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Release Date: 02 November, 1999 Retail Price: $29.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (11 total) |
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Tora! Tora! Tora! is an exciting and visually stunning film about the attack on Pearl Harbor, told from both the Japanese and American points of view. It shows the viewer that Pearl was a failure for both sides.
I cannot find a flaw, or the missing five minutes, either
Much has already been written about the fidelity to history exhibited in this movie, and I won't pretend to improve upon it. Indeed, the excellent quality of all aspects of the movie's production is only enhanced by its accuracy.
One reviewer pointed out that there is about five minutes missing from the earlier DVD version and this new 2-disk version. I have compared the new version against my old (but excellent) VHS widescreen version dating from several years ago. I cannot find that anything is missing from the new 2-disk version. The only thing I can think of is that the "intermission" period in the new DVD version may have been shortened. Intermissions were not uncommon in "blockbuster" movies of the 1950's, 60's, and very early 70's. They varied in length. I timed the intermission in this new DVD version at ~3 minutes, which would have been short by the standards of the day.
I have read a number of books about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, including the best of all, "Day of Infamy", by John Toland. The movie and that book are very closely in alignment.
Did the Roosevelt administration know the Japanese were going to attack? Watch this movie, read that book, and make up your own mind. And beware -- history has an unsettling habit of repeating itself, as George Santayana warned us....
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