First win
Movie | |
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German title | First win |
Original title | In Harm's Way |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1965 |
length | 165 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 16 |
Rod | |
Director | Otto Preminger |
script | Wendell Mayes |
production | Otto Preminger |
music | Jerry Goldsmith |
camera | Loyal Griggs |
cut |
Hugh S. Fowler George Tomasini |
occupation | |
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First victory is an American war film from the year 1965 . Otto Preminger was the producer and director . The screenplay is by Wendell Mayes based on the novel Give me a fast ship ( Harm's Way ) by James Bassett .
action
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor , Captain Torrey is assigned to carry out the counter-attack. The attack fails and Torrey has to return defeated. His command is withdrawn for political reasons. Back in Pearl Harbor, he is ordered to do desk duty. During this time, Captain Torrey struggles with his son, whom he did not know before and who despises him. As the war progressed, Torrey was promoted to admiral based on his experience and was given command again. He immediately brings his former first officer Eddington back to his side as chief of staff . Shortly before the storming of a chain of islands occupied by Japanese, he raped the friend of Jere Torrey, the son of Admiral Torrey, who committed suicide as a result. Eddington then flies on a fact-finding mission that he knows will not return to find the Japanese fleet. In the end, the Japanese fleet can be repulsed and the islands conquered. However, Torrey's son and all of his officers die. Only himself and his new girlfriend, a nurse , survive.
Reviews
"According to common patterns, stereotypically , but effectively staged and well played, the war is once more played down as a heroic adventure."
Awards
Cinematographer Loyal Griggs was nominated for an Oscar in 1966. In the same year Patricia Neal won the British Film Academy Award for Best Foreign Actress .
DVD release
- First win , 2004
literature
- James Bassett : First win. Roman (Original title: Harm's Way ). German by Matthias Büttner. Complete edition. Droemer-Knaur, Munich and Zurich 1965, 463 pp.
See also
Web links
- First victory in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ later under the German title First victory published
- ↑ First victory. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 31, 2017 .