In Harm's Way (1965) | Movie Reaction | First Time Watching | The Duke in the Navy!
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2023
- Thanks to Grandaddy Dudester for the Special Request. We both check out the iconic John Wayne in a World War II film, In Harm's Way (1965). Here's our reaction to our first time watching.
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Henry Fonda's unnamed "CincPAC" Admiral character with a southern accent is supposed to be Admiral Chester Nimitz, who was of German descent, born and raised in Fredericksburg, Texas.
Henry Fonda played Adm Nimitz again 10 years later in the 1976 "Midway".
The big guy is George Kennedy, Cool hand Luke, the Eiger sanction, and a lot of other movies.
Just 7 years after this movie was made, Brandon deWilde (who played Jere) would die in an auto accident. In 1953 he played Joey Starrett in Shane.
John Wayne is a legend; I really hope you watch his last film before he passed away called The Shootist (1976). It's my favorite of his.
Very good recommendation! It is in the films I call "transitional Westerns". "The Shootist", "Big Jake", and "The Wild Bunch" all mix classic Western action, with more modern technology, like motor carriages.
My favorite is: The Cowboys
With a young (ish) Ron Howard!
Kirk Douglas returned to Hawaii as a Captain of the USS Nimitz in "The Final Countdown". Great movie.
Matthew Yelland was an awesome fictional Skipper.
The best F14 footage until TopGun,
@@thunderstruck5484I prefer the footage in The Final Countdown.
This is a must see one.
Better and more realistic footage then Top Gun according to actual Naval aviators.
perfect for John Wayne double feature:
"They Were Expendable" 1945 by John Ford
I love that movie. That, and Back to Bataan. I'm half Filipino so I love WW2 history centered around the PI. "The Great Raid" is another great movie.
The great Patricia Neal as Maggy.
who was married to the actor who was playing the role of Commander Neal Owen. the creepy officer who was putting the moves on his wife's room mate.
"A bridge to far"is a good classic
It's a shame that no one has ever made a really good movie about the battle at Leyte gulf.
It's the most amazing sea battle of modern times.
It was no less lopsided than the Spartans facing the Persian army at Thermopylae.
Those pt boats, tiny obsolete destroyers and small transport carriers faced a monster fleet down.
America win that battle because it's sailors fought like the third monkey in the gangway to the ark and it was starting to rain.
The Japanese couldn't believe what they were seeing and believed they had fallen into an ambush so they turned around and retreated.
I'd rathe see one about the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. Tougher odds, higher stakes, two American Admirals gave their lives in combat in one night. They deserve to be remembered.
I served on the ship in this movie, USS Saint Paul CA 73. We did 2 tours in VietNam. She had 8 inch main battery
If you're looking for a no nonsense WW2 film Run Silent Run Deep is Excellent. It stars Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, and Don Rickles. Absent is a secondary plot so there is no sappy Love story. It goes straight to the killing.
Another great one!
@@scotthewitt258It's a classic read the book a few months ago. The ending is way better in the book!
They were expendable is also a good one.
@@gbro8822 Top notch movie some of the Duke's best work.
The "Winds of War" and the follow up "War and Remembrance" television miniseries from the 80's were great fictionalized accounts of WWII with great casting. Both based in books by Herman Wouk.
I really enjoyed "Once an Eagle" and was looking forward to "Winds of War" but it fell way short and I didn't bother to watch it to the end.
@@larky368war and remembrance is better
To make a temporary repair on the hole in the hull, they would use a mattress and a piece of grating. They'd wedge it to the hull with whatever they had, pipes, boards, anything.
This is one of my favorite John Wayne war movies. For one of his best westerns you might watch The Searchers.
Or "The Cowboys".
My dad trained as a fireman and damage control. He said they had timbers and yes they used mattresses.
I don't think it is Twitter anymore. In the Military, your name is in every piece of clothing you are issued. PT stands for Patrol Torpedo. The Yamato had 18" Guns, Our Battle ships had 16" Guns and the swayback wasn't a battleship. My father was in the Pacific during WWII, He setup radar units on the Islands.
While John Wayne isn’t in it, a really great WW II flick in the vein of “Tora! Tora! Tora!” Is the 70’s version of “Midway” ( not to be confused with the CGI mess from 2021.)
Tora Tora Tora is the attack on Pearl Harbour in Dec of 1941 (27 months after the start of WW2). Midway is covered by "The Battle of Midway"
@@gracesprocket7340yes. Mr and Mrs Movies have watched Tora! Tora! Tora! I was recommending the 70’s version of Midway for them to watch.
Back in 2003 I read an interview with Ron Moore where he said that this movie was an inspiration for the reimagining of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. Paul Eddington became Saul Tigh. The Captain/Admiral has trouble with his son.
The Galactica reminds me of WWII Aircraft Carriers. How they could take so much battle damage, be patched up and keep on fighting.
@@miker252its easier to patch things when its all mechanical and hydraulic. If it doesn't work, cut it out with a torch and weld in new pieces. The flight decks were wood over armor so fixing the flight deck was easier (and the wood didn't suck in the sun's heat like steel when in the tropics). Today's ships get a scuffmark from a bad docking move they're in drydock for a year.
Another John Wayne movie featuring WW2 PT boats is "They Were Expendable".
Glad you enjoyed the film, it`s always good to see more people reacting to older classics. For other War film suggestions, 1955 (To Hell & Back) the true War story of actor Audie Murphy, 1956 (Reach For The Sky) the true story of R.A.F. pilot Douglas Bader, 1966 (The Sand Pebbles) (a U.S. ship stationed in China in the `20`s) starring Steve McQueen, 1960 (Sink The Bismarck) the attempt to stop the German Battleship from attacking the convoys from the U.S.A. to Britain in WW2.
Another good one is Kiss Them for Me with Gregory Peck, Paula Prentiss, Jane Mansfield, and Ray Walston. One of the first movies to deal with PTSD although they don't call it that.
@@chadhunter4657 That`s one I don`t think I`ve ever seen, although the cast sound`s good.
Away All Boats, The Cruel Sea, The Best Years Of Our Lives
More recent but worth a look : Dark Blue World
sorry it was suzy parker not paula prentiss, got my actress / models confused. It also has Werner Klemperer (Col. Klink) in it.
@@gracesprocket7340 I agree with the first 3, but I have not seen the latter one.
One of the WWII classics. A great cast indeed. I'm glad you took a chance on this movie, I've always enjoyed watching this one with my dad.
It’s a little thing, but whoever did the editing of the ocean wave clips and the expressive orchestral music at the end credits (after the film is over) was truly working at a master level 🎖️
13:09 That was stuntman Hal Needham who later went on to direct Smokey and the Bandit and other Burt Reynolds movies.
Fonda enlisted in the United States Navy to fight in World War II, saying, "I don't want to be in a fake war in a studio." Fonda served for three years, initially as a Quartermaster 3rd Class on the destroyer USS Satterlee. He was later commissioned as a Lieutenant Junior Grade in Air Combat Intelligence in the Central Pacific and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and Navy Presidential Unit Citation.
The movie Sahara (1943) is a contemporary Humphrey Bogart movie about N Africa ... recommended.
The tide of WW2 turned for the USA at the carrier battle of Midway (movies to see with Charlton Heston in 1975, and the new movie in 2019)
It was the first big loss for Japan and Leyte Gulf was the finish.
This has been on my favorite list for many years. ⚓⚓⚓ "The Longest Day" is a good one too. But my favorite John Wayne movies are "The Quiet Man" and "Donovan's Reef".
George Kennedy: Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.
Love these old all star cast movies. If you've never seen it before, put the 1962 Kirk Douglas movie Lonely Are The Brave on your list. It was Kirk's personal favorite and is an excellent movie. No RUclips reactors have touched this one. Great reaction as always.
That is an excellent movie
One of my favorites, a cowboy against the emerging modern world
I’ve recommended that movie too. It’s a quality “neo-Western.”
Definitely one of the top ten movies of all time
To learn more about the legacy of the PT boats, you should watch a young Duke in They Were Expendable
Or PT-109.
In Harm's Way was based on the book "Harm's Way" written by James Bassett who was the Public Affairs officer for Admiral Halsey during WW II. A former Newspaper editor, he was at Pearl Harbor having enlisted earlier in 1941 and was the PAO for Admiral Kimmell who was fired after the debacle at Pearl. The film features one of Jerry Goldsmith's best scores and a cameo by Goldsmith as the bandleader in the party scene which opens the film. Henry Fonda's passing resemblance to Nimitz as well as his naval service really made this movie. Kirk Douglas served as well as a destroyer officer and was injured in action and medically discharged.
Definitely need to see more John Wayne! Hatari, hellfighters, Green Berets, El Dorado, big Jake Donovan’s reef, all kinds of stuff!
They did Big Jake. I just found it myself:)
HOLY SHIT I never thought I'd see anyone ever react to this!!!
Glad to see an older film reviewed. Much more class back then.
Cowboy, if you lost the hat and the glasses and got a head tattoo, youd look like Bam Bam Bigelow. Thats bad ass bro!
Great reaction! This is one of my favorite WWII John Wayne films, so really happy to see someone reacting to it! Two other good JW films about WWII are “Sands of Iwo Jima” and “They Were Expendable”.
They were Expendable was directed by John Ford, who was on Midway during that battle, and stars, alongside Wayne, Robert Montgomery, who was a naval officer during the war. It has a wonderful feeling of authenticity.
My favourite one is "Away All Boats"
Great reaction, kids. One of my favorite not just John Wayne but also war movie.
My favorite war movie has John Wayne! It's "The Longest Day"! It's such a good movie I highly recommend it.
One of my very favorite WWII movies. Glad to see it being appreciated!
That’s what we call weekend duty. It sucks lol 24 hours on the ship, can’t go anywhere, even tied to the pier
Burgess Meredith was great as Eagan here, Penguin, Mickey and George (Of Mice and Men).
If you liked this, check out "Sink the Bismarck" 1960. Pretty Accurate story of the British Fleet hunting down and battling and sniking the Strongest Battleship in the German Navy!
The Col that has been in a lot of movies, his name is George Kennedy. I don't remember the awards he may have won (I'm sure a lot) but two other movies I remember off the top of my head are Earthquake (1974), and Airport 1975.
He also appeared in Cool Hand Luke. Paul Newman was in the starring role.
John Wayne is in every sense the big gun of In Harm’s Way.
The guy who welcomed Mac McDonald as the officer in charge for the destroyer at the beginning of the movie is Slim Pickens. He was in Dr. Strangelove and Blazing Saddles.
So many great John Wayne movies. The Shootist, Rio Bravo, El Dorado, McClintock(with Maureen O'Hara). The Green Berets, The Cowboys, The Quiet Man(Maureen O'Hara again) and for a very different John Wayne try Trouble Along the Way (not a western or a war movie). For non Duke movies everyone should see, give The Great Escape, The Sting and The Hustler. Really great reaction y'all.
I see a ton of WW@ movies recommended; but no one has broufgt up the greatest of them all : "The Best Years Of Our Lives". Best Picture 1946.
It has probably been said a thousand times already; watch George C. Scott as General George S. Patton in _'Patton'_ for some of that "multiple theaters of operation" aspect.
This is one of my favorite WWII themed movies. The storyline of the destroyer USS Cassidy escaping the Pearl Harbor attack with junior officers in command is based on the real events of the USS Aylwin (DD-355) on Dec. 7, 1941.
The Sand Pebbles - set in 1926 it shows the US navy patrolling the rivers of China. Plenty of recognizable faces among the cast.
You could try PATTON at some point
AND BATTLE OF BRITAIN (1969)
The Australian guy was a coast watcher. They were scattered throughout the south pacific islands. Their job was to monitor and report Japanese ship and aircraft activity.
The ships CO being punished for not zig-zagging is a version of a true story. Capt Charles B. McVeigh commanded the USS Indianapolis in WWII and long story short was torpedoed and sunk and McVeigh was court-martialed for it to cover for Navy screw-ups. The slap in the face was the Navy brought in the commander of the Japanese sub that sunk him to testify against him. The movie USS Indianapolis Men of Courage tells the whole story. You can also hear a shortened version in Jaws the Quint tells.
The "Jaws" scene is epic. If I remember correctly; the Jap Sub commander testified that he had the "Indy" dead to rights and zig zagging would not have mattered.
This is one of my mom's favorite movies. One of the very few war/military movies she will watch.
John Wayne is more fun in "Donovan's Reef". This is a classic and Wayne doesn't die in this one. I would still like you guys to react to the 1972 flick "The Cowboys".
"PT Boats little put put boats"? The PT boats were pound for pound the most effective weapon against the Japanese Navy. Check out "They Were Expendable" about PT boats starring John Wayne and Ward Bond.
Finally a reaction to this movie!! One of my absolute favorites! Another great "Duke" movie is " They Were Expendable", time frame is outbreak of ww2 in the Philippines. Love your channel👍
If I was kirk Douglas , i would never have taken this role! I got to met kirk Douglas an family as fishing guide on Paulina Lake Oregon.
John Wayne in Sands Of Iwo Jima (1949) was acting shortly after the battle (1945).
Love this movie, when it would come on Saturday night at the movies on tv it was always a must watch in our house, thanks y’all, John Wayne at his best!
HBO's The Pacific tells the story of the Marines island hopping.
This movie shows what was happening with the navy at the time.
You should watch "The story of GI Joe", Burgess Meredith plays real life war correspondent Ernie Pyles. He went from platoon to platoon and reported on the war. He starts out with a division that is about to start the campaign in North Africa. They say that some soldiers would rather be in a piece by Ernie than get a medal.
So now check out, PT-109.
With the commandant from the Police Academy movies as the base CO. George Gaynes.
Another great classic ww2 movie would be Go For Broke! the story of the 442 Regimental Combat Team, a unit of Nissei (Japanese American troops) the most decorated unit per time of service in the history of the US military. My two fave John Wayne ww2 movies are They Were Expendable (I really hope you do this one, it is one of my favourite classic ww2 movies) and this one, other good ones are The Fighting Seabees and of course Sands of Iwo Jima.... And yes you have to do The Pacific! It is not as single tracked as Band Of Brothers, mainly due to the fact that is was primarily done using 2 separate books, written by 2 different Marines, in 2 different units, while Band Of Brothers was based on 1 book written by an author using interviews of surviving members and regimental histories. Also, one of the actors portraying a Marine in The Pacific is a regular in the tv series Justified that you are presently doing.
I hope you do watch The Pacific. This movie is loosely based on the Battle of Guadalcanal. In the Navy and Marine Corps, they are not called hats, they are "covers". My Dad enlisted in the Navy for six years to be a Navy Corpsman, in September 1941. He was told he would go to San Diego for Boot Camp and Corpsman school and by the time he finished Corpsman school, he would be able to take two weeks leave before he reported to his first duty station. Dad reported to Naval Hospital Balboa on 6 December 1941. Upon completion of Corpsman School he was shipped straight to Naval Hospital Pearl Harbor and the only leave he ever got was during transit from Pearl Harbor back to San Diego, for Fleet Corpsman School in 1944. He then was put in the 3rd Marine Corps and was in the Battle of Okinawa. Since his enlistment was till 1947 he was also in the first occupation troops into mainland Japan. In six years of being in the Navy the only leave he ever was able to take was the few weeks he took in 1944.
I've seen 'In Harms Way' probably 20 times. It is my favorite John Wayne WW-II movie, with 'They Were Expendable' being number two. When it comes to westerns, my favorite is a tie between 'Rio Lobo' and 'The Man who Shot Liberty Valance' as number one. In 3rd place it is also a tie, between ' True Grit' and 'The Undefeated'. Great movies all. For Henry Fonda, I would need a much longer list.
i don't think anyone has ever made a movie about the battle between the Japanese Center Force vs Taffy 3 in the battle of Leyte Gulf. The real story is so fantastic that Hollywood thinks nobody will believe it. If you read the story or see the explanation of that battle you will be stunned, A few destroyers, destroyer escorts and some Jeep Carriers drove off a huge Japanese fleet.
The guy who wrote the novel this is based off of was a Naval Reserve officer on Adm Halsey's staff (basically Burgess Meridith's character) and R. Torrey is a stand in for Halsey - who according to legend kissed his nurse girlfriend on the lips in front of his officers at an awards ceremony.
Favorite John Wayne movie is Brannigan from 1975 great movie like dirty harry kind of movie
This is one of my favorite John Wayne movies I always like watching John Wayne movies with my dad. This is one of the ones that we watched got a love John Wayne Kirk, Douglas Henry Fonda, George Kennedy burgess Meredith, slim Pickens and tons of other big names from back in the day great movie
Destination Tokyo with Cary Grant is another great WWII movie
That was George Kennedy.
He was in tons of movies but you probably remember him best from The Naked Gun Movies.
Where he was Frank Drebin's captain.
PT is the US equivalent to the British MTB (Patrol Torpedo/Motor Torpedo Boat).
The 72/80ft versions carry 4 torpedos and some light AA and surface action guns.
This is around half to a quarter of the anti-ship firepower of a destroyer, on a tiny fraction of the investment in material and men.
The Great War ended just over twenty years before the Second World War began for the U.S. Senior officers, such as a Navy captain and commander could easily have served long enough to have been in the Great War. There were also quite a few conflicts between that the Navy and Marine Corps participated in.
A good film about a war most people know nothing about is "The Sand Pebbles". It gives a look into the "gunbost diplomacy" the Navy was involved in between the world wars.
In the battle scene you can clearly tell the
ships are models
Another classic WWII movie is Midway (1976). Has a lot of air battles in the Pacific.
The battles in this aren't based on specific actions (besides Pearl Harbor of course).
You can see features of the war in the South Pacific in 1942, such as the use of civilian "coastwatchers" on Jap-held islands, Adm. Halsey replacing Ghormley, the importance of little islands with airfields, the Americans being generally out-gunned.
NEVER DISRESPECT THE DUKE’S ROCK HARD BONES AGAIN! 😂
John Ford taught Wayne to act with the eyes
One of my favorite John Wayne movies. Lots of great characters that get well developed.
40:00 it’s because of this scene that I agree with Jer at the beginning of the movie that she is just a straight up tease. You would think that he was the one being the jerk at the beginning but no she is the one that is being the tease.
Whenever I watch Battlestar Galactica, the XO always reminds me of Commander Eddington.
👍 Delighted you chose this classic
They Were Expendable is a John Wayne war movie that will be quite a surprise for first time viewers.
3:06 If the Mrs will dance like that during the next live stream, I'll become a patreon!
Great movie and a great reaction. Before CGI. All done with models. Thanks for doing it!
It is amazing how much Michael Douglas looks so much like his dad, Kirk, now.
PT boats were pretty effective when their torpedoes worked. US torpedoes were very not very reliable.
The final battle was a combination of 4 different sea battles. (1942-1944).
Just for your reference…. The US Heavy Cruiser had 8 inch guns. The Japanese Battleship Yamato had 18 inch guns.
The same thing on the Titanic they're putting mattresses where the water was coming in. It probably one of those things that it's all you got
The mattresses are used like a gasket put over the breach first then grating or heavy plywood braced with shoring timbers to stop the leak or at least slow it down enough so the bilge pumps could keep up with pumping the water out.
Another good one with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas was War Wagon. John Wayne did another WWII movie with Patricia Neal called Operation Pacific.
One of my favorites, thank you.
Young Jerry he played in a movie called Shane when he was a little boy. It's a good movie and give it a look if you want. Thank you for this reaction that was great. Interesting dance moves for private lessons.
“Shane! Come back Shane! Come back!”
The big marine "probably in a lost of stuff", was at least the hard earned friend in "Cool Hand Luke".
I'm pretty sure this wasn't about the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The names of the islands are fictional, but the time period and events more closely resemble the Somoman Islands.
Outside of the attack at Pearl Harbor and the mention of the Battle of Midway, the specific attack here, including the island of Levu-Lana, is fictitious.
The scene with Duke and Patricia Neal, when she slips her shoes off, is the most sexy thing I have ever seen.
First time I saw this movie it was late at night, flipping channels & I thought aww - another John Wayne War movie…. I know what’s gonna happen. Boy was I wrong - still one of the best “old” movies I’ve ever seen. Glad to see it get “reacted to! 😋
Paul Newman in Hud, would be a wortwhile film.
Patricia Neal played in several movies partnered with John Wayne. They made a good couple on screen.
Fun fact: John Wayne didn't care much about the director Otto Preminger. Supposedly, Preminger cared more about the model ships then the actors.
Another thing, the music was by Jerry Goldsmith. He also did the music for a ton of movies including Tora Tora Tora, Planet Of The Apes, The Sand Pebbles, (another classic movie you are missing with a big cast), The Omen, LA Confidential and the list goes on and on and on. Right on up there with John Williams and Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven).