under strict martial-law after Pearl Harbor. Therefore, Commander Eddingt [...] D
In the confrontation between Eddington and Jere Torrey, the former calls the latter "Lieutenant" at [...] D
At 2:09:25 to 2:09:30 a B-25 is taxiing on the runway. The klieg lights and camera crew is reflected [...] D
During the planning for the parachute assault Colonel Gregory states that it will have to be a low l [...] D