Love, hate that movie... Shoot downs with better endings:
In Harm’s Way. The Bridges of Toko-ri, and The Bridge on the River Kwai.
Love, hate that movie... Shoot downs with better endings:
I have always loved “In Harm’s Way”, almost completely for the opening scene that takes place the night before the attack, the party at the Officer’s Club wearing their service dress whites with the high collars.
I grew up a Navy Brat, my dad was an officer, and I saw a few of those types of parties as a kid when we were in Subic and Yokosuka during the Sixties.
There was something...completely sentimental and somehow authentic-feeling about that scene that it nearly made my heart ache for a lost time.
I remember one as a kid in Japan where I had to go down and get my dad for some issue and he was in his whites, my mom all dolled up, all the other officers and their wives, and there were those multi-colored japanese lanterns all above with big band music playing...it was a very special memory.
LOL, I can’t even remember what it was that made me go over, maybe my two older brothers were having one of their death-match fights and I thought they were gonna kill each other. They had a few of those...