The FRiday Night Movie - The Enemy Below (1957)

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One of my all-time favorite submarine movies! :-)

[Yorlik803]

Tora Tora Tora was made in the 70s I think.
The movie wasn’t that big here but was a smash in Japan.

[MasterGunner01]

You're correct — “Tora, Tora, Tora” was release in 1970 or two years later than I thought. The movie was a great undertaking for both Japan and the U.S. The first Japanese director spent a lot of money, including the construction of a full size battleship on land for Japanese scenes, and was sacked. His replacement found that most of the scenes he shot had to be redone. 20th Century Fox had a fire on their back lot and their fleet of Pearl Harbor scale models to be used in filming was destroyed. Costs for the movie almost bankrupted the studio.

One reason it was a hit in Japan was due to casting of the Japanese actors and they were speaking Japanese in their scenes! Also, WW2 is not taught to Japanese students and I'm certain that curiosity had a great part in the movie's success there.

Here, the movie was successful, and though it was not a blockbuster earner, it did make a profit for the studio.

All considered, “Tora, Tora, Tora” has established a certain level of quality in the telling of the Pearl Harbor attack of 7 December 1941.

In comparison, the 2001 production “Pearl Harbor” was a love triangle set in the period from the Battle of Britain through the Doolittle Raid on Japan. There was a lot of CGI used, but the special effects could not make up for a lousy, contrived Hollywood wartime romance that happened to include the Pearl Harbor attack. I thought that the casting was awful — Ben Affleck playing a fighter-bomber pilot and Alec Baldwin as GEN Jimmy Doolittle — strains credibility to the breaking point.

[Jacquerie]

I just watched it this Saturday afternoon, a matinee.

Great flick.

[bravo whiskey]

i have a friend whose dad was stationed at pearl harbor during the filming. there is a scene with a lot of smoke in the background. turns out they needed to hide the distinctive silhouette of CVN-65 ENTERPRISE which was in for repairs after the hanger fire on yankee station.

[MasterGunner01]

Sigh...and now USS Enterprise (CVN-65) has gone to the scrap yard to become razor blades. If there was one ship that should have been preserved, it was Enterprise. We could have used its functioning nuke reactors to supply electrical power to the grid.

[Bratch]

Same movie, no subtitles.

The Enemy Below 1957