First win

Movie
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
	John Wayne : Capt. Rockwell Torrey; Kirk Douglas : Paul Eddington; Patricia Neal : Maggie Haynes; Tom Tryon : Mac McConnell; Paula Prentiss : Beverly McConnell; Brandon De Wilde : Jere Torrey; Jill Haworth : Annalee; Dana Andrews : Admiral Broderick; Burgess Meredith : Commander Egan Powell; Patrick O'Neal : Commander Neal Owynn; Franchot Tone : "CINCPAC I"; Carroll O'Connor : Lt. Commander Burke; James Mitchum : Ensign Griggs; George Kennedy : Colonel Gregory; Larry Hagman : Lt. JG Cline; Henry Fonda : Admiral Nimitz ; Stanley Holloway : Clayton Canfil;

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 His command is withdrawn for political reasons.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."

- Lexicon of international film

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.

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 .

[1] ter under the German title First victory published

[2] First victory. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 31, 2017 .