Greatest Navy Movie Ever Made

[Lesforan]

Navmacs,

Apparently, the Japanese were rather better equipped than is usually thought!

[Gone Asiatic]

It is very hard to pick one Greatest Navy Movie Ever Made.

The rest of the best short list includes:
"Tora-Tora-Tora" - still the most accurate portrayal of the Pearl Harbor attack.

A 1942 vintage Japanese movie did a pretty good job...from the Japanese perspective of course.

"In Harms Way" - good, reasonably credible story, good use of models,good direction (Otto Preminger)

In my collection as is They Were Expendable

"Das Boot" - best submarine movie

Total agreement on this one

"Master and Commander" - best Napoleanic war naval film (wish they'd do a sequel)

Loved the Lesser of two weevils joke!

[AndyP]

Little late to the party but what the hay

A short list of my favs are
Yangtse Incident
Das Boot
Tora Tora Tora
Battle of the River Plate
Sink the Bismarck
Master and Commander (Make another, I wanna see Trafalgar dammit!)

i would love to see (or make) a film about the Falklands landings and Ted Brigg' Book 'Flagship Hood' (I.E Sink the Bismarck but a more personal story set aboard the ship)

[chuck]

Master and Commander (Make another, I wanna see Trafalgar dammit!)

Alas, Captain Aubrey sat out Trafalgar on half pay between books 3 and 4. If a serial movie is ever made about the jumped up army corporal Sharpe, then one could see Trafalgar in one installment.

[Marco_Trigo]

I love Master & Commander, mostly because I believe the books are brilliant. To my sadness, only three books have so far been translated into Portuguese (half my library is in English, but I would like to complete that collection as is).

The other day I was fortunate to catch a re-run of "The Sand Pebbles" and it's a brilliant movie, I think even better than M&C once we dissect it.

Platoon is also one of my all time favourites.

BTW... could we also mention tv series? Band Of Brothers, Generation Kill, Tour Of Duty, Das Boot, all amazing shows that owe nothing to some movies.

Marco

[Gerarddm]

I thought the Sharpe TV series ( Go, Sean Bean ) was v good.

[Marco_Trigo]

Oh, that one never came to Portugal that I remember; Bernard Cornwell is a brilliant novelist though. Hornblower series did come to Portugal and I recall it was rather good too.

Marco

[Admiral John Byng]

Oh, that one never came to Portugal that I remember; Bernard Cornwell is a brilliant novelist though. Hornblower series did come to Portugal and I recall it was rather good too.

Marco

That's strange Marco I would have thought Sharpe would have done well in Portugal considering the very important role played by the Portugese in the peninsula.

I see the Yangtse Incident is coming to DVD in March!

[Marco_Trigo]

Well, yes, we do have a good part in the Sharp series, but no, it never came. Our television networks suffer from excess CSI and soap operas. One day it may come to Portugal... if not, I'll do something nasty I won't mention close to honest gentlemen.

By the way� guys, I�m going nuts. I remember a movie I saw when I was a kid. I have no idea what this movie is called, but it was somewhat of a comedy. I seem to recall its motto was some Japanese cruiser that was causing great panic in the Pacific, yet from the sketchy parts I recall, the accidental hero of the movie ended up being a small, old, rotting ship which I believe was called �Curmudgeon�.

What this movie featured was extensive wwii IJN footage. The Japanese cruiser (name forgotten and completely fictional) was shown A LOT. I remember the crew exercising on deck and there was even a sumo championship shown.

This footage was accompanied by a very propagandistic narrator and what marked me was that there was no accuracy whatsoever. It was so fictionalized that I recall a scene of the movie, with a long battle line of American battleships (all pre-treaty), which were shown hunting the cruiser, and I remember they were introduced as the �Pittsburgh, Tampa and Harrisburg�.

This is all I remember. Does anyone have even the slightest idea what movie I�m talking about?

Marco

[ALBERTO]

My best is Tora Tora Tora IMO the best ever about Pearl Harbour and a very good film historicaly speaking

[C T]

Marco,
Do you remember any of the actors in it? There was one that starred Charles Laughton and Robert Taylor with supporting roles by Chill Wills and Walter Brennan. The plot was an old 4 stack destroyer rescues a convoy from a Japanese raiding cruiser. If I remember correctly Brian Dunlevy played the destroyer Captain. Can't place the title right now but it will come to me.
Did a search on imdb the title was Standby for Action made in 1942.
C T

[bengtsson]

What would be the best Navy Movie that has not been made yet and should be??

Different countries would focus on different subjects of course.

In the USA, how about a movie focused on the Kamakaze experience, both sides.

In the UK maybe the Taranto story. Or better yet the Narvik story

In Germany, the Narvik story, or the German Battle Cruisers at Jutland story.

In Italy, the story of the Italian convoys to North Africa.

Japan, destroyers in the solomons 1942-43.

Bob B.

[Lesforan]

I read an interesting novel a few years ago titled "Decenber 6". While not a navy story per se, it includes a plot that centers around the Japanese Navy.

I am still in New Mexico today, so am a long ways from my library. Thus, I cannot name the author.

To briefly summarize the story, it is written about the life of a young American living in Tokyo, and his life in weeks leading up to the Pearl Harbor attack. The Japanese intelligence service thinks he knows more than he really does about American Naval preparations for war. It has an interesting perspective: a foreign national living in the capital of a nation about to attack his own country.

It is a very exciting, fast-moving story. Heavy on intrige.

[daveseas]

ok,

Here's mind......Flat-top with Sterling Hadden, Corvette K-225, Run Silent, Run Deep.


Regards
Dave

[simoni]

(1) Hunt for Red October
(2) Das Boot
(3) Top Gun - OTT I know, but hey - I love F-5s and A-4s
(4) In which we serve
(5) Battleship Potemkin

[Lesforan]

The Final Countdown.

[Zach P.]

There is some great food for movies yet unmade to take that theme up.

I always thought Tsushima would be great. It could be about the Second Pacific Squadron's journey to the east and it would culminate in the battle off Tsushima. I could be beautiful if done right...though tragic.

The Zebruggee Raid in WWI would be great. They could use the Alexander Fullerton novel Sixty Minutes for Saint George as a basis....or The Blooding of the Guns would be a good Jutland Movie.....

Though mostly I was thinking that the story of the USS Houston and HMAS Perth would be a phemnomenal movie or something about the ABDA squadron in those scary early days of the war.

The navy needs its Saving Private Ryan. I am tired of Pearl harbour and U-571 being the pinnacle of modern naval film.......

Anyone else have ideas on this?

[Charlestonguy]

My vote goes to Enemy Below and Tora Tora Tora,

I like the books They were Expendable, and Sink the Bismarck more than the movie version.

[Deckard]

The Final Countdown.

I've always liked that movie, in fact, I own it .

The deck operations in TFC are far more exciting and indeed, superior, to that other great modern American naval film Top Gun - and yet Top Gun always gets the credit!

[Gone Asiatic]

My vote goes to Enemy Below and Tora Tora Tora,

I like the books They were Expendable, and Sink the Bismarck more than the movie version.

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Vme9jUhlo
This is my favorite part of They Were Expendable:
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=W8GujdNtgwg