Three film about Pearl Harbor “December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy,” declared President Roosevelt on the day after the Japanese attack on the main US naval base in the Pacific. Hundreds of Japanese planes took the base by surprise early that Sunday morning, sinking or disabling 21 warships, destroying nearly 200 planes, and killing over 2,000 people. It was a rude awakening for a country that had seemed determined to find its own path in the global conflict. Hollywood immediately seized on the topic in a number of low budget films about how America came to be ‘stabbed in the back’ by Japan. Since the war, the events of that fateful day have been dramatised on a much larger scale, but in strikingly different films. 1 From Here to Eternity Dir: Fred Zinnemann, USA, 1953. With Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed 2 Tora! Tora! Tora! Dir: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda, USA/Japan, 1970. With Martin Balsam, Soh Yamamura, Joseph Cotten, Tatsuya Mihashi, Jason Robards 3 Pearl Harbor Dir: Michael Bay, USA. 2001. With Be, AIf teck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr. Jon Voight, Alec Baldwin
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